Separate Approval & Payment Roles in Approval Workflow

We have a client that needs a separate person who reviews and approves reimbursements and bills from another person who then pays them once approved based on cash flow. There currently isn’t a way to separate these roles in the approval workflows.

Hey Dandi :wave:

The Separation of Duties feature can be applied to bills to help enforce proper approval workflows. When enabled, it ensures that the individual who creates a bill can’t approve it themselves—they’ll automatically be removed from the approval chain and replaced by admin approvers. That means any admin can step in to approve the bill instead.

The customer’s business owner admin can toggle this setting on or off at any time.

They can also customize their bill approval workflows by assigning different individuals or roles to review, approve, and pay bills—making it easy to maintain a clear separation of responsibilities.

You can read more about how it works here :point_left:

Let me know if this doesn’t quite fit your needs!

You can create all sorts of different approval groups. So we have one where if it’s an IT expense the IT team has to approve it after the regular approvals. You just set up a conditional approval if there’s a specific triggering feature (i.e. expense category = IT) or you can just set up a secondary approval after the first level of approval. I have it so that the department owner has to approve everything over $x and my CFO has to come behind and approve anything over $y. This has been one of the things I’ve loved about Ramp is the very customizable approval flow.

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