Retail
Overview
We know and understand the challenges that retailers face when it comes to managing and growing a business.
We also know that not all retail organisations are the same and so we focus on what we know best – Convenience and Forecourt retailers and other retailers and franchises with multiple stores.
We’ve developed a suite of software under our Connections brand to help retailers overcome common administrative challenges.
Common Challenges
More and more retailers are striving for a zero clutter, green, paperless environment.
Manual data entry and duplication of effort result in time lost on repetitive tasks that could easily be automated.
Staying on top of compliance such as VAT and Making Tax Digital can be problematic if you don’t have the right systems and tools.
Many retailers don’t really know the extent of data inaccuracies until they embrace their digital transformation journey.
Having disparate and dis-connected systems brings additional workload and compounds inefficiencies and inaccuracies.
Slashing the time to generate Management Reports is a key objective for many retailers.
Connections is a smart and powerful solution for the forecourt and convenience store industry. Connecting your EPOS software with Sage to streamline your administrative processes, it provides you with accurate real-time financial information, reducing manual processing costs and greatly improves business performance.
Here's what some of our Customers have to say:
“On a monthly basis we receive hundreds to thousands of supplier invoices. Connections allows us to process those invoices in hours rather than weeks…effectively data entry is being done in a speedy and consistent way”.
Chris Cheeseman - Financial Controller, MPK Garages
Corrib Oil – Richard Carroll
“The results have been astonishing. The increases in efficiency and productivity, as well as accuracy, that have accrued to the division from the Sage 200cloud & Connections Solution have been exceptional. Our company has always prided itself on our desire to better ourselves in order to better serve our customers. With this integrated solution, we have done just that.”
Alex Mortimer - Finance Director, Sewell Retail
"Connections has been a big success, saving a significant amount of input time at our head office and also improving the accuracy of margin analysis. The envisage team are a pleasure to deal with and worked with us to ensure the product fit with our particular business needs."
Rebecca Callan - Finance Manager, Mr Price
“We run an efficient and organised accounts office and with large volumes of transactions across our 51 stores, Connections is a crucial piece of the jigsaw. It has meant our processes are streamlined, we have reduced our dependence on external spreadsheets and the big win for our finance department is that we are working with accurate and quality data and as a result we can complete our Month Ends much quicker than before, even as we continue to expand”.
“I’m not sure what we’d do without Connections. It has completely automated our back-office processes and has resulted in a saving of at least 10 hours per week”
Fearghal Murray - Financial Controller, Lidon Group
“Posting of sales and tender types straight from the tills into Sage means our bank reconciliations are so easy to complete now whereas they used to take a lot of time with allocations, matching and then postings. That all happens simultaneously now. It’s brilliant…”
Karen Marshall - Financial Director, Jos Richardson & Son
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