Order Approvals

Order Approvals allows teams, schools, and leagues to review merchandise orders, verify designs and purchasing details, and authorize orders before production.

What Are Order Approvals?

Order Approvals allows organizations to establish a review process for merchandise purchases before orders are finalized for production. Designated approvers can examine product details, customization, and purchasing requirements to determine whether an order is ready to proceed.

This provides additional oversight when multiple people are involved in designing, ordering, or authorizing merchandise for teams, schools, and athletic programs.

Approval requirements help organizations enforce their own purchasing and branding standards rather than relying solely on the person preparing the order.

How Order Approvals Work

  1. Designate Approvers: Assign authorized users who are responsible for reviewing merchandise orders or designs.
  2. Prepare the Order: The person placing the order selects products, configures artwork and personalization, and prepares the purchasing details for review.
  3. Notify Reviewers: Designated approvers are notified when an order or design requires their attention.
  4. Review Order Details: Approvers examine the products, artwork, quantities, sizes, and other information relevant to the purchase.
  5. Approve or Request Changes: The reviewer can approve the order or request corrections before the order is finalized.
  6. Complete Purchasing Requirements: Once the necessary approvals are obtained, the order can proceed through the applicable checkout and payment process.

Order Approvals provides an internal authorization workflow. Approval does not replace any separate payment, Purchase Order, or other requirements necessary for an order to enter production.

What Can Approvers Review?

Reviewers can examine the details relevant to their organization's design standards and purchasing policies.

  • Artwork and Branding: Check logos, colors, placement, and other design elements for consistency with organizational requirements.
  • Personalization: Review names, numbers, aliases, and other customized information where applicable.
  • Product Selections: Verify garment styles, colors, sizes, and quantities.
  • Pricing and Spending: Review order totals and determine whether the purchase aligns with available budgets or authorized spending.
  • Purchasing Documentation: Confirm that any required internal approvals or purchase order documentation have been obtained.

Orders requiring corrections should be updated and reviewed before they are finalized. Once an order has been locked or submitted under a non-editable workflow, different restrictions may apply.

Order Approvals and Other Purchasing Tools

Order Approvals can be used alongside other account and ordering features, but each tool serves a different purpose.

Team Access

Team Access manages user roles and permissions, allowing organizations to give appropriate purchasing, design, or administrative responsibilities to different account members.

Budgets

Budgets allows organizations to assign individual purchasing credit, configure reset schedules, and enable approval requirements for specific users. These controls help administrators manage spending allowances alongside broader order review processes.

Purchase Orders

Purchase Orders allows eligible organizations to submit approved purchasing documentation as part of their payment workflow. A Purchase Order serves a different purpose from approving an order's design or purchasing details.

Order Lock

Order Lock preserves a finalized order and its pricing for 30 days while an organization completes internal purchasing requirements. Locked Orders remain pending and cannot be modified. Any necessary design or quantity changes should therefore be resolved before locking the order.

Common Uses for Order Approvals

Team and School Purchasing

Coaches, athletic directors, or school administrators can review uniform designs, quantities, and spending before approving team merchandise purchases.

Orders Requiring Financial Authorization

Organizations with separate purchasing departments can use approvals to coordinate decisions between the person preparing merchandise and the person responsible for authorizing spending.

Brand and Design Review

Designated reviewers can check logo placement, colors, personalization, and other artwork details before a merchandise order is finalized.

Multiple Purchasing Projects

When preparing several purchases simultaneously, Multi-Cart Save allows separate carts to remain organized while each project goes through its required review process.

Reviewing and Tracking Orders

Order Approvals helps organizations maintain oversight while merchandise purchases are being prepared and authorized. Once an order has completed its applicable requirements and has been submitted, its status and subsequent progress can be reviewed through your Order History.

Approval workflows help identify potential mistakes before production, but they do not guarantee that every design or purchasing detail is correct. The organization remains responsible for reviewing its selections and ensuring that the appropriate authorization has been given before submitting an order.