ARCO Streamlines Construction Payments with Oracle Textura

ARCO, a leading national design-build construction firm, has implemented Oracle Textura Payment Management to streamline and automate its construction payment processes. With Textura, ARCO has transformed the speed and efficiency of its invoicing, improved the secure management of lien waivers and compliance, and enhanced its collaboration with subcontractors.

"Following a comprehensive year-long evaluation process, we selected Oracle Textura due to its exceptional capability to efficiently and securely manage high volumes of payments," said Austin Moore, chief financial officer, ARCO. "With Textura, we have fortified our relationships with subcontractors, which has had a positive ripple effect on our connections with owners and our overall standing in the industry. We are confident that Textura will continue to deliver increased time and cost efficiencies, especially in project accounting, along with enhanced risk management through streamlined lien waiver processes."

Oracle Textura is a construction payment management application used by thousands of general contractors, owners, and subcontractors to simplify and automate processes for invoicing, approvals, lien waiver and compliance management, and disbursement. The system has managed payments for construction projects collectively valued at over $1.5 trillion.

Onboarding and lien transformation

A key factor in ARCO's decision to implement Oracle Textura was the platform's ability to integrate with and provide a single sign-on environment with its existing Vista Construction Accounting Software. In the three months since deploying Textura, ARCO has already on-boarded 700 in-house employees, including 100 accounting staff, 600 project managers, and 10,000 subcontractors.

"A significant part of our success is due to the outstanding training, implementation, and account management guidance we've received from Oracle," added Moore. "Its training, implementation expertise, and continued support, have kept us on track at every step, ensuring a smooth transition to Textura."

In particular, Textura has significantly helped ARCO improve its lien waiver management systems, providing a complete audit trail and ensuring that waivers are no longer lost or misplaced. It has also given its subcontractors greater visibility into the status of their invoices and payments, improving collaboration.

"Subcontractor payments are a notoriously slow and difficult process, which can cause financial management headaches for construction firms and erode trust with subcontractors," said Mike Antis, global vice president, Oracle Textura. "ARCO was committed to streamlining this process and ensuring that subcontractors can benefit from a clear understanding of where their payments are in the process. In tandem, moving their payment management process to the cloud has enabled ARCO to better manage lien waivers in a secure, centralized environment to help them improve efficiency, mitigate risks, and support better project outcomes."

ARCO selected Oracle in Q4 FY2024.