# Approvals > Canonical: https://skedsocial.com/features/approvals Sked Social's Approvals Board shows your whole approval workflow the moment you open it. Clients sign off from a no-login link. You configure the chain per brand, per campaign. New ### Your approval workflow, laid out as a pipeline The moment you open Approvals, every post sits exactly where it is in your approval workflow. No scanning rows. No sorting by status. Most scheduling tools show approvals as a flat list. Sked Social shows you a pipeline – because content at volume deserves better than a spreadsheet. ### What holds the review chain together. - **0** – logins for client review - **2** – sign-off moments per post - **1** – board for every stage ## Approvals that flex to your process, not the other way round. Build a custom chain from first draft to final sign-off. Approve concepts before creative work starts, and finished posts before they publish. Team members are notified through their channel of choice when it's their turn. External reviewers on a review link get an email the moment posts hit "Ready to Review." If they haven't acted, they get a reminder automatically. No Sked Social account needed. A status board shows exactly where everything sits and who it's waiting on. ### Every client's approval chain, on one board. Give each client its own review flow and watch every stage move in one place. Alerts go out the moment someone's input is needed, status cues show what is waiting, and nothing stalls in an inbox no one is checking. ### The parts of review that usually slip. - **Reviewers who show up on time** – Add reviewer emails to your review link. When posts reach "Ready to Review," Sked Social sends the notification automatically. If the reviewer hasn't acted, Sked Social sends a reminder on the schedule you set. Daily or weekly, at the time you choose. No Sked Social account needed. Reviews complete without you chasing. - **Configurable approval chains** – One reviewer or five, sequential or parallel, with per-brand rules. Each person gets notified when it's their turn, whether they're inside Sked Social or reviewing from an external link. Save the flow as a template and reuse it next campaign. - **Audit trail and permissions** – Every edit, comment and approval is logged with who and when. Access levels mean people only see the content that is theirs. - **Notifications, their channel** – Team members with a Sked Social seat choose how they hear about it. In-app, push, or email. Whichever fits how they work. When a post reaches their stage, they're told. Nothing waits in silence. ### Sign-off shouldn't live in a reply-all thread. **Chasing approvals by email** - Forward the draft and wait for a reply that scrolls off the screen - Rebuild the feedback from four different email chains - Give a client a login they will never use again - Guess which version was actually the approved one **Sked Social** - Route the post through the exact chain your team uses - Team members get notified in their channel of choice when it's their turn - External reviewers get an email when content is ready. If they haven't acted, a reminder follows automatically. No Sked Social account needed. - The audit trail shows who approved what, and when Which plans include approvals lives on the pricing page. ### Built for the teams a bottleneck hurts most. - **Agencies** – Run a separate sign-off flow for every client, hand over a no-login link for approvals, and keep a clean record of what each client signed off. - **In-house social teams** – Move a post from copy to brand to legal without a single status meeting, and see what is waiting on whom at a glance. - **Regulated and multi-location brands** – Keep a timestamped audit trail for compliance, and set access levels so each location only touches its own content. ### Approvals work best with the rest of the workspace - **Collaboration** — Plan and comment on the work as a team, then send it into the same review flow. - **Scheduling** — Approved posts drop straight into the queue and publish natively when they are due. - **Inbox** — Route sensitive replies through the same sign-off before anyone hits send. ### How do approval workflows work in Sked? Build a custom review chain from first draft to final sign-off, with one reviewer or several in sequence or parallel. Team members pick their notification channel: in-app, push, or email. Sked Social notifies them when their input is needed. External reviewers receive an email to their review link automatically when posts reach "Ready to Review." If they haven't reviewed, Sked Social sends a reminder on a schedule you set. No Sked Social account required. Every approval and edit is logged in an audit trail. - Configure different flows per brand, campaign or channel - External stakeholders review with no Sked account - Access levels keep people to the content that is theirs - Included from Accelerate up, available as an add-on on Grow; see the pricing page ## Questions about Approvals ### What approval flows can I set up? One approver or several, in sequence or in parallel, with different rules per brand. Save a flow as a template and reuse it on the next campaign, so you are not rebuilding the chain each time. ### Can external clients review without a Sked login? Yes. Send a branded review link and stakeholders comment or approve straight from the browser, with no account and no password. Their sign-off lands back in your queue. ### Can I run different flows per brand? Yes. Agencies set one flow per client, with different reviewers, timing and alerts. In-house teams vary the chain by campaign, channel or business unit. ### What does the audit trail record? Every edit, comment, approval and publish event, each with a timestamp and the user behind it. When legal or a client asks who signed off, the record is already there. ### Which plans include approvals? Approvals are available from the Grow plan up: as an add-on on Grow, and bundled into higher plans. They are not available on the Basic plan. The pricing page shows exactly which plan includes what.