ApproveThis manages your App Status by Zapier Integration approvals.

Why This Integration Isn't Just Another Zap

Let's cut through the noise: Most app monitoring tools tell you when things break. Approval systems help teams say "yes" or "no." But when you connect App Status by Zapier with ApproveThis, you're not just linking software - you're building an insurance policy against chaotic incident response.

Picture this: Your payment processor goes down at 2AM. App Status detects it immediately. Instead of frantic Slack pings and CC'd-all reply chains, ApproveThis automatically routes an approval request to the right engineers, product leads, and customer support managers. By sunrise, you've already got approved solutions rolling out while competitors are still brewing their first pots of coffee.

This isn't about replacing human judgment - it's about giving your team space to actually use their judgment instead of chasing down signatures.

What You're Really Solving Here

Companies between 50-5,000 employees don't have time for approval theater. When critical apps go down, you need:

• Clear audit trails showing who approved which fixes
• Automatic escalation when people are OOO (because outages don't care about time zones)
• Real-time visibility without micromanaging

ApproveThis handles the decision-making logistics. App Status provides the early warning system. Together through Zapier, they create what we call "structured urgency" - all the speed of a startup with none of the reckless abandon.

Real-World Scenarios That Don't Suck

1. The Critical Incident Triage

How it works: App Status detects an outage → Zapier creates ApproveThis request with incident details → Approval chain automatically routes to engineering lead, product owner, and CTO based on severity.

Who needs this: SaaS companies with SLAs to uphold. Instead of engineers jumping straight into firefighting mode, they get pre-approved bandwidth allocations and vendor spend limits the moment an incident is verified.

Secret sauce: Use ApproveThis' calculated fields to automatically categorize incidents as SEV-1 through SEV-3 based on App Status' uptime metrics. Higher severity? The approval chain shortens from 5 people to 2.

2. The Post-Mortem Paper Trail

How it works: App Status marks incident resolved → Zapier triggers ApproveThis to collect sign-offs on RCA documentation → Legal and compliance teams get automated reminders until they approve.

Who needs this: Fintechs and healthcare orgs where audit compliance isn't optional. Every resolved incident automatically generates an approval-required post-mortem template, complete with time-stamped decision records.

Pro tip: Set up approval thresholds so low-risk incidents auto-approve basic resolutions, while high-impact issues require manual C-suite sign-off. Saves 20+ hours/month on routine approvals.

Setting This Up Without Losing a Day

1. In Zapier, create a new Zap with App Status as the trigger (choose "New or Updated App Incident")
2. Map critical incident details to ApproveThis fields - we recommend including:
- Incident severity level
- Affected systems
- First detected timestamp
3. Set up conditional approval paths in ApproveThis based on incident type
4. Test with a fake outage (pro tip: do this during lunch hours unless you enjoy panic)

Total setup time: 38 minutes if you're focused. Less if you've already got ApproveThis workflows defined.

Team-Specific Wins

Engineering Teams

Stop playing approval tag. Get automatic budget approvals for cloud scaling the moment App Status detects latency spikes. Vacation delegation means no single point of failure in approval chains.

Customer Support

Auto-approved template responses for common outages. Only escalate truly novel issues, with all context pre-attached from App Status alerts.

Finance/Procurement

Every incident-related spend gets auto-logged with approval trails. Set $$ thresholds where vendor contract approvals automatically route to Legal.

What You Can Safely Ignore

We've seen teams overcomplicate this by:
- Requiring 7+ approvers for every minor alert (you're building a workflow, not a democracy)
- Not using calculated fields to auto-approve routine issues
- Forgetting to set up vacation delegates (then wondering why approvals stall during conferences)

The sweet spot? 90% of incidents flowing through auto-approved or 2-step processes, with only true edge cases needing human escalation.

Why This Beats Building In-House

Your dev team could spend 3 quarters building an approval system that integrates with monitoring tools. Or you could have this working by Friday afternoon. We're partial to option B.

Bonus points: ApproveThis doesn't require approvers to have seats in App Status (or any other connected app). Perfect for:
- Client-facing incident reporting
- Cross-company infrastructure teams
- Contractors who need to approve fixes but shouldn't have system access

When to Pull the Trigger

If any of these sound familiar:
- "Who approved that fix?" is a common post-mortem question
- Incident response times vary wildly between teams
- You're manually CC'ing execs on outage emails
- Vendors sometimes get paid before internal approvals are done

That's your cue. The setup's straightforward, but the impact looks like you hired a full-time process optimization team.

Your Move

Either:
1. Grab an ApproveThis trial and connect it to App Status in under an hour
2. Book a 15-minute demo where we'll show how a healthcare client cut incident resolution time by 40% using these exact workflows

No pressure, but your competitors are probably reading this too. Food for thought.