Customer success story: Energy Bridge 

Scaling new heights with automation from Continia

Energy Bridge was founded in 2019 as a consultancy helping housing associations and property owners reduce their carbon footprint. Over time, it expanded beyond consulting to oversee the entire process—from boardroom decisions to boiler room operations—helping clients achieve energy efficiency and reduce reliance on non-renewable resources.

Scaling with ease

As the business evolved, the financial department's workload grew significantly, leading Energy Bridge to adopt Microsoft Business Central as its ERP system of choice.

“We went with Microsoft because of the flexibility and the ability to grow our business now and in the future. It is something we can trust and depend on”, says Managing Director Jan-Maarten Elias. With the help of their Microsoft partner Bluace, Energy Bridge completed their change from their old ERP to a fully functioning cloud solution in just a couple of months - after also choosing Microsoft CRM to handle the customer side of the business. 

"There’s maybe 0.05% errors that I have to correct, everything else just works!"

Jeanette de Wolf, Finance and Administration @ Energy Bridge

Automation that works

The real benefits become clear when talking to Jeanette de Wolf, who oversees Energy Bridge’s administration and finance. With 20+ years of experience, she has in-depth knowledge of the financial processes. Despite the company’s expansion from consultancy to end-to-end solutions, she still handles all tasks herself—something only possible with Continia Software.

By enhancing Business Central with Continia’s built-in solutions, Payment Management and Document Capture, Jeanette de Wolf is able to handle invoices, payments, bank statements, and reconciliation all by herself – even as the company grows – because manual processes have become fully automated.

“For invoices everything runs smoothly; there’s maybe 0.05% errors that I have to correct, everything else just works,” Jeanette says, underlining how easy the most basic tasks have become. And with 300 invoices processed per month, many hours are saved daily freeing up time for more important tasks—“It is really working faster, when you don’t have to repeat the same every time you get an invoice or payment.”

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“It is really working faster, when you don’t have to repeat the same task every time you get an invoice or payment”

Jeanette de Wolf, Finance and Administration @ Energy Bridge

Energy Bridge

Real time overview  of bank
statements and reconciliation

No need for extra staff  in

finance despite growth

Smooth implementation
with minimal effort

Ready to use right away

One of the key points that Jeanette de Wolf highlights is how easy the implementation process for Continia was. After the initial Business Central installation, Continia's solutions were added – and even though this was done during holidays, only minor adjustments were necessary after the consultant from Bluace had set it up. “Even though I was on holiday, we just did some small changes – and then it worked the way I wanted it to”, she says – underscoring that Continia’s products adapt and learn over time to become even more efficient. 

Always up-to-date

Another key aspect of the daily life of a bookkeeper is in the name – keeping sure books and accounts are maintained. With Payment Management from Continia, Energy Bridge gets direct access to bank statements with communication to and from the bank – meaning that Jeanette de Wolf can do bank reconciliation in an instant, with all the latest postings, making it easy to stay ahead of the curve and always have a real time financial overview.

Jeanette de Wolf especially highlights how easy it is to reconcile with automated matching, where Continia Payment Management automatically suggests matches between payments and postings – meaning no more time spent looking for payment matches.  

Having worked with the solutions from Continia for more than a year, Energy Bridge continues to enjoy the freedom and flexibility of automated finance solutions – helping them to grow even more.

“When the suppliers are set up properly, Continia recognizes the payment, and then it is just two clicks and then the reconciliation is done and you just have the settlement – which is also equally easy to do. That way, no invoices stay open and we get everything closed, so Jan-Maarten always has an updated current view of the situation“

Continia Document Capture

Energy Bridge chose Continia Document Capture as the best and most comprehensive add-on solution that would work for their business activities - and integrate seamlessly into their ERP system, Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central.

Learn more about Continia Document Capture