How do Brex business account transaction approvals work?

Transaction or transfer approvals impact Brex business accounts that have any AP clerks or more than one account admin.

For more information on the Brex role types, please read What are the various Brex role types?.

For AP clerk-initiated transactions

All transactions will require an account admin’s approval.

For admin-initiated transactions

By default, the following transactions will be flagged for approval:

• Transactions of any amount that are being sent to a new country

• Transactions over $25k being sent to a new counterparty

• Transactions over $50k being sent to any counterparty

By default, any account admin, including the account admin initiating the transaction, can self-approve. You can adjust this if you’d like to require approval from a secondary account admin, separate from the account admin who initiated the transaction.

The approval settings for account admin-initiated transactions can be adjusted in your Settings on the Company tab. Note that only account admins on the account are authorized to adjust these thresholds.

When a transfer from a Brex business account requires approvals, account admins will receive an email and a notification from their Brex mobile app to approve the payment. The account admin can approve the transfer from either the email or mobile app and it’ll continue processing as expected.

All thresholds listed above will apply to outgoing payments via bill pay, ACH, domestic/international wire, and check.

Note: Approval notifications will be sent via email if the account admin has not installed the Brex app.