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# Setting Up Approvals for Alignments and Publishing

Determine how your teams approve changes to alignments using an approval method that meets your company’s requirements in Territory Planning. And designate who can publish approved alignments.

### 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 (not available in all orgs) and Lightning Experience</td></tr><tr class=""><td class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;">Available in: <strong>Professional</strong>, <strong>Enterprise</strong>, <strong>Performance</strong>, <strong>Unlimited</strong>, and <strong>Developer</strong> Editions with <a href="https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=sales.territory_planning_api_access.htm&amp;type=5&amp;language=en_US" target="_blank">Web Services API enabled</a></td></tr></tbody></table>

- **[Alignment Approval Methods](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=sales.territory_planning_prepare_approval_considerations.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)**  
    Consider tradeoffs between different methods for approving alignments in Territory Planning.
- **[Set Up a Process for Alignment Approvals and Publishing](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=sales.territory_planning_prepare_approval_setup.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)**  
    Specify who can approve changes to alignments, and in which sequence they can approve them. And specify who can publish those approved alignments in Territory Planning.

#### See Also

- [_Salesforce Help_: Retail Approval Processes](https://help.salesforce.com/articleView?id=what_are_approvals.htm&language=en_US)