Benefits of the cloudBuy Solutions

Benefits for Customers

  • The website is easy to use so customers can find everything to help them including chargeable as well as free services
  • All Suppliers list unit prices transparently so it’s easy to see how much it will cost
  • Unlike all other solutions there is no need to open a Paypal account.  Our solution can take payment from any card or bank account and offers all the usual legal protection for consumers including full chargeback and Section 75 payment protection
  • You can manage multiple financial contributions from many sources including both Social Services and Health Personal Budgets
  • It saves time in keeping track of Care spending and will help monitor personal contributions before the state is required to fund your care

 Benefits for Providers

  • A marketing opportunity with the widest public audience – self payers as well as publicly funded clients
  • For SME’s in particular it offers a low cost IT solution enabling sharing of Care Plans according to client consent•It offer opportunities to sell into other Local Authority areas
  • Customers will find it easy to pay and reconcile invoices
  • Financial savings will accrue through better resolution of invoicing issues
  • The Care Marketplace is a full ecommerce solution with Suppliers able to become PCI/DSS compliant
  • It offers revenue certainty and fast payment - within 3 days where cards have been used  for purchases

Benefits for Local Authorities

  • The Care Marketplace can help with joint working by ensuring health, housing and the social care workforce are all knowledgeable about the care options available
  • The Care Marketplace will reveal care purchasing for both public and private paying customers enabling commissioners to better understand capacity and pricing issues
  • It facilitates self servicing and will enable many customers to manage their own services
  • It will reduce the financial administration necessary to audit Direct Payments and Care Capping Accounts
  • It will resolve pricing, ordering and payment reconciliations
  • It will make savings by stopping placements being made at ‘one off’ prices and drive costs to the median value
  • The pricing transparency will help commissioners understand and secure best value
  • Self Funders using the system provide an ongoing revenue stream back to the Local Authority

ERP Integration

Integration into other systems is an area that cloudBuy are experts at, we have integrated into many standard and bespoke systems.   cloudBuy will ensure the workflow process is seamless, enhancing the users experience whilst cutting down on man hours spent on tasks that are either duplicated or unnecessary. Some of the integrations we have undertaken include:

  • NHS Shared Business Services Oracle
  • Additional ERP integrations across:-
  • SAP
  • Oracle
  • Agresso
  • COA
  • Sage
  • Integra
  • Proactis
  • Liquid Logic
  • OCR
  • RAS
  • Punch out is supported