Watch our webinar this week on Where Cloud Accounting Technology is Headed. The webinar was lead by Tonya Lilly and Michael Garrison. They discussed what the cloud is, what current benefits of the cloud are, where cloud accounting technology is headed, and how our team works with the cloud.
As you watch if there are questions you have please reach out to our team at accounting@rinehimerbaker.com.
At this year’s Sage Intacct Advantage conference, our customer MemberClicks was recognized as a recipient of the Sage Intacct Customer Success Award, an award designed to celebrate customers who have made dramatic improvements to their business and financial operations using Sage Intacct.
MemberClicks’ mission is to “Empower member-based organization to thrive through refreshing technology and a heart for service.” Their purpose-built suite of technology and customer-centric culture helps them achieve this allowing their customers to focus on serving its members.
For MemberClicks, 2017 was a year that largely focused on growth. With that came the challenges that all growing companies face and in 2018 they decided it was time for a new system that would help, not hinder, their company.
Sage Intacct was implemented for its ability to automate their order to cash process, manage customers’ subscriptions, and automate revenue management to keep them compliant with ASC 606, along with many other benefits!
Using Sage Intacct, MemberClicks was able to increase efficiencies throughout the organization with capabilities like:
Using Sage Intacct, they now have a consistent customer experience across the entire organization from orders to renewals to payments and everything in between. This consistency provides key members the visibility into every stage of the contracts’ lifecycle.
rinehimerbaker worked with MemberClicks to design and deploy this fully integrated solution centered around Sage Intacct. As a group, we were committed to helping migrate the company’s entire accounting operations onto a system up to the challenge of supporting their dynamic organization.
With MemberClicks recognized as one of a few winners selected out of hundreds of applicants, the journey for them proved worthwhile and demonstrates that success like this can be achieved by organizations of all sizes when you work with people and software that strive to achieve great results!
Congratulations again to MemberClicks from the entire rinehimerbaker team!
Find out how rinehimerbaker can help your company get similar results by reaching out to accounting@rinehimerbaker.com.
A question our team gets asked often is does Sage Intacct have payroll?
The answer is yes and no. Sage Intacct has a philosophy that they want their customers to have a best-in-class solution allowing them to stay focused on continuously adding innovation to the ERP.
Sage Intacct’s open API allows other likeminded vendors to build best-in-class solutions that integrate directly with the ERP. This allows every Sage Intacct customer to choose the best payroll solution for them. All of the marketplace partners have created seamless integrations with Sage Intacct.
By implementing both Sage Intacct and a marketplace partner payroll solution you will be creating a system that is tailored to your company, not someone else’s. This is unique when compared to other mid-market accounting and ERP solutions that are a suite of products that limit your functionality.
At rinehimerbaker, we have access to market leading payroll solutions and the expertise to implement them. We’ve helped our clients save time and money by eliminating manual entry and paper processes by leveraging the strengths of cloud-based payroll solutions. These solutions offer many of the benefits employers, and employees, are looking for today. Such as, access from anywhere anytime, employee self-service, mobile apps, compliance support, and advanced reporting tools.
Benefits of Integrating Your Payroll Solutions:
· Real-time data that is easily accessible
· Ability to report on financial and statistical data for key metrics
o Active employee headcount on your dashboard
o Avg. cost of benefits per employee
· Robust departmental reporting
· Reduction of human error through automation
· Reduction in manual work returning hours of time to your team
Our team works with a few different payroll solutions to ensure that you get the perfect match for your company. Our top choices from Sage Intacct’s marketplace partners are Workforce Go! HCM, APS online, and ADP Workforce Now. If you want to keep it in the Sage family take a look at Sage People and keep your eye out for their upcoming integration into Sage Intacct.
Not sure if your current system can integrate?
With Sage Intacct’s open API, if your current solution isn’t listed on Sage Intacct’s marketplace an integration can be built. This allows you to work with any software you choose. If it works for your accounting department, it works for our team, we can help you implement and go-live creating your own custom best-in-class solution.
