Approvals permissions are essential for managing who can approve or reject absence, leave, or time-off requests in Factorial. These permissions control which employees, managers, or administrators have the authority to handle approvals, ensuring requests are processed correctly and responsibly.
By assigning the right approvals permissions, you can maintain workflow accuracy, prevent unauthorized changes, and ensure that approvals are handled by the appropriate roles, such as team leads, HR managers, or administrators, while keeping the process transparent and efficient.

Employees must be assigned to the corresponding permissions group for eNPS permissions to apply.
How to set up your approvals permissions
- In your sidebar, go to Settings
- Click on Permissions
- Select the approvals section
- Enable or disable permissions
- Click on Save changes

This permission does not allow you to select the scope; you cannot choose which users a person can perform an action on. It will be active for the whole company (inside this group of permissions)
Approvals permissions
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Edit approvals configuration
This permission allows the employees inside the specific group of permissions to edit and manage the configuration of approval workflows, including setting up who can approve requests and how approvals are processed.