Workwear Essentials

Key Outcomes

• Streamlined Operations – Workwear Essentials can now be run on the road.
• Increased Efficiency – Centralising Workwear Essential’s financial data reduced admin to just 15 minutes per week.
• Enhanced Visibility – Our Intuitive dashboards provided Workwear Essentials with real-time business performance, enhancing decision making.
• Reliable support – Our dedicated phone support ensured Ivor’s business stayed on track, giving him peace of mind.

The Challenge

Ivor needed an accounting solution that could streamline operations and adapt to his business’s unique needs, whether working solo or with a team:

Efficient and Simple: Avoid duplication by centralizing his invoices, customers, and suppliers’ records.

Enhanced Visibility: Insight to his sales, spotting where the business is up or down so he’s ready to act.

Support: Dedicated, reliable and efficient help when needed, along with training to build confidence.

With limited resources and big ambitions, Ivor sought a system that could adapt to the needs of the business without adding complexity.

Thrive’s Solution

While Ivor was exploring options for the business, he connected with the Thrive team after working with our staff at a previous company.

After discussing the goals & challenges of the business and sitting down for a short demo, Thrive Accounting Software emerged as an ideal fit.

Designed to simplify the accounting experience, cloud-based and available anywhere, anytime, while backed up by dedicated phone support – it checked all of his boxes.

Onboarding Workwear Essentials

Workwear Essentials’ journey with Thrive followed our 5-step onboarding process, designed to keep things simple:

1. Business Review

We sat down to review Ivor’s business and unique needs. Starting with a blank slate provided us the opportunity to collaborate on designing an efficient processes tailored to the business goals, laying a solid foundation for growth.

With full transparency and understanding of Ivor’s needs, we got to work building his ideal workflow for Workwear Essentials in Thrive.

2. Setting up Thrive

We configured Ivor’s business with the agreed pricing for customers and suppliers, plus his planned products. Thanks to our easy to use CSV import feature, designed to get businesses up and running with their existing data in minutes, Workwear Essentials were ready to go within the day.

3. User Training

We provided Ivor with a test environment to explore Thrive using company data. With training on basic navigation and functionality, Ivor grew more confident using the system.

4. Go-Live

By the time Workwear Essentials went live, Ivor was flying around the sales and purchasing modules, ready to start doing business on the road.

5. On-going Support

We provided dedicated phone support for Ivor to help with any issue he may have to help grow the business even faster.

Results

Streamlined for doing business on the road

With Thrive, Workwear Essentials operates seamlessly on the go, allowing Ivor to manage invoicing and deliveries efficiently while focusing on his customer’s needs.

“Thrive’s simplicity is its strong suit – I can take orders, make deliveries and track everything in Thrive, no need for a second system. I can even email the invoices to customer once I’m done. It’s a godsend.”

Ivor Trimble

By consolidating all financial data for Workwear Essentials in one system, Ivor spends less time on manual tasks. Reviewing aged debtors, creditors or running statements now takes just 15 minutes – freeing him to focus on growing the business.

Coupled with the ease-of-use, where attaching documents or generating an invoice takes just a few clicks – “I wouldn’t run the business without it”.

Enhanced Visibility and Independence

Once launched, Thrive’s 3 intuitive dashboards provided Ivor enhanced visibility into the business. Weekly reviews were greatly simplified, with the Company Overview dashboard showing where the business is up or down and the Sales dashboard pointing to which transactions to drill into.

The Thrive Sales dashboard available to all users, plotting your sales by period, top performing products, and a live view of each transaction’s status.

With a quick review of the invoices on Friday using Thrive’s Sales Enquiry, he’s ready to continue business come Monday.

“Thrive allows me to be my business. It lets me do what I need to do and be in front of the customer, satisfying their requirements. Stopping business for the day to do the monthly invoicing isn’t needed – I can run my business to the max, which means I get stuff done quicker.”

Ivor Trimble

Support You Can Count On

Knowing help is just a phone call away gives customers like Ivor peace of mind. With our team of qualified accountants and account technicians, Ivor knows we’ll resolve his issues in no time, keeping him on the road and in business. That’s the Thrive difference.

“All interactions with the Thrive team were brilliant. Being able to pick up the phone, get someone who knows my business, and come up with a solution in less than 30 minutes convinced me this was the right choice.”

Ivor Trimble

As Thrive continues to innovate with new features and integrations, Ivor shared his excitement about new tools like the Thrive Sales Pack for Power BI, offering deeper insights into sales trends and making customer data more actionable with interactive dashboards

As new features for Thrive such as Power BI are rolled out, we plan to hold educational webinars for customers like Ivor and for the public – showcasing the new features, other case studies, and discussing strategies for making your business even more productive. If you’re interested in signing up for our next available webinar, why not get in touch?

Conclusion

Thrive has become more than just accounting software for Workwear Essentials – it’s a trusted partner supporting the business’s growth and success. With its simplicity, mobility, enhanced visibility and dedicated support – Thrive enables Ivor to focus on what he does best: outfitting businesses across Ireland.

Workwear Essentials is just one of many customer success stories demonstrating Thrive’s impact.

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