How to Connect Claude to Ramp (No Official Connector)
No — there’s no official Claude connector for Ramp. It isn’t in Anthropic’s Connectors Directory, so Claude can’t pull your transactions, read a card’s spend, or check an approval queue on its own. You can paste an export into a chat, but there’s no live link between Claude and your Ramp account.
That’s the wall finance and ops teams hit. But your spend data doesn’t have to stay stuck in a dashboard: Ramp has a developer REST API with OAuth 2.0 and API tokens, and any AI agent that lets you bring your own API key can use it. Here’s why the connector is missing, and how to connect Ramp to an agent that watches spend and moves approvals while you’re heads-down.
Why there’s no Ramp connector
Anthropic’s connector catalog is a curated set of first-party apps — email, storage, chat, a few big horizontal tools. Ramp is a corporate-card and spend-management platform aimed at finance teams, and it isn’t on that list. Anthropic hasn’t built one, and finance tooling tends to sit outside the mainstream connector directories.
So teams running spend through Ramp land in one of two spots:
- Claude’s connectors can’t reach Ramp at all. Anything you want Claude to reason over — a transaction, a reimbursement, a bill — has to be copied into the chat by hand.
- No-code automation tools do list Ramp, and they handle basic field-mapping triggers well enough — “new transaction → add a row.” But they don’t reason over the spend or decide what needs a human; they just fire a fixed rule.
What both miss: Ramp already exposes a developer REST API with OAuth 2.0 authentication. Transactions, cards, users, reimbursements, and bills are all reachable programmatically — you just need an agent that will call the API with your own credentials.
Bring your own API key: the bridge to Ramp
Carly connects to 200+ tools out of the box, and it adds what the connector directories leave out: it lets you bring your own API key to reach anything with a REST API. Ramp has one, so that’s the bridge.
You create API credentials inside Ramp’s developer settings, hand them to Carly, and Carly can then read your transactions and spend data as a step in a real workflow — the same way it works with a natively supported app. No connector to wait on, no CSV to paste.
And because Carly runs in the cloud on triggers, this isn’t a chat you have to babysit. It’s spend oversight that happens on its own — an out-of-policy charge flagged, an approval routed, a weekly digest sent — while you’re focused elsewhere.
What you can automate once it’s connected
With Ramp reachable through its API, an agent can handle the spend-watching and follow-up that usually falls on a finance lead:
- Flag out-of-policy spend — read new transactions, catch the ones over a threshold or missing a receipt, and email the cardholder for context.
- Chase missing receipts and memos — find transactions without documentation and nudge the right person until they’re squared away.
- Route and summarize approvals — surface reimbursements or bills waiting on sign-off and send the approver a clean summary instead of a raw queue.
- Send spend digests on a schedule — pull the week’s spend by team or category and email a rolled-up report every Monday.
- Tie it to the rest of your stack — since the same agent handles email, calendar, and tasks, a Ramp check becomes one step in a workflow, not a manual login.
How to connect Ramp to Carly
- In Ramp, open your developer / API settings and create API credentials (a client ID/secret or token; an admin may need to enable API access for your account).
- Paste your API credentials into Carly on the integrations page.
- Describe the workflow you want in plain English — “every morning, flag any transaction over $500 without a receipt and email me the list” — and Carly interviews you, then builds it.
Your credentials stay yours: you can rotate or revoke them in Ramp at any time.
Claude connector vs. no-code tools vs. Carly
| Claude | No-code tools | Carly | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Official Ramp connector | No | Basic triggers | Via your API key |
| Reads transactions & spend data | No | Limited field mapping | Yes |
| Acts on triggers / events | No | Basic triggers | Yes, 24/7 in the cloud |
| Reasons over your spend | In chat only, if you paste data | No | Yes |
| Sends email as part of the flow | Draft-only | No | Yes (Gmail + Outlook) |
| Works while your laptop is closed | No | Yes | Yes |
Claude is a strong assistant inside a chat — but with no Ramp connector, it can’t see your spend unless you paste it in. No-code tools can push a transaction into another app on a fixed trigger, but they won’t reason over policy or decide what needs a human. Carly reaches Ramp through your own credentials and acts on it as part of a workflow that runs on its own.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does Claude integrate with Ramp?
Not directly. Ramp isn’t in Anthropic’s Connectors Directory, so Claude can’t read your transactions or spend data on its own. You can paste an export into a chat and have Claude reason over it, but there’s no live connection. To connect Ramp to an AI agent, you need a tool that supports its REST API — like Carly, which connects via your own API key.
Does Ramp have an API?
Yes. Ramp offers a developer REST API with OAuth 2.0 authentication that exposes transactions, cards, users, reimbursements, and bills. You create API credentials in Ramp’s developer settings.
Can I connect Ramp to an AI agent?
Yes. Because Ramp has a REST API, any agent that lets you bring your own API key can read your spend data. Carly does this — you create credentials in Ramp, add them to Carly, and it can then flag out-of-policy spend, chase receipts, and send spend digests automatically.
What can an AI agent actually do in Ramp?
Read transactions, flag out-of-policy or undocumented spend, chase missing receipts, summarize approval queues, and send scheduled spend reports — all triggered by events like a new charge or a scheduled time, rather than you prompting in a chat.
How much does this cost?
Carly’s AI agents start at $35/month, and steps in a workflow that don’t use AI run free and unlimited. Your Ramp API access is part of your existing Ramp account.
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