Step ERP
An integrated system that offers a competitive advantage to businesses through the integration of business processes.
Customer care
We stand by you at every step of the way and learn your business as well as you do.
Customised solutions
The programs we develop are tailored to each client’s needs, in order to cover the entire spectrum of a business’s activities.
Type of businesses
The tools and services we develop offer solutions to companies operating in a range of professional market sectors.
01
Advertising
The world of advertising, is actually worlds apart from other businesses, demanding complex reports on client and project profitability (CPR), work in progress (WIP ageing report) and total control on the project workflow.
Key features:
- Brands
- Client products supporting two level product categories
- Media, Media shops, Advertising companies and related reporting
- List of services (support of multiple categories, tree categories etc.)
- Job numbers
- Fully automated Media Tax, TV Tax and Special Tax handling.
- Traffic
- Royalties
- Handling of pre – purchased materials, services and royalties
- Automated handling of Rebates and YEB
02
Consulting, integrated marketing and communications
The field of marketing and holistic communication, needs holistic information on clients, projects and combining information on project profitability and campaign performance.
Key features:
- Fields of activity
- Brands
- Campaigns and projects
- Revenue and expenditure per client and project
03
Movie Production
Monitoring of your productions made simple.
Prepare and review your production budgets, compare budget revisions, monitor the financial implementation and compare data with the use of simple, accurate and reliable reports.
Key features:
- Different production categories: movies, series, commercials (TVC’s, radio spots, internet videos etc.)
- New production budgets based on budget templates, according to the production category.
- Multiple budget reviews and comparisons.
- Automated budget changes through the use of contingencies and recording of costs’ savings or overruns.
- Job assignments to suppliers/vendors or employees on payroll and monitoring of the forecasted costs.
- Entry of suppliers’ invoices and receipts, payroll costs and reports to compare against the assignments or the budget revision. All invoice entries may update the StepERP application and all its relevant modules (General Ledger, Ageing, Cash Management etc)
- Tracking of producers’ expenses per wallet, for cash, credit cards or web banking payments.
- Monitoring of budget review against invoiced cost according to the EKOME grant templates.
- Invoicing per production project.
- Multiple reports concerning the revenues, costs and gross profit of production projects, individually or by category.
04
Traditional Media
Traditional media, mostly radio stations, magazines and newspapers, needs to be effective, through the evaluation of the financial results of each magazine issue or radio station.
Key features:
- Multiple media support per company
- Ordering and invoicing
- Advertising company, Media shop, Advertised client and product, Invoiced client
- Salesmen and sales departments
- Billing and costs per issue or radio station
05
Digital Media
Each portal needs to be assessed, through the evaluation of billings, cost and revenue and also by the type of the clients’ products that are being advertised.
Key features:
- Impressions and Views
- Cost per view (CPV)
- Network channels
- Multiple media support per company
- Ordering and invoicing
- Advertising company, Media shop, Advertised client and product, Invoiced client
- Salesmen and sales departments
06
Media Agents
You can monitor each medium, per client, product, media shop or advertising agency and you can rely on the data the system collects to evaluate the medium performance.
Key features
- Agent fee calculation according to contract
- Automated media shop fee calculation
- Automated handling of Rebates and YEB
07
PROPS Management
Keep track of your props for rental in a simple, comprehensive and secure way. Props on Step can be easily identified simply by scanning the item and get all information about it.
Key features:
- Create a rental quotation and just click to issue the rental invoice
- Track all props items by code and description (by barcode reader)
- Allocate props in tree like categories
- Assign photos to every prop
- Track prop location (warehouse, aisle, shelf, location)
- Track items’ transfers and issue digital shipping notes (for rentals)
- Item inventory by warehouse and location
08
Cinema agents
Evidently you need the right tools, to manage all your network screens and contracts while delivering revenue and cost saving.
Key features:
- Planning and scheduling
- Sales and campaign management
- Contract performance and revenue monitoring
- Cinema weeks
- Handling of multiple screens per cinema theater
- Ordering and invoicing
- Advertising company, Media shop, Advertised client and product, Invoiced client
09
Business services
The vibrant, and also complex, sector of business services needs special and specific tools, in order to monitor the performance and efficiency of each project.
