Approval workflows automated your way
Whether you’re managing 100 or 100,000 bills and payments per month, automate your approval process with workflows designed to fit your organization’s unique requirements.
Approvals built for accountants, by accountants
Complicated or simple approval needs? Tackle any combination with our industry-leading configurability.
Easily configure approval conditions without consultants or engineers
Supports custom conditions from your accounting software
Use pre-built conditions or sync conditions from your accounting software, such as vendor, location, invoice amount, and more
Delight your approvers
Delight your team with the ability to customize approvals to match how they work.
Powerful reports give finance teams the data they need
Auditors get full access to audit logs to track every payment
Faster approvals for faster payments
Increase the speed and accuracy of your approvals while reducing costs and frustration.
Automatically route bills based on configured rules
Approve bill payments one at a time or bulk approve multiple bills or payments at once
Instantly resolve blocked or urgent bills with approval bypass for account administrators
Audit-ready invoice lifecycle visibility
Accelerate your invoice-to-pay lifecycle by ensuring stakeholders have visibility into pending approvals - while meeting compliance requirements.
Improve stakeholder visibility by adding approvers outside of your standard rules 
Clearly see which conditions or bill details trigger the approval needed
Complete audit log of pending and completed approvals to expedite discovery during audits
Approval workflow features
Dynamic approval rules
Create custom approval flows depending on prebuilt conditions or sync existing conditions from your accounting software.
Vendor- Bill creator
- GL account
- Department
- Location / Class / Item
- Project (depending on accounting software)
- Custom fields and conditions
- And more
Single-level approvals
Set up a single level of approvals on your payables and/or receivables. This setting requires one or more team members to approve payments or invoices over a certain amount.
Multi-level approvals
Set up multiple levels of approvals that require subsequent approvals from different members of your team. With each approval level, you can require approval from any of the listed team members for that level, or you can require approval from all of the listed team members for that level.
Super approver (approval bypass)
Role that can bypass approval steps and give “final” approval.
Mass approvals
Give your approvers their time back. Approver(s) can simultaneously approve multiple bills in bulk.
Email approvals
Approve payments directly from your email inbox.
- Approve in the email by clicking the Approve button
- Approve by replying to the email with “approved”
Manually add approvers during bill creation
Approvers can be added on a one-time basis when a bill is created.
Bulk replace approver across all rules
Replace approvers at once without having to manually update each rule.
Audit tracking (global approval rules)
A full audit log of pending and completed approvals is available for your audits.
"Since implementing Routable, our payment process has become much more efficient and cost-effective. By streamlining our accounts payable process, we've saved around 40% on annual costs, and the integration with QuickBooks Online has been extremely beneficial.”
Modern finance teams run on Routable
Industry-leading finance teams use Routable to automate their accounts payable. Say goodbye to manual finance tasks, saving you time and money.
80% reduction in manual payment tasks through automation and our easy-to-use software
Save hundreds of thousands a year by moving to our automated AP/AR solution
25% reduction in reconciliation efforts with our real-time 2-way accounting software sync
Approval workflows FAQs
How many approval rules can be created?
How many approval levels or approvers can I have per bill?
What happens when an approver leaves the company or is on vacation?
How will approval rules be applied to international payments?
Can I see other approvers and approval sequences for each bill?
Can I add approvers to bills that are not included in my approval rules?
Additional resources
The importance of invoice approval workflows
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7 tell-tale reasons your AP software is out of date
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A smarter way to scale accounts payable
Routable is the fastest and most efficient way to manage your accounts payable.
