Case Study: The Spa Hotel achieves faster financial control and time savings with Aqilla

Aqilla Helps Independent Hotel Reach a Level of Financial Control to Rival Global Groups

The Spa Hotel, an independent 70-room hotel with multiple revenue streams, faced a significant challenge in financial analysis after its previous Sage software was withdrawn. Using various systems for its spa, restaurant, and hotel operations, the business generated vast amounts of daily data. However, the financial controller, Robert McCluskey, could only manually input a tiny fraction of this data, severely limiting the insights available to control costs and improve efficiency. They turned to the vendor Aqilla for its cloud-based accounting software to overcome this.

By implementing Aqilla, the hotel leveraged its Excel Add-In to automatically import 100% of its available data, a process that now takes seconds. This provided the detailed, large-system level of analytics they needed. The solution delivered substantial time savings, cutting the daily banking process from 2.5 hours to under an hour and reducing the monthly bank reconciliation from 3-4 days to less than half a day. Aqilla provided the hotel with a competitive advantage through superior financial control and saved the accounts team up to two hours per day.

The Spa Hotel

Robert McCluskey

Financial Controller