Payment approvals help businesses control their payments on Wise. Payment approvals are only available in regions where you can open balances and hold money.
Learn more about how payment approvals work
You can set up a payment approval for any team member with permission to set up or make payments via transfer. You must have permission to set up payment approvals for other team members.
You can set up a payment approval for a team members in three ways:
When you add them to the account
You need permission to add or remove team members and change their permissions.
When adding a team member to the account, if you give them permission to set up or make payments via transfer, you’ll get another step where you can set up payment approvals for this team member.
Here, you can choose whether 1 or 2 people need to approve their payments. You can also choose whether all their payments should require approval, or just those over a certain amount.
From the Team page
Go to the Team page
Select Payment approvals. You’ll see any team members with permission to set up or make payments via transfer
Find the team member you want to set up a payment approval for and select Set up approval
Choose whether 1 or 2 people should approve their transfers, and if they only need to be approved over a certain amount
Select Confirm
From Team Member pages
Go to the Team page
Select the team member you want to set up a payment approval for to go to their Team Member page
Select Edit in the Payment Approvals section
Choose whether 1 or 2 people should approve their transfers, and if they only need to be approved over a certain amount
Select Confirm
How do I cancel a payment approval?
Go to the Team page
Select Payment approvals
Find the team member you want to remove the payment approval from and select Edit
Select No approval
Select Confirm no approval
You can also remove a payment approval for a team member on their team member page by selecting Edit in the Payment approvals section.