Read exports, payroll totals and users; add, update or deactivate employees in ExpenseOnDemand. Hosted by usefulapi: connect it to Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or any MCP client.
Turn on the ExpenseOnDemand connector, then ask in plain words. The AI picks the tools.
For companies that run employee expense claims, approvals and accounting exports in ExpenseOnDemand.
List the export templates to find a report id. Then export the approved expenses of that report, filtered by date, category, claimant or cost centre.
Get the approved expense total of each employee for payroll. List the users to check the role and status of each employee.
List the expense categories, cost centres and employee grades of the subscription, with their active flags.
List the users first to avoid a duplicate. Then add the employee. ExpenseOnDemand treats the new employee as invited.
Changes dataRead the user record first. Then update the employee by email, or deactivate the employee so they cannot submit or approve expenses. Send every field you keep.
Changes dataList the customers first. Add a new customer, or update one by id. Send every field you keep, because an update can clear the fields you leave out.
Changes dataThe login page asks for your API subscription key (Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key), ClientID and ClientKey (primary or secondary).
Create the subscription key on the ExpenseOnDemand developer portal (developer.expenseondemand.com) and subscribe to the products you need. Find the ClientID and ClientKey in the ExpenseOnDemand app for the subscription. Your values are used only to call the API on your behalf and to derive a private account id.
Team and Enterprise: an Owner adds the connector for the organization first.
No Add custom MCP server option? It depends on your account or workspace settings: see OpenAI's guide.
Run this command, then run /mcp in Claude Code to log in:
Add to Cursor or add this to ~/.cursor/mcp.json:
{
"mcpServers": {
"expenseondemand": {
"url": "https://expenseondemand.usefulapi.io/mcp"
}
}
} Add to VS Code or add this to .vscode/mcp.json:
{
"servers": {
"expenseondemand": {
"type": "http",
"url": "https://expenseondemand.usefulapi.io/mcp"
}
}
} Run these commands. The second one opens the login page:
Windsurf, Cline, Zed and other MCP clients: add this URL as a remote MCP server (Streamable HTTP). The client then opens the login page in your browser.
Add only the URL. Do not add an Authorization header or an API key to the client config. The server signs you in with OAuth: the login page asks for your API subscription key (Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key), ClientID and ClientKey (primary or secondary). If the config has such a header, remove it: some clients then send that header instead of the login token, and every call fails with 401.
| Plan | Price | Limit |
|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | 50 tool calls / month |
| Proper user | $9/mo · $90/yr | Unlimited* |
*Pro fair use limit: 10,000 tool calls a month on this server. For more, write to [email protected].
Pro covers this ExpenseOnDemand server only. Subscribe with expenseondemand_upgrade (it returns a Stripe Checkout link). Cancel any time with expenseondemand_cancel_subscription: Pro continues to the end of the paid period, with no refund for the current period, and running expenseondemand_upgrade before then undoes the cancel. Or write to [email protected].
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No. usefulapi is an independent service. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by ExpenseOnDemand. The server calls the ExpenseOnDemand API with your own ExpenseOnDemand access, so it sees only the data that your account can see.
Yes. In Claude, add this server's URL as a custom connector. In ChatGPT, add it as a custom MCP server in Plugins. Then log in once. Cursor, VS Code, Claude Code and Codex work too. See the setup steps.
The login page asks for your API subscription key (Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key), ClientID and ClientKey (primary or secondary). See Before you connect for where to find them.
No. Add only the URL. Do not add an Authorization header or an API key to the client config. The server signs you in with OAuth: the login page asks for your API subscription key (Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key), ClientID and ClientKey (primary or secondary). If the config has such a header, remove it: some clients then send that header instead of the login token, and every call fails with 401.
The login stores them encrypted in the authorization grant of your connection. The server uses them to call the ExpenseOnDemand API for you and to derive a private account id for usage metering. usefulapi does not show them on any page or in any reply. To stop all access, remove the connector and change or delete these credentials in ExpenseOnDemand.
Yes, if you approve it. 7 of the 15 ExpenseOnDemand tools can create or change data. The other 8 are marked read-only. Most MCP clients ask you to approve a tool call before it runs.
The Free plan gives 50 tool calls / month. Pro costs $9/mo or $90/yr, with unlimited tool calls (fair use limit: 10,000 tool calls a month), for this ExpenseOnDemand server only. Cancel any time: Pro then runs to the end of the paid period. Run expenseondemand_usage_status to see how many calls you used.
Ask the AI to run expenseondemand_upgrade: it returns a Stripe Checkout link. To cancel, run expenseondemand_cancel_subscription. Pro continues to the end of the paid period.
Tell the AI what you wanted to do. It can send the request with expenseondemand_request_feature. We store the text with the server name, the type of AI client and the tool you tried, not with your account, and read every request when we plan new tools. You can send up to 5 requests per day.
Any client that supports remote MCP servers (Streamable HTTP) with OAuth login: Claude (web and desktop), Claude Code, ChatGPT, Codex, Cursor, VS Code, Windsurf and others.
This is a Model Context Protocol endpoint — meant to be connected from an AI client, not opened in a browser. An invalid_token response at the URL is the auth gate working as designed; clients authenticate automatically.
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