Introduction

What Approval Ocean 360 is and why it exists.

Approval Ocean 360 is a domain-blind approval engine. Instead of every app in your suite re-implementing its own approval logic, they all point at one engine that owns policies, routing, delegation, SLAs, e-signature, and a unified inbox.

Why a separate engine

Approvals are the same shape everywhere: a request enters, it routes through stages of approvers, and a terminal decision is applied back to the source. Centralizing that means:

• One mental model and one inbox across every app.
• Consistent audit, delegation, and escalation behavior.
• New apps get enterprise-grade approvals for free.

Core objects

• Policy — the reusable definition of how a kind of request is approved.
• Request — a single item moving through a policy.
• Stage — a step in a policy (any_of, all_of, or in_order).
• Assignment — one approver’s pending decision within a stage.

Continue with the Quickstart.