Our biggest issue was clients trusting their numbers. They would query the timing issues, things sitting in suspense, or prepayments not unwinding properly. Since using Spread, the reports are just cleaner. Revenue and costs are in the right place, and we’re not having to justify the numbers anymore. That alone has made a big difference to how clients see our work.

We’ve always wanted to do more advisory work, but month end kept pulling us back into admin and spreadsheets. Accruals, journals, reversals, it just ate time. Spread has taken most of that away. The repetitive work is handled in the background, so we can actually spend time reviewing the numbers and talking to clients about what they mean.

Xero is great for day-to-day bookkeeping, but month-end adjustments have always been a time consuming task for us. Accruals, prepayments, and deferred revenue were all manual in a spreadsheet and easy to get wrong. Spread plugs that gap really well. It sits alongside Xero and handles the parts that Xero doesn’t. It was so easy to plug and play and we saw results in minutes, making the existing process much smoother and more reliable.

As we’ve grown, the month-end workload hasn’t scaled well. More clients just meant more manual journals, more spreadsheets, and more pressure on the team. Spread has made that manageable again. Once it’s set up, it runs in the background and keeps things consistent across clients. It’s probably the first tool we’ve used that actually reduces workload as you grow, rather than adding to it and we've been able to delegate accruals and prepayments to more junior members of the team and it's just a review process now that we can train easy.

We were spending far too long at month end trying to tidy everything up before producing management accounts. Accruals were a bit of a guess and prepayments were done by spreadsheet, we were constantly chasing our tail. Spread has completely changed that as it automates these as they land throughout the month, what used to take hours per client is now a 15 min check and post and the numbers are so much more accurate.