Client
A leading North American software platform serving the cannabis retail industry. The platform connects cannabis brands, retailers, and distributors, enabling smooth transactions while ensuring compliance with the complex regulatory landscape of the cannabis industry.
Challenges
The client’s rapid growth exposed major inefficiencies in their contracting and billing processes:
- Fragmented Systems: Contracting and billing tasks were managed through multiple disconnected systems, creating data silos. This lack of a centralized platform made it difficult to maintain consistency, monitor operations, and generate accurate business forecasts.
- Manual Workflows: Key tasks, such as managing contract renewals and updating product pricing, were handled manually. With a wide variety of cannabis products, each subject to varying state-specific compliance regulations, managing these variations requires significant manual effort. This process not only consumed time but also increased the risk of human error.
- Compliance Complexities: The cannabis industry faces stringent and varied regulations across states. Managing product variations across different states, each with its compliance requirements, was a challenge that slowed down order processing and increased the risk of regulatory non-compliance.
- Billing Inconsistencies: Inaccurate invoicing was a persistent issue, leading to payment delays and cash flow problems. The platform lacked an automated system to manage variable billing rates based on the previous month’s product consumption, further complicating revenue collection.
- Limited Quote Customization: The platform’s product diversity demanded multiple quote templates to cover different configurations and compliance needs. The absence of these templates led to slower response times and an inconsistent sales process.
These challenges were hindering scalability and making it difficult to maintain efficiency as the company expanded.
Solution
Emorphis Technologies stepped in to streamline the client’s contracting and billing processes by implementing Salesforce CPQ and Salesforce Billing, with a strong focus on automation, compliance, and scalability.
- Centralized Contract and Billing Management: Emorphis consolidated the client’s systems into a unified platform by integrating Salesforce CPQ and Salesforce Billing. This eliminated the need for multiple, disconnected tools, providing the client with a single system to manage all their contracting and billing needs.
- Automated Product Configurations and Pricing Updates: Using Salesforce CPQ, Emorphis automated the generation of quotes and contracts for the client’s wide range of cannabis products. Configurations were automatically adjusted based on the unique compliance regulations of each state, eliminating manual interventions.
- Efficient Billing System: Emorphis implemented Salesforce Billing, which addressed the client’s invoicing issues by automating billing cycles and integrating consumption-based pricing. The system ensured that invoices were generated accurately and promptly, improving cash flow and reducing delays.
- Custom Quote Templates: Over 70% of the needed quote templates were built to cover different product categories and configurations, streamlining the quoting process and ensuring compliance from the start.
- Real-Time Compliance and Reporting: Custom reporting dashboards and integration APIs were built to ensure compliance was tracked automatically, providing instant visibility into contract renewals, invoicing, and regulatory adherence across different states.
Benefits
- Streamlined Contract Renewals: Contract management efforts were reduced by 32%, as manual renewals became a thing of the past.
- Improved Billing Accuracy: Invoicing errors were reduced by 45%, leading to more accurate financial records and faster payment cycles.
- Faster Quoting Process: With custom templates and automated compliance checks, the sales team was able to generate quotes much faster, improving customer response times.
- Increased Operational Efficiency: Centralized systems allowed the client to scale more easily while reducing the risk of compliance violations.
Tech stack
- Salesforce CPQ
- Salesforce Billing
- Salesforce Sales Cloud
- Custom Reporting Dashboards
- Integration APIs for Compliance Management
About Emorphis
Emorphis Technologies is a world-class software development and solutions company that truly believes in “Innovation in motion”. Delivery innovation on the go at an accelerated pace has been our success mantra to date. Over the years we have provided value to our clients in the field of enterprise mobility, cloud, IoT, backend development, Big Data Analytics, and Blockchain.
We serve industries ranging from unicorns, and startups to large multinationals in the healthcare, telecommunications, fintech, retail, and publishing industry. Our go-to-market software products – iStatement, iPublisher, and iBuggy have proved our metal with positive beneficial customer testimonials. We help our clients with successful product development, consulting services, and testing (manual & automated).
We have profound experience & expertise in various technologies like .Net, J2EE, PHP, iOS, Android, and Cloud Computing viz. Amazon Web services (AWS), Software QA & testing (Manual & Automation). Our designed products are cloud-ready and can be readily deployed on AWS/Azure cloud infrastructure.
Our pivot on engineering innovation and R&D helps quicken time-to-market, ensuring high quality at economies of scale, delivering cult competency for the global marketplace. We ensure that your ideas, concepts, and requirements are backed by brilliant execution at our end. Having said that we extend end-to-end ownership of product/application design, development, and deployment.
