Zoho Expense API
Zoho Expense offers a free, self-serve public REST API with OAuth 2.0 and regional endpoints. Resources run from expenses, reports, and receipts to approvals, advances, reimbursements, and cards. Documented limits: 100 req/min per org with daily caps by plan. No outbound webhooks.
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Zoho Expense scores A on the API Report Card. Zoho Expense offers a free, self-serve public REST API with OAuth 2.0 and regional endpoints. Resources run from expenses, reports, and receipts to approvals, advances, reimbursements, and cards. Documented limits: 100 req/min per org with daily caps by plan. No outbound webhooks.
Zoho Expense has a workable official integration path. Most engineering teams can build against it directly. Open API: self-serve, documented, with SDKs
Zoho Expense is a cloud-based travel and expense (T&E) management platform that automates the full corporate-spend lifecycle: pre-trip travel booking, receipt capture, expense report creation, multi-level approval, corporate-card reconciliation, reimbursement, and ERP/accounting posting.
Vertical: Travel & Expense. Target market spans solo founders and small businesses (the free tier supports 3 users) through mid-market and enterprise, with explicit enterprise positioning via Zoho One and Finance Plus. Receipt capture via mobile app (iOS/Android) with AI-powered OCR / autoscan. Mileage tracking via GPS, odometer, or map-based logging. Per-diem calculation by location, date, and policy tier.
Widely deployed.
Expense reports: header (employee, name, purpose, dates, currency, totals), line items (date, vendor, amount, expense category, payment type, attendees, project/customer/tag allocations, comments), attached receipt images, policy violations, audit flags, approval history.
Zoho Expense launched in 2014; ~12 years old as of 2026.
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