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About the Rydoo MCP server

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🚧 Beta. The Rydoo MCP server is currently in beta. What it can do may change as we add features.

The Rydoo MCP server lets you connect your Rydoo account to an AI assistant like Claude and ask about your expenses in plain language, without opening the Rydoo app. You ask a question in your chat, and the assistant reads the answer directly from your Rydoo data. It can also carry out a number of actions for you, such as approving a submitted expense. 

This article explains what the Rydoo MCP server is, what you can do with it, and how your access works. To connect and start using it, see the related articles at the end.

What is MCP?

MCP (Model Context Protocol) is an open standard that lets AI assistants securely connect to other tools and data sources, a bit like a plug-in system. Once an assistant is connected to a platform through MCP, it can read data from that platform to answer your questions, and carry out actions the platform allows.

The Rydoo MCP server is Rydoo's implementation of this standard. It gives your assistant a secure connection to your Rydoo data so you can ask about your expenses, trips, cards and policy directly in the assistant you already use.

What you can do

Depending on your roles and permissions in Rydoo, you can ask your assistant to:

  • Search your expenses by date, status, or trip, as well as by category, cost centre, branch or person
  • Find company card expenses that are still missing a receipt
  • Pull up the details of a specific expense, with a link straight back into Rydoo
  • Look up and review your business trips, including status and spend
  • Ask expense-policy questions, such as what is reimbursable and which limits apply
  • See what is on your TO-DO and approve or reject expenses, if you are an approver
  • Get spend summaries by trip, person or project
  • Review company cards, wallet balances, unmatched card transactions and monthly statements, and request a virtual card, if you have Rydoo Cards
  • Report a bug or request a feature, straight to Rydoo

For the full list and example prompts, see What you can do with the Rydoo MCP server.

💡These capabilities are still growing during beta. Some actions that change data in Rydoo are already available: approving and rejecting expenses, and requesting a virtual card. Creating, editing and submitting expenses are planned for a later release.

How access and security work

Your Rydoo permissions come with you. The connection respects your role and access: the assistant can only see data and do actions, based on what you're already allowed to see and do in Rydoo.

Access is secured with OAuth using your own Rydoo login. When you connect, a browser window opens Rydoo's login page, where you sign in with your username and password or via single sign-on (SSO), exactly as you would in the Rydoo web app. The assistant never sees your password. You approve access, then return to your assistant, ready to go.

Because access mirrors each person's Rydoo permissions, two people can ask the same question and see different results, based on what each is allowed to see.

💡 For the actions that write to Rydoo, the assistant first shows you exactly what it is about to do and waits for your confirmation. The action is then recorded in Rydoo under your own name, just as if you had done it in the app, so your audit trail stays intact. Actions cannot be undone from the assistant. you undo them in Rydoo. 

Control MCP access for your company (admins)

If you are a Rydoo admin, you decide whether people in your company can connect their Rydoo account to an AI assistant.

Go to Admin > Advanced Settings and look for Allow AI assistants to connect via MCP. The setting is enabled by default

When you turn it off, no one in your company can set up a new connection, and anyone who is already connected will get an error the next time their assistant tries to reach Rydoo.

Turning the setting back on does not restore the connections that were cut off. Each user has to connect Rydoo again from their AI assistant. Keep this in mind before switching the setting off temporarily.

💡 This controls access to Rydoo through MCP only. It doesn't change anyone's roles or permissions in Rydoo itself, and it doesn't affect the AI features inside Rydoo, such as the Policy Assistant.

How this differs from the Rydoo API

The Rydoo MCP server and the Rydoo API both reach your Rydoo data, but they're for different people. The Rydoo API needs developers to build integrations in code. The MCP server lets you query Rydoo in natural language from an AI assistant you already use, without code.

Common questions

Can the assistant change or approve anything in Rydoo?

Yes. If you are an approver, it can approve or reject expenses that are waiting on you, using your company's own reject reasons. For Rydoo Cards, it can request a virtual card. It always shows you what it is about to do and waits for your confirmation, and the action is recorded under your name. 

It cannot create, edit, submit or delete expenses, and it cannot upload receipts. Rydoo stays the single source of record.

Does the assistant see my password?

No. You sign in on Rydoo's own login page (username and password, or SSO) via OAuth. The assistant only receives permission to access your data and never your password.

What data can it access?

Only the data you can already see in Rydoo. Your existing role and permissions always apply.

Whose expenses can I ask about?

Your own by default. If you hold an approver, controller, director or finance role in Rydoo, you can also ask about the expenses that role already lets you see; your team's approval queue, for example, or company-wide spend. Two people asking the same question can get different answers, because each one sees only their own scope.

Which AI tools are compatible?

Claude and ChatGPT both offer one-click setup today. The Rydoo MCP server also works with Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, and other MCP-compatible AI clients. For more, check out: Connect your AI assistant to Rydoo.

Can our company switch this off?

Yes. MCP access is enabled by default, and admins can turn it off for the whole company in Admin > Advanced Settings. See Company access (admins) above.

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