Partners
Everything your hospitality business needs. In one place.
The Williams, Stanley & Co. partner ecosystem.
Running a hospitality business – or building one from scratch – requires more than good accounting.
- You need the right legal team when you are negotiating a lease.
- The right technology when you are setting up your POS and payroll systems.
- The right lender when you need capital to grow.
- The right procurement partner when supplier costs are eating your margin.
Williams, Stanley & Co. has spent 18 years building relationships with the best operators in each of these disciplines. Not generalists – specialists who understand hospitality, who work with our clients every day, and who we trust to do the job properly.
The result is an ecosystem. A group of firms and platforms that between them cover every commercial need a hospitality business has – from the moment you decide to open your first site to the point where you are running fifteen and thinking about what comes next.
Every relationship in this ecosystem is reciprocal. Our partners refer clients to us. We refer clients to them. The only reason a partner sits on this page is because we would put our own name behind them.
Whether you are just starting out or scaling fast - here is who to call
Opening a restaurant for the first time is one of the most complex commercial undertakings there is.
Scaling a group is a different challenge – but no less demanding.
In both cases, the quality of the people around you determines the outcome as much as the quality of your food.
Use this page as a resource. Every partner below has been selected because they are genuinely good at what they do and because they understand the specific demands of the hospitality sector.
If you are a Williams, Stanley & Co. client, we can introduce you directly.
If you are not yet a client, you can still reach out to any of our partners independently.
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Moss is an all-in-one spend management platform that gives finance teams real-time control, automation, and visibility across company spend. Designed for growing businesses, Moss streamlines processes for cards, invoices, and reimbursements – saving valuable time and reducing complexity
Summary of services provided
- Corporate cards
- Accounts Payable
- Procurement
- Employee Disbursements
Key pain points solved
- Lack of real-time visibility and budget control
- Manual, error-prone expense processing
- Missing receipts and delayed month-end close
- Fragmented tools and lack of ERP integration
- Overspending and non-compliant purchases
- Time wasted chasing approvals or missing data
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Level FT is the UK’s high-tech debt-free On-Demand Pay provider. Level’s financial wellbeing platform enables employees to access their income as they earn it and save directly from their pay slip. As co-founders of the CIPP’s Earned Wage Access Code of Practice, Level is committed to helping UK workers borrow less and save more
Summary of services provided
- 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.
Key pain points solved
- Unfilled Shifts: Reduce unfilled shifts by up to 62%
- High Turnover: Reduce turnover by up to 50%
- Difficulties Hiring: Additional benefit to attract talent
- Burnt Out Staff: 88% of users more confident with finances
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Level FT is the UK’s high-tech debt-free On-Demand Pay provider. Level’s financial wellbeing platform enables employees to access their income as they earn it and save directly from their pay slip. As co-founders of the CIPP’s Earned Wage Access Code of Practice, Level is committed to helping UK workers borrow less and save more
Summary of services provided
- 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.
Key pain points solved
- Unfilled Shifts: Reduce unfilled shifts by up to 62%
- High Turnover: Reduce turnover by up to 50%
- Difficulties Hiring: Additional benefit to attract talent
- Burnt Out Staff: 88% of users more confident with finances
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Bizimply is a workforce management platform built for shift-based businesses. From scheduling and time & attendance to HR and compliance, Bizimply brings everything managers need into one place, so they can spend less time on admin and more time running great operations.
Summary of services provided
Bizimply offers two core product packages:
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. Monitor shift performance, log daily sales, track KPIs, and keep managers connected across every location through the MyZimply app.
HR and Communications
Manage employee records, onboarding, documents, leave, and employee engagement from a single system – purpose-built for hourly and multi-location teams.
Key pain points solved
- Too much time on admin: Scheduling, timesheets, and leave requests are automated, cutting hours of manual work each week.
- Labour costs out of control: Real-time cost visibility during scheduling helps managers make smarter staffing decisions before it’s too late to act.
- Siloed tools and spreadsheets: Bizimply brings disconnected systems together, covering scheduling, HR, time & attendance, POS integration and payroll integration.
- Managing multi-site complexity: A single dashboard gives full visibility across every location, so nothing falls through the cracks.
- Payroll errors and compliance risk: Accurate, manager-approved timecards feed directly into payroll, reducing mistakes and keeping working time records audit-ready.
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Eposability helps hospitality businesses simplify technology.
We design, deploy, integrate, and support complete hospitality technology ecosystems, giving operators a single accountable partner across POS, payments, reporting, loyalty, inventory, labour management, and digital ordering.
