Approvals at a glance
See your approval queue, late submissions, and outstanding reimbursements — without opening another expense app or pinging the team in Slack.
Monthly close, in chat
epartment breakdowns, project margins, vendor concentration — every month-end report your CFO asks for, assembled on demand.
Better than a custom GPT
ive workspace, not pasted data. Role-aware by default. Works across every team member, every device — install once, done.
Department spending, project margins, vendor concentration — the standing slides in every monthly close pack. Ask ChatGPT for the cut leadership wants, then run the export from ExpenseMonkey when you're ready to send.
What's pending you, who hasn't submitted, what's stuck — pulled into your ChatGPT thread without opening another tab.
Pending approvals filtered to what you can act on
Outstanding submissions by team or individual
Reimbursement status — your team's and your own
A custom GPT can't read your live data, can't enforce your roles, and breaks every time your data changes. The ExpenseMonkey connector is a real-time link to your workspace — one install, every conversation, every team member, with the ExpenseMonkey permissions you've already set.
Read-only by design, so ChatGPT can never alter your books.
ExpenseMonkey runs as a custom MCP connector — also called an "App in ChatGPT" — that ChatGPT uses to securely query your live workspace. Once added, it can read your expenses, categories, and reports in real time.
Each person connects with their own ExpenseMonkey account. ChatGPT only sees what their role allows — submitters see their own submissions, managers see their teams, accountants and admins see the org. Existing roles do all the work; no extra permission system to manage.
To kill ChatGPT access for the whole workspace, flip a single toggle in settings
Yes — ExpenseMonkey speaks MCP, the open standard Claude and Cursor also support. The same MCP URL works in any MCP-compatible client; no separate setup needed.
Read approved expenses, search receipts, summarize spend, flag anomalies, surface pending approvals, prep accounting-tool exports. Cross-reference with Stripe, Linear, or anything else you've connected. It cannot overwrite ExpenseMonkey records.
ChatGPT reads on demand and doesn't store your data — each conversation discards the context when it ends. Every query is logged in your ExpenseMonkey activity log, so admins can audit what ChatGPT read and when. Revoke access in one click from either side. OpenAI's published policy is not to train on Business or Enterprise plan inputs.
ExpenseMonkey side: the integration is included in our Pro plan our other integrations.
OpenAI side: custom MCP connectors need a paid plan (Plus, Pro, Business, or Enterprise) — not the free tier.
Connect ExpenseMonkey to ChatGPT and turn your team's monthly close, approval queues, and project margins into instant chat answers.
