The Banner Approval System allows designated university personnel to act upon online purchase requisitions which have been created by others. These authorized "departmental approvers" are allowed to approve or disapprove requisitions which are funded using budgets for which the approver is responsible. Thus, the determination of who must approve a particular requisition is based solely on the funding of the requisition.

Through Self-Service Banner (SSB), the system allows authorized departmental approvers to:

• view a list of all documents they are to approve next;
• review the documents they must act upon (in detail or summary);
• act upon these documents (approve or disapprove);

Based on this same Budget Authority authorized users may also;

• View documents and Budget queries for their departments;
• Perform online Budget Transfers;