Droneit's Rise to Success: The Role of Reward Points in Their Expansion

Making growing pains a little less painful

Droneit is Australia’s leading government and CASA accredited drone training school. 
 
As Droneit operations expanded throughout Australia, Co-Founder and Chief Remote Pilot, Lee Carseldine, recognised the need for increased global travel to support their expansion initiatives.  
 
Simultaneously, the team became aware of the scattered nature in which they pay their bills and the challenges associated with managing cash flow, particularly when paying for large business expenses like BAS and payroll. 
 
Faced with the growing pains of selling one to two courses a week, to now dozens all across Australia, the team at DroneIt began looking for solutions to their problems. 
 
That’s when they discovered pay.com.au, an innovative business payments and rewards platform, that not only allowed them to consolidate all their payments into a single space, but also enabled them to maximise the use of their credit card, unlocking cashflow, and maximising rewards on those larger government and staff payments.  
 

What solutions have pay.com.au provided you?

Droneit partnered with pay.com.au for a number of reasons.

One place for all their payments

Droneit were struggling with clearly seeing all the payments they were making, some payments were being made by card, others by bank transfer, and between a team of people travelling across Australia, it wasn’t too long before things were getting cluttered.

By using pay.com.au, Droneit were able consolidate all their payments into the one place, making it easy to identify invoices and payments, regardless of which way they were paid.

A seamless integration to their Xero accounting solution

Having used Xero as their accounting solution for quite some time, they were blown away by the ease in which their accounting stack was able to connect to pay.com.au. Our integration helped their team complete one touch reconciliation with ease, by automatically reconciling the bank feed with their corresponding invoices, saving their accountants time and money.  

Ability to earn their full credit card rewards especially on government payments

Much to the shock of Lee and the team. They soon realised they were earning a limited number of points, when paying larger government bills like BAS direct to the ATO. 

By making these payments through pay.com.au instead, Droneit began seeing immediate benefits from earning their full credit card rewards of their American Express credit card. Having previously earned only 1 point per $1 spent on government payments.

These additional rewards were key to driving down the cost of flying and exploring international expansion plans. 

Turning small business dreams into one big reality

Aside from exploring the international expansion plans, Droneit have been able to maximise cost savings, by being able to send staff on jobs across Australia, mostly using the points they’ve been able to earn. 
 
Lee and his Co-Founder James also like celebrating the end of the year with a trip overseas. Having previously used their points to travel to the Maldives, and Spain, the team now has their sites set on the manufacturing opportunities Europe has to offer.

To much of the teams delight this trip will be funded almost entirely using the points they’ve been able to accrue thanks to pay.com.au. 

About DroneIt 

Droneit is Australia’s leading provider of drone services, training and sales  with an industry reputation for execution, quality and reliability. The company has an established and well-developed history in the Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems (RPAS) industry and has adapted its business to succeed in parallel with an ever changing and maturing landscape.  

Droneit initially started out as a small single man operator however quickly turned its business into something much bigger. From small scale operators to large businesses wanting to utilise drone technology to improve business practices.

If you’d like to learn more about Droneit you can visit their website here.

Getting started with pay.com.au

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