Allowance Approvals — Proposed Guide

Allowance Approvals: Allowance approval would record a decision on a requested allocation. The approved limit may differ from the employee request and…

Overview

Allowance approval would record a decision on a requested allocation. The approved limit may differ from the employee request and should remain distinguishable.

Key concepts

Retain reviewer identity, approved amount and request version. Apply policy and conflict checks.

Implementation considerations

Approval must not silently initiate funding or reimbursement. Corrections should preserve the original decision history.

Illustrative data model

This local fixture shows a possible representation for the concepts above. It is not an endpoint response, production configuration or a claim that the described capability is implemented.

{
  "reference_only": true,
  "topic": "Allowance Approvals",
  "allowance_request_id": "allowance_request_example_123",
  "approval_id": "apr_example_123",
  "amount_minor": 12550,
  "decision": "pending"
}

Design review checklist

• Document which organization owns the allowance approvals representation and which actor may view or change it.
• Test the boundaries of allowance request id, approval id, amount minor, decision using synthetic values, including missing or inconsistent references.
• Before future implementation, obtain an approved contract and review failure behavior. This documentation does not authorize production activation.

Proposed data types

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