Percipient announces that indoor climbing wall leader, The Climbing Hangar, has successfully implemented Sage Intacct.
The Climbing Hangar started in a Liverpool warehouse in 2011. Since then, it has become a national business with nine sites, employing more than 200 people and attracting tens of thousands of monthly customers.
Its mission is simple – to help its customers lead happier, healthier, and more connected lives through climbing.
The Climbing Hangar opened its first site in Scotland earlier this year, following the successful launch of Reading in 2023, taking its total number of centres to nine. In line with this rapid growth, the leisure leader had outgrown its previous Sage 50 system, which was manually intensive and error-prone. This exposed the team to risk and spending unnecessary time processing month-end.
Sage Intacct forms a fundamental part of our digital strategy, delivering the speed, intelligence, and flexibility from which to run our business. Through its dashboards and reporting, it delivers a consolidated view of performance across all our centres.
Scaling New Heights
Having reviewed the market for a modern, cloud-based financials platform to replace Sage 50, the team selected Sage Intacct and Percipient. The decision was based on Sage Intacct’s integrated financials, particularly the PO functionality and drill-down capability to access detail and allow site teams to view insights quickly. Having looked at Sage 200, SAP and NetSuite as part of its procurement process, Sage Intacct was considered the best fit, with the most flexibility to support current and future needs.
The Climbing Hangar went live with Sage Intacct in October 2022 following a short deployment. In addition to streamlined financials, It now benefits from greater control over and access to intelligence.
“Sage Intacct forms a fundamental part of our digital strategy, delivering the speed, intelligence, and flexibility from which to run our business. Through its dashboards and reporting, it delivers a consolidated view of performance across all our centres,” comments Laura Johnson, Head of Finance at The Climbing Hangar.
“Crucially, Sage Intacct has instilled in us the necessary scale to grow our estate to another two sites, including Reading and Edinburgh, without additional financial resources. We now have a live view of cost commitments and associated invoicing, which ensures month-end accuracy and cashflow forecasting, which is crucial in a business like ours.”
“The automation and efficiency gains derived from Sage Intacct means that we have reduced the time taken to complete month-end by at least a week whilst also providing better information to our stakeholders. It truly makes life so much easier.
Sage Intacct Partner for Leisure
Read the full success story for The Climbing Hangar. For more information about how we can help your leisure business succeed with Sage Intacct, get in touch or call us on 01606 871332.
