Connected Business Systems
Your Accounting System Doesn’t Have to Run the Whole Business
Your customers may buy through Shopify, WooCommerce, EPOS or directly from your team. Big Red Cloud’s Turbo Inventory can sit behind those channels to manage the operational workflow: from customers, orders and purchasing through stock, fulfilment, manufacturing, workshops and other day-to-day operations.
Finance may work in Excel. Other parts of the business may rely on specialist systems of their own. Increasingly, some work may happen through AI assistants such as Mistral, ChatGPT or Claude.
Different work belongs in different tools.
The important thing is that the financial information stays connected.
Turbo can provide the operational backbone. Big Red Cloud can provide the financial backbone. Power Accounting, our API and RED provide different ways for the rest of the business to stay connected to it.
Connected Information
Integration Isn’t Only About Saving Time
Integrations are usually sold as a way to reduce typing but there is another reason to connect systems properly. Every manual handoff is another opportunity for the operational reality and the accounts to drift apart. An order is exported, stock is updated somewhere else, finance re-enters the result and somebody later reconciles the differences.
The problem is not only the time spent moving information. It is the opportunity for something to be missed, duplicated or treated differently along the way.
Good integration removes handoffs, not just keystrokes.
The aim is to let information move from where the work happens to where it needs to be accounted for.
Stock and Operations
Run the Operation in Turbo. Keep the Accounts in Big Red Cloud.
For many product and service businesses, accounting is only one part of a much broader operational workflow.
Customers may buy online through Shopify or WooCommerce, over the counter through Turbo EPOS, or directly from the business.
Turbo can then manage the operational work around those sales including customers, orders, stock, purchasing, fulfilment, workshops and other day-to-day processes.
Big Red Cloud sits behind that operation as the accounting system.
Supported financial activity can flow from Turbo into BRC rather than being reconstructed afterwards by the finance team.
Sell where your customers want to buy. Run the operation in Turbo. Keep the accounts in Big Red Cloud.
Excel Integration
Keep Working in Excel Without Creating a Second Set of Books
Some finance work is simply easier in Excel. You may need to prepare information in bulk, manipulate accounting data or use spreadsheet workflows built around the way your finance team works.
Power Accounting syncs Excel with Big Red Cloud, allowing supported accounting information to move between the spreadsheet and the live company.
The spreadsheet can remain a useful working environment without becoming a disconnected version of the accounts.
The objective is not to eliminate spreadsheets. It is to eliminate unnecessary copying between the spreadsheet and the accounts.
Custom Integrations
Connect the Systems Your Business Already Uses
No accounting product will have a ready-made connector for every specialist system a business might use.
You may have a CRM, billing application, ecommerce platform, vertical industry system or software developed specifically around the way your business operates. Big Red Cloud’s API gives those systems another route into the accounts.
Connected software can read supported Big Red Cloud data and create supported accounting transactions, allowing developers to build workflows around the systems the business already depends on.
That changes the question.
Instead of asking:
“Does Big Red Cloud already integrate with our system?”
you can ask:
“Can our system integrate with Big Red Cloud?”
AI Accounting Access
Bring Your Accounts Into the AI Assistant You Already Use
Increasingly, work happens in ChatGPT, Claude and other AI assistants too.
RED connects supported assistants to live Big Red Cloud data, so accounting information can become part of the conversation without being manually exported and pasted into it.
Supported actions can also be carried out through RED under appropriate controls.
Big Red Cloud provides the financial truth. Your AI assistant brings the context.
One Financial View
Keep Big Red Cloud at the Financial Heart of the Business
The systems around your business do different jobs.
Turbo can run the operational workflow.
Power Accounting connects Excel to the accounts.
The API connects specialist and proprietary systems.
RED connects the AI assistants you increasingly work through.
They do not all need to become one system.
They need to stay connected to the same financial backbone.
Run the business in the tools built for the work. Keep the data connected. Keep Big Red Cloud at the financial heart of it.
Ian Hobbs
Sales Manager, Big Red Cloud
Need to discuss integrating your business systems? Contact Ian Hobbs for friendly, practical guidance on how Big Red Cloud can simplify your day-to-day accounting.
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