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Teams & Partners: Campaign approval

Article: 000053001
Updated: May 7, 2026

Review each SMS and email campaign from a subaccount before it gets sent to make sure it fully complies with your organization's standards

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As an account manager for a primary account, you have the ability to review any email and SMS campaign created by a subaccount, to ensure the email/SMS message complies with your corporate-approved branding, messaging, and current offers. This gives your subaccounts the freedom to focus on their unique local content, and gives you freedom from having to build each email and SMS message for your subaccounts. Upon review, you can reject or approve each email/SMS message, with commentary and notes.

 

 

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Add Campaign Approval to your account

 

Want to add Campaign Approval to your Partner/Team account? All you have to do is contact Teams and Partner Support!

 

Request approval as a client/child account

For an email campaign:

 

To request campaign approval, a subaccount first drafts the email as usual. Then, from the Schedule page, they click the Request approval button.


Subaccount email schedule page request approval button

 

The email is moved into the "Pending approval" status and can't be scheduled or sent until the approval is granted. At any time, the subaccount user can open the email draft and click Edit email to make edits. If edits are made while an approval request is pending, a new approval request must be submitted.

 


Email Schedule page Pending approval status.

 

For an SMS campaign:

 

To request campaign approval, a subaccount first drafts the SMS message as usual. Then, on the schedule page, they click the Request Approval button.



SMS editor draft status Request approval button 

 

The SMS message is moved into the "Pending approval" status and can't be scheduled or sent until the approval is granted. At any time, the subaccount user can open the SMS mesage draft and click Edit SMS to make edits. If edits are made while an approval request is pending, a new approval request must be submitted.

 

SMS editor draft status Pending approval status

 

Review and approve a submitted campaign

 

Any time a subaccount submits an email or SMS message for your review, a notice appears at the top of your Org dashboard to alert you that you have pending approvals. Clicking the "Go to campaign approvals" link brings you directly to the Campaign approval dashboard, where you can see each pending approval, and also past campaigns that have been approved or rejected.



MY ORGANIZATION menu with Org dashboard option selected, Org dashboard page with Heads up! There is a campaign pending your approval banner with Go to campaign approvals link

 

To manually navigate to the Campaign approval dashboard:

 

  1. In the MY ORGANIZATION menu on the left-hand side, click Accounts > Campaign approval.
  2. (Optional) Use the Status drop-down menu search by you child/sub account's username to narrow your search.
  3. Next to a "Pending" email or SMS campaign, click the three dots to expand the menu and click Review this campaign.

    MY ORGANIZATION menu with Accounts menu expanded and Campaign approval option selected, Campaign approval page with pending email menu expanded and Review this campaign option selected 

  4. Review the SMS message or the desktop and mobile views of the email, and then enter your feedback into the Comments field.
  5. Click the "Send approve/reject email" toggle switch to enable it.
  6. Click the Reject or Approve button.

    Email Approval Review overlay with Desktop and Mobile options, Send approve/reject email toggle switch, Comments field, and Cancel, Reject, and Approve buttons


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