Where ready-made rules are the default for Budget top-ups, Accounts payable and Reimbursement rules, for Card transactions, you will need to create your first rule. The reason for this is that approvals for card transactions are optional and, therefore, don't have a ready-made rule in place.
Steps to create a card transaction approval rule
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Navigate to Approval Rules under Spend Management
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Select the Card transaction rules
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Click Add a rule
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A pre-existing, single-step approval rule is now available, which you can customise.
Steps to edit your card transaction Approval Rules
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Click Add filter to set specific conditions for this rule from Amount, User, Budget and Roles (e.g., "Amount is greater than or equal to $500").
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Select the approver(s) from User, Role or Budget Owner in the "Approver" section. You can select multiple approvers.
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Choose if Any or All selected approvers must approve:
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Any: Only one approver is needed
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All: Every selected approver must approve before moving to the next step
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Click Add approval to add another approval step to the rule.
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Repeat steps 2–4 to customise each approval step.
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To add more rules for the same payment type with different conditions, click Add another rule.
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Repeat steps 1–5 as needed.
- Click Update and Confirm to finalise the changes to your approval rules. Note, that new rules do not apply to any pending approvals.
Important information
- It’s important to note that the more specific a rule is (i.e., the more filters it has), the higher its priority should be. We recommend that more general rules be positioned further down the list.
- Accounts payable, reimbursement and top-up request approval rules will have a 'Fallback rule' by default. All of these approval types must always require some level of approval.
- For card transaction approval types, the default is that no approval is required.
To learn more:
- Read our Getting started with our Approval Rule builder Guide
- Watch our Approval Rule help video