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Zeevou Integration

ApproveThis manages your Zeevou Integration approvals.

April 17, 2025

Integration Category: Scheduling

When Property Management Meets Approval Automation

Let’s be real – managing short-term rentals is like herding cats. Between last-minute bookings, maintenance emergencies, and invoice approvals, your team’s constantly putting out fires. Now imagine if half those fires could extinguish themselves.

That’s what happens when you connect ApproveThis (your approval command center) with Zeevou (the Swiss Army knife of property management) through Zapier. We’re talking about turning “Hey, can someone approve this?” slack messages into a self-running machine that keeps units booked, guests happy, and accountants from quitting.

Why This Combo Works Like Bourbon and Branch Water

Zeevou’s great at operational heavy lifting – syncing bookings across platforms, auto-generating invoices, managing cleaning schedules. But when decisions need human eyes? That’s where things bottleneck.

ApproveThis acts as Zeevou’s decision-making layer. Every time Zeevou hits a “need approval” moment – whether it’s a $5K plumbing invoice or a last-minute booking from someone with zero reviews – ApproveThis automatically routes it to the right people. No logins required for approvers. No chasing down signatures. Just clean, auditable decisions that flow back into Zeevou to keep operations moving.

Real-World Scenarios That’ll Make You Nod in Relief

1. Invoice Approvals That Don’t Make Finance Want to Walk Out

Picture this: Your maintenance team submits a $7,500 HVAC repair invoice through Zeevou. Normally, this would ping-pong between the property manager, regional director, and CFO via 12 separate emails. With the integration:

  • Zeevou auto-generates the invoice
  • Zapier triggers an ApproveThis workflow
  • Requests hit approvers’ inboxes in order (property lead → regional → CFO)
  • Approved? Zeevou auto-processes payment. Denied? Maintenance gets notified to find alternatives

Who loves this: Corporate housing providers managing 50+ units across multiple regions. Stops regional managers from approving expenses outside their budget authority.

2. Guest Vetting That Doesn’t Slow Down Bookings

When a new guest with zero booking history tries to reserve your $15K/month luxury cabin:

  • Zeevou creates the guest profile
  • ApproveThis instantly routes a vetting request to security/senior staff
  • Custom logic escalates to COO if deposit exceeds $20K
  • Approval triggers automatic welcome email; denial kicks back to sales team

Who needs this: High-end vacation rental companies. Lets junior staff handle 95% of bookings while automatically flagging riskier guests.

3. Approval-to-Action Without the Human Relay Race

Say your head of operations approves a new furniture budget. Instead of someone manually creating 17 Zeevou tasks:

ApproveThis completion automatically generates in Zeevou:

  • Purchase orders
  • Installation calendars
  • Photography scheduling
  • Listing updates

Perfect for: Scaling property groups adding 10+ units monthly. Prevents approved budgets from getting stuck in email limbo.

Features That Make This More Than Just Basic Automation

Approval Thresholds: Your Financial Auto-Pilot

Set rules like “Any maintenance request under $2K auto-approves for regional managers” or “All seasonal pricing changes need dual approval from Revenue and Ops.” ApproveThis enforces these without micromanaging.

Vacation Coverage That Actually Works

When your head of procurement takes PTO, ApproveThis automatically reroutes their approvals to the deputy. No more “Sorry, I was OOO” delays on critical supply orders.

Calculated Fields: Your Hidden Negotiation Weapon

Automatically show price-per-square-foot comparisons when approving new unit leases. Or display cleaning cost percentages relative to booking revenue. Approvers get decision context without hunting through spreadsheets.

Setting This Up Without Losing Your Mind

Connect Zeevou + ApproveThis in 15 minutes flat:

  1. Grab your Zeevou API keys (they’re in Settings > Integrations)
  2. In Zapier, choose your trigger (“New Invoice,” “New Guest,” etc.)
  3. Map key Zeevou data points to ApproveThis fields (amount, due date, property ID)
  4. Set approval rules (who approves what, in which order)
  5. Test with a $0.01 test invoice to confirm flows

Pro tip: Use ApproveThis’s conditional logic to handle edge cases. Like requiring additional approval for any invoice where vendor = “XYZ Plumbing” due to past disputes.

Who Gets the Most Mileage

Operations Teams

Cut approval delays for maintenance/repairs from days to hours. Auto-escalate urgent requests (like broken AC in August) to bypass normal chains.

Finance Departments

Eliminate invoice approval backlogs. Set hard rules so junior staff can’t approve budget-busters. Auto-archive approved docs for audit trails.

Guest Services

Speed up VIP booking approvals while maintaining compliance. Automatically flag high-risk reservations without manual reviews.

The Quiet Advantage Your CFO Will Love

ApproveThis approvers don’t need Zeevou licenses. When you’re dealing with external vendors or execs who only touch approvals occasionally, that’s license fee savings that add up fast. (Yes, they still need their own ApproveThis access – but that’s built into pricing.)

Bottom Line: This Isn’t Just Another Integration

Most tool integrations are like those “As Seen on TV” gadgets – cool in theory, useless in practice. This combo actually removes friction points that property teams hate:

  • No more approvers claiming “I never got the email”
  • Zero manual data entry between systems
  • Automatic compliance with spending policies

It’s why hospitality groups managing 100+ units run approval processes 68% faster after connecting these tools. (Yes, we have case studies – ask for them.)

Your Move

You’ve got two options here:

Option 1: Keep doing approvals the old way – chasing people across time zones, losing invoices in Slack threads, missing out on prime booking windows because someone’s approver was on safari.

Option 2: Try ApproveThis free for 14 days, connect it to Zeevou via Zapier, and discover what happens when approvals actually work for you instead of against you.

If you want to see exactly how this would handle your team’s specific approval headaches, book a 20-minute demo. We’ll show real examples from companies like yours – no sales fluff, just “Oh, that’s how that works.”

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Best Approval Workflows for Zeevou

Suggested workflows (and their Zapier components) for Zeevou

Create approval requests for new Zeevou invoices

Managing invoice approvals can be tedious. Let this integration handle it by automatically creating an approval request in ApproveThis whenever a new invoice is created in Zeevou. This ensures your finance team is promptly notified for review and approval.

Zapier Components

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Trigger

Invoice Created

Triggers when a new invoice is created.

Action

Create Request

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

Create Zeevou tasks for completed approvals

Ensure every completed approval in ApproveThis translates into actionable tasks in Zeevou. Automatically create tasks when an approval workflow is concluded, keeping your team aligned and responsive to decision outputs.

Zapier Components

Trigger

A Request Is Approved/Denied

Triggers when a request is approved or denied.

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Action

Create Task

Creates a Task.

Initiate approval requests for new Zeevou guests

Streamline guest management by automatically triggering an approval request for every new guest added in Zeevou. This ensures necessary checks and clearances are promptly initiated, enhancing security and compliance.

Zapier Components

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Trigger

Guest Created

Triggers when a new guest is created.

Action

Create Request

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

Create new Zeevou bookings from approval requests

Transform approved requests into action by creating bookings in Zeevou as soon as a new approval request is received. This automation speeds up the reservation process and ensures no approved request is overlooked.

Zapier Components

Trigger

New Request

Triggers when a new approval request workflow is initiated.

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Action

Create Booking

Creates a Booking.