Approving Contracts

Objective

After completing this lesson, you will be able to approve contract workspaces.

Contract Approval

After the review and negotiation phases are complete, there is often a final approval task for all documents in a contract workspace. The documents are sent to internal stakeholders for final approval. Approvals are intended to model your organization’s business process. They often depend on the values of the header fields within the contract, such as its monetary amount, region, and commodity.

The approval flow defines the users assigned to approve the document for a task. Approval flows can include actual users or project groups.

Note

Project owners cannot delete approvers generated from the template; they can only add them.

The final approval cannot be completed manually like in a review or negotiation task. It is an automatic system approval that happens once all required approvers have approved. When the final approval is complete, the contract can be published.