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# Choose the Right Wizard to Create a Classic Approval Process

Before you create a classic approval process, determine which wizard is best for your needs.

### Required Editions

<table class="slds-table slds-table_bordered slds-max-medium-table_stacked slds-m-bottom_small edition"><colgroup><col></colgroup><tbody><tr class=""><td class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;">Available in: both Salesforce Classic and Lightning Experience</td></tr><tr class="" id="approvals_choosing_a_wizard__d4543e54"><td class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;">Available in: <strong>Enterprise</strong>, <strong>Performance</strong>, <strong>Unlimited</strong>, and <strong>Developer</strong> Editions</td></tr></tbody></table>

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Important Try [Flow Approval Processes](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.automate_automated_approvals.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "As your company grows, so does the complexity of your approvals, often requiring input from multiple people in different departments across different time zones. This complexity can mean that you spend more time waiting for each person to complete their review in the right order. Flow Approval Processes helps you coordinate multistep reviews that involve users, systems, and conditional paths."), a modern alternative to Classic Approval Processes. This new feature provides a more flexible, user-friendly flow-based interface, and it can trigger on record changes, supporting Apex extensibility and detailed logging for compliance and audit trails. It supports dynamic routing based on data and business rules, unlike Classic Approval Processes, which are tied to specific objects and offer limited support for processes by using conditions. With Flow Approval Processes, you can monitor submitted records and quickly identify bottlenecks, giving you unprecedented visibility into approval workflows. And, like Classic Approval Processes, Flow Approval Processes don’t consume automation credits or orchestration runs.

- **[Create a Classic Approval Process with the Jump Start Wizard](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.approvals_jump_start.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)**  
    For classic approval processes that use a single step, use the jump start wizard. This wizard chooses some default options for you.
- **[Default Selections for the Classic Approval Process Jump Start Wizard](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.approvals_jump_start_defaults.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)**  
    To make it easier for you to get started with a simple classic approval process, the jump start wizard automatically chooses some default options for you.
- **[Create a Classic Approval Process with the Standard Wizard](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.approvals_creating_approval_processes.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)**  
    When your classic approval process is more complex and you want to define specific steps, use the standard wizard.

#### See Also

- [Create a Draft Autolaunched Flow Approval Process](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.automate_automated_approvals_build_draft_an_approval_orchestration.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "Use a wizard to create a draft autolaunched flow approval process from the Approvals app. Your draft flow can contain up to 3 stages,")
- [Set Up a Classic Approval Process](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.approvals_getting_started.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "If classic Approval Processes is the right automation tool for your business process, follow these high-level steps to create one for your org.")