Union Street Technologies has been selected by FourNet to provide its aBILLityâ„¢ billing software and associated services. Established in 2005, FourNet is an award-winning cloud and managed service provider with an annual turnover of over £30m. Its customers include many organisations in the blue light sector, with FourNet providing ‘mission critical’ services to fire, police and ambulance services across the UK.

FourNet selected Union Street Technologies’ aBILLity billing platform following an extensive review of the company’s billing and provisioning operations. During the review, FourNet identified several areas where aBILLity could be optimised for managing communications for emergency services including how the system could better manage escalations for clients in the blue light sector. In addition, FourNet has recommended enhancements to aBILLity’s reporting features and to Union Street’s end-user facing customer portal, WebaBILLity PRO.

Based on the outstanding billing solution achieved through cooperation with Union Street Technologies, FourNet has entered two categories of the prestigious National Billing People Awards: ‘Commitment to Customer Service’ and ‘Billing Revenue Growth Champion’.

FourNet’s Head of Finance, Vanessa Worsley, a recent nominee at the FDs’ Excellence Awards, oversaw the review alongside Billing Manager Amir Hussain. Summarising FourNet’s requirements, Vanessa stated, “I’m naturally a forward-thinking individual, who leads change through transformation and continuous improvement.  We identified that the blue light sector needed a robust billing solution that could manage their services and be able to provide comprehensive real-time information. Due to the unique requirements of our customers, especially with the additional strain brought by Covid-19, we needed immediate engagement in developing robust processes and controls for managing services and provisioning in our billing platform. aBILLity now has a wide range of features that make it ideal for all our customers, especially those within the blue light sector. This includes fully integrated provisioning tools that provide unparalleled control over the services we provide.”

Commenting on FourNet’s choice of Union Street, Vanessa confirmed, “We’ve been really impressed with the strong relationship built with Union Street, the growth and the development of its software is firmly in alignment with our own plans for growth. Over the next few years, our aim is to reach £100million turnover. This is an ambitious target, but one that’s eminently achievable. The business intelligence and revenue oversight provided by aBILLity will be key to driving business decision making and to effectively scaling up our billing operations as we continue to grow.”

For Union Street, Vincent Disneur, Head of Sales and Marketing stated, “Our partners’ success is our success. This is why we continually make significant investment in onward developing our solutions in accordance with customer requirements. We’re currently in the process of rolling out even more exciting features in the latest version of aBILLity. The advice FourNet has provided has been invaluable and directly contributed to improved functionality and productivity benefits for aBILLity’s user community as a whole.”

Sam Smith, senior account manager at Union Street, added:  “As a valued partner, FourNet has demonstrated its commitment to achieving the very highest standards of accuracy and professionalism in the billing process. Amir and Vanessa, FourNet’s billing experts, possess a great deal of knowledge and expertise and have collaborated with Union Street to help refine our strategy for the provision of services to the blue light industry.”

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