# Approvals — Academium SMS

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> Approval rules that hold sensitive actions, such as writing off fees, until the people you name have agreed.

Approvals

## Some decisions need more than one name.

An approval rule turns a sensitive action into a request that waits until each level you set has agreed.

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A fictional request: it waits for each level, then runs with the balance as it stands.

Approval rules

## A chain of approvers, in order.

Turn a rule on for an action and set its levels. Each level is held by a role or by one named person.

-   **Starting with fee write-offs.** Writing off fees is the action rules can hold today. Someone allowed to write off fees still waits for the chain.
    
-   **The owner is never held up.** The school owner’s own actions go straight through, and the owner may approve at any level. That is recorded as an override.
    
-   **No skipped steps.** A requester who holds a level approves it as a separate, recorded step.
    

An example rule with two levels.

The approvals inbox

## Waiting on me. My requests. Decided.

Each request shows the whole chain, who has signed and who is still to come.

-   **Approve or refuse.** Any level may refuse, which ends the request.
    

Fictional requests approved or refused at one level.

The result

## What actually happened, in words.

Approved requests show what ran, because it can differ from what was asked.

-   **Up to date at the moment it runs.** If a parent paid part of a balance while a write-off waited, only what was still owed is written off.
    

A fictional result: only the balance still owed was written off.

FAQs

## Approvals questions

How approval rules work.

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### Which actions can need approval?

Writing off fees. Each action needs code behind it, so new ones arrive with updates to SMS.

### Is payroll approval the same thing?

No. Payroll has its own approval levels, set on the payroll screens.

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