Case Study: Purple Wave achieves 50% faster budget creation with Sage Intacct Budgeting and Planning

Purple Wave banks on Sage Intacct to cut budget work

Purple Wave is the largest no‑reserve internet auction company in the U.S., selling more than 37,000 used agriculture, construction, and fleet items annually. Rapid growth exposed the limits of QuickBooks and Excel—large downloads errored out, manual data entry and fragile Excel linkages made budgeting slow and error-prone, and the finance team spent excessive time on routine tasks and month‑end closes.

By upgrading to Sage Intacct for core accounting and adding Sage Intacct Budgeting and Planning, Purple Wave cut budget creation time by about 50% (moving processes from weeks to hours), enabled one‑button syncing to the general ledger, and shortened the close from 30 to 8 days. The unified platform improved budget vs. actuals reporting and scenario modeling, streamlined audits, freed the CFO for strategic work, and allowed the finance team to focus on higher‑value projects and better support business growth.

Purple Wave

Lea Briscoe

Controller