Does paying an invoice approve the work?
No. Payment, commercial approval and delivery approval are three separate actions with separate authority and records.
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Who acts: Payer, commercial approver and delivery approver use their own grants
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Review narrow document-only access
The recording expands the original invoice’s document-only sharing review without creating a link. Such a link is limited to its invoice and permitted payment, document and receipt actions; it cannot grant project, commercial-approval or delivery-approval access.
Inspect pending payment settlement
Scroll to Merchant settlement in Processing payment. There is no verified receipt or ready transfer. In production, wait for the verified provider result: Processing or Confirming is not Paid. Payment reduces the balance, but does not generate tasks or approve a proposal.
Review commercial consent separately
The recording checks the current proposal’s acceptance confirmation and shows Accept scope and price becoming available, without submitting. Only the designated commercial approver can decide. Compare scope, planned hours, price, baseline and version; Reject proposal needs its own confirmation. Neither action is a payment or delivery approval.
Prepare exact-version revision feedback
The recording types precise mobile-heading revision feedback for the published deliverable, without sending a decision. The delivery approver reviews the exact shared version before approving its eligible covered work or requesting revision. Feedback does not silently increase the agreed price.
What changes when you finish
A document can be paid while delivery is still in review. Only the authorized current-version decisions change scope or delivery.
Payment settles a document balance
A verified successful payment reduces the invoice’s balance. A checkout redirect alone may still be awaiting confirmation, especially for asynchronous methods. Payment does not generate tasks, accept a scope proposal or move work into Done.
Commercial approval changes the agreement
The designated commercial approver reviews Scope comparison against its Baseline revision and Proposal version, checks the acceptance confirmation and chooses Accept scope and price. Reject proposal has a separate confirmation and leaves approved scope and money unchanged. The approved scope becomes the basis for work and linked draft financial effects. A payer or viewer has no commercial authority merely because they can see the invoice.
Delivery approval accepts a specific version
A designated delivery approver reviews the published deliverable and its exact current version. Approval completes only the eligible covered Client review leaves. A revision request records feedback without silently changing the agreed price.