Williams, Stanley & Co.
TeamPay Login | WS Insights Login

Partners

Everything your hospitality business needs. In one place.

Specialists we would put our own name behind, grouped by what you need. Every relationship is reciprocal: they refer clients to us, and we introduce ours to them.

Finance, payments and spend

Spend control

Moss

An all-in-one spend management platform for cards, invoices and reimbursements, giving finance teams real-time control of what the business spends.

What they solve

  • No real-time view of spend or budgets until month end
  • Manual expense processing, missing receipts and a delayed close
  • Approvals chased by email and purchases outside policy
Services provided 4
  • Corporate cards
  • Accounts Payable
  • Procurement
  • Employee Disbursements
Ask for an introduction Visit website

Payments

Modulr

A payments automation platform for payroll, supplier payments and HMRC. Trusted by more than 6,000 businesses and processing over £180bn a year.

What they solve

  • Manual, error-prone payment runs across payroll, suppliers and HMRC
  • Late or failed payments to staff and suppliers
  • Payment processes that are hard to control and audit
Services provided 4
  • Same-day payroll disbursement
  • Automated AP payment runs
  • HMRC tax remittances
  • 20+ integrations into leading payroll and accounting systems including Sage, Xero, and BrightPay
Ask for an introduction Visit website

Finance broker

Paddock Capital

A credit broker, not a lender. Paddock works with a panel of lenders to help established UK small and medium-sized businesses raise funding for growth, cash flow and change.

What they solve

  • Finding the right lender without approaching dozens yourself
  • Funding for growth, cash flow and changes in the business
  • Twice the offer and completion rate of the average broker on the UK's largest small business lending platform, on Paddock's own figures
Services provided 3
  • Business funding sourced from a panel of lenders
  • Funding for growth, cash flow management and business change
  • Support throughout the application to completion
Ask for an introduction Visit website

Workforce and pay

Workforce

Bizimply

Workforce management for shift-based businesses: rotas, time and attendance, HR and compliance in one place, so managers spend less time on admin.

What they solve

  • Labour cost that only becomes visible after the rota has been worked
  • Hours lost to scheduling, timesheets and leave requests
  • Payroll errors from unapproved or inaccurate timecards
Services provided 2
  • Complete Workforce Management: build and publish rotas in minutes, track live time and attendance via the Timestation app, and keep real-time labour costs visible as you schedule.
  • HR and Communications: manage employee records, onboarding, documents, leave, and employee engagement from a single system, purpose-built for hourly and multi-location teams.
Ask for an introduction Visit website

Staff retention

Level FT

Debt-free on-demand pay: employees can draw wages as they earn them and save straight from their payslip. Level co-founded the CIPP's Earned Wage Access Code of Practice.

What they solve

  • Unfilled shifts, reduced by up to 62%
  • Staff turnover, reduced by up to 50%
  • Hiring, with a benefit that helps attract staff
Services provided 2
  • On-Demand Pay: employees can access their income as they earn it.
  • Payroll Savings: an automated savings tool empowering employees to save directly from their wages into a high interest instant access account.
Ask for an introduction Visit website

Technology and point of sale

Technology partner

Eposability

One accountable partner for hospitality technology: they design, deploy, integrate and support POS, payments, reporting, loyalty, inventory, labour and digital ordering.

What they solve

  • Several technology suppliers and nobody accountable when something breaks
  • Systems that do not talk to each other, so reporting cannot be trusted
  • Slow, disruptive openings and technology rollouts
Services provided 10
  • Hospitality technology strategy and ecosystem design
  • POS implementation, configuration, and deployment
  • Technology procurement and hardware supply
  • Systems integration across POS, payments, loyalty, inventory, labour, reporting, kiosks, and online ordering platforms
  • Multi-site rollouts and new venue openings
  • Project management and implementation services
  • Staff training and onboarding
  • Data and reporting infrastructure design
  • Ongoing technical support and managed services
  • Technology standardisation for growing hospitality groups
Ask for an introduction Visit website

EPOS

Lightspeed Restaurant

Cloud EPOS and hospitality management for restaurants, pubs, bars, cafés and groups, with integrated payments, reporting and a wide range of integrations.

What they solve

  • Disconnected systems and manual work between them
  • Slow service at peak from legacy tills
  • Multi-site consistency, with menus and reporting managed centrally
Services provided 11
  • Cloud-based EPOS for restaurants, pubs, bars, cafés, and multi-site operators
  • Integrated payments with competitive processing rates
  • Kitchen Display System (KDS) and order management
  • Table service and floor plan management
  • Multi-site management and reporting
  • Inventory and stock management
  • Real-time sales and performance analytics
  • Customer loyalty and marketing integrations
  • Online ordering and delivery integrations
  • Accounting, workforce management, and third-party software integrations
  • Dedicated onboarding, account management, and 24/7 support
Ask for an introduction Visit website

Tech and marketing

Preshift

A fractional technology and marketing department. Preshift takes on every platform, vendor, contract and campaign, and sends one daily report on sales, cost of sales and labour.

What they solve

  • Auto-renewing contracts and buried price rises
  • No senior marketer, and customer data sitting unused
  • Sales, labour and delivery reported in different places
Services provided 3
  • Preshift Tech: vendor and contract management, 24/7 support SLA, new-site rollout and operational reporting, so head office stops chasing tickets.
  • Preshift Marketing: audits what you’ve got, advises on what to fix, runs it properly, and trains your team to own it.
  • Preshift Reports: daily operational reporting for multi-site operators. One email covering sales, COGS and labour with AI-powered analysis.
Ask for an introduction Visit website

Procurement and stock

Procurement

PERCY

A procurement platform for food and drink purchasing. PERCY analyses what you already buy, shows where you are overpaying like for like, and connects you with suppliers. Free to use.

