Acacia use TidyEnterprise to manage employees’ time. Sophie says that linking this with Xero payroll made it quick for their employees to adopt. “As an environmental company, we always wanted to have a paperless business. Now, everyone has the ability to enter their time using their own phones. Before we had TidyEnterprise, we found we were always chasing staff to put their time entries in. Linking payroll to project management meant that we knew for certain every single week everyone’s time had been added. Linking those two systems was a real benefit to ensure we still have the accountability that we need to manage tight project budgets.”
Working with a passionate group of like-minded environmental staff whose focus is on trying to improve habitat and biodiversity, Sophie is keen to empower project managers in the field to make decisions on site. “One of the really important parts of TidyEnterprise was for project managers to be able to get the full picture all the time without having to call back to the office to talk to the admin team.”
“In our industry we’re only paid for direct hours, so if work is relying on someone else sitting in the office and recording things like herbicides, materials and approving time, then that’s time that can never be charged on to a client; whereas having a mobile device with our project managers doing everything in the field, that doesn’t become a lost cost.”