ApproveThis manages your Nolt Integration approvals.

When Feedback Meets Action

Let's cut to the chase - most companies suck at two things: collecting feedback and making decisions. Nolt solves the first problem with its clean interface for gathering user ideas. ApproveThis solves the second by turning those "we should..." conversations into actual approvals. Connect them through Zapier, and you've got a system where customer voices directly fuel business decisions without endless Slack threads.

Here's why mid-sized companies care: When you're growing from 50 to 5,000 employees, every unstructured process becomes a time bomb. Product teams drown in feature requests. Support teams field the same complaints weekly. Finance teams get blindsided by unapproved spending. Connecting Nolt and ApproveThis creates clear airlocks between "Here's what people want" and "Here's what we're doing about it."

Real-World Workflows That Don't Make People Hate Their Jobs

Use Case 1: From Feature Request to Funded Project

A SaaS company using Nolt collects 200+ feature ideas monthly. Their product team currently spends 3 hours/week manually copying popular requests into Jira tickets. With ApproveThis integration:

1. When a Nolt post gets 50+ upvotes (using Nolt's built-in voting), Zapier triggers an approval request
2. ApproveThis automatically routes to Head of Product, CTO, and CFO based on estimated dev costs
3. If approved, the request auto-creates a Jira epic with all context attached

Key advantage: Approvers don't need Jira access. The CFO gets email notifications with cost estimates in the approval request, clicks approve/reject, done. No license sprawls, no "Can you resend that PDF?"

Use Case 2: Killing Zombie Projects Before They Eat Your Budget

A fintech company uses Nolt boards for internal process improvements. Problem: Teams keep "updating" post statuses to "In Progress" without budget sign-off. The fix:

- Any Nolt post status change to "In Development" triggers ApproveThis
- Request auto-includes linked comments about resourcing needs
- Routes to department head + finance based on thresholds ($5k+ goes to CFO)
- If rejected, post status reverts to "Backlog" automatically

This is where ApproveThis' calculated fields shine. Say a post mentions "adding 3 contractors" - the integration can pull day rates from a lookup table and display total cost in the approval request automatically.

Setting This Up Without Hiring a Zapier Expert

Total setup time: 12 minutes if you've used Zapier before. 23 if you're making coffee while doing it.

1. In Zapier, choose Nolt as trigger app
2. Pick your trigger (new post, comment, or status change)
3. Connect ApproveThis as action app
4. Map Nolt fields to ApproveThis request template
5. Set approval rules (who, thresholds, etc.)
6. Test with live data

Pro tip: Use ApproveThis' conditional logic to handle edge cases. Example: Posts tagged "Legal" in Nolt could require General Counsel approval regardless of cost. Comments from enterprise clients (@company.com emails) might bypass first-level approval.

Why Your Team Leads Will Actually Use This

For Product Teams

No more herding cats to get feature sign-offs. Roadmap decisions stay tied to actual user feedback instead of whoever yells loudest in sprint planning. Plus, vacation delegation means your lead designer can go offline without approvals stalling.

For Customer Success

When clients ask "What happened to my request?", you can show them the Nolt post → Approval timeline → Development status chain. Transparency without giving external users access to internal tools.

For Finance

Approval thresholds act as guardrails. A $10k infrastructure request from engineering gets auto-escalated instead of being rubber-stamped by a team lead. All while keeping the actual budget numbers in your ERP system, not in Nolt comments.

The Quiet Advantage Everyone Misses

Most approval tools require everyone to have accounts in both systems. With ApproveThis, external partners or client stakeholders can approve/reject via email without needing a Nolt login. Crucial for:

- Agencies getting client sign-offs on campaign ideas
- Manufacturers approving production changes with suppliers
- Healthcare providers coordinating with external specialists

Example: A healthcare IT company uses Nolt boards for feature requests from hospital networks. When a request impacts patient data workflows, ApproveThis automatically includes the hospital's compliance officer via email. They approve without ever touching Nolt's interface.

When Not to Use This Integration

This isn't magic fairy dust. If your team approves things in under 2 minutes already, automation might overcomplicate things. Also, don't use this for:

- Emergency change controls (use dedicated incident tools)
- Highly creative processes (design approvals need visual context)
- Anything requiring real-time collaboration

But for 80% of routine approvals - budget sign-offs, feature prioritization, policy updates - it turns Nolt from a suggestion box into a decision engine.

Getting Started Without the Usual BS

ApproveThis offers a free tier for up to 50 approvals/month. Nolt's starter plan handles basic boards. Together, that's enough to automate approvals for:

- Marketing campaign sign-offs
- IT purchase requests
- R&D project prioritization
- Partner co-marketing approvals

No need to "talk to sales" unless you want to. But if you do want a 15-minute walkthrough of advanced features like calculated fields or approval chains, book a demo. We'll show you how a manufacturing company cut approval delays by 72% using these exact workflows.

Either way, stop letting good ideas die in Nolt boards. Make approvals someone else's problem.