Unifying Your Spend Ecosystem: Connect Your Tools with Tropic's New API & Webhooks

One of the biggest issues finance and procurement teams face today is data fragmentation. Critical spend information often lives in separate systems, making it difficult to maintain visibility and control over processes. This fragmentation not only creates inefficiencies but also hinders strategic decision-making. We built Tropic to solve this problem and are continuously pushing updates to make it even easier.

Today, we’re introducing Tropic's new public API and webhooks, designed to help organizations easily connect Tropic with any other software you already use. We believe this is more than just a new feature, but a big step in our mission to unify spend data into a single source of truth.

In fact, our Product Leaders are hosting a live chat on March 12, 2025 to talk about just how our API and webhooks serves busy teams and unifies your spend data like never before. Save your seat here!

What This Means for You

Think of APIs as bridges between different software tools. They let information travel back and forth automatically. Webhooks work like alerts - they tell one system when something important happens in another system.

Here's a simple example: when someone approves a contract in Tropic, webhooks can tell your other systems right away. Your team won't need to copy and paste information or check multiple places for updates.

How the Tropic API Makes Work Easier

1. Connect Your Tools: Your tech team can now link Tropic with other software you use every day. Information flows between systems on its own. 
2. Get Updates Right Away: Know instantly when important things happen, like contract approvals or new requests.
3. See Everything in One Place (Full Visibility!):  Keep all your spending information up to date in one spot for a unified view. This helps you make better decisions about company money.
4. Save Time on Routine Tasks: Let computers handle the boring stuff, like copying information between systems. 

What You Can Do

The flexibility of Tropic's API and webhooks enables various powerful use cases:

• ‍Tasks and To-Dos: Tropic can now talk to your task management software. When something needs review in Tropic, it creates a task automatically in your other tools.‍
• Purchase Orders: Information from contracts in Tropic can fill out purchase orders in your other systems. No more copying and pasting.‍
• Document Management: Contracts and documents sync between systems on their own. Everyone sees the latest versions.‍
• User Setup: Adding or removing people from Tropic? Their access and permissions can update automatically in your other tools too.

And there's even more possibilities depending on your organization’s desired outcome.

Getting Started with Tropic's API

Implementation of the API is straightforward and comes with comprehensive documentation:

1. Get in touch with  your Tropic Account Manager
2. Meet with our API team to plan your setup
3. Have your tech team read our guides and determine internal dev resources
4. Create your API keys and set up webhooks

Not already a Tropic user? Book a demo to see the difference a unified spend management platform makes.

Why This Matters

Managing company spending isn't just about watching dollars and cents. It's about having the right information when you need it.

The ability to maintain a single source of truth for spend data, combined with real-time updates and automated workflows, positions organizations to make faster, more informed decisions about their spending. 

Our new API and webhooks help put that information at your fingertips.

If you're already a Tropic user and want to learn more, contact your Account Manager. We're here to help you get the most from these new tools.