Case Study: Foster Heating & Cooling builds trustworthy books and scalable job-cost visibility with MakersHub

Foster Heating & Cooling eliminates half a day a week of manual AP work with MakersHub

Foster Heating & Cooling, an HVAC contractor on Vancouver Island, faced a challenge with its manual, paper-based accounts payable process. The system was inefficient and prone to errors, particularly with the reconciliation of Canadian sales taxes, which undermined trust in the financial data needed to drive growth. The company sought a solution that would work with its existing QuickBooks Desktop system without requiring a costly ERP migration, leading them to the vendor MakersHub.

MakersHub implemented a modern AP platform on top of QuickBooks Desktop, automating bill capture, approvals, and tax reconciliation. This eliminated manual data entry and provided line-level visibility into costs. The results for Foster Heating & Cooling included saving half a day per week on manual matching, automatically reconciling hundreds of monthly bills to the penny, and enabling real-time job-cost visibility. This allowed the company to make agile, data-driven decisions and trust its financial reports.

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