does anyone have any suggestions as to the best vendor bill approval process? i see there’s a 3 way matching workflow but you can also set Approval Rules for vendor bills, so just trying to understand if anyone has experience with one being better than the other

I believe approval rules are part of the suite approvals suite app. This is a decent option if your approval matrix is not too complex I usually prefer to build my own workflow from scratch because inevitably the approval matrix grows and changes over time which usually causes it to fall outside the capabilities of pre built solutions

Like @MGBC said, building one from scratch is best, I tried using the suite app, but it was way to restrictive for our process, so I built a workflow from scratch. This allows me to edit and make adjustments as needed. I added a reminder portion into ours, this reminds the approver that they have something to approve if they do not approve it after 5 days. Doing your own, does require creating custom fields on the Vendor Bill screen, but it was worth the work. I also created a search that populates the approver drop down with only employees that are set as approvers on their employee record. (check box) Took this same approach for JE's

thanks! did you add any exception messages to your workflows? it seems like out of the box the bill just goes to pending approval if there is an exception but there’s no clear message or anything to explain why