One approval queue for money going out.

Expense claims, vendor bills, salary advances, commissions and payroll runs all wait in one queue. A manager approves whether the spend was needed, Finance approves the payment, and both decisions are recorded.

Waiting on a decisionSecond stageApproved by the departmentStage oneWaiting on FinanceStage twoThen it posts and paysLedger
ManagerWas it neededtheir call
FinanceCan we pay ita different call
QueueBoth recordedno email trail
LedgerPosts afternever before
Two questions, asked of two people.
Two decisionsNothing moves on one person saying yes

A claim clears its department, then clears Finance. Two different people, two different questions, and the queue records both.

The queue

Five kinds of spending, one list.

Every item here was created by work elsewhere in the company and has already cleared its own department. Filter by source to see what each kind looks like.

NearSyncFinanceApproval QueueSearch, plan and askKAll hubs
Pending decisions5Value awaiting release287,645.00Oldest in queue2 days

One queue, five sources. Each row already cleared its own department, so the question here is not whether the work was needed. It is whether the company pays it.

  • Amina RahalCommissionCalculated

    Tidal Systems, phase two. 5 percent of 86,500.00

    4,325.00AED
    Second decision
  • Rami HaddadExpense claimApproved by department

    Client dinner, four people. Receipt attached

    620.00AED
    Second decision
  • July payroll runPayrollPrepared in Human Resources

    34 employees. Runs on the 28th once released

    274,300.00AED
    Release
  • Maryam Al SuwaidiSalary advanceApproved by department

    Recovered over three months from net pay

    6,000.00AED
    Second decision
  • Amina RahalCommissionCalculated

    Harbour Point, fit-out. 5 percent of 48,000.00

    2,400.00AED
    Second decision

A rejection has to carry a reason. It lands on the record and on the claimant's notification, so the resubmission fixes the actual problem.

Win a deal, and the commission arrives already calculated.

The sources

Where each item comes from.

Nothing in this queue is typed in by hand. Each item is created by the work that produced it and sent to whoever makes the money decision.

Expense claimsFrom Expenses

An employee submits a claim with the receipt attached. Their manager approves it, then it waits here for Finance to pay it.

Company expensesFrom Expenses

A bill recorded against a vendor. Approving it books the amount the company owes, ready to be paid off.

Payroll runsFrom Human Resources

Prepared and checked by Human Resources. Finance gives the final go-ahead to pay it.

How payroll runs
Salary advancesFrom Human Resources

Approved by the department, then by Finance, and repaid from salary over the agreed months.

CommissionsFrom Sales

Calculated automatically from the won deal and its commission rate. The working is shown, so Finance only decides whether to release the money.

Two-step approval

Every payment gets two approvals.

The department decides whether the spend was needed. Finance decides whether it is paid. Both answers are kept, with names and dates.

  • See who approved each step, and when
  • Requests go to the right approver automatically
  • Claimants can see exactly where their claim is
  • Rejections need a reason, and the claimant is notified with it
  • A rejected and resubmitted claim keeps its full history
Expense claimTwo decisions
DepartmentWas it needed
FinanceIs it paid
RecordedWho, and when
Claimant seesWhere it has got to
If it is rejected
ReasonLands on the record
HistoryKept, not deleted
Routed from the recordnot from a rule someone remembers
After approval

Approve it, and the books update themselves.

The accounting entry is written the moment the decision is made, with no data entry afterwards.

  • An approved expense posts to the right account instantly
  • Vendor bills become payables; staff reimbursements join the next payroll run
  • Release payroll that Human Resources has already prepared and checked
  • Commissions stay linked to the deal they came from
  • Every approved item reaches the ledger straight away, nothing pending in between
ApprovedPosts now
ExpenseTo its account
PayableOpened
ReimbursementOn the next run
CommissionFollows its deal
In the ledger
TimingAt the decision
Pending in betweenNone
Payroll released hereafter HR prepared and checked it
Finding your way

Filter the queue by what kind of spending it is.

One row of filters splits the queue into expense claims, payroll runs, salary advances and commissions. A second switch moves between what is still waiting and what has already been decided, and three counts sit above both, so you know how much is on you before reading a single line.

The queue
Filter byKind of spend
Switch toAlready decided
Above themThree counts
Decided items keep the answer, the person and the date
Releasing payroll

Send a payroll run back to Human Resources with your reason.

Approving a run clears it to pay and tells Human Resources so, naming the office, the month and the year. Returning one puts it back in their hands with your note attached, so they can correct it and send it again instead of working out what you objected to.

Payroll run
ApprovedCleared to pay
ReturnedWith your note
Message namesOffice, month, year
Human Resources prepares it; Finance decides when it is paid
Whose decision

Only the named approver can make the decision.

If an item is not yours to decide, NearSync tells you the moment you try, instead of showing a tick for something that did not happen. Every decision that does go through is kept with the person who made it, the time and any comment they left.

A decision
Made byThe named approver
If not yoursYou are told
Kept withName, time, comment
A refused decision never looks like a successful one

Access

Who can do what.

A manager approving their own team's claims is everyday work. The final money decision applies across every department, so keep it with a small group.

See

See the queue, and what is waiting on you.

Do

Approve or reject within your own department.

Manage

Make the final Finance decision on any item.

Admin

Decide who gets to make the money decision.

Admin is the highest role and is not constrained by the permission grid, so it is worth keeping to the smallest group that genuinely needs it.

Finance guides

See Finance on your own data.

Half an hour on your own books, with the operations that post into them running beside.