PyraCloud workflow enables users to set up approval workflows depending on price or publisher.
Workflows and approval groups are created in PyraCloud to significantly simplify configuration and maintenance of approval limits and assignment of these limits to the individuals.
This approach uses the notion of “Approval Groups” that represents a set of individuals who are allowed to approve the orders. Approval groups are then assigned to users.
The purpose of approval groups is to create a collection of users who will be responsible for approvals. To reduce the effort to maintain a group we can link approval groups together by parent-child relationships.
Each approval group can only have one parent but can be used as the child in many approval groups.
Note: Only the Admin would have access to this feature. In case this access is required for any other user, either an admin can set up this access or the user would have to reach out to their SoftwareONE representative to receive it.
Setting up Purchase Approval Groups
PyraCloud allows users to set up to 3 levels of purchase approval groups.
Approval Groups represent a set of individuals who are allowed to approve the orders. Below are the steps needed to be followed to set up purchase approval groups:
- Login to the PyraCloud portal
- Click on “Purchase Approval Setup” under the Setup tab
This will open up the “Purchase Approval Setup” page.
To create a new approval group click on the “+New Group” button.
This will open a “Create Approval Group” window. Enter the name of the approval group, approval level (1/2/3), define the login/s and click “Create”.
Clicking on create will create an approval group; if an order created by the user exceeds the allowed spending limit, then individuals in the approval group will be listed as valid approvers. These approval groups can be linked together by creating parent-child relationships.
Setting up an Approval Workflow
Under the Purchase Approval Setup mentioned above, you will see a table listing all users with PyraCloud access.
You can setup an individual workflow/approval for each user by clicking on their name or clicking on “Approval Workflow Setup” in the Actions Column.
This will open the Approval Workflow Setup page.
In the “Approval Workflow Setup” page, you can create rules for the users. Fill out the required fields and click on “Create Rule”.
- Purchase Approval Group: This is the group that would approve the user’s transaction whenever the approval would be required
- Currency: This is to set up the currency on which the rule would be applicable. If “Any” is selected, the rule would be applicable to all currencies
- Publisher: This allows you to select the publisher if you want to create a workflow role for a specific publisher. If “any” is selected, the workflow rules would be applicable to all.
- Total Amount: This defines a limit to which amount a user can purchase without approval. This is defined based on currency, manufacturer, where manufacturers are possible wild cards. If the user makes any transaction that is exceeding this amount, then an approval would be required from the selected purchase approval group.
Once these fields are defined, you can click on “Create Rule” and then “Save”.
Deleting Rules
To Delete an existing rule, simply click on “Delete” in the Actions column.
