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How to Get My Budget Approved Using Form Workflow Plus

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Budget approvals is one of the most common use cases for using a workflow application. Setting this up, however, can be quite a challenge. Managers of such workflows look for the following features when considering a workflow application:

  • Ease of set up
  • Seamless integration into the company’s tools
  • User-friendly dashboard for managing workflows
  • Versatile tool to accommodate complex use cases

Wizy’s Form Workflow Plus can easily work with simple to complex approval processes. It’s designed to work with G Suite apps. A web app enables easily managing requests and workflows. 

The Workflow creator uses the Google Sheet add-on to set up the workflow steps. 

The general scheme for managing budget workflows using Form Workflow Plus is as follows:

  1. The budget details are collected from the requester
  2. A spreadsheet collects the details of the request
  3. Form Workflow Plus forwards the details of the request to the reviewers set by the workflow creator
  4. Approval emails are coursed through Gmail
  5. Reviewers can work on requests via a web app

Here are three budget approval scenarios and how Form Workflow Plus can fit as a solution:

Case 1

For simple 1-step budget approval workflows, it’s as easy as a one-time setup with requests channelled automatically to the reviewer. We prepared a video walkthrough for creating workflows. This showcases the features of the add-on which are easily applicable to other validation processes. Here’s the link:

Case 2

Oftentimes, budget approvals require different managers reviewing requests based on amounts or payment types. A common scenario involves:

  • Manager A reviews budget amounts below $X
  • Manager B reviews budget amounts $Y and above

To learn more about conditional approvals, here’s a visual guide on how to set this up:

Case 3

There are budget approval scenarios that involve single to multiple levels of approvals depending on the budget amount. Here’s a specific use case:

  1. for amounts under 5000; 1 level of approval
  2. for amounts between 5000 and 10000; 2 levels of approval
  3. for amounts greater than 10000; 3 levels of approval

Form Workflow Plus can accommodate this using conditional approvals and allowing the review process to stop at specific steps. To learn more about how to set this up using the add-on, here’s a handy guide:

In this article, we’ve highlighted how Form Workflow Plus can work with simple to complex budget approval use cases. Feel free to schedule a demo and we’ll be happy to highlight how this add-on can meet your company’s needs:

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How to Manage Leave Requests Using Form Workflow Plus

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Are you looking for an easy solution to manage staff leave requests? This organizational challenge is best handled by using a workflow app. Wizy offers Form Workflow Plus as a solution for teams with G Suite accounts in automating validation processes. Here we highlight scenarios how Form Workflow Plus can help your team achieve that much sought after work-life balance.

The Small Office

Organization is always the key. No matter the office size, it’s important to track requests in a single place. Small offices may make do with email correspondences when filing leaves. However, it’s easy to overlook or worse, lose these emails. This is where our add-on can help.

Form Workflow Plus takes advantage of familiar G Suite apps in collecting requests, organizing them in a sheet, and providing a tracking dashboard for admins.

Form Workflow Plus has a user-friendly interface for setting up your validation process in minutes. Small offices may require a 1-step approval process for leave requests and we’ve made setting up workflows a breeze. Here’s a brief walkthrough:

The Medium to Large Sized Office

Complexities arise as organizations grow in size. Maternity leave requests may need to be delegated to Manager A, sick leaves to Manager B, and so on. There are scenarios where multiple approval levels are required depending on the leave type.

We’ve made sure Form Workflow Plus is flexible enough to accommodate these use cases.

Do you need certain leave types to be processed by a specific manager? Through conditional approvals, you can route requests to specific email address/es by setting criteria. This only needs to be setup once and when activated, requests are automatically routed as per your conditions.

To learn more, here’s a handy article to help you set up conditional approvals:

You also have the option to stop the review process at specific steps:

Form Workflow Plus includes a web app for managing users, subscription, workflows, and requests. Launch this on the sidebar or via (web app). We’ve worked hard in designing a web app that works as:

  • One stop repository of all the company’s forms
  • Dashboard for reviewers to work on pending requests
  • App for account owners to manage users, set roles, billing details, and workflows

Finally, no use case is too difficult. Tap into a robust support system to explore the features of Form Workflow Plus.

Our add-on comes with a Support Team reachable via support@wizy.io. We’ve also built a Help Center where users can read through how-to articles as well as case-specific FAQs. Book a demo via:

All in all, using Form Workflow Plus to manage leave requests comes with an established support community. Help is just an email or a click away!

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How to validate a workflow with Google Forms

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You have a workflow in your organization that requires a request being submitted by one person, and approval being given by another. Say, you’re in Human Resources and you need to manage day-off requests. Our Form Workflow add-on is a great tool to help you do this.

Taking the HR example, the Google Sheets add-on will let an employee submit a day-off request through Google Forms. From there, it goes directly to a supervisor’s email for approval. You keep all the results logged in your spreadsheet. Our add-on even gives you a summary of everything going on. All seamless and easy!

To begin, you start Form Workflow from the add-on menu of your Google spreadsheet. Link a form to your spreadsheet by clicking the Create button in your add-on sidebar. To modify the form, go to Form in the top menu, then choose Edit Form.

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The next step is to determine your reviewer, or the person you want to validate the day-off request. Click the blue Setup Reviewers button, and enter the email address of your supervisor. You can have more than two reviewers, so go ahead and enter the email addresses of two or more supervisors. Once one of them acts on the request, it is considered done.

If you want another person to validate the request after a supervisor approves it, tick the 2nd Validation Step box in your sidebar. Enter the email address of the second reviewer here.

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2nd validation workflow

Going to the Advanced tab of Form Workflow will give you some more options. Tick the appropriate boxes if you  want your supervisor to be able to put a request on hold or send it back to the person making the request. Take note that for the latter option to work, you have to set up the Requestor Email box.

advanced tab

Remember to switch on the workflow in your sidebar. Once you do this, on each submission of the Day-off Requests form, the add-on will send an email to a supervisor asking for approval. (The Email Template area in the Advanced tab lets you personalize the email sent to the supervisor.)

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In this email, there will be a validation module, asking the supervisor to act on the request. In addition to Approve and Decline, reviewers have the two additional choices that you set up in the Advanced tab. They can put the request on hold, or send it back to the requestor.

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How do you keep track of your workflows? Click on the Reports tab. It will give you a tally of all the processes, both done with and ongoing.

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We think you’ll agree that Form Workflow is a super-charged business tool! If you haven’t tried it yet, get Form Workflow here.

 

team-imgWizy.io’s customer success director Apol Massebieau has been a newspaper journalist, magazine editor, TV show host/producer, essay and fiction writer, and toy designer. She was an early adopter of Etsy and continues being fascinated by how small businesses thrive online.

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