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Rasayel Integration

ApproveThis manages your Rasayel Integration approvals.

April 17, 2025

Integration Category: Communication

When Approval Processes Meet Team Communication

Let's cut through the corporate speak: most companies between 50-5,000 employees aren't slow because they're lazy. They're stuck in approval purgatory. Marketing needs legal's sign-off. Sales needs finance's blessing. Customer service needs engineering's input. And everyone needs to stop chasing people through Slack threads and email chains.

That's where ApproveThis and Rasayel come in. ApproveThis handles the structured decision-making. Rasayel manages the messy reality of team conversations. Connect them through Zapier, and you've got a system where approvals happen where the work actually does - without requiring everyone to learn new tools.

Why This Combo Works (When Others Don't)

Most approval tools assume everyone lives in their platform. Newsflash: your sales team lives in Salesforce. Your support team lives in Zendesk. Your finance team? They're still emailing PDFs from 1998. ApproveThis works where your people already are through email approvals and Zapier integrations.

Rasayel's play? They don't try to replace WhatsApp, Messenger, or your other comms channels. They organize the chaos. Now pair that with ApproveThis' ability to turn "Hey, can someone approve this?" into a tracked, automated process. You get decisions made faster because you're not forcing people to switch tools.

Real example: A mid-sized e-commerce company used to lose 12 hours weekly chasing purchase order approvals across departments. After connecting Rasayel conversations to ApproveThis workflows? Those same approvals now take 23 minutes on average. Because approvers just click "Approve" in their email or Rasayel chat - no logins, no portals, no hassle.

Four Ways This Integration Actually Works

1. Turn Critical Conversations Into Tracked Approvals

Scenario: Your support team gets a feature request in Rasayel that needs product team approval. Instead of CC'ing half the company, Zapier auto-creates an ApproveThis request with the conversation context. Product managers approve/deny directly from email, updating the Rasayel thread automatically.

2. Kill the Approval Black Hole

Problem: Marketing sends a campaign for legal review... then waits. Solution: When Rasayel detects a "needs legal review" conversation status, ApproveThis pings the right lawyers with deadline reminders. Denied? Comments auto-sync back to Rasayel so everyone's looped in.

3. Standardize Messages Without the Micromanaging

Use case: Customer success needs to send contract renewal offers. ApproveThis triggers pre-approved Rasayel templates when deals hit certain thresholds. Reps get guardrails without needing managers to review every single message.

4. Escalate What Matters (Ignore the Rest)

Example: Social media mentions in Rasayel tagged as "PR risk" auto-create high-priority ApproveThis requests. Your crisis team gets alerted immediately, while low-risk mentions follow standard approval paths. No more all-hands meetings over a typo in a tweet.

Who Actually Benefits From This?

Customer-Facing Teams

Support teams at SaaS companies use this to escalate feature requests without leaving Rasayel. Approval statuses sync back as internal notes, keeping customers updated without exposing the internal back-and-forth.

Finance & Legal

No more "I never saw that contract" excuses. When Rasayel conversations involve attachments, ApproveThis routes them with calculated fields for risk scoring. Legal gets dollar amounts and deadlines upfront, cutting review time by 60% for some clients.

Field Operations

HVAC companies use Rasayel for dispatch comms. Now when a tech needs part approval, managers get emailed requests with photos and cost estimates. ApproveThis' mobile-friendly forms mean decisions happen while the tech is still on-site.

Setting This Up Without Losing Your Mind

Step 1: Map your stuck points. Where do conversations stall waiting for approval? Sales discounts? Content calendars? Contract reviews?

Step 2: Build the approval logic in ApproveThis. Use conditional thresholds - maybe all discounts over 15% need VP approval. Set up approval groups so legal and finance reviews happen in parallel.

Step 3: Connect via Zapier. Most setups use these triggers:

  • Rasayel → ApproveThis: When conversation status changes or mentions occur
  • ApproveThis → Rasayel: When requests are created/approved/denied

Pro tip: Use ApproveThis' calculated fields to pull data from Rasayel. Example: Auto-calculate discount impact based on deal size mentioned in chat.

The Nuts & Bolts You Care About

No New Licenses for Approvers

External partners approve via email. Internal teams see status in Rasayel. Only workflow creators need ApproveThis logins.

Audit Trails That Don't Suck

ApproveThis tracks who approved what and when. Rasayel keeps the conversation history. Together, you've got a paper trail that actually makes sense during compliance reviews.

Deadlines That Move

If an approver's OOO, ApproveThis auto-reassigns. Rasayel gets updated so the requester knows who's now holding the bag.

What You're Not Getting

This isn't some AI magic that approves requests autonomously. You're still making human decisions - just without the administrative circus. It also won't fix broken processes. If your 9-step approval chain is stupid, automating it just means failing faster.

What it does do: Take the "where's my approval?!" panic out of your day. Give managers control without becoming bottlenecks. Let teams work in their preferred tools while leadership gets visibility.

Getting Started (Without the Sales Pitch)

1. Grab an ApproveThis trial - takes 3 minutes.
2. Create a Zapier account if you don't have one.
3. Pick one process to automate first. Pro tip: Start with something that currently uses email approvals.
4. Use ApproveThis' pre-built Rasayel templates - no need to start from scratch.

Seems too simple? That's the point. One logistics company had this running for their vendor contracts in 2 hours. First automated approval came through before their IT team even knew they'd set it up.

Still Reading? Here's Your Move

You've got two options: Keep pasting approval links into Slack and hoping people respond. Or try a 14-day ApproveThis trial connected to your Rasayel account. We don't need a credit card, and our support team actually responds in under 4 hours.

Book a 12-minute demo if you want to see real client setups. Or just poke around the trial - we've built in sample workflows for Rasayel users. Either way, stop letting approval chaos dictate your team's speed.

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Best Approval Workflows for Rasayel

Suggested workflows (and their Zapier components) for Rasayel

Create approval requests for updated Rasayel conversations

Streamline your approval process by automatically creating approval requests in ApproveThis whenever a conversation status is updated in Rasayel. This integration ensures that all important conversation updates are evaluated and approved swiftly without manual intervention, keeping the workflow efficient and responsive.

Zapier Components

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Trigger

Conversation Updated

Triggers when a conversation status is updated.

Action

Create Request

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

Add note messages for new approval requests in Rasayel

Easily keep track of new approval requests by automatically adding a note message in Rasayel whenever a new request is initiated in ApproveThis. This automation provides clarity and documentation within your communication channels, ensuring that team members are informed of approval workflows as they occur.

Zapier Components

Trigger

New Request

Triggers when a new approval request workflow is initiated.

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Action

Create Note Message

Creates a new note message for an existing conversation

Send pre-approved template messages for new ApproveThis requests

Improve communication efficiency by sending pre-approved template messages in Rasayel whenever a new request is created in ApproveThis. This automation ensures that all stakeholders are rapidly informed with standardized messages, reducing the time spent on crafting individual responses.

Zapier Components

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Trigger

New Request Created

Triggers when a new request is created in ApproveThis.

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Action

Create Template Message

Creates a message using a pre-approved template

Generate approval requests for new mentions in Rasayel

Automatically generate approval requests in ApproveThis for every new mention created in Rasayel. This integration helps manage workflows that require oversight or approval in a timely manner, ensuring mentions receive the required attention and action.

Zapier Components

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Trigger

New Mention

Triggers when a new mention is created.

Action

Create Request

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