Client approval workflows built for how agencies actually work.
Your creative team reviews. Your account leads refine. Your clients approve through a shareable branded link. No login, no email threads, no version confusion — and a complete audit trail when a client asks "who signed off on this?"
The email approval pattern doesn't scale. You already know.
At 3 or 4 clients, email threads work. At 10 or 12, version confusion starts creeping in. At 20+, approvals become a significant drain on account management time — chasing sign-offs, reconstructing "which version did they see," answering "did that ever go live?"
Content gets lost in inboxes. Versions get confused across threads. Posts go live without clean sign-off because someone approved the wrong draft. And when a client claims they never approved something, there's nothing to check.
email threads per approval cycle per client
audit trail when an email-approved post becomes a problem
Three stages. Zero ambiguity.
Every piece of content flows through a structured pipeline: AI creates, your team refines, clients approve. Nothing goes live until everyone signs off.
AI generates first drafts. You direct the output.
Captions, images, hashtags, scheduled times — a complete first-draft calendar tailored to the client's brand voice. Up to 56 posts per batch, all delivered into your team's review queue.
- Content tuned to each client's brand profile
- Multi-platform formatting built in
- Text in ~15 seconds, images in ~2 minutes
Your creative team reviews. Your account leads refine.
Editors and creative directors review every post before it reaches the client. Flag what needs changes. Kill what doesn't fit. Approve the rest.
- Editors and creative directors review every post before it reaches the client
- Rewrite captions, swap images, adjust timing, kill posts that don't fit
- Internal comments visible only to your team — craft conversations stay internal
Clients approve through a link.
Send a shareable approval link. Clients see post previews — images, captions, hashtags, scheduled dates. They approve, request changes, or reject. No account needed.
- No login required for clients
- Inline comments on specific posts
- Optional password protection and expiration
What your clients see.
A clean, branded preview page. Every post laid out with its image, caption, hashtags, and scheduled date. No dashboard to learn. No account to create. Just the content, ready for sign-off.
Full post preview
Image, caption, hashtags, scheduled date/time, and target platform — exactly as it will appear when published.
One-click campaign approval
Approve the entire campaign at once, or go post-by-post for clients who want to review individually.
Inline change requests
Comments attached to specific posts. "Change the CTA" goes on the post that needs it — not buried in an email chain.
Nothing ships without sign-off
Posts stay in the queue until the client approves. And on the agency side, posts don't reach the client until your creative leadership has cleared them. Optional password protection and link expiration for sensitive accounts.
What your agency gets.
Full visibility into where every piece of content stands — from AI generation through internal review to client sign-off. The dashboard is your source of truth.
Real-time notifications
Know the moment a client approves, requests changes, or rejects a post. No more "did they see it?" guessing.
Approval status in every view
Calendar, campaign list, and dashboard all show approval state — approved, pending, changes requested — at a glance.
Comment threads per post
Revision history attached to each post. When the client says "change the headline," that comment lives on the specific post — not in a separate email.
Full audit trail
Who approved what, when. If a client ever asks "who signed off on that post?" — you have the answer, timestamped.
Different clients, different approval needs.
Not every client wants the same level of control. Configure approval requirements per client based on how they want to work.
"Set it and forget it" clients
They trust your judgment. They hired you so they don't have to think about social media.
Configuration:
Turn off client approval. Your team reviews internally, then campaigns auto-publish on schedule.
"Approve everything" clients
They want eyes on every post. They care about their brand and want final say on everything.
Configuration:
Require client approval on all campaigns. Nothing publishes until they sign off through the approval link.
High-risk / regulated clients
Healthcare, legal, financial services, government — industries where a wrong word can mean compliance issues, regulatory scrutiny, or contract violations.
Configuration:
Require approval + password-protected links + link expiration dates. Multi-level sign-off for extra scrutiny.
Your creative directors own the brief. AI fills it.
Approval workflows exist because creative judgment can't be automated, and shouldn't be. Apaya's role is to produce first drafts at volume so your creative directors can spend their time on the parts of the work that require human judgment: setting the creative direction, reviewing what fits and what doesn't, making the call on what ships. The AI doesn't replace that oversight. It makes it possible to apply that oversight across 20+ clients without burning out your team.
The workflow is built around this: nothing reaches the client without your creative leadership's sign-off. Nothing goes live without your client's sign-off. Two gates, both human, with a full audit trail behind them.
Approvals are one step. AI handles the rest.
Most approval tools solve half the problem — they streamline the review step but leave you creating all the content manually. Apaya's approval workflow is part of a complete production pipeline.
AI creates the content.
Captions, images, hashtags, formatted per platform, tuned to each client's brand voice.
Your team reviews internally.
Editors refine, admins approve. The content is already 90% there.
Clients approve. ← You are here.
Through a branded link, no login, with inline comments on specific posts.
Apaya publishes everything.
Across Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, and X. Auto-retry on failures. Timezone-aware.
Branded reports go out automatically.
White-label PDFs with your agency's identity, delivered on schedule.
Approval workflows are one step in a five-step production pipeline. See the full agency workflow →
Approval workflow questions.
Can clients approve without creating an account?
Can I set different approval levels for different clients?
What happens if a client doesn't respond in time?
Can I send approval reminders?
What does the approval process look like for clients?
How does this compare to Planable's approval workflow?
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