Streamline approvals, track expenses, and ensure compliance with a customizable platform tailored to your organization's needs.


Choose only the expense approval features your workflow requires. Update and adapt your system easily as your team's needs evolve—no code needed.
Connect spreadsheets, ERPs, and accounting systems with real-time sync—or manage everything in Softr Databases. Create a single source of truth for expense approvals.
Empower your team to manage, track, and approve expenses easily. Set up secure logins, user groups, and granular permissions—no IT support needed.
Give different teams and managers tailored dashboards, so each role sees and manages only their expense reports.
Give different teams and managers tailored dashboards, so each role sees and manages only their expense reports.
Connect with tools like Make, Zapier, or N8N to automate expense approvals, notifications, and record-keeping.
Access and manage expense reports on the go. All apps are mobile-ready out of the box.
Use Google, email, or SSO logins to give your team fast, secure access to expense management.
Keep financial data safe with SOC2 and GDPR compliance, plus fine-tuned access control at every level.
Team members can ask AI about expense requests or policies and get instant answers—right inside your approval system.
No more one-size-fits-all tools or costly custom builds. Softr is easy to use and fully customizable, so you can launch faster, adapt as you grow, and skip the complexity of traditional software.
Set up your expense approval system in minutes with drag-and-drop blocks and ready-made templates.
Easily add approval steps or reporting as your expense workflows and team needs change.
Manage approvals, track expenses, and build internal tools—all in one platform, no extra tools needed.
Integrate with your spreadsheets and databases, including Airtable, SQL, Hubspot, Google Sheets, Supabase, BigQuery, and more—in just a few clicks. Your data is always secure and in sync.
Drag and drop customizable building blocks with various views and functionalities. Granular permissions allow you to control what data each user can access, and which actions they can take.
Ship applications that your team will love in minutes or hours, instead of days or weeks. Deploy on both desktop and mobile.












An expense approval system is a secure platform where employees can submit expense reports for review and approval by managers or the finance team. It keeps all expense submissions, receipts, and approval communications in one place, so you don’t have to rely on scattered emails or paper forms. This helps streamline the process, keeps records organized, and ensures faster reimbursement for team members.
Softr makes it easy to build an expense approval system that matches the way your team works. You can connect your existing data—like expense records in Airtable, updates in Notion, or workflows in monday.com—and create a system where employees can submit expenses, upload receipts, track approval status, and view payment updates, all in one place.
You don’t need to code anything. You can start with a template or build from scratch, set up custom workflows, assign roles for managers and employees, and brand it to match your organization. It’s quick to launch, simple to update, and flexible enough to fit your company’s changing needs.
You can include a variety of features in your expense approval system, depending on your process. Some of the most popular options are:
\- User logins – so employees, managers, and finance can each access the right information
\- Custom dashboards – to track pending, approved, or rejected expenses
\- Forms – for submitting new expenses, attaching receipts, or adding notes
\- File uploads – so users can add digital copies of receipts and invoices
\- Search and filters – to quickly find past expenses or check approval history
\- Tables, lists, and detail views – to display expense records, team budgets, or payment status
\- Comments or status updates – to keep everyone in the loop on each submission
\- Charts – to visualize spending trends, category breakdowns, or monthly budgets
\- Permissions and roles – so each user only sees their relevant sections
Everything is built with Softr’s drag-and-drop blocks, so you can create these features without any coding. And if your process changes, it’s easy to adjust the system as needed.
No coding is required. You can build your expense approval system entirely using Softr’s visual editor. Everything from forms and dashboards to user permissions can be customized without writing a single line of code.
Yes. You can manage multiple teams or departments in a single expense approval system. Each user will only see the expense reports and approval workflows that are assigned to them, based on their login and role. This is especially useful for organizations that handle expenses across different teams or business units.
Softr supports a wide range of data sources for your expense approval system. You can connect to Airtable, Google Sheets, Notion, Coda, monday.com, HubSpot, Clickup, Xano, Supabase, PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server, MariaDB, BigQuery, and more. You can also bring in data from other sources using the REST API.
You’re not limited to just one data source. You can integrate multiple sources into your expense approval system and display them together—so, for example, you could pull in expenses from Airtable and user roles from Google Sheets. Most sources support real-time, two-way sync, so any changes in your system or data sources stay up to date automatically.
