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REQUEST MANAGEMENT

Stop Reassembling Requests. Start Approving Them.

ApproveThis collects structured requests from every source — web forms, email, Zapier, webhooks. You stop being the intake system.

Your team submits POs missing the vendor name. Your client buries an approval request in a forwarded email chain. Someone DMed a vacation request three days ago and is now asking why it hasn’t been processed.

You’re not managing approvals. You’re doing data entry and detective work.

ApproveThis turns fragmented requests into structured workflows. Build a form with AI in 30 seconds, accept submissions from anyone, route to the right approver automatically.

No credit card required. Free 14-day trial.

Form Building UI

EXTERNAL INTAKE

Anyone Can Submit. No Account Required.

Public forms, white-label portals, or authenticated internal forms — you control who submits and how. Friction goes down, control stays up.

Public Form

Public Forms

Share a URL. Anyone can submit without an account. They get automatic status updates by email with a unique tracking link.

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Approval Hub (your white-label portal for clients and vendors)

Give each client their own white-label subdomain (approvals.yourclient.com). Client-specific forms, routing rules, and PIN protection. Client A never sees Client B's data.

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Authenticated Forms

Restrict submission to logged-in team members. Require 2FA or SSO for sensitive workflows. Internal-only when internal-only is what you need.

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SPEED TO VALUE

Describe It. Launch It. Done.

Build a working approval form in 15 seconds with AI -- or start from 150+ pre-built templates and customize from there.

Path 1: AI Form Generation

Type what you need: “Purchase request with budget approval and department routing.” AI generates fields, validation, and routing in seconds. Review, adjust, publish.

AI suggests fields based on your description — you review and adjust before publishing.

Describe it. Done. ~15 seconds

AI Template Generator with filled purchase order approval workflow description

Path 2: Template Library

Browse 150+ templates organized by category: HR, Finance, IT, Operations. Each template includes pre-configured fields, validation, and routing logic. Find one that’s 90% right, customize the remaining 10%, and launch.

Every template is fully editable. Change fields, add steps, adjust routing.

Template Library View

Either way, you go from “we need a process” to “here’s the link” in under a minute.

No credit card required. Free 14-day trial.

Features

Forms That Handle Real Business Complexity

Calculated fields, repeater rows, conditional logic, multi-currency support, and file preview — built for workflows where accuracy isn't optional.

Calculated Fields

Line item totals auto-sum in real time. If the submitted amount doesn't match the calculated total, the form flags the discrepancy before it enters the approval queue. No more catching math errors during month-end close.

Repeater Fields

Dynamic line items for invoices, expense reports, and purchase orders. Requesters click "Add Another" to add rows. Each row inherits the same validation and calculation rules.

Conditional Logic

Show or hide fields based on answers. POs over $5,000 route to the CFO automatically; requests under $500 skip the second approval step.

Multi-Currency Support

13+ currencies with proper symbols and regional formatting. Currency fields work with calculated fields — no ambiguity between USD and EUR submissions.

File Upload with Inline Preview

Drag and drop invoices, contracts, and receipts. Approvers preview PDFs, spreadsheets, and images inline — no downloading, no context-switching.

INTAKE CHANNELS

Requests Flow In From Wherever Work Happens

Web forms are just one intake channel. ApproveThis also collects requests from email, Zapier, webhooks, and native integrations -- all feeding the same dashboard.

Email Intake
Zapier
Webhooks
Native Integrations
One Dashboard.

Email Intake

Assign a dedicated email address to any workflow. Incoming emails automatically become approval requests -- subject becomes the title, body becomes the description, attachments upload. No manual re-entry.

Up to 10 dedicated email addresses per workflow. Attachments up to 25MB.

Zapier

Connect to 5,000+ apps. A new Salesforce opportunity triggers a discount approval; a HubSpot deal stage change creates a contract review. Build the trigger once.

Requires an active Zapier account. Native integrations available for BigCommerce, QuickBooks, and Slack.

Webhooks

External systems send requests via HTTP POST. Your CRM, e-commerce platform, or custom tools can create requests via API call.

Native Integrations

BigCommerce orders, QuickBooks data, and Slack submissions feed directly into your approval workflows. No middleware required.

Works with your existing tools -- no rip-and-replace.

Every channel feeds one view. Every submission logged in your audit trail -- regardless of channel. Nothing falls through because nobody was monitoring that inbox today.

REQUEST LIFECYCLE

Denied Requests Get Revised, Not Restarted

Version history, dashboard views, and automatic status updates so external requesters stop asking ‘where’s my request?’

Request Versioning

Denied requests get revised and resubmitted, with the full thread preserved. Approvers see a clean diff between versions — no recreating, no lost audit trail.

Every version preserved. Every change logged. Full history available for audits and reference.

Page showing request revision process.

Dashboard Views

Track every request at a glance -- in the view that matches how you work. Export approval status for leadership updates or compliance reports.

Kanban Table Calendar
Request Status Dashboard

Anonymous Requester Updates

External submitters get automatic status emails with a unique tracking link. They see where their request stands. No account, no login, no ‘just checking in’ emails to your team.

Status updates are automatic. Your team doesn't send them manually -- they just happen.

Invoice Data Extraction

SOCIAL PROOF

500+ Teams Run Request Intake on ApproveThis

Teams across industries use ApproveThis to replace scattered intake with structured workflows.

We went from chasing requests across three inboxes to having everything land in one dashboard. The AI form builder meant we were live in our first meeting, not our fifth.

Operations Director

Healthcare

Our vendors submit invoices through a public form. They get status updates automatically. We stopped getting ‘where’s my payment?’ emails within the first week.

Controller

Manufacturing

500+

Teams trust ApproveThis

From agencies to enterprise finance departments -- across industries and company sizes.

15 sec

From description to working form with AI

Describe what you need in plain English. AI handles the rest.

150+

Pre-built templates

HR, Finance, IT, Operations -- launch your first workflow in minutes.

Try Free for 14 Days

No credit card required. All features included on every plan.

SECURITY & ACCESS

Open to Requesters. Locked Down for You.

Accepting requests from external sources doesn't mean compromising on security. Every submission is controlled, authenticated, and logged.

Activity log showing audit trail entries with timestamps, user identifiers including anonymous requesters, and action types -- demonstrating immutable logging of all approval actions.

Access Controls

Form-level access control: public, login-required, or team-member-only
Two-factor authentication -- TOTP-based 2FA via Google Authenticator, Authy, or Microsoft Authenticator. Admins can enforce 2FA organization-wide
Signed URL access for external approvers — single-use, expire in 7 days. Every action logged.
PIN-protected portals -- Approval Hub portals secured with PIN codes for client-specific access

Audit & Compliance

Immutable audit trail -- every submission, approval, denial, edit, and comment timestamped with user and action type. Exportable. Non-deletable.
Two-year searchable history for compliance and reference
SSO options -- sign in with Google, Microsoft, or Slack via OAuth 2.0

Every action on every request is logged: who submitted what, when, from where. Exportable to Excel. External approvers use time-limited, single-use links.

Your First Form. 30 Seconds. Go.

Describe what you need. AI builds the form. Review, adjust, launch.

ApproveThis starts at $19/mo with every feature included on every plan. No feature gates. Every capability available the moment you sign up.

No credit card required · Set up in under 2 minutes

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