Approval Workflow

An approval workflow is an automation that pauses at a decision point and waits for a designated person to approve or reject before continuing. Typical uses: a new expense over $500, a piece of marketing content, a discount request, or a new-vendor signup that a manager must sign off on. The flow gathers the request, notifies the approver (email, Slack, or an in-app task), holds state while it waits, then branches — approved continues to the payout/publish step, rejected notifies the requester and stops. Why it matters: approvals put a human checkpoint into otherwise-automated processes where money, brand, or compliance is on the line, giving control without reverting to fully manual work. Many no-code platforms (and tools like Make, Zapier, and dedicated approval apps) offer built-in approval steps. Practical note: because the flow can wait hours or days, you need durable state (the platform must hold the run, or you persist status in a database and resume via a second trigger) plus reminders and a timeout/escalation path so a silent approver doesn't stall the process forever.