Bulleys puts the Mojo into creditor accounting

Work smarter, not harder

Bulleys has been a Trace customer for twelve years. At the core of its IT operations, it uses Trace Solutions’ TRAMPS property management software, which provides everything it needs to manage its substantial property portfolio.

TRAMPS also contains the property accounting features and the tools needed to automate property management at scale.

However, TRAMPS is aimed at expert users, making it difficult for anyone to interact with it on a casual basis – such as surveyors, who operate largely out of the office. Creditor invoice approval was challenging to administer, involving multiple chains of command for reconciliation and sign-off, and forcing the Bulleys team to work hard to recharge costs, or to pay invoices swiftly and efficiently.

“The daily grind of data entry and processing of invoices was as efficient as it could be, but there’s no doubt that we had more paper and chains of command for sign off than was desired,” explains Steve Perriton, MRICS partner at Bulleys.

“What we needed was a way to work smarter, not harder – and to bring the benefit of TRAMPS to everyone in the organisation making the whole process more efficient, transparent and timely.”

Putting the Mojo into property management

While Bulleys is growing and hiring more staff, the focus is very much on maintaining quality of service and making working practices better for everyone.

The organisation has increasingly adopted cloud-based IT systems to help it digitise and grow, and so it looked to implement the cloud-based Mojo apps that Trace offers, to deliver the power of TRAMPS to everyone, with a great user experience for the whole team.

Bulleys went live with Mojo in January 2020, just weeks before the lockdown commenced and forced companies to work remotely. The app allows creditor invoices to be seamlessly passed between accounting staff, surveyors and partners for service charge coding, sign off, recharge and supplier payment.

“What I absolutely love about Mojo is the traceability of the process – every step is date and ID evidenced, and the approvals are captured, so that there is full end-to-end compliance and accountability for each invoice,” explains Steve Perriton.

“There is much less opportunity to lose a document, signature or invoice, because it’s all captured in Mojo and the data is maintained in the core TRAMPS system.”

“Surveyors can sign off their own invoices whilst on-the-go and it’s undoubtedly made us more efficient.”

“It really couldn’t have been implemented at a better time, because it has enabled the entire Bulleys team of accounting staff and surveyors to operate remotely and keep a secure, agile and customer focused service going through challenging world-events.”

The benefits of Mojo

The Mojo system has brought many benefits to the team at Bulleys.

It has:

• Reduced the approvals process down from an average of one week to around 24-48 hours.

• Delivered traceability in the process – and, in turn, compliance and accountability.

• Delivered the power of TRAMPS to everyone, in a user-friendly app.

• Provided a cloud-based application that can be accessed and operated remotely

• Provided Bulleys with the ability to remain fully operational during the pandemic and continue to process supplier payments in the usual way.

• Reduced the amount of paper administration and documentation – working smarter, not harder

• Made interdepartmental working – between accounts, surveyors and partners – more efficient.