Laravel Approval Workflow

A reusable, headless Laravel package for multi-level approval workflows. It ships with a fluent API, database-backed workflow instances, multi-level approval, delegation, OTP hooks, pluggable notification channels, SLA tracking, history, and a full audit trail.

Namespace: Hadimazalan\ApprovalWorkflow
Composer package: hadimazalan/laravel-approval-workflow
Laravel: ^10.0 | ^11.0 | ^12.0
PHP: ^8.2

Why this package?

Approval workflows are everywhere — claims, leave requests, purchase orders, content publishing, government applications. They share the same shape:

A thing is created.
It must be approved by N people in order.
Some approvals can be delegated.
Some approvals require an OTP challenge.
Every action must be auditable.

This package provides a clean, headless core for that shape. It is framework agnostic about how you build your UI and who your approvers are — those are pluggable.

Quick start

use Hadimazalan\ApprovalWorkflow\Facades\Approval;
use App\Models\Claim;

$claim = Claim::create([...]);

Approval::for($claim)
    ->level('Head of Department')
    ->level('Finance')
    ->level('CEO')
    ->notifyBy(['email', 'whatsapp'])
    ->start();

That single call:

Persists a polymorphic ApprovalInstance linked to your $claim model.
Creates one ApprovalStep per level, in order.
Resolves approvers via the configured ApproverResolver.
Dispatches notifications to the first level's approvers via the configured channels.

Acting on a workflow

use Hadimazalan\ApprovalWorkflow\Facades\Approval;

$instance = $claim->approvalInstance;

Approval::approve($instance, $approver, remarks: 'Looks good.');
Approval::reject($instance, $approver, remarks: 'Insufficient evidence.');
Approval::delegate($instance, $fromUser, $toUser, reason: 'On leave.');

Installation

composer require hadimazalan/laravel-approval-workflow

The service provider is auto-discovered.

Publish the config and migration:

php artisan vendor:publish --tag=approval-workflow-config
php artisan vendor:publish --tag=approval-workflow-migrations
php artisan migrate

Documentation

See docs/ for full guides:

License

The MIT License (MIT). Please see LICENSE for more information.