Case Study: HappyCo gains spend visibility and frees finance to drive growth with Airbase

HappyCo and Airbase Two companies growing together

HappyCo, a 50–100 employee real estate software company, faced friction around non-payroll spending: slow, manual expense categorization, no pre-spend controls, limited visibility, and fragmented approval trails. VP of Finance Andrew Vernik and his small finance team needed a comprehensive solution and chose Airbase to streamline expense, card, and bill processes.

Airbase delivered a unified spend-management platform (virtual and physical cards, invoicing, bill payments, pre-approvals, and reporting) that automated receipt matching, centralized approvals, and improved categorization. As a result, HappyCo freed up several days each month previously spent on reclassifying expenses, answered spend questions in days rather than weeks during COVID, uncovered duplicate subscriptions to reduce wasted spend, and scaled finance operations without adding headcount — all enabled by Airbase’s visibility and controls.

Happyco

Andrew Vernik

Vice President of Finance and Operations