Ulvaro

Expense software that ties every crew purchase to the right job site.

3 months
From first API call to cards in crews' hands
2,400
Crew cards issued with job site limits
6 days
Earlier month-end close for Ulvaro's customers

We launched spending cards for construction crews in three months. Site managers set limits from their phone, and the office stopped chasing paper receipts.

Davide Rinaldi

Co-founder and CEO, Ulvaro

Challenge: Ulvaro's customers shared a handful of company cards across crews, so spending limits were impossible to enforce and receipts went missing every week.
Solution: Ulvaro used Backspin's card API to issue a card to every crew member, with real-time authorization rules for each job site and spending category.

Spend controls in every crew’s pocket

Before cards, crews paid out of pocket or shared a few company cards, and the office spent days every month working out who bought what. With Backspin’s card API, Ulvaro issues a card to every crew member in seconds, each with rules set by the site manager: daily limits, allowed merchant categories and the job site it belongs to.

Every purchase is checked against those rules in real time, and receipts are matched to transactions as they come in.

What comes next

Ulvaro plans to pay suppliers directly from the app with Backspin checks and wires.