Streamline budget approvals and enhance collaboration with a no-code portal tailored to your team's unique interdepartmental needs


Build a budget requests portal that matches your team’s workflow. Add only the features you need, and adapt as your processes evolve—no code needed.
Connect spreadsheets, financial systems, and project management tools with real-time sync—or manage everything in Softr Databases. Create a single source of truth for budget requests.
Streamline cross-department budget requests by giving each team secure access to submit, review, and manage requests. No IT support needed.
Give departments and managers tailored access, so everyone sees budget requests and approvals relevant to their role.
Give departments and managers tailored access, so everyone sees budget requests and approvals relevant to their role.
Connect with tools like Make, Zapier, or N8N to automate budget approvals, notifications, and status updates.
Easily submit and review budget requests from any device. Mobile-ready apps make workflows accessible anywhere.
Use Google, email, or SSO logins to give teams fast, secure access to the budget portal—no IT tickets required.
Keep sensitive budget data safe with SOC2 and GDPR compliance, plus detailed access control by department.
Staff can ask AI about request status, policies, or budget limits—quick answers within your budget portal, powered by Softr.
No more one-size-fits-all tools or costly custom builds. Softr is easy to use and fully customizable, so you can launch faster, adapt as you grow, and skip the complexity of traditional software.
Set up your cross-department budget requests portal in minutes—no coding or IT help required.
Easily add approval steps or reporting as your budget processes change—no starting over.
Manage budget requests, approvals, and tracking in one portal—no more scattered tools or emails.
Integrate with your spreadsheets and databases, including Airtable, SQL, Hubspot, Google Sheets, Supabase, BigQuery, and more—in just a few clicks. Your data is always secure and in sync.
Drag and drop customizable building blocks with various views and functionalities. Granular permissions allow you to control what data each user can access, and which actions they can take.
Ship applications that your team will love in minutes or hours, instead of days or weeks. Deploy on both desktop and mobile.












A cross department budget requests portal is a secure online space where different departments within your organization can submit, track, and manage their budget requests. Instead of relying on scattered spreadsheets or endless email chains, all budget-related communication, documentation, and status updates are centralized in one place. This makes it easier for teams to stay organized, ensure transparency, and collaborate efficiently throughout the budgeting process.
Softr makes it simple to create a cross department budget requests portal that fits your organization’s processes. You can connect your existing data sources—such as Airtable, Google Sheets, or Notion—and set up a portal where departments can log in, submit budget requests, monitor approval status, and upload supporting documents, all in one location.
No coding is needed. You can start with a template or build your own solution, customize layouts, set permissions for different roles, and brand the portal to match your organization. It’s quick to launch, easy to maintain, and flexible enough to adapt as your processes evolve. It just helps keep everything streamlined and professional.
You can include a variety of features in your cross department budget requests portal to match your workflow. Common options include:
\- User logins – so each department can access and manage their own budget requests
\- Custom dashboards – to track request statuses, approval timelines, or spending summaries
\- Submission forms – for entering and updating budget requests
\- File uploads – so departments can attach supporting documents or spreadsheets
\- Search and filters – to quickly locate specific requests or data
\- Tables, lists, and detail views – to display all requests, approvals, or budget breakdowns
\- Comments or status updates – to keep communication organized and transparent
\- Charts – to visualize spending, department allocations, or approval metrics
\- Calendar view – for deadline tracking and important budget milestones
\- Permissions and roles – so only authorized users can view or edit sensitive information
All of this can be built using Softr’s drag-and-drop blocks, without any coding. If your needs change, it’s easy to update or expand the portal.
No coding is required. You can build your cross department budget requests portal entirely using Softr’s visual editor. Everything from page layouts to user permissions can be customized without writing any code.
Yes. You can manage multiple departments or teams within a single cross department budget requests portal. Each user only sees the budget requests and data assigned to them, based on their login and role. This is especially helpful for organizations where various departments need to submit, review, or approve budget requests without seeing sensitive information from other teams.
Softr supports a wide range of data sources for your cross department budget requests portal. You can connect to Airtable, Google Sheets, Notion, Coda, monday.com, HubSpot, Clickup, Xano, Supabase, PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server, MariaDB, BigQuery, and more. Data can also be brought in from other systems using the REST API.
