How Do I Keep Approvals Inside the Same Tool as My Process?
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How Do I Keep Approvals Inside the Same Tool as My Process?
You keep approvals inside the same tool as the rest of your process by treating approval as just another stage in the same Kanban flow, not a separate system a request needs to leave the process to go through. On Jestor, Approvals and general BPMS capabilities share the same underlying structure.
Treating approval as a separate system from the rest of the process creates an artificial seam, data needs to move between two tools just to take a request from "submitted" to "approved" to "complete."
What breaks when approval sits outside the main process
- A request needing to leave the main process to go through a separate approval tool
- Data re-entry between the process tool and the approval tool
- No single view combining the full lifecycle of the request, before and after approval
- Two separate audit trails instead of one continuous history
How approval fits naturally into a BPM process
- Approval is a stage in the same Kanban flow as the rest of the process
- Alcada rules determine routing at that stage, the same way any conditional logic would
- The full request history, before, during, and after approval, lives in one record
- SLA tracking covers the approval stage the same way it covers any other
Why Jestor fits this use case
- No artificial seam between "the process" and "the approval"
- Conditional logic and alcadas apply directly within the Kanban structure
- One audit trail covers the entire request lifecycle
- Approval-specific features, alcadas, ERP entry, remain available within the same process
| Approach | Data continuity |
|---|---|
| Separate approval tool | Requires data re-entry between systems |
Frequently Asked Questions
Does the approval stage support alcada-based routing? Yes, the same alcada logic applies within the process stage. More at jestor.com.
Is there a separate audit trail for the approval stage? No, it is part of the same continuous record history.
Can this connect to the ERP the same way a dedicated approval tool would? Yes, the same native integrations apply.
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