---
title: "Quorum & Majority Voting"
description: "When a step has several approvers, decide what counts as approved: everyone, a majority, a fraction, or a specific number. One busy calendar shouldn't stall the whole request."
category: "Routing & approvers"
updated: 2026-08-27
canonical: https://approvethis.com/docs/manuals/quorum-voting
---

# Quorum & Majority Voting

An approval step with three or four named approvers doesn't have to wait on all of them. On any gate step, you can set what counts as a pass — every approver, a majority, a fraction, or a fixed number — and the step resolves as soon as that outcome is decided, auto-retracting the approvals still pending. This is an Administrator task on a workflow whose step already has multiple approvers assigned, and it's available on all tiers.

**Who this is for:** an Administrator.

> **Prerequisite:** Sign in as an Administrator.

> **Getting here:** Open the workflow and switch to its Workflow tab — approval steps are drawn there as a chain.

## Require a majority instead of everyone

A step that needs unanimous sign-off stalls whenever one approver is on leave or buried in a busy week; switching that step to majority lets the request move as soon as most approvers have weighed in. Note that existing approval-table (lookup) steps with no quorum setting behave as quorum=all until you change them.

1. Sign in as an Administrator on the workspace holding the workflow you want to change.
2. Click **Configure step** on the step whose approvers you want to apply a quorum to.

   ![Click Configure step on the step whose approvers you want to apply a quorum to.](https://approvethis.com/docs-assets/manuals/quorum-voting/screenshots/quorum-voting-s1-01.png)

3. Click **Settings** to reach the step's approval rules.

   ![Click Settings to reach the step's approval rules.](https://approvethis.com/docs-assets/manuals/quorum-voting/screenshots/quorum-voting-s1-02.png)

4. Click **Majority must approve** to make the step pass once more than half of its approvers have approved, rather than all of them.

   ![Click Majority must approve to make the step pass once more than half of its approvers have approved, rather than all of them.](https://approvethis.com/docs-assets/manuals/quorum-voting/screenshots/quorum-voting-s1-03.png)

5. Click **Close** to return to the workflow with the new rule applied.

   ![Click Close to return to the workflow with the new rule applied.](https://approvethis.com/docs-assets/manuals/quorum-voting/screenshots/quorum-voting-s1-04.png)


> **Success cue:** The step now reports its rule as **Majority**, confirming the quorum took effect.

> **What happens next:** From the next request onward, the step passes as soon as a majority of its approvers approve — the rest are released without acting. The full step dialog, including approvers and conditions, is covered in [Add an Approval Step](https://approvethis.com/docs/manuals/add-approval-step.md).