Case Study: Smart City achieves faster month close and time savings with Ramp

How Ramp helped Smart City Apartment Locating save time, expedite month close, and grow sustainably

Smart City Apartment Locating, a mid-size software and technology company based in Dallas, Texas, experienced hypergrowth that made spend management increasingly manual and inefficient. As the team tripled agent headcount and expanded into new markets, VP of Finance Dustin Walsted struggled with fragmented systems, frequent card payments, a slow reimbursement process, and a month-close cycle that took 17 days. The company turned to Ramp for accounting automation, accounts payable, corporate cards, and expense management.

With Ramp, Smart City consolidated spend into one platform, automated approvals and bill payments, and distributed more responsibility to department leaders while giving finance better control and visibility. The result was an 11-day faster month-end close, 5 to 15 hours of time saved each month for Dustin, and bill management reduced from about three hours per week to less than one. Smart City also estimated total savings of 7% to 9% with Ramp, including avoided headcount growth and reduced admin work.

Smart City

Dustin Walsted

Director of Finance