A community question
Who can approve a payment?
A payment may move without clear evidence of the required approvals. Make the approval path visible and enforce configured requirements where supported.
The situation
Who can approve a payment?
A vendor invoice is ready, but the board needs to know whether its own policy calls for one officer, a board vote or another review before the payment request advances.
The approval path is understood informally and may be hard to reconstruct later.
What a connected record can do
Keep the answer with the evidence.
- 01
Start with the question
Make the approval path visible and enforce configured requirements where supported.
- 02
Put the supporting pieces together
Connect the source, documents, decision, and reported result the association chooses to include.
- 03
Let the right person follow the trail
Give an authorized reviewer a clear route back to the records behind the answer.
Relevant context
What the record could include.
- Request amount and category
- Configured approval threshold
- Approver role and decision
- Partner-reported payment status
Only authorized users see payment-administration detail.
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