Case Study: Lancashire Renewables achieves secure, efficient cloud payroll and supplier payments with Bottomline

Lancashire Renewables transforms business payments

Lancashire Renewables, owned by Lancashire County Council, runs two central waste treatment facilities and relies on timely payroll and supplier payments to keep collections and services running. Facing industry and technology changes, a small accounts team needed a more efficient, secure and standards-compliant finance infrastructure to reduce manual processes, prevent payment diversion or fraud, and support remote working and GDPR requirements.

Lancashire Renewables partnered with Bottomline to deploy a cloud payments platform that integrates with Flexipay and UNIT4 Coda, securely encrypts and uploads payment files, enforces automated authorisation workflows, validates payees against blacklists and first-time-payment alerts, and uses MFA and role-based controls. The implementation was smooth; the organisation now processes over £500k per week reliably, reduced fraud and manual errors, maintained payment continuity through COVID, and freed the team to focus on core business.

Lancashire Renewables

Ben Tromans

Lancashire Renewables