VentureWeb selects Replicon to enhance productivity, profitability and agency growth

Enlisting Replicon to automate processes
VentureWeb conducted a search online and evaluated a number of cloud-based time, expense and project management solutions, including Replicon. The firm selected Replicon’s client billing, time and attendance and expense management solutions to support its business needs.

Using Replicon, VentureWeb can set up an unlimited number of projects to better track estimated hours and expenses against actual figures, enhancing billing utilization and project profitability. In addition, users have an easy-to-use way of capturing time anywhere, anytime and on any device, as well as full visibility into all employee reimbursements and client expenses, with an automated multiple currencies function for faster time to reimbursement.

A true partnership to drive team, project and business success
Replicon’s centralized system provides VentureWeb’s project leads and senior management with insights into a team’s time and project status in an instant. VentureWeb can also easily track expenses from contractors – such as purchasing digital images for a client or business travel – to provide up-to-the-minute insights into a project’s total costs.

According to Christine Beadle, operations manager at VentureWeb, the Replicon solution acts as a central repository for clients, past projects, revenue and profitability. Historical data is always at the team’s fingertips to fast-track statement of work documents for prospects and additional client projects, and communicate updates to clients on time spent working on campaigns.

“We use Replicon each day to view reports on billability and total costs incurred, and we have deeper insights on the status of a client’s project and its overall profitability. If clients ever query an invoice, we can pull a report quickly showing all the time and expenses incurred, collate the comments and send this to the client in a matter of minutes. In practically all cases, the report answers all their questions,” Beadle said.

Another driver in choosing Replicon was its ability to integrate seamlessly with Sage, VentureWeb’s payroll system. In the fast-paced professional services industry, timesheets are collated at the end of the month, with all invoices to be sent to the client within five days of time being submitted, approved and streamlined to Sage .In VentureWeb’s case, two people process payroll, with upwards of 600 to 700 invoices being created each month.

“As VentureWeb grew, it was increasingly a time crunch to send out invoices to clients by deadline. Replicon has helped us continue to accelerate the process, however, to the point where we’ve halved the time to create invoices, and kept this task to two people across the entire organization,” Beadle said.

As the marketing staffing and services firm continues to grow, Beadle believes that Replicon will continue to play a core role in helping VentureWeb drive even greater efficiencies across the organization.