The ION – Sage Intacct for Education Team are on a mission to provide Multi Academy Trusts, Single Academy Trusts and Schools with the best in class, true-cloud, auto consolidating finance system.
Sage Intacct for Education is a next generation finance system which is not only intuitive and easy to use, but offers a deeper level of functionaility that is unrivalled in this sector.
Based in Great Park, Newcastle Upon Tyne, the ION – Sage Intacct for Education team are a collective group of MAT Finance Specialists, School Finance Experts and Digital Transformation Specialists, who are hugely passionate about helping our Schools and Academies, right here in the North East.
Sage Intacct for Education, is the future of education finance, if you have become tired of your current finance systems’ lack of innovation and development, or you have become fed up with rising costs and poor support, perhaps it’s time to make the move to Sage Intacct for Education.
Testimonials
Testimonial 1 for ION - Sage Intacct for Education
Nexus Multi Academy Trust
"1 month into the project, and the support and attention to detail from the ION team has been unbeatable. Thank you!"
Testimonial 2 for ION - Sage Intacct for Education
Sapientia Education Trust
"The Financial Reports produced from this solution are the best we have seen, and we produce our board report at the click of a button. I would happily provide references to other clients thinking of working with ION for solutions such as this."
Case Studies
Sapientia Education Trust
The Sapientia Education Trust (SET) was established in 2016 with the purpose of bringing like-minded schools together and work in partnership to deliver a world class education to pupils in Norfolk and Suffolk. SET includes over 5,500 pupils, employs 1,300 staff and operates in 16 schools.
Previously using Sage 200c for Education, SET recognised the need to switch to a powerful cloud accounting solution to support growth and efficiencies in their business as they were encountering key challenges in their growth journey.
OBJECTIVES
The key challenges for SET in using the Sage 200c for Education solution is that it did not allow for easy consolidated accounts or inter company reporting due to the nature of the system, something that they needed as a core and automated feature of the new system. Another limitation was the many tasks completed outside of the finance system including reporting for VAT and purchasing workflow stages, features that needed to be brought into the new system to improve efficiencies and digitalise processes.
SET also wanted to move to a full-scale cloud technology to remove their on-premise IT costs and adopt a best-in-class cloud accountancy system to support their growth.
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SAPIENTIA + SAGE INTACCT
Sapientia Education Trust (SET) now has a solution in place with Sage Intacct, where adding new schools now takes minutes instead of a 1 day process that they were unable to do themselves and had to engage Sage to perform. This has also removed the professional services cost starting from £1,000 per new school to do so.
Consolidation of entities is now an automated process via Sage Intacct, providing insightful financial reporting, which has significantly reduced the manual effort required to achieve month end close in comparison to their previous solution.
The Sage Intacct flexible purchasing workflow with comprehensive approval policies that can be used at every stage of the purchasing cycle has prevented overspend and reduced the risk of processing errors which has incurred cost savings for Sapientia Education Trust (SET).
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WHAT SAPIENTIA SAID...
“Sapientia Education Trust received a strong and consistent delivery from ION for our Sage Intacct solution. We worked with a knowledgeable and communicative team at ION with their Product Specialists and Project Managers.
"The Solution provided us with tangible benefits to our business which included a vast improvement in our supplier payment performance, which improved by 33% from our previous system.The Financial Reports produced from this solution are among the best we have seen and are of excellent quality, we now produce our board report at the click of a button.
We were engaged and valued at each stage of the project delivery and have a product which meets our needs and requirements, and crucially it was delivered on time. I would happily provide references to other clients thinking of working with ION for solutions such as this"
Steven Dewing, CFO, Sapientia Education Trust
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Offers
3 months' FREE support
North East Schools can benefit from 3 months' of free support when they purchase Sage Intacct for Education from ION. Our support team are locally based and can be reached by phone, email or web chat.
1 day FREE on-site consulting
Schools in the North East can benefit from a day of on-site free consultation. Our education experts will visit you to understand your financial transformation needs and recommend the best solutions for you.