By combining best-in-class platforms with proven implementation and support processes, we help hospitality groups scale faster, reduce operational risk, and gain greater control over their business.
Summary of services provided
- 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
- Single-point-of-contact technology support
- Technology standardisation for growing hospitality groups
- Solution reviews, optimisation, and scalability planning
Key pain points solved
- Fragmented technology stacks with multiple suppliers and no clear accountability
- Lack of integration between critical business systems
- Inconsistent site setups resulting in unreliable reporting and operational data
- Slow, disruptive venue openings and technology rollouts
- Legacy systems that limit flexibility and future growth
- Poor support experiences that impact front-of-house operations and management teams
- Difficulty scaling technology across multiple sites and brands
- Limited visibility into business performance due to disconnected systems
- Excessive time spent coordinating vendors when issues arise
- Technology decisions made without a long-term growth strategy
- Operational risk created by inconsistent processes, configurations, and support models
- The need for enterprise-grade capability without enterprise-level complexity
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Preshift is your fractional technology and marketing department. Preshift takes the entire tech and marketing stack off your hands: every platform, vendor, contract and campaign.
Summary of services provided
Preshift helps businesses in three different ways:
- 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.
Key pain points solved
Marketing
No senior marketer in place, and a junior team running platforms they were never trained on. Preshift steps in as embedded marketing leadership, runs the function, then hires and hands over the role.
Underused CRM and customer data sitting unsegmented across booking, loyalty and email. Preshift builds the foundation, cleans and segments the database, and turns it into repeat covers.
Tech
Auto-renewing contracts and buried price hikes. Preshift tracks renewal windows and renegotiates before operators get locked into another term at a higher rate.
Fragmented reporting across separate tools, with sales, labour and delivery in different places. Preshift consolidates it into one daily view so the group can answer “how was last night?” in seconds.
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Modulr is the payments automation platform built for businesses that need to move money with precision and speed. Trusted by 6,000+ businesses and processing £180bn+ in payments annually, Modulr automates payroll, accounts payable, and HMRC payments. giving finance teams accuracy, control, and the reliability to scale.
Summary of Services Provided
Modulr automates the end-to-end movement of money for payroll bureaus, finance teams, and accounting platforms. Core capabilities include same-day payroll disbursement, automated AP payment runs, and HMRC tax remittances – all via a single platform with 20+ integrations into leading payroll and accounting systems including Sage, Xero, and BrightPay.
Key Pain Points Solved
- Manual payment processing – Eliminates time-consuming, error-prone payment runs across payroll, AP, and HMRC
- Late or failed payments – Ensures accurate, on-time disbursements at scale with proven reliability
- Lack of control and visibility – Configurable workflows and real-time reporting replace fragmented, hard-to-audit processes
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Summary of Services Provided
Cedar Dean specialise in Strategic Lease Management, mid-lease negotiations, including lease restructuring, regears, rent reductions, rent reviews, insolvencies, surrenders etc., operating U.K. wide and covering every industry sector.
Key Pain Points Solved
Cedar Dean focuses on delivering value for all businesses with leasehold property portfolios.
Our client list currently includes the likes of Kwik Fit, The Stonegate Pub Group, HSS, San Carlo Group and Kwik Fit to name a few and we have been able to achieve savings in the millions across the board for them.
Our unique selling point all comes down to our bespoke landlord approach for each site, whereby we create a site led strategy and critical path for each lease with the objective of arriving at the tenant’s ideal outcome.
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PERCY is a procurement platform for hospitality operators — think Compare the Market, but for food and drink purchasing. We analyse operators’ existing spend data, identify where they’re overpaying on like-for-like ingredients, and connect them with the right suppliers to act on those savings. Free to use, no system changes, just actional insights and savings opportunities across operators’ COGS. PERCY’s typical savings are 6.1% of COGS across the basket straight onto the bottom line.
Summary of Services Provided
- 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.
Key Pain Points Solved
- Operators don’t know if they’re getting a fair price — PERCY gives them genuine market visibility without the legwork
- Finding and vetting alternative suppliers is time-consuming — PERCY does the work and surfaces the conversations worth having
- Switching feels risky — PERCY protects existing relationships and never forces a change
- Margins are under pressure with no obvious lever to pull — PERCY’s first cohort averaged 6.1% COGS savings, going straight to the bottom line
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Lightspeed Restaurant is a leading cloud-based EPOS and hospitality management platform designed to help restaurants, pubs, bars, cafés, and hospitality groups streamline operations, improve guest experiences, and make smarter business decisions. Combining powerful point-of-sale technology, integrated payments, real-time reporting, and an extensive ecosystem of best-in-class integrations, Lightspeed empowers hospitality operators to run more efficient and profitable businesses.
