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Manual approval: requires human involving in reviewing claim payment details, making decision if the payment amount is eligible or not. If the payment is approved, it can be transferred to specified claim payment recipient. Otherwise, it will be disregarded. See Manual Payment Approval
Auto approval: this method is used for large numbers of claim payments that are often small (below a defined limit) and need quick processing without human intervention. You can control the % number of claims must be manually reviewed to minimize fraudulent risks. See Auto Payment Approval
After a payment goes through Approval process in Claim module, it can be sent to accounting system or export to file.
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