Key features:
- Invoicing
- Business units
- Contracts
- Revenue recognition
- Client and Supplier groups of companies and organizations
- Multiple client and supplier categories
- Contact book related to clients and suppliers
- Project workflow
- Document attachments
- Workgroups related to projects
- Billing and revenue per Business unit
- Salesmen and sales departments
10
Business training
The need to develop and implement corporate training programs, but through it all is necessary to keep track of the costs and revenue, in order to assess each program’s efficiency.
Key features:
- Management of trainers and coaches
- Trainers timetable and availability
- Training program management
- Fields of activity
- Projects
- Revenue and expenditure of each training program
- Handling of pre-purchased materials/services and licenses
Come and design together the specialized solution that will lead to your evolution.
Services
The services we develop cover every need of companies that want to make effective decisions and have absolute control.
Financial
Make intelligent financial decisions, with accurate visibility throughout your company’s finances. Take control and handle your company.
Key features:
- Accumulators for transaction analysis.
- Cost centers
- Cash management for clients, suppliers and other accounts
- Open Item
- Ageing
- Cash flow
- Scheduled expenses
- Receivable and payable forecasting
- Deviations from payment terms
- Business units
- Automated overhead allocation based on formulas
Intragroup Reporting
The CFO’s can obtain various automated consolidated reports that contain financial data across a group of companies, to measure performance and support decision making.
Key features:
- Accounting
- Cash management
- Budgeting
- Company reporting
- Cost centers and accumulators reporting
Accounting / Bookkeeping
Double-entry bookkeeping made simple. Control your accounting department, complete all of your tasks and facilitate your day to day operations.
Key features:
- Automated book entries creation through specialized forms
- Greek accounting standards, IFRS standards
- Main office and branches support
- Entries in foreign currency
- Automatic entries (Balance Sheet, Cost Accounting, Client to Supplier Adjustments)
- Automated support of freelancer expense invoices. Custom freelancer types, Full reporting (IRS and other)
- Fixed Assets IFRS & GFRS
- Banks, post-dated checks
- Notes receivable
- Factoring
- Fully automated VAT reporting, local and EU
- Special VAT handling and reporting and automated book entries creation
- Direct support of Fiscal Electronic Signature Devices (Type-B driver) and related reporting
- Fully automated Electronic IRS File (Balance sheets, Journal, Fixed assets etc.)
- Statutory compliance
Budget & Reporting
Get a better handle on expected revenues and expenses, create financial forecasts and compare them against actual reports.
Key features:
- Local or international reporting (US Gaap, Hyperion, Cartesis)
- Budget revisions
- Budget revision vs Actual vs Revision reporting
- Automatic rephasing
- Automated Cut-off handling
- Reports per reporting month (different from calendar month)
- P & L, Balance sheet
Payments Management
Organize and carefully plan your company’s payment to suppliers. Review all due amounts, decide on the payments and apply an approval process.
Key features:
- Automated payments process
- Minimize the risk of errors
- Approval procedure on payments
- Automated book entries and clearing of outstanding invoices
- Accuracy and transparency between the payment proposal and the payment implementation
Human resources / Timesheet
Keep insight into profitability and employee performance, while managing projects, budgets and teams. Make better use of time, make better decisions.
Key features:
- Employees, Departments, Positions
- Cost of employees
- Hours per client / project / task
- Reporting of hours and costs per employee, department, client, project
- Non direct cost handling
Expenses
You can automate the process of purchasing in your company, from the back office to the payment of the supplier invoice.
Key features:
- Expenses management per department and employee
- Ordering of expenses
- Automatic book entries creation based on expense types
- Budget control
- Reporting
Approvals
Apply approving procedures in various tasks performed by your employees, gain control and accuracy to achieve an integrated workflow.
Key features:
- Approvals of various procedures. Client ordering, Supplier cost or expenses ordering etc.
- Various approval schemes
- Multiple levels of exclusive and/or non-exclusive approvals
- Reports of pending procedures
Notifications
Stay up to- date, get all critical and useful information by automated emails, sent from the application, on a regular basis of your own choice.
