How our integrations give us the hours back

Eight windows open and a certificate about to expire

The expensive part of administrative work is not the lookup. It is the journey. Open the portal, find the certificate, remember which of the four is the right one, search by reference, wait, download a PDF, rename it, decide which folder it goes in and note somewhere that it is done.

Multiplied across LexNET, the AEAT, the Catastro, both registries, the BOE and BORME and the accounts, that is not eight tasks: it is eight separate contexts, each with its own session, its own way of searching and its own way of handing you a file.

What gets lost between one portal and the next never appears on a timesheet, but it is why a matter takes three days to move what it could have moved in an afternoon.

LexNET stops being a tab

Court notifications have the awkward property of arriving whenever they like and bringing a deadline attached. The classic circuit is that somebody logs in to look, downloads, forwards internally, and somebody else writes the deadline in a diary.

With LexNET connected, the notification arrives, is acknowledged, and lands on the matter it belongs to with its deadline already calculated. Nobody plays courier between the court inbox and the file.

The acknowledgement is recorded with its timestamp. When you need to evidence months later exactly when something was received, the answer is on the matter rather than in the memory of whoever happened to be looking that morning.

Tax checks, without typing a NIF

In a firm with foreign clients, checking tax identification is constant: opening a matter, preparing a deed, issuing an invoice.

The AEAT lookup returns the verification to the client's matter without anyone copying a NIF from a document into a form. One mistyped digit in a NIF is not caught until something is rejected, and by then it has cost a week.

And the accounts, at the end of the chain

The last thing a small firm wants is to key the same invoice twice: once for the client and once for the books.

With Holded connected, what is billed flows through to the accounts without re-keying the entry, and billing meets VeriFactu on its own. It is the same principle as everything else: the data is entered once, where it is created.