Success stories

Real South African finance teams, on Sage Intacct.

Not slideware. These are Brilliant ERP clients running live on Sage Intacct, with the challenge they faced, what changed, and the numbers behind it.

Success story · Wholesale & Retail

Fuelling South African growth with Sage Intacct.

Q4 Fuel's growth had outrun its systems: financial reporting took up to a week and decisions waited for data. Two months after starting with Brilliant ERP, the group ran on live numbers.

Q4 Fuel wholesale and retail Sage Intacct case study
2 hoursinvoice processing, down from a full day
10 daysfaster month-end close
10 to 20%faster processing every month

The challenge: growth on manual rails.

As Q4 Fuel expanded, outdated technology and manual processes created operational bottlenecks. Financial reporting stretched up to a week, compliance risk grew with the business, and the lack of real-time insight made timely decisions difficult.

  • Reporting delays of up to a week
  • Manual invoice capture consuming full days
  • No real-time view across the group's entities

The results.

Implemented in under two months

Deployment completed with minimal operational disruption, including live bank feeds and real-time dashboards.

Automation across the back office

Billing, reporting and depreciation now run automatically, with improved asset visibility and multi-entity support.

A finance team doing finance

The team's time moved from capture to value-adding analysis such as inventory and margin review across the group.

We've been able to reduce processing times by 10 to 20% every month. Now we can do inventory and margin analysis across the group.

Darius Bester, Senior Accountant, Q4 Fuel
Success story · Holiday Resorts

Migrating off a legacy system frees ATKV to focus on its mission.

Purchase order approvals took two to three weeks and month-end close needed 10 business days, with every resort collating Excel exports at head office. Sage Intacct replaced all of it with one real-time view.

ATKV holiday resorts Sage Intacct case study
2 to 3 dayssaved on month-end reporting
Dailyreviews instead of monthly
99.9%platform uptime

The challenge: a legacy system in the way.

On the old legacy system, purchase order approvals took two to three weeks and month-end close needed 10 business days. Financial data had to be exported to Excel, sent to head office and collated before anyone could use it.

  • Purchase order approvals of two to three weeks
  • 10 business days to close each month
  • Data silos between resorts and head office

The results.

Real-time data, every resort

Data silos removed: month-end checks now happen daily or weekly instead of monthly, across the whole group.

Security ATKV can bank on

Enhanced security and compliance on the Sage cloud with a 99.9% uptime guarantee, a key requirement in the move.

Head office out of the collation business

No more Excel exports travelling to head office; consolidated numbers are simply there, current and complete.

The month-end reviews were able to be done on a daily or weekly basis, instead of monthly. We've reduced our month-end reporting time by two to three days since starting Sage Intacct.

Sanri van der Walt, CFO, ATKV