Contact our team at rinehimerbaker to learn how your business could benefit from an integrated payroll solution and a true cloud-based ERP .
The annual Sage Intacct Advantage was an amazing event again this year with great opportunities to learn about the future of finance, network with our customers and the Sage Intacct team, and enjoy Las Vegas! Below are our team’s top takeaways from this year’s conference.
1) MemberClicks won a customer success Award- rinehimerbaker’s customer, MemberClicks was honored with the customer success award this year at Advantage! This award celebrates customers who have made dramatic improvements to their business and financial operations using Sage Intacct. Congratulations Brent Stringer and team!
2) Change in Thinking-There was a strong focus on how the accounting function is moving from the age of information to the age of answers. Gone are the old ways of simply reporting “what happened”; now we are focused “why it happened” which is quickly moving to “what will happen next and what should we do about it”. This focus shows how finance teams are moving away from manual work and utilizing technology to deliver strategic value so that organizations can further their mission, grow and scale more quickly.
3) Eliminating the Close– Sage Intacct continues to look for innovative ways to make accountants lives easier. They are currently working on AI capabilities that are embedded directly into the Sage Intacct Intelligent GL. The goal is to have continuous GL and eliminate the close. How? By using AI to accelerate the capture of data, to detect anomalies and ensure data is accurate and compliant, and to analyze and make intelligent decisions.
4) Sage People– This was an exciting announcement. Sage People is a new HR/benefit/onboarding/payroll solution that will be fully integrated with Sage Intacct. With this full integration, users will be able to quickly and easily view analytics, reports, graphs and dashboards related to the HR function.
5) Growth in Use– Currently 38% of the top CPA firms are using Sage Intacct. The continued growth of users shows how impactful Sage Intacct has been in revolutionizing the cloud accounting world throughout many different industries. The fastest growing verticals adopting Sage Intacct are hospitality and healthcare.
6) Orlando in 2020– Next year’s Advantage conference will be held in Orlando, FL the week of Oct 13th. For everyone that couldn’t make it this year, mark your calendars for next October. It will be a great week to learn, and network!
What is cloud accounting technology?
Everyday companies make the decision to move from on-premise solutions to the cloud. With so many companies choosing to move to a cloud-based ERP solution to drive their finance department, what’s next with the cloud is always at the forefront of their minds. You are probably already familiar with the benefits of the cloud such as, not needing IT resources to support your finance function, one login with anywhere-anytime access, and API connections with other cloud solutions. For certain cloud solutions, you can also get real-time data, easy to create reports, company roll-ups, customized dashboards, dimensions to eliminate additional general ledgers, easy intercompany payments, and a notes section for communication between your team about changes.
Join us for a cocktail hour where we discuss where cloud accounting technology is headed
Where is cloud accounting headed?
As cloud accounting continues to develop the user interface and open API’s are a top priority for ERP solutions. Both of these factors are leading the way due to users continuing to want easy-clean way to run real-time reports and create an audit trail. The evolution of the user interface is a top priority. These changes will make or break companies’ decisions to move to their solution based on the quickness their employees can get through tasks.
The open API is an important factor for continued development as companies continue to want a best-in-class solution instead of a one-in-all solution. This means continuing to create seamless API connections on the back end with other top cloud software vendors.
Finally, the most exciting trend for cloud accounting technology is the use of artificial intelligence and the influence it will have in ERP solutions. Companies demand their technology to work for them and eliminate manual work, coding, and clerical employees will continue to lead to a need/desire for technology that can do more automatically.
Overall, over the past decade, cloud accounting technology has continued to go develop and change the landscape of finance departments. With the anywhere, anytime access, and consistently updates throughout the year, the technology can only allow for capabilities to drastically improve with less and less manual effort to accomplish tasks.
