Do you require Internal Approval for your Sales Order? Here are the simple steps on how we can configure this feature in Striven.
Employee Configurations
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Navigate to the employee you wish to require an internal approval process for in regards to sales orders
a. The employee can be found by going to Employees - List and searching accordingly -
Once in the employee record, navigate to the tab “Sales Order Approval Setting”
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Make sure “No Limit” is unchecked
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Determine also if you would like to have enabled “Quote approval for sales orders with negative/0 line items”
a. This will require approval on sales orders that have a negative quantity or $0 in the line items
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Save & Close
Employee Permission Configuration
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You will need to remove the permission “Sales Orders - Approve” from the restricted employees’ user role
a. User Roles can be edited by navigating to Employees - Security - Roles
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Select the user role you wish to edit and use the search option to find the above-mentioned permission
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Make sure the permission is unchecked
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Save & Close
Sales Order Type Configurations
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Navigate to your Sales Order Types within the Settings
a. This can be found by going to Company - Settings and then on the side menu navigate to Accounting - AR - Sales Orders - Sales Order Types
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You will need to have contract managed turned on for your sales order by checking “Turn on contract managed”
a. Note: If sales orders have already been created with the selected type, you may need to create a new sales order type
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With the approval methods, by choosing Verbal, there is no need to grant access to your customer for the Portal
Creating a Sales Order
- When the employee who has their access restricted as instructed above creates a sales order, they will be prompted to select a reviewer to review the sales order
- The reviewer selected will receive a notification and can then approve the order verbally
If you need assistance setting up your Internal Approvals for Sales Orders, contact Striven Support and we will be happy to help!