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Approve time, expenses, and absence requests.

Approvals

Find and act on the time entries, expenses, and absence requests waiting for your approval, all in one place.

The Approval Inbox

If time approval is on, approvers can review and approve time entries from their Approval Inbox.

Approving Time: Overview

How approval types, change requests, and edits affect time entries and expenses that have more than one approver.

How Approvals Work With Multiple Approvers

Approve time, expenses, and absence in the approval inbox, with one or more approvers.

How Approvals Work

Learn how to enable time entry submissions, configure reminders, and manage permissions.

Setting Up Time Entry Submissions

A guide for managers on tracking, approving, and managing submitted time entries.

Managing Time Entry Submissions (Manager Guide)

Answers to common questions about submitting, approving, and managing timesheets.

FAQ on Timesheet Submissions

Set up timesheet submissions, and manage them as a manager.

Time Entry Submissions

Enable and use time approvals to ensure approvers review and approve time entries before they become visible to clients or recognized.

Time Approval in Budgets

Enable approval for time tracked in deals. Entries are recognized but remain non-billable until the deal is won.

Time Approval in Deals

Set up expense approvals in Productive — configure policies, assign approvers, and understand how the approval flow works for submitters and reviewers.

Expense Approval: Setup and Flow

Approve the time and expenses tracked on budgets and deals.

Approving Time and Expenses on Budgets and Deals

Time and expenses approval policies for budgets help manage submissions by defining who approves time entries and expenses.

What Are Time and Expenses Approval Policies for Budgets?

Create and configure policies for budgets to control how time and expense submissions are approved.

Setting Up Time and Expenses Approval Policies for Budgets

Learn how to assign or update time and expenses approval policies for budgets to automate approvals.

Assigning a Time and Expenses Approval Policy to a Budget

Modify, archive, or restore approval policies to keep approvals aligned with organizational changes.

Managing Time and Expenses Approval Policies for Budgets

Let one approval policy send time and expenses on each budget or deal to the person picked in a custom field.

Using Person Custom Fields as Approvers (Beta)

Choose who approves time and expenses on each budget.

Approval Policies for Budgets

Time and expenses approval policies for deals help manage submissions by defining who approves time entries and expenses.

What Are Time and Expenses Approval Policies for Deals?

Create and configure policies for deals to control how time and expense submissions are approved.

Setting Up Time and Expenses Approval Policies for Deals

Learn how to assign or update time and expenses approval policies for deals to automate approvals.

Assigning a Time and Expenses Approval Policy to a Deal

Modify, archive, or restore approval policies for deals to keep approvals aligned with organizational changes.

Managing Time and Expenses Approval Policies for Deals

Choose who approves time and expenses on each deal.

Approval Policies for Deals

Set up absence approvers manually or through approval policies to manage how time off and remote work requests get reviewed.

Setting Up Absence Approvals in Productive

Absence approval policies define who approves absence requests and who gets notified, including dynamic approvers like Manager and Project Manager.

What Are Absence Approval Policies?

Create clear, customizable absence approval policies for employees to manage how absence requests are approved and who is notified.

Setting Up Absence Approval Policies

Learn how to assign or edit absence approval policies for employees to automate approvals or manage requests manually when needed.

Assigning an Absence Approval Policy to an Employee

Edit, archive, and restore absence approval policies, and see what happens to pending requests when you change them.

Managing Absence Approval Policies

Choose who approves absence requests with absence approval policies.

Absence Approvals

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