ZERO-FRICTION
FINANCE
Canva unifies T&E, procurement, and spend in 190 countries with Brex, Zip, and Navan.
How Canva consolidated 10+ card programs into one system for seamless travel and spend.
Canva has 265 million users around the world. When it came time for Canva Create 2026, which brings 6,000+ attendees together, they needed a spend stack that could keep up.
10+ card programs consolidated to 1
Spend supported in 190 countries
Canva Create means hundreds of vendors moving at once. Zip routes every request through the right approvals. Brex closes the loop with instant card issuance and automated reconciliation. Nothing moves without a paper trail.
Thousands of employees. Dozens of countries. One event. Navan keeps every booking in policy. Brex captures every dollar the moment it's spent. Finance sees all of it — no reconciliation backlog when the event wraps.
Streamline business spend, from intake to payment.
Canva Create runs on hundreds of vendor relationships, production contracts, and purchase requests all moving fast. Zip routes every request to the right owner. Brex issues a virtual card the moment it's approved. Vendors get paid. Budgets stay intact. Books close clean.
“Being able to see and manage every type of spend in our Brex dashboard, from travel to vendor payments to last-minute event purchases, has been a game-changer for both our accounting team and end users.”
— Rudy Batts, Head of Global Spend, Canva
Get every employee there and back, in policy, at scale.
When 600+ Canvanauts travel across 14 countries, Navan enforces policy at the point of booking. Brex captures every dollar in real time, so finance has a clean picture of all spend. Ensure every employee gets there and back, in policy and at scale, with no exceptions to review.
“You just go into Navan, book what you need, and the Brex card is already loaded at the checkout screen. BrexPay for Navan is really straightforward and fast, with budget controls built in so I have complete peace of mind.”
— Sandy Cozy, Administrative Business Partner to the CFO , Canva
Manage enterprise spend at scale.
One card, accepted everywhere Canva operates
14 global offices. 5,000 employees. Zero foreign transaction fees. Every dollar, whether it's spent in Sydney or LA, flows back to one card program in real time.
From approved request to issued card instantly
No manual handoffs, no rogue spend. Just a closed loop from request to payment with controls built in and enforced at every swipe, no matter how fast things are moving.
Full visibility across travel, procurement, and cards
Issue and pay with Brex cards directly in Navan and Zip for seamless payments, automatically reconciled, GL-coded, and organized in Brex. No surprises after the event ends.
“Brex has really allowed me to focus on the creative work. It's taken the friction out of the admin and lets me pour my energy into the things that are going to be impactful for the 6,000 guests at Canva Create.”
— Jimmy Knowles, Global Head of Experiential Marketing, Canva
See what Brex can do for you.
Canva produces one of the most ambitious events in tech without losing control of a single dollar. See how Brex and its partner ecosystem can do the same for you.