Sign up for our Cloud Accounting Technology Future webinar
Join us for our webinar on November 21st at 1 pm eastern time to deep dive into where cloud accounting technology is headed, and the updates we see with the software we provide every day to customers.
Sage Intacct dimensionality replaces the old with the new to simplify the way businesses manage their general ledger. The days of having thousands of accounts to track different business segments (department, location, etc.) are over.
Sage Intacct has several native dimensions making it easy for you to streamline the general ledger and increase the trust and visibility of your company’s finances.
Simplify Your Accounts:
The dimensions within Sage Intacct simplify your company’s general ledger and allow you to easily tag transactions recorded within a primary account code.
For example, traditional systems would require 30 account code combinations to be able to track consulting fees across 3 locations and 10 departments. Sage Intacct keeps it simple by having a primary account code and transaction tagging with your location and department.
As your business changes, you can add on dimensions and tags, there is no need to create hard-coded account combinations to segment your business.
Tracking – How it Works:
Sage Intacct has innovated the way tracking can be done. Once a dimension is created you can use it for any transaction as well as operational data. This allows you to easily organize your data without hard coding the transactions to individual accounts. Filtering through data from an overview of the entire company to a specific segment has never been easier. A great example is a Country Club viewing the organization as a whole and filtering down to see activity by the type of membership (social, golf, etc.) as well as different areas such as the grill room or pool snack shack and bar. This can be done in just a few simple clicks within one system.
Streamlining Your Reports:
Using dimensions and “tagging” allows you to have a flexible financial foundation to view performance from any angle. With this level of visibility into the financial and operational data, decision makers can quickly access the data needed to make decisions in real-time. Sage Intacct made this easy by integrating dimensions into the user interface of their financial report writer.
A Sage Intacct customer was able to go from thousands of separate accounts to few hundred primary codes saving them more than 30 hours of manual work each month. To find out more about this transformation download the case study.
Sage Intacct’s Dimensions are one of their unique features that differentiates their ERP software from the competition. At rinehimerbaker we want to help you see how dimensions can transform your business. Fill out the form below to set up a call with one of our top accountants.
Hospitality companies can grow quickly with new locations, and new business lines (such as an additional bar, restaurant, golf lessons department, etc). With quick growth companies who aren’t using the best software can feel growing pains and create their own automation gap unknowingly. Below we review what the top pain points are and where the automation gap is created. At the end we discuss what the best steps are to eliminate your growing pains and get rid of the manual work through cloud solutions.
Hospitality Company Growing Pains
Growing pains can be sometimes be hard to distinguish because you find them becoming an accepted part of your day-to-day operations. Only when you start looking at best practices and how competitors are operating do you realize you are behind the curve in technology that gives time back to your organization. Top growing paints for hospitality companies are:
Where the Automation Gap can be Created for Hospitality Companies
The automation gap is created in hospitality companies when their growth is faster than their current software solutions can scale. This leads to manual processes for your team and creating hours of additional work. While at first this process many seem simple such as signing 5 checks a week, by the time you get to 40 checks a week you are now taking up hours a month on something that could be automated. Another example is timesheets. When you start out with one business area or location you may have four people which is easy to do manually. You oversee this team directly and can validate they worked the hours they have written down. By the time you have 35 employees you are looking at additions to your total business, more on your plate taking you out of the day and day, and managers that are now in charge of payroll. By leaving this process on paper and manual you will be prone to errors as well as inaccuracies because you aren’t there to know exactly what time everyone worked. This is the automation gap.
If you have said yes that is an opportunity in my company, yes I face that same difficulty every week, then we have a few solutions that will work for you. Read through the chart below to identify where your company falls, and then fill out the form below to talk with our team.
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Some big news from the team at rinehimerbaker. Earlier this month, we were named the Sage Intacct Partner of the Quarter for our strong sales performance and high levels of ongoing customer satisfaction. Learn what this means for our prospects and customers below. Read more
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