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Connery Consulting has transitioned from manual spreadsheet billing to Replicon TimeBill, greatly reducing billing time from an entire workday to just one or two hours. This change enables the firm to maintain accurate and timely invoicing, which is crucial for their hourly-based consulting business.
The adoption of Replicon TimeBill significantly impacts employee productivity by providing a user-friendly interface that facilitated 100% employee adoption in the first week. This streamlined process saves the firm approximately 10-12 hours of work each month, allowing team members to focus on high-priority tasks rather than tedious manual billing.
Using a cloud-based software solution like Replicon not only provides centralized real-time visibility into project hours but also eliminates the need for internal IT resources, making it an ideal fit for small businesses like Connery Consulting. Consequently, the firm benefits from reduced operational costs and enhanced efficiency in project management and client billing.
Connery Consulting transformed its billing process by implementing Replicon TimeBill, significantly reducing billing time from an entire workday to just one or two hours, achieving full employee adoption within a week and gaining real-time visibility into project hours.
Summary
Connery Consulting, a Human Resources advisory firm, was struggling with manual spreadsheet-based billing that consumed an entire workday each month. After adopting Replicon TimeBill, the firm gained centralized, real-time visibility into project hours, reducing billing time from a full day to just one or two hours. The cloud-based model was a natural fit for a small firm without internal IT resources, and 100% of employees adopted the system within the first week of launch.
Project Success
Streamlined Client Billing: Real-time visibility into work time data enabled accurate and timely billing.
Achieved 100% Employee Adoption: An easy-to-use interface led to complete user adoption in no time.
Saved Billable Work Hours: Automated and accurate timesheets saved precious work hours.
The Challenge
In its early days, Connery Consulting relied on spreadsheets to track employee time on projects, and then create invoices. This was an inefficient solution. Company founder Nancy Connery says, “Everything we do is on an hourly basis. To account for that we used spreadsheets, and at the end of each month it was extremely painful to sit there and go from spreadsheet to spreadsheet and also invoice to invoice.”
For Connery Consulting it was critical to be able to track time against projects. But without real-time visibility into this data, it was difficult and time-consuming to bill clients accurately for completed work. “We needed one place where we had all the history and were able to run different kinds of reports,” said Connery.
Solution and Benefits
Connery Consulting found the solution it wanted in Replicon TimeBill. The company got the centralized billing data it needed, and was easily able to see its profitability. “Replicon gave us the opportunity to track everything, to audit all of our files [including] profit versus billing…and keep very clean records, which we weren’t able to do using spreadsheets,” Connery said.
TimeBill also gives Connery Consulting the ability to keep clients up-to-date about their projects. Nancy Connery: “It allows me to give our clients real-time information in terms of the hours that they’re going to be billed for the month, which comes up a fair amount in the consulting business.”
The company generally bills once a month, but now can readily accommodate clients who want bimonthly billing, or even weekly. “Replicon lets me do this without having to go to my consultants at the end of each week and ask them [about their hours].” This makes things much more accurate when Connery’s consultants work on multiple projects. Now, they just log in to their web browsers each day and enter their time. That way they don’t have to try to recall later what they did for three, four, or even five different clients.
The software’s easy-to-use interface made it easy for users to adopt it quickly. “We had 100 percent adoption within the first week of rolling out the product. No grumbles from employees about moving to a new solution…everybody fell off of sending me invoices and spreadsheets and really just moved to using the system,” said Connery.
Replicon’s time-tracking platform is also a significant time-saver. It streamlines several otherwise laborious business tasks. “It’s allowed me to have about an additional 10-12 hours of time to do other kinds of work,” said Connery. “On a day when I would have spent the entire time doing billing, it now takes me an hour to two hours to get all of our invoicing done.”
Cloud-based Software: A Perfect Fit
Like many small businesses, Connery Consulting didn’t have internal IT resources, so it needed a way to minimize the costs of supporting a solution. Replicon’s Software-as-a-Service model (SaaS) was an ideal fit. It puts its customer’s data, and the software itself, on a server “in the cloud.” They’re hosted remotely at a highly secure, fully backed-up data center. Hardware and IT infrastructure are Replicon’s responsibility, as are maintenance, upgrades and data security.
“Having come from Salesforce.com, which really was the beginning of the SaaS world, I was a big believer in it,” said Connery. “It was definitely a prerequisite for us. And it was very easy. I would go so far as to say painless.” The company’s day-to-day use of the software has been similarly pain-free. “We have not had to interact with the support team too much, which is a testament to Replicon,” said Connery.
On a day when I would have spent the entire time doing billing, it now takes me an hour to two hours to get all of our invoicing done.
Conclusion
Replicon TimeBill helps Connery Consulting meet its overall goal of streamlining operations. It puts all consultants’ project data in one place, accessible in real-time from anywhere with an Internet connection, and makes billing both faster and hassle-free. It also gives the firm an overview of where its business stands: Reports about utilization and project profitability are available instantly.
It saves the company money by eliminating the costs of maintaining software. “Everybody at Connery Consulting uses it,” says Nancy Connery. “I use it myself to track my own hours. Replicon is a system that we really live by.”
