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Customer success story: Energy Bridge
Scaling New Heights with Automation from Continia
Since its foundation in 2019 Energy Bridge started out as a consultancy focusing on helping housing associations and property owners reduce their carbon footprint. But over the years, the company has evolved from more than just that, and today the company handles the entire journey - from boardroom to boilerroom - helping their clients become energy efficient and independent from non-renewable resources.
Scaling with ease
The way the business has developed has also meant that the tasks in the financial department have grown substantially, leading Energy Bridge to choose Microsoft Business Central as their 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!
Efficient financial management
The real benefits reveal themselves when talking to Jeanette de Wolf, who runs Energy Bridge’s administration and finance, and with more than 20 years of experience she has in-depth knowledge of the financial processes. But even though the company has grown from just consultancy to end-to-end solutions, she is still able to handle all tasks herself. But that wouldn’t be possible without Continia Software.
Because Energy Bridge enhances their Business Central with Continia’s built inside 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.”
“It is really working faster, when you don’t have to repeat the same task every time you get an invoice or payment.”
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 in a hurry
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 Solutions were added – and even though this was done during holidays only minor adjustments were needed 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 on looking for payment matches.
“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.“
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.
Continia Document Capture
Energy Bridge chose Continia Document Capture as the best and most comprehensive end-to-end add-on solution that would work for their business activities - and integrated seamlessly into their ERP system, Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central.
Learn more about Continia Document Capture