NetSuite Success

Custom reports have saved me hours and turned a tedious payroll submission into a simple, efficient and comfortable process. I access custom reports for specific Pay Periods and easily transfer the data to my ADP EasyPay payroll worksheet. All employees post their hours in NetSuite’s Weekly Time Tracking where they indicate hours for Holidays, Vacations, and Sick/Personal time off from work (Paid Time-Off Report). Read more »

When coming in to take over the invoicing duties at Blue Tent marketing we didn’t have a clear understanding of what payment methods our clients used. We offer clients three choices on how they can pay their Blue Tent invoices: pay by check, by credit card, or via ACH. We had no idea of how many open invoices were assigned to each payment method and didn’t really have clear visibility into when and how much would be processed and deposited into our checking account. Simply put, trying to manage cash flow was a challenge. What did we do about it? First we clearly labeled each customer Read more »

Netsuite CRM Use:
We are getting ready here to start a new marketing push to current clients to help the move forward with a Google Apps implementation.  I posted a few months back about our transfer to a single Google email system and in the weeks since our company has taken advantage of many of the collaboration documents and spreadsheets.  In the  last few months our IT director completed all the necessary steps to become a Google Apps certified consultant.  So now it's time to sell! We are working on a series of Netsuite reports to mine our customer data base for the most likely candidates to offer this service. This has been a great eye opener for our top level management .....  we always "thought" we were utilizing Netsuites software as a service CRM "well"....but we found we have a LOT of work to do! Two things came out of this next generation of CRM use..... First we see that as an organization we have to do a much better job of capturing information about our customers businesses. Read more »

As Blue Tent continues to integrate the project management tools that Netsuite continues to refine and grow, I wanted to outline some of the processes and insight we are gaining from this transition and see if any other Netsuite customers are seeing the same. It starts with the fundamental business process of your company. In Blue Tent’s case we are a service and consulting company. We build websites, put clients at the top of Google and send relevant email messages. Read more »

Hey everyone. I saw this NetSuite announcement and got a real kick out of it! NetSuite has launched its own "Cash for Clunkers" incentive program.  Trade in your Stone-Age software and come join the cloud!
NetSuite is offering incentives to help business turn off and turn in their antiquated on-premise software and hardware, pare back their electricity use, and switch to an efficient, cutting-edge, on-demand business management software suite.
Here’s the deal: Read more »

I thought it would be of interest to keep the update going on Blue Tent’s full integration of Netsuite into our CRM, accounting and project management processes. We have been talking about the nightmare of not being able to control and run your business from anywhere and being tied to your in-house accounting software. Read more »

As many of you know I have been posting on the progress we have been having with our full transition to the business accounting software from Netsuite. I have outlined the nightmare of not knowing if revenue matched production, if our time inputs matched the bills….all fun things to worry about for a small and growing company. The SaaS model that Netsuite offers is in and of it’s self pretty amazing! Read more »