Introduction
This document has been put together to provide additional information on the different Approval Donkey accounts (Free & Paid) what you can and can’t do on each and how to set them up.
Accounts
There are three types of Approval Donkey accounts that you may have:
Member (Unregistered) - Email only FREE account
Member (Registered) - FREE account
PLUS (Registered) - PAID account
Member (Unregistered) - Email only FREE account
This typically occurs when a colleague or someone you know invites you to one of their Panels as a member.
You will have received an email invitation to the Panel
You can be a member of an unlimited number Panels for FREE
You can choose to remain on the email only account forever or register for a free account
As long as your Panel owner has listed you down as an approver you will be able to approve or decline any emailed approval requests using the buttons
If you are listed down as a ‘Reviewer’ then the above buttons will be deactivated and you can only add comments or attachments
To add comments and/or attachments to a request simply select ‘Reply’ type your comment and/or add an attachment and send the email like you would any email
You need never login to Approval Donkey or any other system to complete your approval requests and can do it via email only.
Excluded
There is functionality that you miss out on with an email only account vs competing the registration steps:
Send unlimited approval requests
Access to full request history including who has and hasn’t responded
Provide and view all comments and attachments
Dashboard with filtering to see all requests
Ability to quickly respond to multiple requests
Ability to set-up your own Panels (30 day free trial for up to 3 Panels)
Automated reporting at a frequency of your choice
Zapier integration and ability to set-up Zaps
Xero integration
Member (Registered) - FREE account
You may have found Approval Donkey yourself or received an invite to a Panel from a colleague or someone you know and have chosen to complete the registration steps i.e. Registering as a new user.
You can be a member of any number of Panels and have full access to the application (only Panel Owners i.e. the person who set it up and invited you needs to be on a PLUS account to keep the Panel activated).
Remember to activate the account by confirming your email address otherwise you will not be able to login.
If you cannot find the email to confirm your address, please use the ‘Resend confirmation email’ function on the login screen to send a new one.
PLUS (Registered) - PAID account
Panel owners are required to be on the PLUS account to keep any Panels they have created active or if they wish to add more than 3 Panels in total. The PLUS account has access to all Approval Donkey functionality.
Note: 3 Panel limit includes any archived or removed Panels in the count.
Included
Everything
Including ability to create unlimited number of Panels (approval workflows)
Invite an unlimited number of Members to your Panels
Active Panels
Approval Donkey works on the basis of activated Panels (approval workflows). Any registered member is able to create up to 3 Panels and invite Panel members and it will remain active, free for 30 days. After 30 days the Panel Owner is required to upgrade their account to a PLUS account to keep the Panel active or if they want to add more than 3 Panels.
Auto Archiving
If the Panel Owner does not upgrade to a PLUS account after 30 days then sometime later the Panel will be automatically archived and therefore become inactive for the Panel Owner and any Members.
Note: this does not effect any Panels where the Panel Owner is a Member of any other Panels i.e. He/She did not create it and was simply invited to it.
To re-activate a Panel simply go to the Panel settings page and select un-archive, complete the upgrade process and the Panel will be re-instated.