You can specify alternative authorisers, to authorise your purchase orders in place of the usual authoriser. An alternative authoriser is given the same authorisation permissions as another user.
For example, if Bill goes on holiday, you can specify Tom as his alternative. Tom can then authorise purchase orders in place of Bill.
Once you have specified an alternative authoriser, that user can authorise purchase orders in place of the original authoriser, until they are removed as the alternative authoriser.
You can only specify one alternative authoriser per Sage 200 user.
If the alternative authoriser sets up their own alternative, this new authoriser becomes the alternative authoriser for both people. For example, Bill sets Tom up as his out of office authoriser. Tom then sets up Kim as his alternative authoriser. Kim will be able to authorise orders for Bill and Tom. Once Tom is removed as Bill's alternative authoriser, Kim can only authorise orders for Tom.
The alternative authoriser does not apply to the Super Authoriser, who must be set up separately.
There are two ways you can specify alternative authorisers:
What do you want to do?
Specify or remove alternative authorisers for all Sage 200 users
Set up an 'out of office' alternative authoriser
Other tasks
Purchase order authorisation notifications
Overview
Purchase order authorisation overview
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