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# Approval processes

## Overview

The approval processes empower you to seamlessly integrate approval workflows for your payables, ensuring smooth operations and compliance with your organization's policies.

There are two options for approval processes, depending on your business needs:

#### [Automated via approval policies (Recommended)](./policies/index)

You can customize and automate the set of roles and approval conditions to change the payable status with approval policies.

#### [Manual transition](./manual-transition)

Control the approval process by displaying approve/reject buttons to users and making the API calls directly.

> **Note**
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> You can allow payables to bypass the approval flow by setting the `payables_skip_approval_flow` [entity setting](/api/entities/patch-entities-id-settings) as `true` (it defaults to `false`). Once enabled, any newly created payable in the `new` status will automatically transition to the `approved` status, skipping the approval flow.