As a group of National Property Consultants, McGees Isle Love Pty Ltd, place high importance on technology maximising their time available to service their clients. To achieve this goal, McGees in Brisbane have chosen Greentree Business software, which will enable them to refine their business processes and save valuable time.

"We need access to live data to evaluate the costs per employee, position of agents’ sales, our cash position, basically we need to know where we stand at any point in time. Greentree does this.”

McGees consists of nine independently owned offices throughout Australia, operated by working Directors involved in the business. The team at McGees in Brisbane have been long-term users of Greentree’s CBA financial suite. Over time, the management team had identified two key business issues facing McGees. Firstly, the Directors required better reporting and access to real-time information about all areas of the business, and in order to provide and manage this visibility, they required a Windows environment.

Very, very well supported

The CBA heritage assured McGees of a comfortable transition to Greentree with many of the proven business concepts of CBA in Greentree. Val Currie, Office Manger at McGees, says “CBA is a good system, but we needed to change from a DOS based system to having full Windows functionality to improve working practice.” She continues, “It was not necessary to review other products on the market, as we are extremely satisfied with the Greentree support and moving to Greentree is a good business decision for us.”

“Using the unlimited number of multi-level “trees”, we can logically classify the financial information, which enables us to have flexible reporting structures and reduce data inputting errors. Overall, Greentree saves us time, and helps re-engineer our processes and provide a sophisticated reporting engine."

Very, very integrated

Greentree’s ease of use and real-time on-line transaction updating was important to McGees. In Greentree, a single point of data entry updates all relevant areas instantaneously, with no “inter-module” posting or updating required. “Greentree provides our Directors with up-to-the-minute, accurate information to make key commercial decisions required to gain competitive advantage in a very cost driven industry.” Currie adds, “We need access to live data to evaluate the costs per employee, position of agents’ sales, our cash position, basically we need to know where we stand at any point in time. Greentree does this.”

Very, very powerful

McGees were impressed with Greentree’s integration with common desktop tools such as Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Word. Val says, “We needed a powerful reporting engine to enhance financial reporting, invoicing and transaction entry. Greentree will give us more flexibility to move into the future.” The team identified the ability to define an unlimited number of “trees” against all master files, such as customers, inventory items, suppliers, general ledger accounts, as one of Greentree’s most valuable and compelling features.

Very, very flexible

“Using the unlimited number of multi-level “trees”, McGees can logically classify the financial information, which will enable us to have flexible reporting structures and reduce data inputting errors. Overall, Greentree will save us time, help re-engineer our processes and provide a sophisticated reporting engine.”

About McGees Property

McGees is one of Australia’s truly national property consultancies, located in 8 offices across the nation. McGees currently operates in major Australian cities and has direct access to New Zealand, South East Asian, European and United States property markets through our network of consultants.

It is the only national group of independently owned offices in the country, each operated by working directors who involve themselves with their clients to provide a full depth of experience and expertise. The companies that now form McGees were originally established as family based firms in their respective cities, some over a century ago.

For more information visit www.mcgees.com.au