What are Approval tiers?

Approval tiers is a setting which allows you to specify how many people you would like to approve each Funds request. Each Approval tier represents one approval that needs to be given from any of the approvers on that tier before the requested funds are credited to the specified balance.

Each tier can have any number of approvers in it, having multiple people in each tier means that a Funds request will never be reliant on just one person being available to approve.

The same people can be in one or more tiers. However each person can approve any request only once.

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For example: If you have three Approval tiers, this would mean that three separate people would need to approve each funds request before it is processed:

First, a notification would be sent to everyone in tier 1.
Once someone in tier 1 has approved the request, a notification will go to everyone in tier 2, and someone in that tier will need to approve before a notification goes to everyone in tier 3.
As soon as someone approves in tier 3, the request is processed and the funds are automatically transferred to the balance as requested (provided that there are enough funds in the selected funding balance). Anyone who receives a notification can reject it, and the request would go no further.

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If you are happy to have the approval of just one person for all Funds requests, you can have only one tier. That tier could have multiple people in it,  all of whom would receive a notification of the request and all able to unilaterally approve any given Funds request.

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