Sage Intacct Case Study with Maydencroft

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Client Success Stories: Maydencroft

As a rural business with multiple offices and divisions, Maydencroft needed a system that was able to handle their growing business and remote access requirements.

Migrating from Sage 50 to Sage Intacct has provided a central hub that meets all their needs and joins up the whole organisation.

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Who is
Maydencroft?

Industry:

Environmental Services

Employees:

101-250

Solution:

Sage Intacct

Maydencroft works across nature reserves and urban landscaping projects, creating, restoring, and maintaining them so that people and nature can thrive. From its founding in 2007, Maydencroft has progressed to be a market leader in this area, with a commitment to sustainability and innovation.

Our Approach >

Our Approach

On any given day, Maydencroft employees can be anywhere, doing anything from long-term bat surveys to short-term landscaping work. This diversity was front of mind for Finance Director, Nick Bayston, when it came to choosing how to upgrade from Sage 50:

“With the business being so diverse, it’s quite hard to find one product that solves all the requirements. At the same time we’re trying to resist the temptation for everyone to go off and buy lots of little bits of software – then we have no single overarching strategy. That’s what we are trying to do, by positioning [Sage] Intacct as the hub, as the centre of it.”

The search for a Sage Partner to work with was a struggle for Nick at first – but he discovered us through, of all places, YouTube!

This led to them connecting with our Sage Intacct Product Lead, Sam Pidgeon, and the rest of the team, including Ian Barbour and Haris Naeem. Their steadfast support was a key part of the project’s success.

Our End Result >

End Results

Though the company is still in the process of implementing some areas of Sage Intacct, they are already starting to see the benefits for their wider workforce:

“At the moment, all our people are to a greater or lesser extent trying to track their own jobs in spreadsheets, or however they choose. Hopefully this is going to give them one central way of doing that. It’s going to save them a lot of time and give us a consistent view of the jobs that are going on.”

They also foresee improvements in their Accounts Payable (AP) processes, through the implementation of Yooz, an AP Automation tool that integrates with Sage Intacct:

“It will save time… even though we’ve used the AP automation before, Yooz will have the mailbox that means that we don’t need to manually save documents and it will also have the approvals in it, which we’ve not had before.”

With the green economy constantly expanding, Maydencroft is aware that their software needs to be fit for the future. They see Sage Intacct as the perfect fit for this.

“The potential for growth is enormous. That’s why, even as a £10 million business, we’ve decided to go with [Sage] Intacct. It should be able to see us through to £100 million.”

Migrating to Sage Intacct has enabled Maydensoft to have an accounting solution that works for all divisions of the business, and all stages of growth.

Sometimes it was a little bit complicated how we were trying to set our structure up and what we wanted to get out of [Sage] Intacct, but Ian and Sam were full of ideas and came up with really good suggestions for everything. We had a lot of troubleshooting sessions and they were able to find resolutions. Haris has given a lot of support all the way through the process as well. He’s very confident and very capable.

We felt very supported – if you contacted somebody, you got a response very quickly. You never felt like you’d been left out on a limb.

Amy Knights-Allen

Accountant at Maydencroft

Client Success Stories: Maydencroft