Case Study: Cafés Candelas cuts expense management time in half with Payhawk

How Cafe Candelas cut expense management time in half

Cafés Candelas is a family-owned coffee producer and supplier based in Lugo, Spain, with more than 40 years in business. The company was spending too much time on manual, paper-heavy expense management, relying on advance requests, monthly reconciliations, and a slow card issuance process, so it turned to Payhawk for a more modern spend management solution.

With Payhawk’s all-in-one platform for corporate cards, expense tracking, OCR receipt capture, ERP integration, and approval workflows, Cafés Candelas digitized and automated its spending processes. The company reduced expense management time by 50%, cut card issuance wait times by 15 days, achieved paperless expense handling, and gained real-time spend visibility and faster reconciliation.

Café Candelas

Alejandro Álvarez

Chief Financial Officer