Approval workflow software for creative work.
yeses is approval workflow software for designs, campaigns and artwork, so a project can never quietly stall without somebody noticing.
- Free plan, no time limit
- No credit card
- Reviewers don't need an account
Not a workflow builder. A workflow that runs.
Plenty of approval workflow tools will let you diagram a process. The hard part was never the diagram. It is that once the work is out for review, somebody still has to notice a stage finished, work out who is next, and go and ask them. yeses does that part.
How it works
Four steps, then it is out of your hands.
- 01
Build the flow
Ordered stages, the reviewers on each, and how long each stage gets.
- 02
Reuse it
Attach the same flow to any project. Up to 20 stages, 50 reviewers each.
- 03
Send for approval
Stage one is notified. Later stages are asked only once their turn comes.
- 04
Watch it clear
Stages pass as they complete, and the whole thing lands as a decision record.
Features
What an approval workflow system has to get right.
Three things separate a workflow that finishes from one people route around: it has to advance itself, chase for itself, and leave proof.
Stages
Each stage opens when the last one closes.
A stage passes only when every reviewer in it has approved, and the next stage is notified at that moment. Nobody in stage three is sitting on a link they cannot act on, and nobody in stage one is wondering whether it is their turn.
Follow-ups
The chasing is the feature.
Reviewers are reminded every two business days, up to three times, and the clock starts when their stage opens rather than when you hit send. A stage-three reviewer's window does not burn while stage one is still arguing.
The record
Proof at the end, not a status field.
Every approval and change request is stored against a person, a time and a version, and none of it can be edited or deleted afterwards. When someone asks who signed off on this, the answer is a list of names, not a recollection.
Scope
What this approval workflow app does not do.
Worth saying plainly, so you can rule it out in one line rather than after signing up.
This is not a general business process tool. There is nothing here for purchase orders, expense claims, contract routing or HR requests, and no form builder or conditional branching. If you need an online approval workflow for finance or operations, the enterprise process suites are a better fit than this.
What it does instead is one thing thoroughly: getting visual work approved by the people who have to approve it, including the ones outside your company. Images to 25 MB and PDFs to 50 MB, ordered stages, and a record you can point at afterwards.
Questions
Approval workflows, answered.
Is this for creative work or for business processes?
Creative work: designs, campaign assets, artwork and documents that need sign-off before they ship. It is not a general business process tool, so there is nothing here for purchase orders, expense claims or HR requests.
Do reviewers need a yeses account?
No. Each reviewer gets their own link and approves straight from it. No sign-up, no password. The link is what identifies them, so the decision is still recorded against a specific person.
How many stages can one approval workflow have?
Up to 20 stages, with up to 50 reviewers on each. A stage passes only when every reviewer in it has approved, and the next stage opens at that moment rather than on a schedule.
Can I change a workflow that is already running?
Yes. Reviewers can be added or removed on a live review and the change is written into the history, so the record shows the workflow was edited and when. Editing the saved flow itself affects the next review, not the one in flight.
What happens if nobody responds?
Reviewers are reminded every two business days, up to three times, counted from when their stage opened. Then yeses stops and flags the review as stuck. It never escalates to a manager on its own, because who to involve is a judgement call.
How long do our review rounds actually spend waiting?
Longer than most teams guess, and the waiting is the part nobody plans for — the days between sending the work out and the last person replying. Put your own numbers in and see it per project. Try the revision cost calculator.
What does it cost?
There is a free plan, and it runs a whole review from start to finish: one project at a time, unlimited reviewers, the full decision record. Paid plans start at $63 a month billed annually, or $79 monthly, and buy volume rather than the basics. Every account opens with a 30-day trial of Business, takes no card, and never turns into a payment by itself. See the plans.
Build the chain once. Let it run.
Ordered stages, automatic follow-up, and a record of every decision at the end.