"We cut 90% of the manual work by building our own reporting tool on Pliant's API."
How Mozart Betten simplified spend management and accounting prep with Pliant. André Jonker is the CEO and co-founder of Mozart Bett, a fast-growing e-commerce business with an in-house dev team at its heart. Built on Pliant's API, the team runs cards, spend visibility, and automated reporting from a single setup. The result: far less manual work, reliable numbers updated through the previous day, and processes that scale with growth.
Mozart Bett
IndustryE-commerce
Revenue€50 million annually
Employees15+ people
Founded2021
Mozart sells customizable box spring beds online, letting customers configure their premium bed from a wide range of sizes, materials, and features. Part furniture retailer, part tech company, they run their own dev team and build their internal processes themselves. Their focus is strongly technical. The technology partners they choose need to support how they operate. Over the three years since partnering with Pliant, revenue tripled from €15M to nearly €50M.
90% time savings: Accounting tasks that once required constant manual effort now run largely automated.
50K€ cashback per year: All company spend runs through Pliant, generating around 50K€ in cashback per year.
3x revenue, same team: Revenue tripled to nearly €50M. Pliant scaled with it, no headcount added for spend management or reporting.
Challenge: Growth without financial transparency
In the first two years, Mozart Betten put everything into revenue and daily operations. Previously they used a digital spend management solution, but it wasn't flexible enough for a team that builds its own tools. "It took months to get a financial report. Our tax advisor was overwhelmed because he had to enter everything manually, and we had no financial visibility whatsoever." Costs were a rough estimate at best, and every financial decision was based on gut feeling. What they needed was to own their numbers daily, without waiting on someone else.
Solution: Pliant for cards, expenses, and financial Data
What Mozart needed was an API to build their own reporting system. Pliant offered exactly that. With it, they built their own internal reporting tool: a daily P&L that pulls transaction data straight into their database, categorizes it, and gives the team a view of every cent spent, updated through the previous day.
Today, each employee has their own Pliant card, set up for their role and spending needs. Pliant categorizes most transactions automatically and feeds them straight into the report. Reviewing uncategorized transactions takes one person about two hours a week. Everything else runs on its own.
For the tax advisor, Pliant connects directly to DATEV, keeping the handoff simple.
"I can check our tool early in the morning and know exactly how yesterday went, down to the cent. Pliant is essentially the backbone of our internal reporting. Without Pliant, we'd be flying blind."
Outcome: A financial infrastructure that scales
Using Pliant's API, Mozart built a reporting setup that runs itself. Most businesses at this stage are still chasing their accountant for numbers from last month. Revenue tripled from €15M to nearly €50M. The workload did not.
Accounting tasks that once took hours of manual effort now take one person two hours a week. That is a 90% time saving, without adding headcount. That is what building on the right infrastructure looks like. The system scales because it was designed to. When revenue doubles again, nothing needs to be rebuilt.
And with all company spend running through Pliant, including significant ad spend on Meta and Google, Mozart gets around €50,000 in cashback per year from Pliant.
"We built our entire financial setup on Pliant's API. Transaction data flows in automatically, our reporting updates overnight, and we cut 90% of the manual work in the process. The whole system scales as we grow. We don't need to rebuild anything when revenue doubles."
