Case Study: Lightstream achieves streamlined, compliant distributed spending and faster access to funds with Teampay

Empowering employees to do their best work from anywhere

Lightstream, a remote‑first company that builds creative tools for live streamers, faced friction getting employees access to company funds: one shared debit card circulated among staff and most purchases were handled by employees fronting costs and waiting for Expensify reimbursements. With a distributed team across eight states, this manual process created risk, delays, and frustration for both staff and the small Operations/Finance team — so Lightstream turned to Teampay’s distributed spend management platform.

Teampay implemented policy‑driven, pre‑approved spending with an easy Slack integration that lets employees request funds and managers approve or deny purchases in the tools they already use, while transactions are pre‑coded by category. The result was faster adoption and higher compliance, real‑time visibility into spending, elimination of chasing receipts and employee out‑of‑pocket burden, and freed finance capacity for strategic work — all delivered via a plug‑and‑play Teampay setup that went live in a couple days and rarely requires support.

Lightstream

Caitlin Cuesta

Operations Coordinator