The application pushes reports to the corporate executives who are involved .
Key features:
- Overdue clients outstanding balances
- Clients who have exceeded their credit limit
- Expiration date of post-dated checks and notes
- Availability of Checks
- Clients and suppliers contracts that reach the expiration date
- Client orders to be invoiced
- Third party costs that have not been invoiced yet.
- Costs and expenses supplier orders that have not been received
- Pending cost estimates
- Expiration of client pricing policies
- Expiration of rights
Auditing
Conserve security, sustain accuracy, manage all of your business processes and mandates.
Key features
- SOX Compliance
- Role based user access configuration
- Reporting
- Auditing of changes
myData
Simplify your communication with the myData platform. Connect and harmonize your data in a simple, automatic and understandable way.
Key features:
- Automated entry of data required in accounting records (document type, E3 codes, VAT data completion)
- Automated communication with the myData platform
- Simplified transmission of documents and records
- Automated characterization submission process
- Extraction of income/expense data, VAT data, E3 data
Automated Invoice entry by scanner
Easily, quickly and securely enter all your invoices in your general ledger by scanning the QRCode of hard copy documents.
Key features:
- Automatic import of documents into all modules of the application, in the form of receives
- General ledger entry of invoice and selection of accounts generated automatically.
- All registered documents are automatically linked with suppliers’ documents using MAPK and UID, in order to be uploaded on myDATA platform.
- Scheduled automatic update of supplier’s invoices uploaded on myDATA platform, allows faster recognition of documents.
Credit/Debit cards monitoring
Tracking the transactions of credit or debit cards made simple.
Key features:
- Tracking the transactions of each card per cardholder and period of use
- Automatic import of card transactions (statement) from file
- Generate a detailed journal of card transactions per cardholder, date and transaction amount.
- Matching invoices/receipts with card transactions
Communication with an electronic invoicing provider
Issue your invoices and other documents (B2B, B2G) through an electronic invoicing provider that interfaces on line with Step.
Key features:
- Automated communication with the electronic invoicing provider’s application
- Sending all data required to the provider for communication with the “myData” platform.
- All invoices and documents sent in pdf format to the provider
- All data received from the “myDATA” platform (MARK, UID) and the invoice provider (Authentication Code) are automatically imported in Step.
MS Office Integration
Communicate reports and documents with your clients, suppliers and colleagues through e-mail integration, by exporting in various MS Office file formats. Combine pieces of information from various modules in a spreadsheet, online, using special excel functions.
Key features:
- MS Excel integration of application amounts through excel functions
- Online access to application information from various modules: Finance, Reporting, Budget, Jobs, etc.
- Export of reports in various MS office document formats
- e-mail integration
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Testimonials
Excellent software from an excellent team, always there to meet our needs in an ever-changing environment! They have rightfully earned the position of our valued partner.
Step is a platform that helps finance teams achieve more in less time. With powerful automation, it reduces manual work, from daily accounting, AR/AP and revenue management to tax handling and financial reporting.
Konstantina Zacharodimou, CFO Mediabrands Group Greece
Step changed the way we do business, it’s powerful yet simple, flexible and highly efficient. We have a complete and real time view of the company, control every process – from financials to project production flow. We save time, reduce complexity and enhance collaboration. Step’s powerful reporting tools enable us, provides us with helpful information for decision making.
Thanos Vlachopoulos, General Manager & CFO Solid Havas & Havas Engage
Our collaboration with STEP UP, and especially with Maria and Manos, has been truly exemplary. From the very beginning, we appreciated their deep knowledge of both their own field and the specifics of our industry. They are always available to us, responding promptly and professionally to every need we have. Their willingness to help and serve us in the best possible way, combined with open communication, makes them an irreplaceable partner. I am glad they have been our partners all these years.
Efi Dikastopoulou, Managing Director VML Greece
Step shows that powerful software can still be simple to use. It helps us improve workflows by turning data into clear, actionable insights through intuitive reporting.
Takis Chatziris, COO – CFO McCANN WORLDGROUP
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