Having a Robust Payments Hub paid dividends for Holiday Inn

Given the nature of its industry, the company had the following objectives - Holiday Inn Club Vacations needed a flexible, and highly integratable digital solution that would help them better manage:

• Property acquisition: to enable this to happen, the CFO and executive team needed a precise and real-time picture of the cash and liquidity positions
• Long-term project budgeting and funding: it is necessary to routinely invest in property enhancements and upgrade projects. The company manages numerous long-term, phased, multi-million-dollar development projects across all properties
• Bank relationship and services optimization: given the highly acquisitive strategy, banking relationships must be managed holistically across entities and properties. Relationships must be streamlined to negotiate the best terms
• General financial visibility and stamina: during times of crisis, financial stamina and endurance is most critical. Visibility and a precise pulse on liquidity is vital

Project highlights

By improving bank relationship leverage, the team has made considerable savings in annual fees

By automating credit line and revolver balance management and reconciliation, the team has realized an impressive first-year saving

Award recognition

Bottomline and Holiday Inn Club Vacations received the 2020 Adam Smith Award for “Best Crisis Management Solution” by Treasury Today Magazine and the 2020 Alexander Hamilton Award for “Best Liquidity Management”