Summary of Services Provided
- 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
Key Pain Points Solved
- Disconnected Systems – Many hospitality businesses rely on multiple systems that don’t communicate effectively, creating inefficiencies and manual work. Lightspeed provides a fully integrated platform and extensive partner ecosystem, enabling operators to connect best-in-class technologies and streamline operations across the business.
- Rising Operational Costs – Operators face increasing pressure on margins due to labour, food, and payment processing costs. Lightspeed helps businesses reduce costs through competitive integrated payment rates, operational efficiencies, and automation that minimise administrative workload.
- Slow or Complicated Service – Legacy systems can slow down staff and impact the guest experience. Lightspeed’s intuitive, customisable interface enables teams to process orders quickly, manage tables efficiently, and deliver faster service during peak trading periods.
- Lack of Actionable Business Insights – Without access to accurate real-time data, operators can struggle to make informed decisions. Lightspeed captures every transaction and provides powerful reporting and analytics, helping businesses identify trends, optimise performance, and drive profitability.
- Complex Implementations and Poor Support – Changing EPOS providers can be disruptive and resource-intensive. Lightspeed supports clients with a dedicated UK-based Onboarding Consultant and Account Manager, alongside white-glove implementation and 24/7 support, ensuring a smooth transition and ongoing success.
- Scaling Multi-Site Operations – As businesses grow, maintaining consistency and visibility across locations becomes increasingly challenging. Lightspeed enables operators to manage multiple sites from a single platform, providing centralised reporting, menu management, and operational oversight.
Whatever stage you are at - there is a partner for it
The table below maps our partner ecosystem against the key stages of a hospitality business. Use it to identify who you need to be talking to right now.
If you are opening your first hospitality site:
- Legal: Simons Muirhead Burton – lease negotiation, employment contracts, licensing
- Finance and accounting: Williams, Stanley & Co. – financial setup, VAT registration, payroll, management accounts
- POS: Eposability – system selection, installation, integration
- Workforce: Bizimply – scheduling and time and attendance from day one
- Inventory: Supy – stock management and recipe costing
- Payments: Modulr – payment infrastructure
- Spend control: Moss – corporate cards and expense management from the start
- Capital: Cedar Dean – leasing to reduce upfront capex
- Procurement: Percy – supplier pricing and consolidation
If you are growing from 2 to 5 hospitality sites:
- Accounting platform: Xero (via WS as Platinum Partner) – multi-site chart of accounts, consolidated reporting
- Analytics: Level – operational intelligence across the estate
- Lending: Paddock Capital – growth capital and acquisition finance
- Legal: Simons Muirhead Burton – multi-site lease portfolio, employment at scale
- Procurement: Percy and Supy – consolidated purchasing and stock management across sites
If you are running 5 to 15 hospitality sites and scaling:
- ERP: Xledger or Oracle NetSuite (via Williams, Stanley & Co.) – enterprise financial infrastructure
- Reporting: Williams, Stanley & Co. Insights – live dashboards, daily dish, group consolidated P&L
- Payroll: Team Pay (from Williams, Stanley & Co.) – hospitality-native payroll at group scale
- Lending: Paddock Capital – structured finance for acquisitions and refinancing
- Legal: Simons Muirhead Burton – corporate transactions, complex lease portfolios
- Spend management: Moss – group-level expenditure control
Need an introduction?
If you are a Williams, Stanley & Co. client and you need to speak to any of our partners, contact your client team and we will make the introduction directly. If you are not yet a Williams, Stanley & Co. client and you would like to understand how the ecosystem could work for your business, start with a conversation with us.
Become a partner and join the Williams, Stanley & Co. eco-system and work with the operators we work with.
Our clients are hospitality operators running between one and fifteen 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 the hospitality sector and you believe your product or service is genuinely the best in its category, we want to hear from you. We are selective about who sits in this ecosystem – every partner on this page is someone we would put our name behind. But when the fit is right, the relationship is genuinely valuable on both sides.
Partnership with Williams, Stanley & Co. means:
- Direct referrals from our client base when a client has a need in your category.
- Active promotion through our content, events, and communications.
- Inclusion on this page and in our new client onboarding materials.
- A relationship built on genuine alignment – we refer to you because you are the best, and we expect the same standard in return.
Apply to become a partner by emailing us: partners@williamsstanley.co