Approval Requirements

Approval may be required if a Shopping Cart:

• Has a total price exceeding the buyer's Spending Limit, or
• Contains an item the requires Commodity approval.

Spending Limit

Shopping Carts are routed through workflow based upon the buyer's and approver's spending limits:

Note: Approvers may be an individual approver or a member of an approval group.

• If the Shopping Cart total cost exceeds the user's spending limit, it is routed to the Approver named in the user's User Profile.
• If the Approver approves the Shopping Cart, but the Shopping Cart total cost exceeds the Approver's approval limit, it is routed to the next-level Approver named in the Approver' User Profile.
• And so on.

Commodity

Shopping Carts for certain commodities (such as those involving expensive technology) are routed to a commodity approver or approval group for approval.

Commodity routing may be triggered by:

• The presence of a particular commodity in a Shopping Cart. for example a Cellular Phone, or
• More than maximum quantity of a particular commodity in a Shopping Cart, for example more than 2 briefcases.

After the item is approved by the commodity approver or group, it is routed according to normal business rules for hierarchical approval.