Payhawk vs Pleo Built to scale from 2 to 2,000 with ease

Whether you manage two people or 2,000, Payhawk adapts to your needs with advanced customization, multi-entity support, and a global spend management platform—including procure-to-pay, invoice management, and corporate debit and credit cards.

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Customers who chose Payhawk over Pleo
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"Before choosing Payhawk, we trialed Pleo for a month, but it didn't work with our system. Our coding is quite intricate, and we needed to get all the information quickly and easily. We just felt that the user experience and layout in Payhawk was better and easier for cardholders and creatives to use."

Uchenna Ibe, Financial Controller at MDM Props

3 reasons some of the world’s leading companies prefer Payhawk

Spend management features for Mid-size companies

Effortless multi-entity management

Payhawk's global dashboard simplifies spend oversight with consolidated tracking, entity-level controls, and centralised visibility, making multi-entity management easy and efficient.

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Powerful spend controls and workflows

Tailor spend rules with powerful card controls and complex approval workflows to set transaction times and approve or block specific merchants, categories, countries, regions, and more.

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One global platform with credit line support

Payhawk unifies cards, accounts payable, budgets, travel, reimbursements, subscriptions, and procurement giving you the power to track, control, and save on all business spend.

Save with automation-powered spend management

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saved per year just on manual data entry
€2.4 million
saved by preventing out-of-policy card spend
€2M
saved annually from VAT reclaim

*The VAT savings metrics are from real Payhawk clients but your exact savings will depend on your business size, type, spend volumes, and your local VAT reclaim legislation.


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Make a seamless transition

Switching spend management providers shouldn't be pain. We're here to help you make the move a breeze.

Smooth onboarding and implementation

Your dedicated Onboarding and Implementation Managers ensure a smooth, seamless transition, setting you up for success from day one.

Lightning-fast, multilingual, real human support team

Get real-time assistance from our multilingual, in-house experts—just a message away for any questions, technical support, or guidance.

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average onboarding time
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customer satisfaction rate

Even more reasons you’ll love Payhawk

Don’t just replace Pleo. Modernise all the ways you do finance.

Choose a single global card provider

Support global spend with a mix of physical and virtual cards with a market-leading acceptance rate.

Manage cash flow on your terms with credit and debit Visa cards

Improve financial governance and manage cash flow your way with direct access to your funds through dedicated bank accounts and debit and credit cards.

Automate your accounts payable process — at scale.

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Approve spend before it happens with procure-to-pay automation

Streamline purchasing and control spending from request to payment with custom request approvals, PO creation, and 3-way matching with automated accounts payable.

Track budgets in real-time

Get a complete, real-time view of budget utilization—even for the most complex budget structures. With multiple forecasts, built-in accruals, and unlimited dimensions, you’ll always have accurate, up-to-date insights.

Plug and play on top of your existing stack

Get access to market-leading integrations with your ERP, accounting software, HRIS, and security tools, plus a robust RESTful API and real-time webhooks.

Payhawk vs Pleo FAQ

The choice is clear—start with Payhawk today!

Get the spend management solution designed for modern finance leaders.

The information on this page is based on publicly available Pleo product features as of March 2025.