What they solve

  • Not knowing whether you are paying a fair price
  • The time it takes to find and vet alternative suppliers
  • Margin pressure: PERCY's first cohort averaged 6.1% savings on cost of goods
Services provided 4
  • Full COGS analysis across an operator’s purchasing basket.
  • Like-for-like supplier comparison across equivalent SKUs, never dumbing down ingredients to hit a cheaper price point.
  • Intelligent matching with alternative suppliers worth speaking to.
  • Operator control over excluded contracts and preferred relationships throughout.
Ask for an introduction Visit website

Inventory

Supy

AI-powered inventory, procurement and reporting for multi-site restaurants, operating in more than 40 countries, with live food cost and margin by recipe.

What they solve

  • Food cost problems that surface weeks later in the monthly accounts
  • Stock counts, invoice matching and ordering done on spreadsheets
  • No consolidated view of stock and cost across sites
Services provided 6
  • Procurement: requisitions, approvals, purchase orders, central kitchen ordering, supplier price variance monitoring, standing orders and AI-driven predictive ordering.
  • Inventory management: real-time stock counts, wastage tracking, production recording, and inter-branch transfers across every location.
  • Recipe & menu costing: live recipe-level food cost and margin visibility, with actual vs theoretical usage variance.
  • AI invoice processing: supplier invoices scanned and automatically matched against purchase orders, with discrepancies flagged instantly.
  • Business intelligence: AI sales forecasting, dashboards, alerts, and reporting across procurement, costs, variance, wastage and sales.
  • Integrations: connects with leading POS, accounting, and supplier systems.
Ask for an introduction Visit website

Finance systems we implement

As well as Xero, where we are a Platinum Partner, we implement enterprise finance systems for groups that have outgrown it.

Oracle NetSuite Xledger

Whatever stage you are at, there is a partner for it

Who to talk to now, depending on where your business is.

If you are opening your first hospitality site

  • Finance and accounting: Williams, Stanley & Co., financial set-up, VAT registration, payroll and management accounts
  • Legal: Simons Muirhead Burton, lease negotiation, fit-out and employment contracts
  • Site acquisition: Matta, finding and securing the first site
  • Spend control: Moss, corporate cards and expense management from the start
  • Payments: Modulr, payroll, supplier and HMRC payment runs
  • Workforce: Bizimply, scheduling and time and attendance from day one
  • Technology partner: Eposability, system selection, installation and integration
  • EPOS: Lightspeed Restaurant, EPOS, payments and kitchen display
  • Procurement: PERCY, supplier pricing and consolidation
  • Inventory: Supy, stock management and recipe costing

If you are growing from 2 to 5 sites

  • Accounting platform: Xero, through us as a Platinum Partner, multi-site chart of accounts and consolidated reporting
  • Legal: Simons Muirhead Burton, multi-site lease portfolios and employment at scale
  • Lease management: Cedar Dean, rent reviews, regears and rent reductions
  • Site acquisition: Matta, site search and acquisition for each new opening
  • Finance broker: Paddock Capital, funding for growth, sourced from a panel of lenders
  • Workforce: Bizimply, live labour cost across every site
  • Staff retention: Level FT, on-demand pay to reduce turnover and unfilled shifts
  • Technology partner: Eposability, consistent technology across every new site
  • Tech and marketing: Preshift, outsourced technology and marketing, with one daily report
  • Procurement: PERCY, like-for-like price comparison across sites
  • Inventory: Supy, purchasing and stock across sites

If you are running 5 to 15 sites and scaling

  • ERP: Xledger or Oracle NetSuite, implemented by us, enterprise financial infrastructure
  • Reporting: WS Insights, live dashboards, daily dish and group consolidated P&L
  • Payroll: Team Pay, hospitality-native payroll at group scale
  • Legal: Simons Muirhead Burton, corporate transactions and complex lease portfolios
  • Lease management: Cedar Dean, strategic management of the whole lease portfolio
  • Site acquisition: Matta, rollout strategy and off-market sites
  • Spend control: Moss, group-level control of spend
  • Finance broker: Paddock Capital, funding for acquisitions and refinancing through its lender panel
  • EPOS: Lightspeed Restaurant, central menu management and reporting across the estate
  • Tech and marketing: Preshift, vendor management and daily group reporting

Need an introduction?

Clients: ask your client team and we will introduce you directly. Not yet a client? Any partner above can be contacted independently, or start with a conversation with us about how the whole picture fits together.

Talk to us View our services

Become a partner

Work with the operators we work with.

Our clients run between one and fifteen hospitality sites across the UK and internationally. They are ambitious, commercially sharp, and looking for the best people to work with at every stage of their growth.

If you serve hospitality and believe your product or service is the best in its category, we want to hear from you. We are selective: every partner on this page is someone we would put our name behind. When the fit is right, the relationship is valuable on both sides.

Partnership with Williams, Stanley & Co. means:

  • Direct referrals from our clients when they have a need in your category.
  • Promotion through our content, events and communications.
  • A place on this page and in our new client onboarding materials.
  • A relationship built on alignment: we refer to you because you are the best, and we expect the same standard in return.
partners@williamsstanley.co
AIA Member in Practice Xero Platinum Partner