Approval limits are a design decision, not a policy

Most companies have an approval policy written down somewhere. Far fewer have thought through what the system should do when the policy meets an ordinary Tuesday: the approver is on leave, the amount sits exactly on a threshold, or two people need to sign off in sequence rather than either one alone.

Delegation is not optional

If a limit has no delegate, it has no limit — everything above it queues until one person is back, and the business learns to route around the control instead of using it. Every approval role needs a named backup from day one.

Thresholds need a direction

Decide once whether a value exactly at a limit needs approval or does not, write it down, and stop relitigating it per request. Ambiguity here is what causes people to quietly split a purchase order in two.

Multi-step is a different shape, not a bigger one

A second signature is not "approval again" — it is a different step with its own owner, its own criteria, and its own record. Modelling it as a genuine second stage, rather than a duplicate of the first, is what keeps the audit trail readable months later.

We design approval routing before we build anything else, because it shapes almost everything downstream: who sees what, what blocks a shipment, and what a Friday-afternoon exception actually costs.

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