ApproveThis manages your Noko Integration approvals.

Let’s cut to the chase: approvals suck when you’re manually chasing down signatures while project hours spiral out of control. That’s why pairing ApproveThis (your approval sheriff) with Noko (the time-tracking truth-teller) isn’t just smart – it’s borderline survival tactics for scaling teams. We’re talking about connecting the dots between “Who approved this?” and “Where did all the time/money go?” without playing email tag.

Why This Combo Works Like a Wrench on a Loose Bolt

Noko tells you exactly where time gets spent. ApproveThis tells you exactly who said “yes” to spending it. Together, they answer the two questions that keep CFOs and project managers awake at night. For companies juggling client work, billable hours, or internal projects, this integration acts like a productivity defibrillator.

Noko’s Side of the Deal

Noko tracks time entries, project budgets, and invoices with the precision of a Swiss watch. It’s great at showing you the numbers – but not so great at getting human beings to make timely decisions about those numbers. That’s where approvals tend to bottleneck.

ApproveThis’s Muscle

ApproveThis cuts through approval gridlock with automated workflows that force decisions (politely). But here’s the kicker: it doesn’t require approvers to have a Noko license. So when your client needs to approve an invoice or your legal team needs to vet project scope changes? They can approve via email without getting lost in Noko’s interface.

Real-World Uses That Don’t Feel Like Corporate Fluff

Let’s break down three ways this integration actually works for teams who hate wasting time:

1. Invoice Approvals That Don’t Tank Client Relationships

The Problem: Your agency bills by the hour. Client sees a spike in Noko-tracked time on their invoice. Panic ensues. Three days of back-and-forth emails later, they finally approve it.

The Fix: Automatically create ApproveThis requests whenever a new invoice hits Noko. Clients get an email with a clear breakdown (using Noko’s time data) and one-click approve/deny buttons. If they question line items, comments get logged in ApproveThis – not your support inbox.

Who Cares: Marketing agencies, consultancies, any team billing external clients. CFOs tired of chasing late payments.

2. Projects That Start When Approvals End

The Problem: Your dev team needs sign-off to start a Noko-tracked sprint, but the approval email gets buried under 200 unread messages. Project kickoff delayed. Again.

The Fix: When ApproveThis greenlights a project request, Zapier auto-creates the Noko project with scope details, budget caps, and assigned team. No more “Wait, did legal approve this?” meetings.

Who Cares: Product managers, engineering teams, construction firms with phased approvals.

3. Expense Approvals That Actually Prevent Fraud

The Problem: Employees log expenses in Noko. Finance has to cross-reference receipts, policy PDFs, and Slack threads to approve them. It’s a mess.

The Fix: New Noko expense entry? Auto-generate an ApproveThis request with calculated totals, policy checkpoints (using conditional thresholds), and receipt attachments. Approvers get everything in one place – even if they’re external auditors.

Who Cares: Remote teams, companies with travel budgets, nonprofits needing grant compliance.

Setup That Won’t Make You Call IT

If you can make toast, you can connect these tools via Zapier. Here’s the gist:

1. Connect Noko and ApproveThis to your Zapier account
2. Pick a trigger (e.g., “New Invoice in Noko”)
3. Map key data points (invoice amount → ApproveThis’s calculated fields)
4. Set approval rules (e.g., “Escalate if over $10k”)
5. Test with a real request (try approving your lunch expense)

Whole thing takes 15 minutes. Less if you’re good at skipping tutorial videos.

Features You’ll Actually Use (No Bloatware Here)

ApproveThis brings some heavy artillery to this integration:

• Email approvals: External clients approve without logging into anything
• Vacation delegation: Auto-reassign approvals when Bob’s on PTO
• Thresholds: Auto-approve small expenses but flag big ones

Meanwhile, Noko keeps feeding real-time project data into these decisions. It’s like having a financial auditor and a project manager fused into one AI-powered robot. But less creepy.

Who Gets Their Life Changed

This isn’t just for the C-suite. Real teams benefit:

Finance Teams: Approve invoices/expenses with Noko data baked into each request. No more switching tabs to verify hours.

Project Managers: Start tracked work the second approvals clear. Budget alerts come straight from Noko’s mouth.

External Clients: Approve invoices via email without getting a Noko login. Fewer support tickets about “another damn password to remember”.

The Bottom Line (Because We Know You’re Busy)

Combining ApproveThis and Noko via Zapier is about closing the loop between time/money spent and human decisions. It’s not flashy AI – it’s practical automation that prevents these scenarios:

• Clients disputing invoices because approvals were vague
• Projects stalling because sign-offs got lost
• Finance wasting days cross-referencing data

For companies between 50-5,000 employees, this is how you scale approvals without hiring a coordinator to babysit Slack.

Ready to Stop Being a Approval Middleman?

If your team’s doing more project herding than actual work, it’s time to let these tools talk. Register for ApproveThis, connect your Noko account via Zapier, and start your first workflow. Or schedule a demo if you want to see the sauce before pouring it.

Either way, stop letting approval chaos eat into your actual billable hours. Life’s too short for that.