Yes, Softr gives you full control over how users experience your expense approval system. You can customize the layout, navigation, and content to match your organization’s branding and approval workflows. Each page or section can be shown or hidden based on who’s logged in, so every user sees only what’s relevant to them.
You can also set up different user roles, such as submitter, approver, or admin—and define exactly what each role can view or edit. For example, employees can see only their own expense submissions, while managers can review and approve expenses for their team. You can also create personalized dashboards by filtering data based on the logged-in user.
This level of customization is especially useful when you’re managing expense approvals across multiple teams or departments in the same system. It keeps the experience clean, secure, and tailored to each user.
Yes, you can. You don’t need to have existing data in another tool to start building your expense approval system with Softr. If you’re starting from scratch, you can use Softr Databases, which are built into the platform and integrate perfectly with your expense management workflows.
If you already have expense data in tools like Airtable, Google Sheets, HubSpot, Notion, Coda, monday.com, Supabase, or SQL, you can connect those too. You can also use the REST API connector to bring in data from other sources. Either way, you have full control over how your expense data is structured and displayed.
Yes, you can fully white-label your expense approval system in Softr. You can use your own logo, brand colors, fonts, and custom domain to make the system look and feel like a natural extension of your organization. You can also remove all Softr branding, so when employees or managers use the platform, they only see your company’s identity throughout the process.
Yes, you can. Softr gives you a lot of flexibility to control both the design and layout of your expense approval system. You can adjust colors, fonts, spacing, and page structure to match your internal branding. You can also choose how each page is laid out, decide which blocks go where, and set what different users (like employees, managers, or finance) see when they log in.
To display your expense data, you can add different types of blocks depending on what you need:
\- Table blocks – to show lists of expense reports, approval statuses, or payment history
\- List or Card blocks – to highlight pending approvals, recent submissions, or policy documents
\- Detail View – to show the details of a single expense report
\- Forms – for new expense submissions
\- Charts – to display spending insights and trends
\- Calendar blocks – to track submission deadlines or scheduled reimbursements
If your content or design needs change later, it’s easy to go back and make updates right in the visual builder.
Softr is built with security in mind. All data is encrypted in transit (TLS) and at rest, and your apps are hosted on secure, reliable infrastructure. With your expense approval system, you have full control over who can see and do what in the app. You can set up role-based permissions, manage users directly from your data source, set visibility rules, and apply global restrictions to protect sensitive financial information across your entire system.
For systems connected to external data sources like Airtable, Notion, or SQL, Softr doesn’t store your data—it just displays it in real time based on your access settings. You’re always in control of your expense data and who can view or edit it.
Softr also follows industry best practices for authentication, access control, and platform monitoring to help keep your information safe.
You can get started for free. Softr’s Free plan lets you publish one app with up to 10 app users and 2 user groups, and includes support for all standard data sources like Softr Databases, Airtable, Google Sheets, and more.
If your expense approval system needs more users or features, here’s how the paid plans stack up: <http://softr.io/pricing>
Softr is built to make it easy to create fully functional, user-facing apps—like expense approval systems, internal tools, and HR portals—without needing to write code or rely on developers. What sets it apart is how quickly you can go from idea to a working system, and how well it connects with your existing data.
Unlike some no-code tools that focus on mobile apps (like Glide) or are more developer-oriented (like Retool), Softr is designed for non-technical teams who want full control over layout, user experience, and permissions. You can build on top of real-time data from tools like Airtable, Google Sheets, Softr Databases, or SQL, and create secure, branded systems that your team can use for submitting and approving expenses.
You can customize everything visually—from content and design to who sees what. And because Softr includes things like user roles, forms, conditional logic, and API support out of the box, you don’t need to patch together multiple tools to launch something polished.
Yes. Softr supports a wide range of integrations so you can connect your expense approval system to the rest of your stack. You can sync with tools like Slack for notifications, connect to accounting software, and automate tasks using Zapier, Make, and N8N. Softr also supports REST API and webhooks for more advanced workflows.
Whether you need to send expense data to another system, trigger automations based on approval actions, or display information from other tools, you can build it into your expense approval system, all without writing code.