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This is a really urgent issue as all approvers can see all submitted expenses and it causes confusion - please implement ASAP!

Stops All approvers seeing all submissions

Agreed this functionality would be useful. Both a function to set a specific approver for specific employees (and that approver therefore can't see other employees expense claims that aren't relevant to them), and also I'd like to see a change that removes the option for employees who have admin access to self-approve their own expense claims.

If you are really interested in becoming a market leader then you need to listen and implement requests that are marked as Critical!!!! this is a basic need in business teams and needs to be done NOW!!!

Hi Xero has this feature been implemented?

This is a really urgent feature - Xero please implement.

I need to stream expense claim approvals to line managers, and so need a matrix that indicates for each user who the expense approver is.

This is very important. I might have to add another software just for expenses.

To add to this, surely the current situation constitutes a confidentiality breach potential. It is not feasible for one person to sign all expenses all of the time and yet allowing other approvers to HAVE to see what expenses other people have submitted who are not in their team, is potentially a GDPR breach.
What if someone submitted an expenses for medical treatment or checkup and didn't want every approver to know? What if one staff member was permitted to claim an expense personal and private to them, then all approvers would see it.
This must constitute a GDPR and Privacy breach.
Xero need to do much better on this.

Xero are you listening?

It's baffling that there is no hierarchy based expenses approver option. Even in a small business, there is often a team manager who should be able to approve expenses of their team, before being sent to their manager/or business owner to finally approve. The current method is only slightly better than a spreadsheet

It would be great if there was an 'Approval Workflow' implemented where a cost centre manager could be the only one to review and approve an expense claim submitted by their employee, each cost centre manager would be incharge and see only their employee expense submissions.

Also, the idea for an email sent out notifying approvers there is an expense pending approval is a necessity. Currently you need to login and check if there is anything when all you should receive is an email notification, or even a email with a link taking you to the expense and you can respond approved and it registers in the system. Concur have this feature and the workflow feature, would be great if Xero could do this also.

Please implement this feature so we can assign one approver. Is currently very clunky

Is there an app that we can use to allow delegated authorities while we wait for a Xero solution?

This issue has been going on for years. Can we please get an update from Xero to advise if, and when, this feature will be added? It seems like a basic feature that Xero is missing.

Our Submitters code their expenses to different tracking categories / budgets. We need to be able to have the Budget Holder approve expenses coded to their budget. Finance cannot do this (although at the moment we are forced to due to the limited Xero Expenses functionality).
An approval workflow such as that in ApprovalMax would be ideal.

This is critical to us, it is ludicrous that anyone assigned as an approver can see ALL expenses waiting for approval, an approver should only be able to see their team. This needs to be broken down by employee group and approver allocated to each group

We have multiple approvers throughout the organisation and it would be preferred if they could only see their own expenses and those of the people whose expenses they approve. If they are getting notification of another expense entered, they only want notification for those they approve as well, not all users of the app as is currently the case

Agreed that as our business grows we would appreciate the option to have certain people's expenses approved by their relevant manager.

To comply with financial processes we need to have clear levels of approval for expenses and an approver being able to approve all, as well as their own just isn't suitable for our business.