Home Instead Turns Caring for Grandma into a Global Business

Paul and Lori Hogan founded Home Instead Senior Care® in 1994. Their personal experience helping Paul’s grandmother remain at home, where she enjoyed life past age 100, stirred their passion to enable other families to do the same. Today, the Home Instead franchise network is the world’s leading provider of in-home care services for seniors. Services span the care continuum, from providing personal care to specialised Alzheimer’s care and hospice support.


COMPANY

Home Instead

LOCATION

Omaha, Neb.

INDUSTRY

Services

EMPLOYEES

100-250

NUMBER OF USERS

7

NUMBER OF SUBSIDIARIES

1000 franchisees

OTHER SOLUTION CONSIDERED

Sage

SYSTEM REPLACED

QuickBooks Enterprise

NETSUITE PRODUCTS IMPLEMENTED

NetSuite
Advanced Customer Support

IMPLEMENTATION PARTNER

NetSuite Professional Services

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“NetSuite has really increased the efficiency of the finance team. We’re able to provide reports in any format in real-time, plus it accommodates us as we grow.” Ann Monday, Finance Director, Home Instead


Giving Seniors the Support to Remain Home

Franchise model fuels rapid expansion
The demand for senior care services grew quickly, with the franchise model helping to accelerate this expansion. Currently, the network’s more than 1,100 independently-owned and operated franchises provide in excess of 70 million hours of care annually throughout the United States and 11 other countries.
QuickBooks still too slow
As the business grew and began working with international franchisees, it quickly became apparent that its existing QuickBooks Enterprise system would not be able to provide the multi-currency capabilities, reporting and added functionality Home Instead would need in the future.
Advanced Customer Support handles new complexities
After evaluating Sage, Home Instead implemented NetSuite because it had a strong reputation in the industry and was proven to be scalable. When changes in tax rules required the company to charge sales tax, it brought in NetSuite Advanced Customer Support to manage integrations with tax and payment processors.
Automate payments, business diversification
Now able to automate payments and billing and automatically charge sales tax to 750 North American franchisees, Home Instead is looking to expand its services to care for Alzheimer’s patients and Alzheimer’s training support services for businesses.

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