Alternative authorisers for purchase orders and requisitions

You can specify alternative authorisers, to authorise your purchase orders or requisitions in place of the usual authoriser. An alternative authoriser is given the same authorisation permissions as another user.

For example, if Bill goes on holiday, you can specify Tom as his alternative. Tom can then authorise purchase orders or requisitions in place of Bill.

Once you have specified an alternative authoriser, that user can authorise purchase orders or requisitions in place of the original authoriser, until they are removed as the alternative authoriser.

You can only specify one alternative authoriser per Sage 200 user.

If the alternative authoriser sets up their own alternative, this new authoriser becomes the alternative authoriser for both people. For example, Bill sets Tom up as his out of office authoriser. Tom then sets up Kim as his alternative authoriser. Kim will be able to authorise orders or requisitions for Bill and Tom. Once Tom is removed as Bill's alternative authoriser, Kim can only authorise orders or requisitions for Tom.

The alternative authoriser does not apply to the Super Authoriser, who must be set up separately.

There are two ways you can specify alternative authorisers:

• Specify an alternative for the Sage 200 user only as an 'out of office' authoriser.
• Specify alternatives for all Sage 200 users allowed to access this company dataset.