Approval Utility

Approvals,
done right.

A purpose-built approval utility that brings structure, speed, and accountability to your organisation's document approval process.

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Line Manager
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Finance Manager
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Archived
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The Challenge

Approval chaos is costing your organisation.

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Approvals get lost

Documents sent over WhatsApp, email, or in person. No visibility, no accountability, no certainty.

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No audit trail

When something goes wrong, there is no defensible record of who approved what, and when.

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Delays cost money

Every hour a payment voucher or contract sits waiting for approval is a direct cost to the business.

Organisations lose time, money, and trust when approvals are unstructured. There is a better way.

Introducing approva

A focused, mobile-first approval utility — built for modern organisations, from SMEs to enterprises.

01

Structured

Configurable chains for every document type.

02

Accountable

Immutable, hash-chained audit trail.

03

Fast

PIN-secured decisions in seconds.

How It Works

Three steps. Start to finish.

1

Submit

Originate a document, upload supporting files, enter the value, assign approvers — done in under a minute from any device.

2

Approve

Approvers receive instant email notifications, review the document, and confirm their decision with a secure numeric PIN.

3

Archive

Every decision is permanently recorded in a tamper-proof, hash-chained audit trail. Your records are always defensible.

Use Case — Payment Voucher

Value-based routing in action

A junior accountant raises a PKR 75,000 payment voucher. approva reads the value and automatically constructs the right approval chain — no manual escalation needed.

Line Manager
Always required
✓ Approved via PIN
Finance Manager
Above PKR 50,000
✓ Approved via PIN
CFO
Above PKR 500,000
Result: Approved in 2 steps. CFO not disturbed. Full audit trail recorded automatically.
Key Features

Built for governance. Designed for speed.

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Configurable chains

Multi-step, multi-department approval chains tailored to your policies. No IT involvement required.

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Value-based routing

Documents automatically escalate to senior approvers based on financial thresholds you define.

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PIN authorisation

Every approval decision requires a numeric PIN — ensuring only the authorised person can act.

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Immutable audit trail

Cryptographically hash-chained records. Tampering is mathematically detectable. Always defensible.

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Real-time tracking

Originators track requests live. Approvers see SLA deadlines. Nothing falls through the cracks.

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Instant notifications

Email alerts at every stage. Approvers are notified the moment a document is routed to them.

Use Case — Leave Request

Fast, non-financial approvals

An employee submits a leave request. No financial value involved — the amount field doesn't even appear. The chain routes to Line Manager, then Department Head. Both approve in minutes.

Before approva

Days of back-and-forth over WhatsApp and email. No record of approval. HR chasing signatures.

With approva

Submitted → approved → archived. Under 24 hours. Full audit trail. Zero chasing.

Step 1 — Line Manager
Step 2 — Department Head

approva works for financial and non-financial documents. One platform, all your approval types.

Security & Compliance

A trail that cannot be altered.

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Hash-chained audit log

Every action — submission, approval, rejection — is linked cryptographically. Any tampering breaks the chain and is immediately detectable.

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PIN-secured decisions

Approvals require a personal numeric PIN. No delegation, no bypassing. The right person, every time.

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Signed document access

Uploaded files are stored privately. Approvers access documents via time-limited signed URLs — never exposed publicly.

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Full visibility for admins

Super Admins and Department Admins see real-time analytics — overdue documents, bottleneck steps, approval rates.

Use Case — Media Plan

High-value escalation across departments

The marketing team submits a PKR 2.5M media plan. approva automatically escalates through the chain — across two departments — before it's approved for execution.

Line Manager
Marketing · Any value
Marketing Manager
Marketing · Any value
Head of Marketing
Marketing · Above PKR 1M
CFO
Finance · Above PKR 10M
3 of 4
Steps triggered
2
Departments involved
Automatic
Audit entries
Yes
Board-ready trail
Admin & Configuration

Your organisation. Your rules.

Super Admin

  • Create and manage departments
  • Add users to the organisation
  • Assign roles and permissions
  • View org-wide analytics

Department Admin

  • Configure document types
  • Build approval chains
  • Set SLA defaults
  • View department analytics

No vendor involvement needed — Super Admins configure the system, Department Admins manage their own chains. Day-to-day administration is entirely in your hands.

About

Built by people who lived the chaos.

approva is a product of XIX Solutions — a technology company building focused, high-quality software for modern organisations.

We built approva because we experienced approval chaos firsthand and couldn't find a tool that was simple enough to deploy yet robust enough to trust. So we built one.

Ready to bring order to your approvals?