Case Study: Buildkite achieves 50% faster expense management with Weel

How Buildkite achieves efficient expense management for its remote-first workforce with Weel

Buildkite, a Melbourne-founded software company with a remote-first workforce, needed a better way to manage employee expenses and wellbeing budgets as it grew. Using debit cards created poor visibility for finance, made it hard to track who spent what, and caused headaches when expenses came from multiple channels. It turned to Weel to improve expense management and support its distributed team.

With Weel, Buildkite issued virtual expense cards with set spending limits across six employee budgets, making it easier for staff to use funds for home office equipment, training, technology, internet, and wellbeing costs. Weel also gave finance clear visibility into transactions, reduced receipt-chasing, and cut monthly expense admin from 8.5 hours to 4 hours, saving 50% of finance admin time. Buildkite has also started using Weel bills to pay invoices directly from employee budgets.

Buildkite

Eleanor Toulmin

Head of Business Operations