--- schema_version: "1" id: 19d8d0137b5cd347975596ca4b9d7c486b216982f6f3db5bf3c4d58691cbdf28 title: Prepare Your Org for Classic Approval Processes collection: admin version: current locale: en-us portal_url: https://docs.salesforce.com/admin/current/en-us/platform/264-0-0/approvals_prep_org.md canonical_url: https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.approvals_prep_org.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 source_site: help.salesforce.com content_type: documentation content_hash: c2f45706eb03cd73f6f71c729dec3da782c5c67b36179385abac4acef4634f95 description: Make sure that your users can submit their records for approval using classic approval processes, and consider how you can make it easy for approvers to respond to approval requests. products: - Flow Builder - Salesforce Platform release: "264" --- # Prepare Your Org for Classic Approval Processes Make sure that your users can submit their records for approval using classic approval processes, and consider how you can make it easy for approvers to respond to approval requests. ### Required Editions
Available in: both Salesforce Classic and Lightning Experience
Available in: Enterprise, Performance, Unlimited, and Developer Editions
![Important](https://sf-zdocs-cdn-prod.zoominsoftware.com/tdta-platform-platform_automation-264-0-0-production-enus/60568438-ec7e-4665-acd1-7c80dcbe60d5/images/icon_important.png) 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. - **[Let Users Submit for Approval with Classic Approval Processes](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.approvals_let_users_submit.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)** After you activate a classic approval process for an object, customize the object’s page layouts to support record submission. - **[Override the Sender for Email Approval Notifications from Classic Approval Processes](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.approvals_email_sender.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)** By default, the sender for email approval notifications is the user who submitted the record for approval using a classic approval process. You can override the sender with an organization-wide address, like approval@acmewireless.com. - **[Let Users Respond to Classic Approval Process Requests from Your Org](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.approvals_homepage.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)** Give your users an instant view of their approval requests from classic approval processes by customizing the Home page or navigation bar. - **[Let Users Respond to Approval Requests from Classic Approval Processes by Email](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.approvals_email_parent.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)** If the email notification includes all the information that an approver needs to make a decision, enable email approval response. That way, a user can simply reply to the email notification. - **[Let Users Respond to Classic Approval Process Requests from Chatter](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.approvals_chatter.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)** If your users don’t need in-depth information to decide how to respond to an approval request, enable Approvals in Chatter. That way, they don’t have to leave their feed to continue with their day-to-day tasks. - **[Let Users Respond to Approvals Requests from Classic Approval Processes in Slack](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.approvals_slack.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)** If your users don’t need in-depth information to decide how to respond to an approval request, and they have a connection to Slack, enable Approvals in Slack. That way, a user can simply respond to the Slack notification. #### See Also - [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.") - [Limits and Considerations for Classic Approval Processes](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.approvals_considerations.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "Before you automate something with a classic approval process, be aware of the limits and considerations.")