How to Approve or Reject

How to Approve or Reject

People often ask how they actually do the approving (or rejecting in Zahara). Documents (Purchase Orders or Invoices) can be approved or rejected in the following ways: 

  • The approval dashboard
  • By email – links on the approval email 
  • On the mobile app  

The help article relating to Approvals & Workflows should be read to fully understand how everything works

Video overview

The video below will run through how to approve. 
 

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