You are, optionally, able to set up Approval rules. Approval rules can be created based on a contract type (e.g. Legal, Procurement) and value (e.g. more than £10,000 annually) so that when a contract is submitted for approval, users are offered the correct approval rule based upon the contract's data.

Tip: Although Rules can be set up, you can also allow users to build their own approval route at the time they submit a contract for approval. This is controlled by the Approval Configuration setting of 'Allow user to build approval chain at submission?'

Creating a Rule

Navigate to Configuration -> Approval -> Rules


Click on [New] to create a new rule

Click on an existing rule record to view and edit if required

The Approval Rule form will be displayed, complete the relevant details and [Save]


Fig 1 - Approval Rule form

  • Name - Give your new rule a name
  • Contract Types - Choose one or more Contract Type(s) that this rule applies to. You can leave this field blank if the rule applies to all contracts
  • Contract Value Criteria - Use the Drop down lists and fields to determine the Contract Value parameters, the default is 'Not specified'
  • Approval Route - Choose the approval route for the contracts that meet the criteria specified. 
  • Use Supervisor -  This will route contracts for approval to the submitter's supervisor 
  • Select [Sequential] or [Parallel] Chain - This will then allow you to specify the users/approval groups that contracts for this rule will be routed to.  “sequential” = each user/approval group in turn and “parallel” = all users/approval groups are notified at once
  • Click [Save]
  • Repeat for each Rule that is required


When a user now submits a contract the rules will be checked and the user will be able to select a rule that is appropriate for routing.

TIP: If selecting an Approval Route of 'Use Supervisor' then the Users Supervisor must be defined within the Users profile, please refer to User setup for details how to assign a Supervisor to a User

TIP: If using the criteria of 'Has no Value' that this will apply to contracts where the Contract Value option has been set to 'No value', Contract values with a numeric '0' will not be applied to the rule

Fig 2 - Contract value form options