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Accounts Payable Approval

Vendor bills approved and held for payment, never paid. The approval bottleneck on accounts payable: bills searched and filtered, approved by a person, and held for payment, with anything over a threshold requiring two approvers.

Try it: expand a bill and approve it (it holds for payment, nothing is paid). Bills over $5,000 need two different approvers, and a queried bill is held for a person.

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Accounts Payable Approval · Keystone Books (SAMPLE)sample data · nothing is paid

Brightleaf Roasters (SAMPLE) · March 2026 · 10 vendor bills · bills over $5,000.00 need two different approvers

In queue10
Approved & held$0.000 of 10
Two-approver bills3
Due within 7 days6
Approved and held for payment (nothing paid):$0.00· 0 of 10 bills
10 of 10 rows shown

Demonstration outbox: approved, held for payment, not paid

Approve a bill and it stops here, held for payment. Nothing is ever paid, and a queried bill never lands here at all.

Sample client: Brightleaf Roasters (SAMPLE), payables reviewed by Keystone Books (SAMPLE) · as of 2026-03-31 · all figures invented · nothing is paid or sent

What this demonstration shows

  • What enters

    Vendor bills from the accounts payable inbox, with amount, due date, and category.

  • Where a person decides

    A person approves each bill; bills over the threshold need two different approvers.

  • What is held, not sent

    Approved bills stop in a demonstration outbox, held for payment. Nothing is paid.

  • What is logged

    Every approval, second approval, and hold is recorded in an audit history.

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