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A smarter way to collect payments

At the start of 2021, we completed the migration of the Direct Debit collection processing over to ESco, on behalf of our friends at the prestigious Countryside Alliance.

The regular collection of membership fees and donations are now in the hands of our accomplished in-house Finance and Admin team, who have seamlessly made use of our robust and efficient platform to automate the process.

“We have already worked with ESco for many years and recently had a requirement to outsource our BACS processing to a bureau. ESco was the obvious choice… We have built a fantastic relationship with them and their work has always been detailed and extremely reliable. This has saved us many monthly hours of processing and enabled us to focus on core operations.”

Ben Dowdeswell, Finance Director, Countryside Alliance

Our solution for Countryside Alliance removed the need to pay software licenses for in-house systems to manage their Direct Debit collections, and freed up time for their team to focus on growing memberships.

With their monthly processing now entrusted in the capable hands of ESco’s trained team of finance specialists, Countryside Alliance have saved time and costs, and were able to use this saved time to focus on what matters most, their members.

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