Brex has joined forces with Tekion to introduce a built-in financial tool tailored specifically for modern car dealership operations. Announced recently this month, during the Tekion One event in San Francisco, the collaboration launches Brex for Tekion Spend.
This solution embeds advanced corporate card and expense oversight features directly into Tekion’s Automotive Retail Cloud (ARC) platform, marking the first comprehensive native integration of its kind for dealership groups.
Auto dealership networks often manage intricate operations across numerous locations, handling everything from service bays and parts departments to finance and insurance activities.
Traditional approaches rely on shared owner credit cards, personal accounts, and cumbersome accounts payable processes that involve printing tens of thousands of checks annually—many for small amounts.
These outdated methods create inefficiencies, with finance staff spending excessive time manually reconciling transactions against repair orders, supplier bills, and payments spread across multiple sites.
Brex for Tekion Spend tackles these pain points head-on by leveraging Brex’s embedded finance technology.
As a subsidiary of Capital One, Brex combines fintech agility with the stability of a major banking institution experienced in the auto industry. The integration connects Brex’s API infrastructure and international card network straight into the ARC system.
Transactions sync automatically in real time to relevant records, while customizable spending rules apply at the location, department, or user level, ensuring tight control without disrupting daily workflows.
Key advantages of the new solution include automatic matching of every purchase to its source document in ARC, which streamlines reconciliation and boosts operational transparency.
Dealership teams can generate Brex cards instantly within familiar ARC interfaces for needs like fuel purchases or vendor payments, eliminating the need to switch between systems.
By shifting away from paper checks and traditional transfers toward card-based payments, groups can reduce processing fees, capture rewards on routine expenditures, and improve cash flow through credit float.
Policy enforcement happens automatically through preset limits on merchants, categories, amounts, and entities, customized to each dealership’s needs.
Additionally, multi-location operators gain unified oversight from a single dashboard, allowing central finance leaders full visibility while preserving appropriate decision-making authority for local managers.
Art Levy, Chief Business Officer at Brex, emphasized the value of delivering sophisticated financial tools within platforms users already trust.
He noted that the integration places powerful card features, instant controls, and automated matching where they matter most, freeing finance professionals to focus on strategic priorities rather than administrative tasks.
Guru Sankararaman, Co-founder and COO of Tekion, highlighted how the partnership advances the company’s goal of creating a complete ecosystem for automotive retail.
Embedding spend management directly into the core platform allows teams to oversee every operational dollar without leaving their primary workspace.
Early adopters are seeing benefits. Autumn Ross, CFO at Ewing Automotive Group, described the embedded card feature as a long-awaited enhancement that provides complete transparency, stronger accountability, and smoother processes.
She pointed to eliminated redundancies and efficiency gains that directly improve profitability.
Brex for Tekion Spend is initially accessible for a select group of ARC users, with wider deployment scheduled throughout the remainder of 2026 across Tekion’s network. This partnership represents a meaningful step forward in enhancing financial operations for one of the economy’s complex retail environments.
