Connect your app to Ramp
Connect your Lovable app to Ramp to read your company's financial data like transactions, cards, and spending limits. This lets you build tools for tracking company spending and managing finances.
Anyone who wants to build apps that analyze or report on their company's spending data from Ramp needs this.
Do this, in order
- 1
Go to the 'Connectors' section in your Lovable dashboard and select 'Ramp'.
This is where you manage all your connections to other services.
- 2
Click 'Add connection' and choose 'App + chat connector'.
This starts the process of creating a new connection to Ramp.
- 3
Give your connection a clear name in the 'Details' section.
This name helps you identify this specific Ramp connection later within Lovable.
- 4
Review the permissions your app will request from Ramp under 'Scopes'.
These permissions determine what kind of data your app can read from Ramp. 'Business: read' is always required.
- 5
Decide who in your workspace can use this connection under 'Sharing'.
By default, everyone in your workspace can use it, but you can restrict access if needed.
- 6
Click 'Connect', then sign in to Ramp if prompted, review the permissions, and authorize the connection.
This links your Lovable app to your Ramp business and grants the necessary permissions for data access.
Paste this into your project
Use Ramp and build a dashboard that shows total spend by month, top merchants, and largest transactions.
Words decoded
- Corporate card and spend management platform
- A system that helps businesses track and control how money is spent, often through company credit cards.
- Read-only
- Your app can look at information but cannot change, add, or delete anything in Ramp.
- API key
- A secret code that identifies your app and allows it to access another service's data.
- Scopes
- Specific permissions that define what kind of data your app is allowed to access from Ramp (e.g., 'read transactions').
- Rate limits
- Restrictions on how many requests your app can make to Ramp's system within a certain time period.
Where people get stuck
- Trying to create or change data in Ramp, as the connector is read-only.
- Expecting to read full card numbers, security codes, receipts, bills, reimbursements, or vendor information, as these are not supported.
- Attempting to receive real-time updates or webhooks from Ramp, as this functionality is not available.
- Using a single connection for multiple Ramp businesses, as each connection works with only one business.
- Forgetting to link the Ramp connection to your project after creating it, which prevents your app from using the data.
- Not having the correct permissions in Lovable or Ramp to create or authorize the connection.
The short version, steps, decoder and prompt on this page are written automatically from Lovable's own documentation and can lag or misread it. The official page is always the authority.