FINANCE
Block Expense Reports that Push a Cost Center Over Budget
On submission, checks the report's total against the cost center's remaining monthly budget in Snowflake, and if it would breach the limit.
How it runs
The automated pipeline, trigger to output.
- TriggerExpense report submitted (webhook)HTTP webhook
- ActionFetch cost center budget and committed spendSnowflake
- LogicCheck whether report breaches the allocation
- LogicBranch: within budget vs. over budget
- ActionCreate over-budget approval item on Mondaymonday.com
- OutputAlert budget owner in Slack to decideSlack
What it does
Shifts budget enforcement from after-the-fact reporting to the moment of submission. It sums the report against the cost center's live remaining budget and, when a report would tip the department past its monthly allocation, halts auto-approval and forces an explicit over-budget decision by the budget owner.
When to use it
Use this when departments routinely blow past their monthly allocations and finance only finds out at close. Best for organizations that manage spend by cost center and want the budget owner — not the submitter's line manager — to own overage decisions.
How it works
- 1An expense-report-submitted webhook delivers the report total and its cost center code.
- 2A Snowflake query returns the cost center's monthly allocation and spend committed so far.
- 3A logic step checks whether the report would push committed spend over the allocation.
- 4If it stays within budget, the report is cleared and remaining budget is decremented.
- 5If it would breach, an over-budget approval item is created on the Monday budget board with the shortfall amount.
- 6A Slack alert notifies the cost center's budget owner to approve the overage or send it back.
Set it up
What you configure once, before turning it on.
- 1Connect HTTP webhookTrigger any URL on agent actions.
- 2Connect SnowflakeWarehouses, queries, shares.
- 3Connect monday.comVisual work management for teams.
- 4Connect SlackChannels, DMs, threads, mentions.
- 5Set each agent's modelWe leave models unset so you pick the tier — fast + cheap, or top-quality.
- 6Tune it to your dataEdit the prompts, filters, and field mappings so it matches how your team works.
- 7Test, then turn it onRun once against a sample, confirm the output, then enable the trigger.
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