Pleo, Europe’s most trusted strategic finance platform, today announces a strategic partnership with leading cloud accounting platform iplicit, purpose-built for the UK and Ireland's mid-market, to bring smart corporate cards and automated spend management to mid-market finance teams across the UK & Ireland via Pleo Embedded

Integration work between the two platforms is currently underway, and will enable organisations to sync their expense data into iplicit’s cloud-native accounting software in real time. Users with access to the integration will be able to extend iplicit's existing expense management capabilities with features such as smart corporate cards, advanced controls and AI-powered spend optimisation recommendations powered by Pleo. 

The integration addresses a critical gap for mid-market organisations whose financial tool stacks are increasingly fragmented, creating data silos, delayed visibility and operational inefficiency. 

For those finance teams with complex expense needs, the Pleo integration builds on iplicit’s existing spend management features to bring spend visibility into the accounting platform as soon as transactions happen - with data flowing in real-time from point of capture through to reporting, giving customers a single, continuously updated view of their business's financial position.

To further reduce the load on finance teams, Pleo enables customers to distribute physical and virtual smart corporate cards across their organisations, removing the need for finance to chase every payment and receipt, while maintaining full visibility and control. 

Every transaction will appear instantly in iplicit – which is tailored to businesses that have outgrown entry-level systems or grown frustrated with legacy on-premises vendors – removing costly delays between spend and visibility.

Ben Crow, VP Partnerships at iplicit, commented on the partnership: "At iplicit, we prioritise listening to the needs of our mid-market customers to continually refine our product. With over 70 channel and technology partners, our ecosystem continues to grow - and each addition is a direct response to what mid-market finance teams are telling us they need. Specialist expense management has been a consistent ask from finance teams with more complex needs who want a single, connected view of their spending without jumping between systems.

“Pleo has been a fantastic partner to work with and has exactly the kind of best-in-breed technology that allows us to expand what iplicit can do, giving customers a point solution that matches the complexity of their operations. The UK's mid-market deserves software that keeps pace with it, and that's what partnerships like this deliver. We look forward to aligning our teams to bring a joint value proposition to our existing and new customers, ensuring we have raving fans - a core part of the iplicit mission.”

Kunal Galav, VP Pleo Embedded, adds: “Expectations around financial visibility are only moving in one direction. The question for accounting software providers is whether their product moves with them. iplicit’s move to integrate Pleo Embedded will only benefit its customers, providing them with improved control and awareness of business spend. Meanwhile, iplicit benefits from new revenue streams and a closer relationship with its customer base – all without additional build.”