LSR Construction Group is a Melbourne-based commercial builder specialising in warehousing, food production, manufacturing and retail. Founded in 2019 and now around 30 people strong, LSR operates a deliberately lean model – building efficiently and punching above their weight relative to team size. That approach puts pressure on systems to carry their share of the load.

As LSR expands into Queensland and NSW, and takes on increasingly larger projects, the expectation is that their technology partners scale with them.

LSR chose Procore and Xero before the company was even trading — a deliberate decision to build on systems that could be trusted from day one. With a lean team managing a growing volume of projects, the need was simple: invoices needed to reach the right people fast, payment cycles needed to stay tight, and the finance function needed full visibility without relying on manual reconciliation across multiple systems.

Being a reliable payer is central to how LSR work with subcontractors and suppliers. That reputation requires knowing exactly where every invoice sits at any given moment.

OneCore connects Procore and Xero at the centre of LSR’s financial operations, with AP Processing, including the OCR reader, handling invoice flow across the business.

Invoices are automatically routed to the correct project and land in the right team’s in-tray ready for review. Combined with Procore and Xero, Tom has end-to-end visibility over every invoice without pulling reports from multiple systems. He can see immediately whether an invoice hasn’t been logged, or simply hasn’t been received, and can chase it before a supplier has to ask.

AP Processing’s OCR reader has made a particularly big difference. “That’s been a game changer in terms of reporting and having visibility of what still needs to be processed and where things are,” says Tom Papworth, Financial Controller at LSR.

That visibility extends to the project team. Tom can see workload distribution across contract administrators and identify where work is banking up before it becomes a bottleneck.

“You can pretty quickly see where things are starting to bank up, so that’s quite handy,” says Tom.