From Firefighting to Forward Planning: How AAB Helps Hospitality Clients Grow with Confidence
Graham Dyer, Partner at AAB's business advisory group, has spent his career in hospitality and understands what it takes to thrive in the industry. Since bringing Lightyear into his team's toolkit, everything has changed for the better.
Now, instead of chasing paperwork, Graham's team delivers real-time insights that genuinely move the needle — flash reports built on live data, clear visibility of where money is going across multiple venues, and the confidence to support clients as they open new sites and scale.
For multi-site operators managing high invoice volumes, Lightyear slots in seamlessly — no disruption, no need to grow the finance team.
More clarity. More confidence. More time to focus on what matters.
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Sonnel have 14 hotels across Australia and have been using Lightyear since mid 2020 to more efficiently and effectively manage their AP processes.
We spoke with Sanjay de Silva who is the Compliance Officer & Stocktake Manager for Sonnel.
COVID has put a huge pressure on many businesses to reassess how they operate as some business procedures are simply no longer viable.
Healthcare Ireland implemented Lightyear to go paperless with their Accounts Payable as no one could access paper after switching to remote working.
Pizza Pilgrims are a multi-site pizzeria franchise that have been using Lightyear for 5+ years. Their previous process was very manual, with a lot of data entry and checks.
We spoke with both the Financial Director Sophie and the Financial Controller Laura of Pizza Pilgrims, to get their perspective on why they chose Lightyear and more importantly, why they stay with us.
"Lightyear is a cutting edge technology"
Launch was "launched" in 2015 and I took over the ownership in 2018. I needed a solution that would reduce data entry and allow clients to approve their bills.
We spoke with Bookkeeper Lynley Pryde to catch up on all the changes to Launch since she has implemented Lightyear.
"Easy to use & approve bills & export to Xero" - Lynley Pryde
St Basil's have been using Lightyear since July 2020 and have enjoyed 30+% reduction in AP costs, up to 50% increase in efficiency of financial reporting and much more.
The Royce Aged Care have seen marked improvements in their business processes and functions since implementing Lightyear in 2020.
95% of time reclaimed with Archive Search, 80% decrease in bill approval time & 50+% reduction in Financial Reporting time.
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