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Quote Approvals

Published July 07, 2026

Setting up approval rules

Admins configure approval rules under CRM > Approval Rules. Each rule names a trigger - a discount percentage, a grand total, or a margin percentage - and a threshold, and can apply to the whole quote or to any single line item that crosses it. Narrow a rule to one engagement type or leave it open to all, and name who decides: a specific admin user, or a group of approvers set up under Approver Groups. Rules take effect the next time someone sends a quote, and can't name the quote's own owner as approver - Send is rejected until an admin fixes that.

Multi-step approval chains

Rules can be ordered into steps, so a quote needing sign-off from more than one person doesn't put everyone in the loop at once. Rules on the same step are evaluated in parallel; once everyone at a step has decided, the next step opens. The approver queue and the quote itself show a "Step X of Y" indicator so everyone can see where a request stands.

Sending for approval

Clicking Send checks every active rule. If nothing matches, the quote goes straight to the customer. If something matches, the quote moves to pending approval and shows a banner naming who it's waiting on, along with a button to cancel the request and pull the quote back to draft.

The approver queue

Approvers see a "Pending approvals" badge in the CRM sidebar whenever something is waiting on them, and a queue listing every quote assigned to them, past and present. Opening one shows the line items, totals, and the reason it was routed for approval, with three options: Approve, Reject, or Request Changes. Reject and Request Changes both require a comment and send the quote back to draft with that feedback attached, ready for the owner to fix and resubmit.

What locks after approval

While a quote is in draft, every field is open to edit. Once it moves beyond draft, the descriptive fields - title, notes, PO number, and expiration date - plus the quote-level discount and tax, are fixed for that version. To change any of them, click Revise to open a new draft version; the earlier version stays on record.

Line item price, discount, and quantity work differently: on an approved quote that hasn't been sent yet, they can still be adjusted. Making a change re-checks it against your approval rules, and if it now crosses a threshold, the quote is sent back for another round of approval. Once the quote is sent to the customer, pricing locks completely - from that point, changing it always means creating a new version.

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