Anders B. runs finance at Conmedia, a marketing company where the default answer is "we'll build it ourselves." So when they decided to switch expense management, they didn't want training wheels. They wanted something straightforward enough to implement alone.
Their old system worked like this: two people had company cards. Everyone else borrowed them.
Predictable chaos followed.
"There was no overview of who made which purchase," Anders says. "Hunting down missing receipts was a huge mess."
Clarity at lightning speed
When Conmedia started its Pleo onboarding, Anders braced for complexity. Instead, he got something unexpected: just the right amount of help at just the right moments.
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"It went really well," he says. "It took no more than half a day, and everyone was on board. Everyone who needed a card had already tested it, used it, and uploaded receipts."
For a company of builders, that resonated. The tool didn't demand to be learned. It worked just as needed from the get-go.
Three benefits to behold
Once Pleo was live, the benefits showed immediately.
1. Actual visibility
Every purchase is now registered under the person who made it. No more guesswork. No more "did X or Y spend that?"
"Before, only two people had company cards, and they'd pass them around to whoever needed them," Anders explains. "Now every purchase is registered under the person who made it."
Simple. Powerful. Solves everything.
2. Receipts that collect themselves
Most tools make receipt submission possible. Pleo makes it automatic. Reminders. Auto-fetching from email. By the time month-end arrives, the work's already done. Anders says.
"Pleo automatically reminds them to submit receipts," Anders says. "And it automatically fetches them from the inbox too."
Feels great when receipt chasing stops being someone's job.
3. Integration that never needs fixing:
Conmedia runs e-conomic for accounting. When integrations work, they disappear. When they don't, they become projects.
Pleo's integration with e-conomic doesn't break stride.
"It runs completely smoothly," Anders says. "We export once or twice a month and it fulfils all our needs. No issues at all."
What actually changed
On paper, Conmedia swapped bank cards for Pleo cards and got better tracking.
In reality, they removed a key friction point from their entire operation. Admin stopped being something finance had to wrangle. It became something that Pleo handles in the background.
The builders’ choice
Anders could have found an internal solution. Instead, he chose to focus on what he does best—building Conmedia's actual business.
When asked if he'd recommend Pleo, the answer came fast: "Yes, absolutely."
Not because it's flashy or feature-rich. Because it does the job exceptionally well and gets out of the way.
For a marketing company, that's the highest compliment.
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