Strive Community Care actively supports vulnerable communities and families across Queensland. The organisation runs its day-to-day services with the support of community services professionals caring for children, managers, and office staff.
To manage expenses, employees and finance teams previously used preloaded business visa cards from two other expense management providers. However, these cards were complicated for a few reasons:
Using Budgetly, Strive Community Care has managed to save 40 hours a month on administration; they can now track transactions and limit overspending, and set flexible budgets within their teams.
With Budgetly’s preloaded cards and expense management software, staff and social workers now have a more efficient expense management process. Budgetly provided staff with prepaid corporate visa cards which are easily identifiable with individual cardholder names.
Example of Budgetly’s transaction view
Staff can use Budgetly cards to transact, capture their receipts using their smartphones, and upload them to the Budgetly app. In addition, transaction details such as vendor names and transaction amounts are automatically filled in the app, eliminating their need to do it manually.
Strive Community Care has saved up to 40 hours a month on manual expense management. This extra time gives staff and social workers more time to focus on helping their communities.
For Ryan Dempsey, the Co-Founder and Director of Strive Community Care, using Budgetly has given him a much better understanding of his organisation.
“The biggest risk for us was being unable to track spending across budgets. But with Budgetly, we saved 5 to10 hours per week across the organisation. It’s really allowed us to track our finances from top to bottom, which then flows into how we run our operations.”
With better tracking of staff transactions, Strive Community Care can now control overspending and save company costs in the process.
“We have definitely been able to save cash with Budgetly by tracking expenses better. For example, when working with the kids under our care, my team can tell if we’re spending too much money on takeaway - we can then direct the funds to be better used for those kids. This allows us to manage our staff more effectively and see how they are working with the kids.”
Ryan was introduced to Budgetly through word-of-mouth from a colleague which proved to be a critical reference that solved all his expense management problems.
“After we had the demonstration with the Budgetly team, I was sold straight away. It solved all the gaps we were experiencing with the other providers, like being able to tell one card from the other. Plus, being able to see and track how much we’ve spent and how much is left in our weekly house budget sealed the deal.”
Would Ryan recommend Budgetly to other social organisations like Strive Community Care?
“Definitely! Budgetly is perfect for community services organisations like us. All my operational spending with managers and floor staff is exclusively done with Budgetly now because it’s just so easy with the Xero integration. Besides that, the team at Budgetly are always available to assist us whenever we need help.”
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About Strive Community Care
Strive Community Care is a For-Purpose organisation located in Brisbane, Queensland. The organisation provides care and support to children and young people with a history of trauma and/or psychosocial disability in OOHC through therapeutic residential support and outreach services.
About Budgetly
Budgetly is an Australian prepaid corporate card and expense management software provider. We’re committed to making expense management easy for all companies and improving their processes. Our service is adopted by many charities, NDIS service providers, aged care providers and businesses across Australia.