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ApproveThis manages your Sprintful Integration approvals.

April 17, 2025

Integration Category: Scheduling

When Scheduling Meets Governance

Let’s cut to the chase: Sprintful handles bookings. ApproveThis handles approvals. Together, they handle business.

If your team’s still manually rubber-stamping every client meeting, service appointment, or resource booking that comes through Sprintful, you’re leaving efficiency gains on the table. Worse – you’re risking bottlenecks when approvers go on vacation, budgets get tight, or someone forgets to check their email.

Here’s the fix: Connect Sprintful’s scheduling muscle to ApproveThis’ approval automation through Zapier. No more switching tabs to approve that $20K consulting session booking. No more frantic Slack searches when a high-priority client needs a last-minute reschedule approved yesterday.

How This Combo Works (Without the Jargon)

Sprintful’s your front door for bookings – clients, internal teams, or partners schedule time through your branded page. ApproveThis becomes the bouncer checking IDs before anyone gets past the velvet rope.

Key integration superpowers:

  • Automatic approval triggers: New bookings, cancellations, or reminders in Sprintful instantly create approval tickets in ApproveThis
  • No app hopping: Approvers greenlight requests via email without needing Sprintful logins
  • Escalation protocols: Stuck waiting on an MIA manager? Approval thresholds auto-approve routine requests or bump them up the chain

Real talk: This isn’t about replacing human judgment. It’s about eliminating the administrative sludge that makes approvers hate their inboxes.

Use Cases That Don’t Suck

1. Client Services Teams: No More Overbooked Consultants

Scenario: A enterprise client books 10 weekly strategy sessions through your Sprintful page. Your lead consultant’s already at capacity.

The fix: Approval workflows in ApproveThis check consultant availability against existing bookings. If conflicts exist, the request routes to department leads for reassignment approval before confirming.

Why it matters: Prevents $350/hr consultants getting double-booked because someone didn’t cross-reference calendars.

2. Facilities Management: Conference Room Roulette Solved

Scenario: Sales team books the exec boardroom for a client pitch through Sprintful. Problem is, that room requires C-suite approval for external guests.

The fix: Auto-trigger approvals in ApproveThis that verify guest lists against security protocols. Send denials with alternative suggestions when needed.

Why it matters: Avoids that awkward 8 AM scramble when the CEO walks into a room full of strangers.

3. Healthcare Practices: Patient Compliance Without Paperwork

Scenario: A patient schedules an elective procedure through your Sprintful portal. Requires insurance pre-auth and physician sign-off.

The fix: Approval workflow pings insurance teams and doctors simultaneously with all booking details. Conditional logic auto-approves follow-up appointments once initial auth exists.

Why it matters: Reduces no-shows from authorization delays and keeps care teams synced.

Setting This Up Without Losing Your Mind

Zapier’s the middleman here. Here’s the 5-minute version:

  1. Create a Zapier account (if you’re part of the 3% who don’t have one)
  2. Set Sprintful as your trigger app – choose “New Booking” events
  3. Connect ApproveThis as your action app – map booking details to approval request fields
  4. Add conditional logic (optional but smart):
    - Auto-approve recurring client bookings under $5K
    - Route high-value requests to specific approvers
    - Attach cancellation penalty disclosures automatically

Pro tip: Use ApproveThis’ calculated fields to auto-flag bookings that exceed monthly budget allowances or conflict with blackout dates.

Teams That Win With This Combo

Operations Teams

Cut the 37 approval-related Slack messages per week. Set up parallel approval paths in ApproveThis so facility bookings get reviewed by both security and catering, without either team blocking the other.

Customer Success

Ever had a client show up for a meeting that wasn’t properly approved? Embed ApproveThis status checks into your Sprintful confirmation emails. Customers see real-time approval progress without your team playing receptionist.

Finance Departments

ApproveThis’ approval thresholds let you auto-approve bookings under $1K but require CFO sign-off on anything above. All while keeping approvers blissfully unaware of Sprintful’s existence (they’ll thank you).

Why This Isn’t Just Another Integration

Most scheduling tools bolt on basic approval features. Sprintful + ApproveThis does three things better:

1. External approvers don’t cost you: Clients, vendors, or partners can approve bookings via email without Sprintful licenses. Your procurement team approves a vendor’s maintenance booking? They do it from their inbox – no new logins.

2. Vacation coverage that actually works: ApproveThis’ delegation rules automatically reassign approvals when someone’s OOO. No more “Waiting on Karen’s reply” holds ups because Karen’s hiking the Andes.

3. Audit trails with teeth: Every approved/denied booking in Sprintful gets timestamped records showing who approved what, when, and (via conditional fields) why. Makes compliance reviews less of a horror show.

The Bottom Line

If your company’s scaling past 50 employees, ad-hoc booking approvals become grenades waiting to pin pull. Support teams get stuck playing operator. Finance loses visibility. Clients smell blood when approvals lag.

ApproveThis + Sprintful via Zapier turns approvals from a choke point into a controlled flow. Bookings get reviewed by the right people, in the right order, with automatic failsafes. Approvers stay in their lane (and their inbox).

Ready to stop being your team’s human Zapier? Get started with ApproveThis or schedule a 15-minute demo. We’ll show you how to connect the dots without becoming a workflow diagram zombie.

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Best Approval Workflows for Sprintful

Suggested workflows (and their Zapier components) for Sprintful

Create approval requests for new bookings

When a new booking is made on Sprintful, this integration automatically creates an approval request in ApproveThis. It helps ensure that each booking is verified and approved by the relevant team without manual intervention.

Zapier Components

Sprintful Logo

Trigger

On Booking

Triggers when a new booking is made.

Action

Create Request

Creates a new request, probably with input from previous steps.

Create approval requests for canceled bookings

When a booking is canceled on Sprintful, this integration sends an approval request to ApproveThis for review. It streamlines the cancellation process by ensuring that all cancellations pass through proper verification channels.

Zapier Components

Sprintful Logo

Trigger

On Cancel

Triggers when a new booking is made.

Action

Create Request

Creates a new request, probably with input from previous steps.

Create approval requests for booking reminders

Upon a booking reminder being triggered in Sprintful, this automation creates a corresponding approval request in ApproveThis. It ensures that reminders are properly tracked and validated, enhancing oversight and accountability.

Zapier Components

Sprintful Logo

Trigger

On Reminder

Triggers when a reminder is triggered.

Action

Create Request

Creates a new request, probably with input from previous steps.