Approve or reject a contract document

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title: Approve or reject a contract document
description: Review a contract request or attachment and approve or reject it.
locale: en-US
canonical_url: https://www.servicenow.com/docs/r/australia/employee-service-management/contract-management-pro/cmpro-approve-reject-request-docs.html
release: australia
product: Contract Management Pro
classification: contract-management-pro
topic_type: task
last_updated: "2026-09-10"
reading_time_minutes: 1
breadcrumb: [Initiate ad hoc approval, Common contract request tasks, Use, Contract Management Pro, Legal and Contract Operations, Employee Service Management]
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# Approve or reject a contract document

Review a contract request or attachment and approve or reject it.

## Before you begin

You must have received an email notification with a link to the request for approval.

Role required: sn\_cm\_core.contract\_fulfiller

## Procedure

1.  Open the approval record from the email notification, Self-Service, or Employee Center portal.

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Steps

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**From the email notification**

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Click the link in the email to open the record that needs approval.

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**From Self-Service**

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1.  Navigate to **All** &gt; **Self-Service** &gt; **My Approvals**.
2.  In the My Approvals list, click a record to open for approval.


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**From Employee Center**

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1.  In the Employee Center portal, on the menu bar, click the **My Tasks**.
2.  In the My To-dos list, click a record under the **Open** tab to open for approval.


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</table>2.  Review the record and either approve or reject:

    -   To approve the record, click **Approve**.
    -   To reject the record, enter comments for rejection in the **Comments** field and click **Reject**.
    **Note:** View the contract revision document available as the attachment on the internal storage or with the view access on the external storage.


## Result

The following table shows the result of approve and reject actions on the approval record. Contract fulfiller and collaborators get an email notification about the approval or rejection.

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Approve

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Reject

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-   The state of approval record updates from Requested to Approved.

If the requested item was assigned to a user group for approval, then the state of the approval records for the remaining users updates from Requested to No Longer Required.

-   Any approver who isn’t added to **Watch list** in the request loses access to the approved contract document.

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-   The state of approval record updates from Requested to Rejected.

If the requested item was assigned to a user group for approval, then the state of the approval records for the remaining users updates from Requested to No Longer Required.

-   The rejection comments posted by the approver are added to the requests Activities section.
-   Any approver who isn’t added to **Watch list** in the request loses access to the rejected contract document.

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</table>**Parent Topic:**[Initiate an ad hoc approval for a contract document revision](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/employee-service-management/contract-management-pro/cmpro-initiate-approval-contract-request.md)