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 Supergood's 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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Zoho Expense scores GOOD on MCP availability. Zoho Expense is covered by Zoho's official hosted MCP platform. Connection instructions and a testing playground are available through Zoho's MCP site.
Yes. Zoho Expense publishes an official MCP server, so MCP clients like Claude, Cursor, and Codex can connect to it directly. Setup instructions are in the vendor's documentation.