Case Study: Bare Bones Broth achieves scalable growth, slashes AP time, and preserves sales during COVID with Bill.com

Bare Bones Uses Fancy Footwork, and Bill.com, to Meet Skyrocketing Demand

Bare Bones Broth, founded by Katherine Harvey and her husband Ryan, grew from a husband-and-wife side hustle into a $600K/month, five-employee food business selling across retail, Costco, Amazon and direct channels. Sudden celebrity-driven demand and then pandemic-era supply disruptions overwhelmed their small operation: stacks of paper invoices, vendors who required checks, and the CEO spending roughly 30 hours a week just on payables.

They implemented Bill.com (integrated with QuickBooks Enterprise) to move paper checks to electronic payments, eliminate back-office paper stacks, and gain better cash-flow control. Accounts payable time dropped by more than 83% (to about five hours a week), freeing the founders to manage supply-chain challenges so there was no loss of sales; the company continues fast growth (≈60% YoY, 1,500 stores, 80% online sales growth) with about 60 payables a month.

Bare Bones Broth

Katherine Harvey

Co-founder