Payhawk + Memtro

Ask which Payhawk expenses are waiting for approval, and who owns each one.

Connect Payhawk with an API key and Memtro reads expenses by status, created date, title or supplier, with amount, tax, approval state, owner and category, along with comments, purchase orders, suppliers and people. Supplier bank details are not returned. It reads on demand and there is no hourly sync. With a Full-access key, when asked, and once an administrator has granted the action by name, it can comment, create, submit, review or delete expenses, raise and submit purchase orders, manage suppliers, block or permanently close a card, and invite or remove people. Comments cannot be deleted through the API.

In Memtro

What you can do with Payhawk in Memtro

Ask in plain English from chat, your editor, a scheduled job or your own agent. The model picks the right Payhawk tool, reads what it needs, and answers with the source cited.

What it does

  1. 01Expenses by status, created date, title or supplier, with total, tax, approval, paid state and owner
  2. 02One expense in detail with its line item count and the comments on it
  3. 03Purchase orders with number, title, status, supplier, currency and start and end dates
  4. 04Suppliers with name, country and status, and people in the account with name, role and when added
  5. 05When asked and granted, comments on an expense or purchase order (seen by everyone who can see it, and not deletable), creates, changes, submits for approval, reviews or deletes expenses, and creates, submits or closes purchase orders
  6. 06When asked and granted, adds, changes, archives or reactivates suppliers (never bank details), blocks, unblocks or permanently closes a card, and invites a person by email or removes one from the account

Acts when asked

When you ask it to

These tools change something in Payhawk. The model is told to use them only when you ask for exactly that, and an administrator grants each one by name to the teams that may use it; a personal connection acts only after its owner allows it.

  1. 01Add a comment to an expense or purchase order
  2. 02Submit an expense for approval
  3. 03Change a draft expense's note, supplier, category, tax rate, document number or date
  4. 04Create a bank, reimbursable or cash expense for a person
  5. 05Mark an expense reviewed, or return it for review
  6. 06Mark an expense report reviewed, or return it for review
  7. 07Delete an unpaid bill, reimbursement or cash expense
  8. 08Block, unblock or close a card
  9. 09Add a supplier (no bank details)
  10. 10Change a supplier's details (no bank details)
  11. 11Archive or reactivate a supplier
  12. 12Create a purchase order, optionally with line items
  13. 13Submit a purchase order for approval
  14. 14Close a purchase order
  15. 15Invite a person to the Payhawk account (not as an administrator or owner)
  16. 16Remove a person from the Payhawk account
In practice

Ask it like you would a colleague

Once Payhawk is connected, these are the kinds of things people ask. Plain questions, no syntax. If the answer lives partly in another system you have connected, Memtro looks there too.

Payhawk + Memtro
  • Which expenses are waiting for approval, and who owns them?

  • What did we spend with Northwind in October?

  • Which purchase orders are still open for Brightwave Ltd?

  • Add a comment to the Acme hotel expense asking for the itemised receipt

  • Block the card Dan Fletcher reported lost this morning

01

Approvals before month end

On the last Thursday of the month the finance lead asks what is still waiting for approval. Memtro lists the pending expenses with owner, supplier, total and created date, and flags the three over £1,000 so they reach approvers first.

02

A lost card

Dan Fletcher rings the finance team to say he left his company card in a taxi, and Priya Sharma asks Memtro to block it. With a Full-access key Memtro blocks that card in Payhawk, which stops spending on it at once, and leaves it blocked rather than closed so it can be unblocked if it turns up.

Teams

Where it fits

The teams that lean on Payhawk most, a question each of them asks, and what they connect beside it.

Better together

Works with

A record in Payhawk is rarely the whole story. Connect the systems that hold the rest and Memtro checks them together, then remembers what it learned so the next question starts further along.

Setup

How to connect

Connect withAPI key
  1. 1

    In the Payhawk portal open Settings → Integrations → Available integrations → API connection → Connect. This needs an Administrator, an IT Administrator, or a role with View developer API access and Manage external integrations

  2. 2

    Choose Read-only access, or Full access only if Memtro should be able to act on comments, expenses, suppliers, purchase orders, cards and users. Create the key and copy it

  3. 3

    In Memtro open Connections → Payhawk, paste the API key and connect. The Account ID is found automatically for an account-level key, otherwise use the ?account= value in the portal URL

  4. 4

    Ask which expenses are waiting for approval

Also works from

Chat in the dashboard, the OpenAI-compatible API, scheduled jobs, and any MCP client: Claude Code, OpenCode, Cursor, Claude Desktop. The Payhawk tools are the same everywhere.

FAQ

Questions

Can Memtro change anything in Payhawk?+

Only when you ask, and only what it has been granted: add a comment to an expense or purchase order; submit an expense for approval; change a draft expense's note, supplier, category, tax rate, document number or date; create a bank, reimbursable or cash expense for a person; mark an expense reviewed, or return it for review; mark an expense report reviewed, or return it for review; delete an unpaid bill, reimbursement or cash expense; block, unblock or close a card; add a supplier (no bank details); change a supplier's details (no bank details); archive or reactivate a supplier; create a purchase order, optionally with line items; submit a purchase order for approval; close a purchase order; invite a person to the Payhawk account (not as an administrator or owner); remove a person from the Payhawk account. Every other tool reads, searches or lists. The Connections page labels the tools that act, an administrator grants each one by name to the teams that may use it, and a personal connection acts only after its owner allows it.

Who can use a Payhawk connection?+

A personal connection serves only your own requests. A shared connection serves the organisation: everyone, or only the teams an admin chooses. Admins can always add shared connections; other members need the permission.

Does Memtro store my Payhawk data?+

Credentials are encrypted at rest. Tool results are cached briefly so agent loops do not repeat identical calls, and the facts the model extracts are saved to your organisation's memory with provenance (system, record and link) so they can be checked and superseded.

How do I connect Payhawk?+

API key. In the Payhawk portal open Settings → Integrations → Available integrations → API connection → Connect. This needs an Administrator, an IT Administrator, or a role with View developer API access and Manage external integrations.

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