You’re not limited to just one source: your budget requests portal can pull data from multiple places and display them together. Most sources support real-time, two-way sync, so updates to your budget requests in Softr or the connected source stay in sync automatically.
Yes, Softr gives you full control over how users experience your cross department budget requests portal. You can adjust the layout, navigation, and content to match your organization’s style and workflow. Each page or block can be shown or hidden depending on who’s logged in, so every department or user only sees what's relevant to them.
You can also set up different user roles, such as requester, approver, or admin, and define exactly what each role can view or edit. For example, department staff can see only their own requests, while finance or admin teams can manage all submissions. You can also create personalized views by filtering data for each logged-in user. This ensures the portal stays organized, secure, and tailored to the needs of every department and team.
Yes, you can. You don’t need to have your data in another system to start building your cross department budget requests portal with Softr. If you’re starting from scratch, you can use Softr Databases, which is built into the platform and integrates seamlessly with your portal.
If you do have existing data in tools like Airtable, Google Sheets, HubSpot, Notion, Coda, monday.com, Supabase, or SQL, you can connect those as well. You can even use the REST API connector to import data from other sources. This means you have full control over how your budget request data is organized and displayed in your portal.
Yes, you can fully white-label your cross department budget requests portal in Softr. You can use your own logo, organizational colors, fonts, and custom domain to make the portal feel like a seamless part of your department or organization. You can also remove all Softr branding, so users from other departments only see your organization’s identity throughout the portal experience.
Yes, you can. Softr gives you extensive flexibility to control both the design and layout of your cross department budget requests portal. You can adjust colors, fonts, spacing, and page structure to match your organization’s branding guidelines. You can also choose how each page is structured, decide which blocks go where, and set what different users—such as requestors or approvers—see when they log in.
To display your data, you can add different types of blocks depending on what you need:
\- Table blocks – to show structured data like budget requests, approvals, or department overviews
\- List or Card blocks – to highlight things like recent submissions or pending actions
\- Detail View – to show one request at a time, like a budget request detail page
\- Forms – for submitting new requests or feedback
\- Charts – to visualize spending or request status
\- Calendar blocks – to display approval deadlines or review meetings
If your content or design needs change later, it’s easy to go back and make updates right in the visual builder.
Softr is built with security in mind. All data is encrypted in transit (TLS) and at rest, and your cross department budget requests portal is hosted on secure, reliable infrastructure. Softr gives you full control over who can see and do what in your portal. You can set up role-based permissions, manage users directly within your data source, set visibility rules, and apply global restrictions to protect sensitive departmental and financial data across your portal.
For portals connected to external data sources like Airtable, Notion, or SQL, Softr doesn’t store your data—it just displays it in real time based on your access settings. You’re always in control of your data and who can view or edit it.
Softr also follows industry best practices for authentication, access control, and platform monitoring to help keep your information safe.
You can get started for free. Softr’s Free plan lets you publish one app with up to 10 app users and 2 user groups, and includes support for all standard data sources like Softr Databases, Airtable, Google Sheets, and more.
If your cross department budget requests portal needs more users or features, here’s how the paid plans stack up: <http://softr.io/pricing>
Softr is built to make it easy to create fully functional, user-facing apps—like cross department budget requests portals, internal tools, and approval workflows—without needing to write code or rely on developers. What sets it apart is how quickly you can go from idea to working portal, and how well it connects with your existing data.
Unlike some no-code tools that focus on mobile apps (like Glide) or are more dev-oriented (like Retool), Softr is designed for non-technical teams who want full control over layout, user experience, and permissions. You can build on top of real-time data from tools like Airtable, Google Sheets, Softr Databases, or SQL, and create secure, branded portals that department members can log into.
You can customize everything visually—from content and design to who sees what. And because Softr includes things like user roles, forms, conditional logic, and API support out of the box, you don’t need to patch together multiple tools to launch something polished.
Yes. Softr supports a wide range of integrations so you can connect your cross department budget requests portal to the rest of your organization’s tools. You can sync with platforms like Slack for notifications, automate approval workflows using Zapier, Make, or N8N, and even set up REST API and webhooks for custom processes.
Whether you need to send budget request data to another system, trigger automations when requests are submitted or approved, or display information from other tools, you can build it into your portal—without writing code.