Education

Take Control, Buy Better

Reduce costs with better buying efficiency using Zahara
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Schools: Stay on Track With Zahara
Our customers in education use Zahara to control costs and get a real-time visual of departmental or faculty costs. We understand that you most likely have to justify much of your spending to management, so we’ve made it possible for our approval workflows to have multiple sign-offs when necessary. Zahara is easy to use, and quick to set up, so you can stick to your departmental budgets in no time, and relax in the knowledge that we’ll help you crack down on overspending.
1000s of users put their trust in Zahara every day
Education customers
 

Is Zahara the key to unlocking stress-free AP?

Streamlined control and efficiency tailored for Education customers
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Do you relate to these statements?
● Have multiple schools - lots of buying from remote locations?
● Use Sage 200 or an education specific finance system?
● Have frustration with your current accounts system?
● Have a real desire to manage spend and control costs better?
● Have a centralised accounts office - more than five person in accounts?
● Process more than 500 supplier invoices per month?
Are you looking to?
● Get better control?
● Pay less for your everyday expenses like consumables?
● Cut down on waste by preventing spend using approvals?
● Improve reporting and get month-end done accruals faster?
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Tired of Waste? Say Goodbye to Unnecessary Expenditure with Zahara.

Six key benefits that’ll make the whole team smile
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Never lose track of your payments

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

Say Goodbye to lost papers

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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AI Invoice Processing

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.

Improved Bottom Line

If you cut down on wasted spend, including unnecessary duplicate purchases, and scrutinise every spend request using multi-step approvals, you can't fail to improve the bottom line.

 
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We live in the clouds

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.

Quick and 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.

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We Integrate With Popular Accounting Software...
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Our key features are:

Purchase Orders

Know your costs before you commit to spending.

Deliveries & Receipting

Full audit trail so you have total visibility of what’s been delivered and receipted.

Approval Workflows

Infinitely customisable workflows so you can be ready for every scenario.

AI Invoice Processing

Pay your invoices 9 times faster using our specialised OCR.

Supplier Payments

Make secure payments in-app to avoid the faff of online banking.

Reporting & Analytics

With a complete audit trail and GRNs you’ll know if there are any hold ups.
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How we help our customers in Education

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Budgets

Every school or faculty has necessary costs, like classroom supplies, building maintenance, and kitchen equipment. With Zahara you can set budgets for each department so that everyone is aware of their available funds, and you never overspend. Track spend throughout the year, and approve or reject orders as necessary.

Finances

Zahara helps you set finance free so they can concentrate on more important things that will actually improve your finances, like better supplier discounts and analysing projected spend. Zahara is designed to do the laborious tasks like manual data entry, so you don’t have to.

Month end reporting
Are the approval workflows multi-step?
Yes. Multi-steps with multiple conditions, so out-of-the-box you can be up and running with little effort.
How accurate is the invoice processing?
Very accurate. All invoices are recognised centrally, which means none of our customers have to do any training.
My finance system isn't listed above?
Everything in Zahara can be imported as part of the initial setup using CSV files. Our main data hand-over from Zahara to your finance system are approved invoices. Can your finance system import a CSV or Excel file with invoice data? If the answer is yes, you can still enjoy Zahara to the full. If you'd prefer, Zahara can be used on its own without a finance system to control spend requests.
What exactly is Zahara controlling?
Spend. Costs. If every purchase request has to be approved, you can control what is being purchased and what suppliers you are using. You are then back in control as your business scales.
How easy is Zahara to use?
Zahara has all the features and settings that any modern finance team would want, without compromising on having a user-friendly interface. We wanted it to be accessible even for your colleagues who aren't in the finance department.
What do your customers say about Zahara?
They say "how did we manage with out this!"

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