The moment it happens

Get a Slack alert for card spend over $1,000

Any Ramp card purchase above your limit is posted the moment it clears, with the cardholder and merchant.

Runs: The moment it happens
Apps: Ramp
AI: Not needed
Access: transactions:read

Send this to your assistant

Create a ClickRuntime automation: when a Ramp card transaction clears and it's over $1,000, post the cardholder, merchant and amount to #finance in Slack.

Paste it into your assistant. It tells you what it will send or change before it runs live.

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Why use it

Why teams use this automation

A company card in Ramp can be used by any employee, and most spending is ordinary. The charge that matters is the $3,800 SaaS annual renewal nobody approved, the conference booking that was twice the usual rate, or a card number used somewhere it should not be. Finance often sees these only when reviewing the month, after the chance to cancel or dispute has passed.

As soon as Ramp reports a new transaction, ClickRuntime checks the amount and sends you a notification when it is over your threshold, for example $1,000. The message includes the merchant, the amount, the cardholder and the card. If your Ramp account does not send events, it can list recent transactions on a short interval instead.

Finance leads and founders who want a light check on spending, without building an approval flow, benefit most.

What you get out of it

Questionable charges are reviewed in time
A large charge seen the same day can be queried with the cardholder, cancelled with the vendor or disputed with the issuer. A month later, the options are far fewer.
Cardholders know someone is watching
When people know big charges are noticed quickly, they tend to double-check before spending. That gentle accountability reduces unnecessary spending without adding policy documents. That alone changes behavior. Awareness works better than policy.
Annual renewals do not slip through
Software vendors charge yearly fees that dwarf the monthly ones. An alert on a $2,400 renewal prompts the question of whether you still need the tool, while cancellation is still possible. Those are often the costliest to miss.
Compromised cards are caught early
Unusual large transactions are a sign of misuse. Seeing the merchant and cardholder right away allows you to freeze the card in Ramp before further charges follow. Stopping misuse in the first hour limits the damage considerably.
Budgeting stays grounded
Seeing big commitments as they occur helps you keep a running sense of where the money goes. It supports honest conversations with department heads about what was spent and why.

How it works

What happens, step by step

When a Ramp card transaction clears, Ramp tells ClickRuntime straight away.
ClickRuntime looks up the transaction and checks whether it is over your $1,000 limit.
If it is, a message appears in your #finance Slack channel with the cardholder, the amount and the merchant.

Before it runs live

Connect Ramp
Paste your automation's link into the other app's webhook settings

What you get

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Slack · #finance💳 Jordan Ellis spent $2,480.00 at Acme Cloud Services

Build your own

Need it to work differently?

This template is a starting point. Copy the prompt and change it, or describe a different automation from scratch, with your own conditions, more apps or an AI step. Your assistant writes it, tests it and runs it on ClickRuntime.

Your own rules
Conditions, thresholds, filters and exceptions, written the way you'd explain them to a colleague.
Any number of apps
One automation can read from one app and update several others. Over 248 apps are ready, and anything with an API works too.
AI where it helps
Summaries, classification, extraction and drafts use ClickRuntime's built-in AI, with no extra key.
On a schedule or on each event
Runs as often as every 5 minutes, or the moment an app sends an event, and keeps track of what it already handled.

Changes you can ask for

Act only on the items that match your own rules, and skip the rest
Add an AI step, for example to summarize, sort or draft a reply
Add another app, for example also send it to Slack
Combine it with other Ramp steps into one automation

Under the hood

The code that runs this automation

This is the Python script that runs each time the automation starts. Your AI assistant writes it for you when you send the prompt, and you allow each step in your assistant. To change how the automation works, describe the change to your assistant and it updates the script for you. For every function it can use, see the script reference.

large_transaction_alert_ramp.pyexample

from clickruntime import on_event, credentials, http, notify

THRESHOLD = 1000

@on_event
def handle(event):
    body = event.json or {}
    tx_id = (body.get("object") or {}).get("id") or body.get("id")
    t = http.get(f"https://api.ramp.com/developer/v1/transactions/{tx_id}",
                 headers={"Authorization": f"Bearer {credentials.connection('ramp', 'work')}"}).json()
    if t["state"] != "CLEARED" or t["amount"] < THRESHOLD:
        return {"skipped": tx_id}
    holder = f"{t['card_holder']['first_name']} {t['card_holder']['last_name']}"
    notify.slack(f"💳 {holder} spent ${t['amount']:,.2f} at {t['merchant_name']}", channel="#finance")
    return {"transaction": tx_id}

FAQ

Common questions

Is the threshold per transaction or per day?

Per transaction by default, so a single charge above the amount triggers the alert. A cumulative daily total for a cardholder can be tracked too, though it needs extra logic. Say which you want and it can be set up accordingly.

Does it include reimbursements and bill payments?

This alert covers card transactions. Reimbursements and bills in Ramp are separate objects with their own amounts. If you want to be told about large reimbursement requests or bills too, they can be added with their own thresholds.

Do I need an admin role in Ramp?

Reading transactions through the Ramp API requires credentials with the right scope, typically created by an admin. Once an API application is set up with transaction read access, no one else needs special permissions for the alerts to work.

What permissions does it need?

transactions:read. Nothing else in your accounts is used.

Does it need AI?

No. It runs without AI, so it doesn't use your plan's AI allowance.

How many runs does it use?

One run for each event the app sends.

Can I change how it works?

Yes. Describe the change to your AI assistant, for example a different schedule, channel or filter. It updates the automation, tests it and tells you what changed.

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