Manufacturing

Manufacturing Company Zoho Books & CRM Integration

Zoho CRMZoho BooksZoho InventoryZoho CreatorZoho FlowREST API Integration
Timeline: 10 weeks
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Invoice-to-Delivery Gap
Automated invoicing upon delivery confirmation replaced 3-5 day manual invoice creation
52 → 28 days
Payment Collection
Faster invoicing and automated payment reminders nearly halved average collection time
2 days → 2 hours
VAT Return Time
Automated VAT tracking and report generation replaced manual quarterly compilation
€32,000
Annual Cost Saving
Zoho licensing and support costs vs. previous Sage licences, manual processing, and consultant fees

The Challenge

A Malta-based manufacturing company with €8M annual revenue was running Sage for accounting and managing customer orders through email and spreadsheets. The disconnect between sales and finance meant invoices were issued days after delivery, payment collection averaged 52 days, and the finance team had no visibility into the sales pipeline for cash flow forecasting. VAT returns required manual data compilation that took two full days each quarter.

Our Approach

skios designed an integrated Zoho CRM and Zoho Books deployment that would unify the company's quote-to-cash process. The key design principle was end-to-end automation: a quote created by the sales team in CRM would flow through order confirmation, production scheduling, delivery, invoicing, and payment collection without manual handoffs or duplicate data entry.

The Solution

We migrated the company from Sage to Zoho Books, configuring Malta VAT rules, multi-currency invoicing for EU export customers, and automated bank reconciliation with BOV and HSBC Malta. Zoho CRM was deployed for the sales team with custom modules for product configuration, quote generation, and order tracking. The CRM-to-Books integration automated invoice creation upon delivery confirmation. A custom Zoho Creator application tracked production orders and linked delivery schedules to CRM opportunities.

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