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# Approving a quote

> Review, approve or reject a quote that's been submitted for sign-off before it reaches a customer

If your workspace has a quote-approval workflow configured, quotes that meet its conditions are held for review before they can be published to a customer. This page covers actioning a request as an approver. To configure who approves what and under which conditions, see [Workflows](/agents/workflows#quote-approval-flow).

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## Overview

Instead of manually chasing a colleague to sign off on a discount before it goes to a customer, let a [workflow](/agents/workflows) route it to the right approver for you. When a quote-approval workflow is active for your workspace, publishing a quote sends it for review instead of straight to the customer.

## Submitting a quote for approval

<Steps>
  <Step title="Build the quote as usual">
    Create or edit your quote in the [quote editor](/cpq/create-quotes). There's no separate "submit" step, approval is triggered from the same place you'd normally publish.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Select Send for review">
    When a quote-approval workflow is active, the publish button reads **Send for review** instead of **Publish**. Add an optional message for your approver if you want to give them context, then confirm.

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<Note>
  While a review is pending, the quote is locked for editing. It unlocks again as soon as the review resolves, whether approved or rejected.
</Note>

By default, every **Publish**, **Publish changes**, and **Republish** action goes through the same check, even on a quote that's already been approved once. Your workspace's workflow can be configured to skip review when nothing material has changed since the last approval. See [Re-approvals](/agents/workflows#re-approvals) for how that's set up.

## Reviewing a submitted quote

Approvers see pending requests in [Watchtower](/agents/watchtower), under **Needs review**. Each task shows the quote, who requested it, and their comment.

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From here you can:

1. **Approve**: publish the quote to the customer
2. **Reject**: leave the quote unpublished; the requestor is notified and can edit it before resubmitting

## After a decision

* **Approved**: the quote is published and reaches the customer through the usual [sharing flow](/cpq/create-quotes#sharing-a-quote-with-your-customer).
* **Rejected**: the quote stays unpublished. Edit it and send it for review again.

Either way, the decision is recorded in Watchtower's audit trail.

## Next steps

* Configure who approves what and under which conditions in [Workflows](/agents/workflows#quote-approval-flow)
* Review past decisions and monitor in-progress requests in [Watchtower](/agents/watchtower)
* See [Re-approvals](/agents/workflows#re-approvals) for how edits to an already-approved quote are handled