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description: You can enable manual approval for Marketing Cloud Engagement Distributed Marketing. Bulk sends are also supported in manual approval.
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# Enable Manual Approval for Distributed Marketing

You can enable manual approval for Marketing Cloud Engagement Distributed Marketing. Bulk sends are also supported in manual approval.

### Required Editions

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1. In the Salesforce App Launcher, find and open **Distributed Marketing Administration**.
2. Navigate to the Compliance and Approvals section
3. Choose an option for Enable Manual Approval.
    
    1. Select **Never** to send through Distributed Marketing without manual approval.
    2. Select **Always** to require approval for all Distributed Marketing sends.
    3. Select **Only when content is modified** to require approval when the business user modifies content. Content is considered modified if it’s different from the content in Marketing Cloud Engagement. Differences include modifications made by defining default values for campaign sends.
    4. Select **Target audience is greater than or equal to** option to require approval when business users target a certain audience size. If you select this option, define a value from 2 to 250.
    
    ![Note](https://sf-zdocs-cdn-prod.zoominsoftware.com/tdta-mktg-mc_cross-cloud_products-264-0-0-production-enus/bd617332-480f-48e8-b283-3477883c1320/images/icon_note.png)
    
    Note Create at least one approval process associated with the MCDM Submission object before you enable manual approval.