ApproveThis manages your Mobile Text Alerts Integration approvals.

Why Bother Connecting These Two?

Let’s cut to the chase: approval processes suck when you’re chasing people down via email, Slack, or carrier pigeon. Meanwhile, your clients and teams are drowning in notifications they ignore. That’s where pairing ApproveThis with Mobile Text Alerts gets interesting.

ApproveThis handles the messy approval logic – multi-step sign-offs, conditional routing, deadline tracking. Mobile Text Alerts slaps those approval requests directly into text messages. Together, they turn "I’ll get to it later" into "approved before you finish your coffee." For companies juggling approvals across teams or with external clients? This combo cuts through the noise.

What This Duo Actually Does

ApproveThis isn’t just another checkbox tool. It’s built for real-world chaos: approval thresholds (auto-approve small expenses, escalate big ones), vacation backups (no more "out of office" bottlenecks), and calculated fields (think dynamic budget checks during procurement requests).

Mobile Text Alerts does one thing well: sending SMS messages at scale without making you hire a developer. Add/remove contacts, blast updates, track deliveries – basic but critical for time-sensitive workflows.

The magic happens through Zapier. Connect them once, and you’re automating things like texting vendors when their invoice gets approved or alerting managers about urgent requests via SMS instead of email.

Who Actually Needs This?

If your company fits any of these, keep reading:

• You manage external vendors/clients who won’t log into your internal tools
• Field teams need real-time approvals (construction, healthcare, logistics)
• Your "urgent" approval requests currently live in email graveyards

4 Ways This Integration Works (Without the Jargon)

1. Text Stakeholders the Second a Request Drops

The Zap: New ApproveThis request → Send Mobile Text Alert.

Why it matters: Construction companies approving change orders. Retail managers greenlighting inventory purchases. Legal teams reviewing contracts. SMS gets eyes on requests 8x faster than email. Approvers can click the email link or approve via text – their choice.

Pro Tip: Use ApproveThis’ calculated fields to include dynamic info in the SMS: “Project Budget Remaining: $4,200. This request: $3k. Approve?”

2. Turn Text Replies into Approval Requests

The Zap: Mobile Text Alert reply → Create ApproveThis request.

Why it matters: Healthcare clinics getting patient consent via text. Restaurants letting suppliers confirm deliveries. Clients replying “YES” to a proposal could auto-trigger a contract approval workflow. No more manual data entry from scattered texts.

3. Escalate Stuck Requests Automatically

The Zap: Mobile Text Alert delivery failure → Create ApproveThis task.

Why it matters: If a payment approval SMS isn’t delivered to your CFO, ApproveThis can auto-reassign the request or notify IT. Combines Mobile Text Alerts’ delivery tracking with ApproveThis’ escalation rules.

4. Auto-Update Client Lists Post-Approval

The Zap: ApproveThis approval → Add subscriber to Mobile Text Alerts group.

Why it matters: Marketing agencies adding approved clients to VIP SMS lists. Schools moving parents to "confirmed" groups after field trip approvals. Automate list hygiene without spreadsheets.

Setup That Takes 8 Minutes (Not 8 Hours)

Pre-reqs: You need ApproveThis and Mobile Text Alerts accounts. No coding, but you’ll click through Zapier.

Step 1: Create a Zap. Pick ApproveThis as the trigger (e.g., “New Request”).

Step 2: Connect Mobile Text Alerts as the action (e.g., “Send Message”). Map fields like recipient phone number (from ApproveThis’ custom forms) and message content.

Step 3: Test with a $5 approval request. Seriously – start small before automating your $50k procurement process.

Remember: Approvers don’t need Mobile Text Alerts logins. They get a text, click a link, approve/deny in ApproveThis. External clients? They’ll never know (or care) about the backend.

Department-Specific Wins

Operations Teams

Track warehouse purchase orders in real time. Get texts when approvals stall. Auto-approve recurring orders under $1k using approval thresholds.

HR

Send onboarding docs via SMS for remote hires. Approve PTO requests faster by texting managers: “Jane wants off next Friday. Coverage plan attached. Approve?”

Finance

Text CFOs for high-risk approvals. If they ignore it, ApproveThis auto-escalates to the Board after 24 hours (yes, that’s a real feature).

Sales

Client texts “Let’s do it” → ApproveThis auto-generates a contract for legal review. No more digging through inboxes.

The Cool Details Everyone Misses

Approval Groups: Text an entire department at once (“Any manager: approve this!”) and let the first responder decide. Or require all 3 VPs to reply – their choice.

Conditional Logic: If a text reply includes “URGENT,” ApproveThis can bump the request to the top of the queue.

Audit Trails: Every text sent, approval given, or deadline missed is tracked. Useful for compliance or when your vendor claims “I never got the request!”

“But Wait, What If…”

…approvers hate technology? They get a text. They click a link. They hit “approve.” If they can order DoorDash, they can handle this.

…we have clients in Europe? Mobile Text Alerts handles international SMS. ApproveThis doesn’t care where your approvers are – as long as they have signal.

…Zapier breaks? Both tools have built-in fail-safes. ApproveThis sends email reminders if texts fail. Mobile Text Alerts retries undelivered messages.

Bottom Line

This isn’t about “innovation.” It’s about fixing the crap parts of approvals – delays, chaos, endless follow-ups. ApproveThis gives you structure; Mobile Text Alerts gives you speed. Together, they’re what email-based approvals wish they could be.

If you’ve got more than 50 employees and at least one approval process that makes you want to scream into a pillow, register for ApproveThis, connect it to Mobile Text Alerts via Zapier, and see how much time you save. Or book a demo if you’re into that sort of thing.