Approval Routing

If you use purchase requests, purchase orders, or expense reports, you may prefer to incorporate approval routing into your transaction processing. When you use approval routing, transactions that are entered are not processed until they are approved. This gives a measure of oversight to persons of authority who may choose to reject some transactions if they do not want them to continue being processed.

For example, an employee may enter a purchase request for a new computer that costs $5000. If the employee’s supervisor is required to give approval before the purchase order is sent to the vendor, the supervisor is given an opportunity to reject the purchase if they do not feel the expenditure is warranted. If the subversion feels that the expenditure is warranted, they can approve the purchase and the request can proceed to become an order.