Tutorial · Approval cards
Flag a column as an approval gate and nothing moves past it without a recorded yes from a named approver — the same approval engine behind Flow task approvals, now on your board.
5 min read · Project teams & compliance
The approver's view
When a card lands in an approval column, it's locked: the assignee can't mark it complete until a named approver reviews it. The approver sees the card's details plus an Approve / Reject block with an optional comment — nothing hidden, nothing routed through email.
Setting it up
On any column, open its "..." menu and turn on Approval column. A shield badge appears next to the column name so everyone can see it's gated.
Add one or more people to the column's approver list. Anyone on that list can review a card that lands in the column.
The moment a card moves into the column, it shows an "Awaiting approval" badge and can't be marked complete — not by the assignee, not by anyone else, until an approver decides.
Approve or reject, with an optional comment. Either way the decision, the approver, and the timestamp land in the project's audit trail automatically.
This is the same approval engine that powers Flow task approvals — ANY-approver policy, a comment on the decision, and an immutable, timestamped record — just applied to a project card instead of a Flow step.
Same engine, different surface. Flow approvals gate a step inside a recurring process; approval cards gate a column on a project board. Both record the same way: approver, decision, comment, and timestamp.
Yes. Add multiple people to a column's approver list — any one of them can approve, so the card isn't stuck waiting on a single person.
The card stays in the approval column, still locked, with the rejection and comment visible so the assignee knows exactly what to fix before it's reviewed again.
No. Only cards that pass through a column you've flagged as an approval gate. Every other column behaves like a normal, unrestricted column.
See an approval column, a decision, and the audit trail it leaves behind on a guided demo.