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How Ramp helped Barry's save 400 hours/month on expense report headaches
Barry's legacy finance systems imposed two-to-three-day lead times on expenses and transactions, required the controller to spend 3-4 hours per week manually coding expenses and an additional 2-3 hours chasing outstanding submissions, and consumed 1-2 full days of her time plus 2-3 days of a colleague's for each month-end close—with no real-time spend visibility at any point during the month.
How it works
Common implementation structure
How this type of workflow is generally built, generalized across documented cases — not tied to any one vendor's stack. Click any stage to read what happens there. Specific products that implement these stages appear in “Tools commonly seen” below.
Stage 1 · Ramp cards issued company-wide
The finance team rolled out Ramp cards across the organization to capture all spend at source.
Tools used
Ramp
Outcome
After deploying Ramp, Barry's saved nearly 400 hours a month collectively by eliminating manual expense reporting, generated an approximate $5,000 cost saving by catching a duplicate vendor charge, and the team gained real-time studio-level financial dashboards with no further manual expense work for the controller.
Results
Time savednearly 400 hours a month
Volumetwo to three days, if not longer
Cost replacedapproximately $5,000
Grounding & classification
Source type: vendor customer story
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