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For what kind of events does ApprovalMax send notifications?

Updated over a month ago

ApprovalMax sends out two types of email notifications (instantly and daily):

  • About new requests (instantly)

  • About comments (instantly)

  • Other notifications (Auto-Approvals/Auto-Reject, Final Approval for Requesters, external rejection by the GL, rejections by Approvers, Forced decisions, change of Approvers, etc.) (instantly)

  • About workflows (creation, activation/deactivation, update, restart of a workflow; changes in the workflow settings) (instantly)

  • Summary of open approvals (daily) – you can specify the time and days for receiving these summaries

Instant/daily notifications can be turned on/off in My Profile as you prefer.

This is how you set up instant notifications:

  • Open your avatar in the top right-hand corner and click on My Profile:


  • In the Notifications section, toggle the status for each notification type by clicking on.The buttons turn blue to show that the respective notifications are switched on:


  • To switch off instant notifications, click onnext to New requests / Comments / Other notifications / Workflow changes and toggle the status.

  • When you finished setting the notifications, click on SAVE CHANGES.


This is how you set up daily summary reports:

  • Open your avatar in the top right-hand corner and click on My Profile:



  • In the Notifications section, toggle the status for Summary of pending approvals by clicking on . The button turns blue to show that the respective notification is switched on:



    You can also specify your preferred time and days of the week for receiving these summaries.

  • To switch off summary reports, click on next to Summary of pending approvals and toggle the status:

  • When you finished setting the notifications, click on SAVE:


Notifications to an Organisation Administrator:

There are some cases where an Organisation Administrator gets notified, irrespective of the notification settings under My Profile: When does an Organisation Administrator get notified?

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