You can approve bills and credits from the Approvals page on the left navigation menu or the Bill Approvals tab on the Overview page.

• Filters
• Review and approve
• Approve without review
• Approval Groups
• Deny bills
• Unapprove Bills

Filters

You can filter Bill Approvals by:

• Vendor Name
• Approval Type
  • Ready to approve - Bills ready for you to approve
  • Approved - Bills you previously approved
  • Denied - Bills you have denied approval on
  • Upcoming - Bills coming to you for approval after they have been approved by another approver
• Due Date

Review and approve

1. Click Approvals in the left navigation menu
2. Click on the Invoice # to approve
3. Review bill details
4. Click approve

Tip: Have more than one bill to approve? Click on a bill, approve/deny it, then click Next Bill to move to the next bill or click Previous Bill to go back to a previous one.

Approve without review

1. Click Approvals in the left navigation menu
   • If there is a note on the bill, there will be a note icon
     • Hover over the note icon or click into the bill to see the note
   • If there is a document associated, there will be a document icon; click this icon to display a preview of any associated bill documents
2. Select the bills to approve
3. Click Approve

Approval Groups

Approval groups are a designated group of approvers you setup and assign to bills or policies, then any one of those approvers in the group can approve the bill. You can use approval groups, single-user approvers, or a combination of both. Once one approver from the group has approved, the bill is routed to the next approver/approval group, or is marked as approved if no more approvers are listed.

Creating an approval group:

1. Click Settings
2. Click Approval Groups
3. Click New
4. Enter the approval group Name
5. Enter an optional Description
6. Click Save
7. Check the Select box for all approvers you'd like in the approval group
8. Click Save

Approval Groups: Things to Know

• You can add up to 10 users in an approval group
  • Users can be in multiple groups
  • A group cannot contain another group
• You can select approver groups when
  • Selecting approvers on a bill
  • Creating an approval policy
  • Selecting default approvers in settings
• An approval group's name will be listed on the Overview and Approvals pages, in place of the approver user's name. You can hover over the group name to see a list of the first 3 members, and click to see them all
• Approval groups assigned to a bill will show 3-4 approver names by default, depending on character length. Click the "X more" link to see the full list of users in the group
• When a member of an approval group approves a bill, the bill will show the name of the member who approved, under the approval group name
• Approval notification emails will go out to all approvers in the group at the same time (based on their bills to approve email preference) and added to their to-do lists
• As soon as any 1 user in a group approves a bill, the to-do list item for that bill is removed from all users in that group
• The bill's audit trail will show the user who approved the bill but not that they were part of a group
• Adding or removing a user from the group will apply retroactively to bills assigned to that group
• Any new user added to a group will have a to do list item but will not get email notifications for bills the group was already assigned to. They will receive notification on future assigned bills
• If a group is inactivated, there will be a Fix Record to do item for administrator users to fix the bills the deleted group was assigned tox`
• If all users in an approval group are inactivated, the approval group will be inactivated
  • If the inactivated approval group is assigned to a bill(s), the bill(s) will be routed to the next approvers in line, and a Fix Record to do item will be added to administrator user's to do lists to remove the group
  • An email will go out to all users with manage company permissions, informing them that an approval group has been deactivated since all users in the group are inactive

Deny bills

1. Click Approvals in the left navigation menu
2. Click on the Invoice # to approve
3. Review bill details
4. Click More actions
5. Click Deny
6. Select the appropriate option:
   • Duplicate bill
   • Data Entry Error
   • Incorrect approver
   • Other
7. Notify the bill creator why the bill was not approved
   
8. Click Submit

We will notify the bill creator that the bill needs review, and they will see the details you provide in the "Add more info" box.

Unapprove bills

If you want to unapprove a bill, it requires removing all approvers. You can then re-add them if needed.

1. Click Bills in the left navigation pane
2. Click the bill you want to unapprove
3. Click More Actions
4. Click Audit Trail
5. Hover over Bill Details and click Approvers
6. Click [del all]

You can then edit the bill as needed and re-add approvers for re-approval.