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Approval Process: an Overview

There may be several instances in your business when certain actions need approval from one or more senior decision-makers. For instance, sales reps offering product discounts to customers need the approval of their manager before they do so. Marketers planning a campaign may need the approval of the Marketing head as well as the Finance head to go ahead with the campaign. Read this tutorial to find more use cases.

In your CRM database when there are loads of decisions to be approved, it becomes a tiresome task to sort through records and send them for someone’s approval. Zoho CRM’s workflow approval process makes this easier by automating the entire approval process.

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This feature can be configured for team modules as well. To learn more, see: Working with team modules, Configuring team modules, and Automation in team modules.

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Users with Manage Automation permission in their profile can access this feature. 
Team module admins can create approval processes for their team modules.
The Approval Tab will be displayed for all the users. 

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