Controlling Costs in the Construction Industry

Build Better with Faster Invoice Processing and Job Cost Accounting

  • Control construction costs with budgets and job controls
  • Process supplier invoices faster & speed up ordering of materials
  • Control construction costs with budgets and job controls
  • Manage subcontractor behaviour with T&C's and PO's
  • Allocate purchases and costs to Jobs correctly
  • GRN deliveries with mobile app for instant accruals
  • Get month end figures out faster
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Is Zahara a great fit for you

Do you:

  • Take too log to understand profit positions with each job?
  • Rely on receiving paperwork from field based workers?
  • Spend too long reconciling deliveries with invoices?
  • Have too much office space dedicated to paper storage?

Are you looking to:

  • Process and pay supplier invoices faster?
  • Cut down the keying of mundane purchase invoices?
  • Improve your purchasing power and get better prices?
  • Improve reporting and get month-end done faster?

Benefits of our Construction customers

Benenfits of using Zahara
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Fast accurate invoice Processing

Our AI recognition will effortlessly read your invoices and have the data in your finance system without you having to lift a finger. Just forward your invoices to Zahara and we will do the rest.

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Job budgeting made easy

Create project budgets with allocations to suit and then track the progress in real-time. Create purchase orders against the budget and see the profit position change as each purchase is committed.

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Better Visibility, Faster

With Zahara, the month end figures get done faster. As simple as that. Approvals happen in minutes not days, meaning finance have visibility of the payables side of the business with accurate spend allocation to each job.

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Eliminate Manual Process

Customisable approval workflows allow for the right people to approve each purchase order or invoice, which can also be matched to the correct costs and coded easily.

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Quick & Simple to Deploy

Fast to setup, intuitive to use, making it easy to train your people. In no time, you will be getting a great ROI with cost saving through efficiencies, reduced waste, and of course the reduced risk of fraud.

Integrate with these key finance systems

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We integrate with the leading Accounting, ERP and Inventory platforms to make getting your data into these systems a simple process.

What our customers say

BJ Babb
Excellent Software and loving the refreshed interface. All backed up with friendly and efficient support when required (which isn't a lot as it just works). Mark, Office Manager, Feb 23
Bio Bean
We've been using Zahara from Day 1 and we love it. It's perfect for departments seeing their live spend and budgets as well as ensuring spend gains the correct authorities using Zahara workflows Chris - Jan 23
Blackpool FC
We now have accountability, visibility and all our invoices are now digital.’ Finance Manager, Blackpool FC Jan 23
Good Things Foundation
'Zahara has changed and simplified our invoices approval process. It is simple to use software and if at any time we are struggling, the support team is always ready to help.' Erika - Jan 23
Genco Electrica
‘Zahara has been a massive help, it allows us to keep track of all the spend on each project and we would definitely recommend it.‘ Zoe Webb - Genco Electrica - Jan 23
Drayton Beaumont
We have been using Zahara for at least two years and the product and its continuous development are first class." - Business Development Manager, Drayton Beaumont Services - Jan 23
Sisters of the Love of God
Zahara has helped us streamline things, we can see what is sitting where and with whom, it's fantastic, it’s so much more controllable and transparent" - Head of Finance, SLG - Jan 23
Flipout
Zahara has already helped us, our audit is now quicker, and the onboarding has given us a great overview, I’m now very comfortable using and updating the system ” – Jon Thomas, National operations manager – Jan 23
Hotel Synergies
I like using Zahara as it is easy and versatile to implement and provides a structured purchasing platform that helps control the profitability without heavy admin. - Dec 22
Reliant HCS
Very user friendly cost-effective tool, which compared to other high-end software is a fraction of the price - Dec 22
Prestige Nursing & Care
We have been using Zahara since Sep 22 and the productivity gains have been phenomenal. Our finance team and the wider business have been singing its praises
Iron Mountain
Global Disaster Recovery company Iron Mountain deployed Zahara to manage purchasing in EMEA
Bristol Old Vic
Famous theatre, Bristol Old Vic chose Zahara for its flexible pre-spend approvals and requisitions
Lush
With 105 retails outlets, global brand Lush wanted a truly paper-less AP process and turned to Zahara.
Shift Active Media
Media Accounts teams gained financial awareness and improved profitability resulting in continued successful growth.
Aesthetx
"The approval processes and designated workflows are great. I like that the business can have its own divisions, that's a big plus." - Financial Controller at Aesthetx
CHD Living
Care homes group CHD Living brought their spending under management and found an easy way to enforce budgetary discipline.
British Airways
“The approval process in Zahara has given us more control and better visibility of spend”. Martin Burnell - British Airways Holiday
 
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Purchase Orders

Control costs with Purchase Orders. Buy whats approved.

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Approvals

Multi-step approval workflows mean all spend is authorised
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Payments

Faster approved vendor
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Invoice Processing

Faster invoice processing. No needless data entry.
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How we're helping Construction customers

 
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Groundwork’s

Ground works are one of our biggest customer sectors. With thousands of hire invoices each year as well as aggregates and subcontractor, processing invoices at volume in Zahara has never been easier.

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Development

Multiple concurrent construction projects require financial discipline to make sure each costs or purchase is allocated accurately. Zahara gives you a 360 view of everything happening with all purchases recorded in one place visible on any device at any time.

 

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