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The self-hosted Tradogram alternative

Approva: Self-hosted purchase approvals for finance teams and cost-center owners: a request needs one, two or three sign-offs by amount, you can name who signs each one, and the rule that applied is frozen on the record at submission. Own it once, run it on your own server, and stop paying Tradogram every month.

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Stop renting Tradogram.

Rented Tradogram Essentials $950.40/year billed yearly ($79.20/month), or $99/month monthly, "1+ users · Additional user fee applies"; Premium (20+ users) and Scale (unlimited users) are "Custom Quote" ^[1] billed every month, for as long as you use it; your data in their cloud

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Approva

$99 once · self-hosted · your data on your server

2 months of Tradogram costs what Approva costs once.

Buy once

How we counted: The lowest published Essentials price for the first user: $950.40 a year billed yearly, $79.20 a month ($99 month to month; re-read 2026-10-11, the yearly switch reads "Save 20%"). Every additional user carries a fee the page names but does not price, and the two upper tiers are quoted. Approva is one payment for the whole approval chain.

How Tradogram pricing grows

Tradogram meters by USER on top of a base plan, and quotes the tiers most teams need.

“1+ users · Additional user fee applies”, their own page, read 2026-08-30

What Tradogram does that we don't

Tradogram sells its reporting layer as a headline benefit, not merely a transaction log.

“Turn spend data into smart decisions”, their own page

Who should stay with Tradogram

Stay with Tradogram if you need procure-to-pay — sourcing, supplier scorecards, AP matching — on a hosted platform. Approva is the request-to-approval-to-PO step, on your own server, and stops there on purpose.

What Approva deliberately doesn't do is on its product page.

Why owning beats renting Tradogram.

One payment

No monthly, per-seat or per-location fees. The license is perpetual.

Your data stays on your server

It never lives in Tradogram's cloud.

No plan ceilings

Records and users are limited by your hosting, not by a pricing tier.

It keeps working if the vendor doesn't

Self-hosted software can't be sunset or repriced out from under you.

The fair trade-offs: you host it, back it up and apply updates yourself. See the product page for its limits, and the full Approva vs renting comparison.

Questions about moving off Tradogram.

What is Approva?

Approva is self-hosted purchase approval software. A request goes in, the amount decides whether it needs one, two or three approvers, and the rule that applied is frozen on the record at submission — so the trail still reads correctly after you change your thresholds. Once a request is fully approved, one click turns it into a numbered purchase order. You buy the license once and run it on your own server, so there is no per-user monthly fee. It deliberately does not pay vendors and does not post to a general ledger.

How do the approval thresholds work?

You set amounts in your own currency — company-wide, and per cost center where a department needs its own rule. A request at or above a threshold needs the next approval level; the levels required are frozen on the request at submission, so editing a rule later never re-decides an old request. Cost centers without their own rule inherit the company list.

Is it multi-user? What are the roles?

Yes — three roles: requester, approver, and admin (who can also act as an approver and manages vendors, cost centers, settings, and PO generation).

Does it integrate with QuickBooks, Xero, or SAP?

Not with prebuilt connectors — but Approva ships a REST API with an OpenAPI spec and HMAC-signed webhooks, so approvals and POs can be pushed anywhere by Power Automate, Zapier, n8n or your own code, and 3.0 adds an MCP endpoint so an AI agent can drive it under the same approval rules a person faces. The register also exports as CSV and JSON, and every request and PO prints as a PDF.

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Sources

Tradogram: price checked 2026-10-11, source“'$950.40 /year 1+ users · Additional user fee applies' ... '$99 /month' ... 'Custom Quote' ... '20+ users'”

Competitor prices change, so always confirm on the linked page. We only print figures we could verify on the date shown. This vendor is tracked in the Price Observatory: every figure verbatim, dated, re-checked quarterly.

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