Overview
Delegate an approver for your Ramp inbox when you're going out of the office, whether you're feeling under the weather, taking a vacation, or going on leave. Set someone as your backup to unblock your team's spend.
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- What can the delegate approver and original approver do and see?
- Who can be a delegate approver?
- Who can assign a delegate approver? How is this assigned?
- What happens to approval chains and the Activity tab?
What can the delegate approver and original approver do and see?
Delegate approvers can do the following on behalf of their assigned user(s):
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Receive approval requests on behalf of the delegator (Requests, transactions reviews, reimbursements, bills)
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Receive the weekly "Missing Items" email on behalf of the delegator
The original approver will continue to have the same approval functionality and receive notifications for items pending approvals.
Who can be a delegate approver?
Only managers, admins, and owners can be assigned as delegate approvers. Custom groups cannot be assigned. The original approver will continue to get notifications and be able to see their approvals queue.
Upon assignment and unassignment, both the delegate approver and original approver get an email confirmation that another Ramp user has added or removed them as a backup approver.
Who can assign a delegate approver? How is this assigned?
Delegate approval is only available to card managers and admins.
If you have approvals at Ramp, you can assign your delegate approver by following these steps:
- Visit Settings > Personal settings > Delegation tab
- Select Delegate approver and start typing the name of your delegate
- Select the user you want to assign as your delegate and click Enable to save
If you are an Admin, you can assign delegate approvers to other users by following these steps:
- Visit Company > People
- Select the user who needs a delegate approver assigned to them, then click Edit Profile
- Select Delegate approver and start typing the name of the delegate
- Select the user you want to assign as their delegate and click Enable
- Click Save
What happens to approval chains and the Activity tab?
Both the original approver and delegate approver will see pending requests and have the ability to approve them. The approval chains will be updated to reflect the delegate approver's name. Hovering over the double-person icon will show who the original approver is. The same will be reflected in the Activity tab to show the delegate approver's name acting on behalf of the original.
Please note: Adding a delegate is not reversible for past/existing approval chains. When you turn on a delegate, it adds the delegate to both past/existing approvals and net new ones. When you turn off a delegate, it stops adding the delegate to net new approvals but does not remove the delegate from past/existing approvals where they were added.