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Blue River Petcare - United States

Sage Intacct is just paw-some for Blue RiverPetCare

Veterinary hospital network doubles accounting efficiency and grows and scales with Sage Intacct upgrade

Inefficient manual accounting processes and lack of real time insights

With an aggressive acquisition strategy, Blue River PetCare has expanded from 20 clinics in 2014 to over 145 today, across 31 states. As it grew, the accounting and finance team hit the limits of QuickBooks. Multi-entity consolidations and intercompany settlements became increasingly difficult, and it wasn’t delivering the timely business insights that it needed.

We knew we’d have to hire a lot more accounting staff if we stayed on QuickBooks, and still we’d be wasting time on inefficient manual processes.

Amy Ward
Controller

Future-oriented solution to scale with the business as it grew

Blue River found its ideal solution with Sage Intacct and the results have been remarkable. Since going live in 2015, Blue River has eliminated roughly 75 hours a month in manual work even amid triple-digit annual growth, and while delivering new business insights for data-driven decisions.

Sage Intacct allows us to innovate and scale with growth. It can seem daunting to be acquiring 20 to 30 clinics a year, but the technology lets us embrace that goal.

Tiffany Hanken
Accounting Manager

More time to focus on innovations and analysis

Time savings have empowered Blue River’s finance team to contribute more value to the business through innovations. For example, the team has deployed Solver, its first-ever financial planning and analysis solution. At the same time, the team is generating deeper business insights with Sage Intacct reporting than were possible in the days of QuickBooks and Excel.

We have a lot more time to focus on growth, special projects, and new initiatives to help the company move forward.

Tiffany Hanken
Accounting Manager