This article is for administrators and staffing users.
You must have the Offer Approval feature enabled to use Offer Letters.
You must be an administrator to turn on Offer Approval and to modify the Offer Approval Form.
You must be an administrator or staffing user to manage the other Offer Approval settings.
Overview
This article explains how to set up Offer Approval in Paycor Recruiting. Offer Approval helps ensure that job offers follow a consistent submission, review, and approval process before they are sent to candidates.
Access offer approval settings
- Go to People > Hiring > Applicant Tracking to open the Recruiting platform.
- Select Admin, then select Approvals.
- Review the Offer Approval settings available on the screen. These settings include:
- On/Off, About
- Approval Managers
- Standard Approval Process(es)
- Offer Approval Form
- Offer Approval Request Email
Turn on offer approval
In the On/Off, About section, select On: We will use an Offer Approval process and then select Save.
Set up approval managers
Approval Managers are the first people to review an offer. They decide whether it moves forward or is sent back to the person who submitted it.
- Go to People > Hiring > Applicant Tracking to open the Recruiting platform.
- In the Approval Managers section, select Default Approval Managers to add Approval Managers.
- Select the Administrators or Staffing users who will manage incoming offer approvals.
- Select All sends the request to all Approval Managers.
- Select None lets the person submitting the request choose who receives it.

- Note: Only Administrators and Staffing users can be Approval Managers. Any user type, including Standard users can be Approvers.
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Per-user approval managers mean that when a specific person submits an offer, it is sent to the same Approval Manager every time. For these cases:
- Select Add an Offer Approval Manager
- Select the Approval Manager
- Select Save
- Select Is the offer approval Manager for these people
- Select the users whose Offer Approval requests will go to that Approval Manager
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Select Save.
- Remove an entry by selecting the Delete icon.
Create standard approval process(es)
An Approval Process is a pre-set group of people who review and sign off on offer details. Approvers can be Standard, Staffing, or Administrator users. A popular way of setting up approval processes is by department.
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Select Standard Approval Process(es) and select Create an Additional Offer Approval Process to create an approval chain.
- Enter a Name for the process.
- Enter an optional Description.
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Select the Process Type.
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All At Once sends to all approvers at the same time.
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Sequential defines a specific order of approvers.
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All At Once sends to all approvers at the same time.
- Add your approvers.
- Select Create to save the approval process.
Customize the offer approval form
The Offer Approval Form captures offer details and is sent to approvers for review and approval.
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In the Offer Approval Form section, add or remove fields. Fields can be optional or required. Required fields have a star.
- To create brand new fields on the form, select Create a Custom Field, drag it into the form, and drop it.
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Select the Field Type, enter the Field Title, any values (if applicable), and required or optional.
Note: Field names cannot be edited later without deleting the field and its associated data.
- Select Save.
- Drag fields to set the order in which they appear on the form.
Configure documentation upload settings (Optional)
You can require supporting documents to be uploaded with offer approval requests.
Note: Additional forms are optional but can help teams transition from internal offer checklists to Paycor’s integrated Offer Approval process.
- Select Upload a Document.
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Select the checkbox to require supporting documentation with each request.
Update the offer approval request email
This email notifies approvers when an offer is ready for review.
- In the Offer Approval Request Email section, review the email template sent to approvers.
- Edit the content to match your organization’s standards.
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Use available auto-fill tokens to include offer details automatically.
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