Case Study

From spreadsheet chaos to a connected contract-to-invoice operation

How a leading equipment leasing and finance company replaced spreadsheets, shared folders and email chains with one reliable operating workflow.

Industry

Equipment Leasing & Finance

Engagement

Contract-to-Invoice Operations Hub

Stack

Airtable • Zapier • PandaDoc • QuickBooks

The Challenge

An operation running on memory and manual effort

The client's leasing arm managed a growing book of contracts across spreadsheets, shared folders and email. Lease documents were prepared by hand for every deal. Payment schedules lived in separate files. Equipment records sat in another system entirely — and the accounting handoff was retyped into QuickBooks.

Nobody could answer "where is this contract?" or "what's invoicing next month?" without digging. Every new hire inherited tribal knowledge instead of a process.

Before

  • Contracts tracked in spreadsheets
  • Documents prepared manually per deal
  • Payment schedules in separate files
  • Accounting data re-entered by hand
  • No pipeline visibility for management
The Solution

Five phases. One connected operating workflow.

Delivered January through April 2026 — now in go-live.

PHASE 1 Airtable Lease Platform contracts & equipment PHASE 2 PandaDoc Documents auto-generated PHASE 3 Zapier Automations workflow glue PHASE 4 ECI Export Integration system handoff PHASE 5 QuickBooks Integration accounting, automated Jan 2026 ────────────────────────── Apr 2026 • 5 phases • now in go-live
The Results

Measured, operational outcomes

0%+
reduction in document preparation effort
0 phases
delivered on plan, Jan–Apr 2026
0%
of contracts & payments visible in one live pipeline
The team spends far less time chasing document status, and management finally has a live view of the contract and payment pipeline.
Director of OperationsEquipment Leasing & Finance Company, Ontario
We went from ‘where is this contract?’ to ‘here's everything in one view.’ The difference is night and day.
Finance ManagerEquipment Finance Division, Canada
The onboarding alone used to take hours per contract. Now it runs itself.
Managing DirectorLeasing Operations Company, Ontario

Your workflow could be next.

If your contracts, invoices or onboarding still run on spreadsheets and email, let's map what a connected version looks like.