Brex
Email to Brex,
the easy way
ForwardThis is the simple tool that connects your email to Brex. Forward any email along with some simple instructions, and it’s handled. Nothing to download, nothing to set up. Works with dozens of your other apps too.
Setup in 30 seconds.
How it works
Connect Brex
Create a free account and connect Brex. It takes about 30 seconds, and you only do it once.
Forward an email
Forward any email to your ForwardThis address along with your instructions. One email can ask for several things at once.
Done.
ForwardThis replies when it's done, with a short summary and links to what it made - and an undo button if something doesn't look right.
Just forward it
to do@forwardthis.io
Fwd: The AWS bill looks high again
What did we spend with Amazon Web Services last month, and put "August prod overrun, signed off by me" on the charge from the 12th.
---------- Forwarded message ----------
Finance flagged it this morning. Before I answer them, can you check what actually went through last month and make sure the big one is explained?
Amazon Web Services, 1 to 31 August
4,182.60 USD across 6 charges
Memo set on the 12 August charge
August prod overrun, signed off by me
Undo available for 24 hours if something does not look right.
Some other examples
- “Which card charges this month still have no receipt?”
- “What did we spend at Figma in July, broken down by person?”
- “What are the current balances on our cash accounts?”
Everything ForwardThis can do in Brex
Look up records
Find card spend
Read a record
Read one expense
Read a report
Read a spend or balance summary
Look up a contact
Look up a Brex user
Update CRM record
Set an expense memo
Try it with a real email.
Forward any work email to the address below and see what ForwardThis can do. No signup required.
Occasional product emails may follow.
Why you need ForwardThis
Email is messy, every message asking for something different. It means constantly leaving your inbox and juggling tabs. ForwardThis skips all of that: forward an email along with some simple instructions, and it’s handled. Compatible with every email provider, and it works across the apps you’re already using.
Questions
- How do I send an email to Brex?
- Forward the email to your ForwardThis address with a line saying what you want to know, like "what did we spend with Amazon Web Services last month?". ForwardThis reads the spend and replies with the answer. It can also write a memo onto one charge if you ask it to. The first time, you'll need a free account with Brex connected, which takes about 30 seconds - that's the entire Brex email integration.
- Can it issue, freeze or cancel a card?
- No, and it never will. ForwardThis does not issue cards, lock or terminate them, set anybody's spending limit, invite a user, or make a payment or transfer of any kind. None of that is left out because it was hard to build. It is left out because no approval email can honestly stand behind "and now somebody has a card", and a transfer cannot be undone once it has gone.
- What can it actually change in Brex?
- One thing: the memo on an expense, which is the field Brex's own compliance rules chase you for. It never touches the amount, the card, the budget or the accounting category. If the memo goes on the wrong charge, the confirmation email has an undo that works for 24 hours, and it checks nobody has rewritten the memo since before it puts the old one back.
- Can it file a receipt from an email attachment?
- No. Brex takes receipts through a private upload link handed to whoever is doing the uploading, and that route isn't open to us, so a receipt sent this way would fail rather than file. Saying so beats a feature that breaks in front of you. It can tell you which charges are still missing a receipt, which is usually the part you needed anyway.
- How is this different from Brex's own alerts, or Zapier?
- Brex can notify you as each charge lands, and that's the better choice when you want everything as it happens. Zapier can push Brex data somewhere else, but you build the rule first and it runs from then on. This is for the question that arrives in your inbox: someone forwards you a bill query and you want the figure back in a reply, without opening Brex to go and find it.