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# Submit a Record for Approval Using a Classic Approval Process

Depending on your org’s customizations, you can submit a record for approval directly from that record.

### Required Editions

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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.

1. Go to the record that you want to submit for approval.
2. Make sure it’s ready to be submitted.
    
    Before you can submit a record for approval, it must meet the criteria for an active classic approval process. If you’re not sure what the requirements are, ask your admin.
3. Click **Submit for Approval**.
    
    If a classic approval process applies to the record, Salesforce begins the classic approval process. This button isn’t available after the record has been submitted.

To keep tabs on the progress of your submitted approval, we recommend following the approval record in Chatter.

#### See Also

- [Withdraw a Approval Request That Uses a Classic Approval Process](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.approvals_users_recall.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "If you submitted a record for approval but suddenly must update information in the record, recall the approval request. However, whether you can recall an approval request depends on how your admin configured the classic approval process that the record was submitted to.")
- [Classic Approval Processes User Preferences](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.approvals_change_approval_user_pref.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "Identify a delegated approver and control whether you receive approval request emails.")
- [Approval Requests from Classic Approval Processes for Users](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.approvals_users.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "Your admin can set up classic approval processes that let you and other users submit records for approval, which results in approval requests.")