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Weworkbook Integration

ApproveThis manages your Weworkbook Integration approvals.

April 17, 2025

Integration Category: Education

Two Systems, One Goal

When Australian training organizations need to balance rigorous compliance requirements with efficient student management, manual processes often create bottlenecks. Weworkbook's student management platform handles enrolments, course scheduling, and compliance tracking – but critical approval workflows frequently slow down operations. This is where ApproveThis adds missing capabilities through Zapier-powered automation.

By connecting Weworkbook's student data with ApproveThis' approval engine, education providers gain:

  • 75% faster enrolment approvals
  • Automatic audit trails for compliance reporting
  • Real-time visibility across campuses

Why This Integration Matters

Weworkbook excels at managing student lifecycles but wasn't built for complex approval scenarios. ApproveThis fills this gap by adding configurable approval logic that adapts to your RTO's policies without requiring custom development. Through Zapier, these platforms exchange data in real time – triggering actions when students enrol, staff send emails, or approvals complete.

Key differentiators:

No License Headaches: External approvers (like partner employers or government auditors) can review requests via email without needing Weworkbook logins. ApproveThis handles authentication separately while maintaining full audit trails in both systems.

Conditional Logic: Automatically escalate high-value course approvals to senior staff or fast-track renewals for returning students based on Weworkbook's historical data.

Real-World Use Cases

1. Accelerating Enrolment Approvals

A vocational training provider processes 300+ enrolments monthly across construction and healthcare courses. Their compliance team manually checks each applicant's prerequisites in Weworkbook before approval – a 3-day bottleneck.

Integration Solution: When Weworkbook records a new enrolment, ApproveThis automatically:

  • Routes applications based on course type (healthcare requires manager approval)
  • Attaches prerequisite documents from Weworkbook student profiles
  • Updates Weworkbook notes with approval timestamps

Result: 90% of enrolments now get same-day approval, with automatic escalations for missing certifications.

2. Audit-Proof Communication Tracking

An English language school needs ASQA compliance proof for all student communications. Previously, staff manually logged emails in Weworkbook – often forgetting or delaying entries.

Integration Solution: When Weworkbook sends a course update email, ApproveThis:

- Creates an approval request with email content and recipient list
- Requires team leader sign-off within 24 hours
- Archives approved comms in Weworkbook student notes

Result: 100% communication audit coverage with timestamped approvals meeting compliance standards.

3. Streamlining Partner-Based Placements

A university coordinating 1,200 internship placements annually struggled with external employer confirmations. Partners ignored login credentials for Weworkbook, causing placement delays.

Integration Solution: When ApproveThis detects a new internship request:

- Routes approval emails to employer contacts with one-click approve/deny buttons
- Updates Weworkbook placement records upon confirmation
- Triggers reminder emails if no response in 72 hours

Result: Placement confirmations completed 11 days faster on average, with automatic reminders reducing follow-up calls by 40%.

Implementation Made Simple

Connecting Weworkbook and ApproveThis takes under 20 minutes through Zapier. Here's how:

Step 1: Create a Zapier account (free tier available)
Step 2: Choose your trigger from Weworkbook:
- New enrolment
- Email sent
- Course update
Step 3: Select ApproveThis as the action app
- Map Weworkbook data to approval request fields
- Set approval rules (thresholds, escalations)
Step 4: Test with live data

Pro Tip: Use ApproveThis' Calculated Fields to auto-approve enrolments under $5,000 or fast-track returning students based on Weworkbook's historical grades.

Department-Specific Benefits

Admissions Teams

Cut enrolment approval times from days to hours by automatically:
- Flagging missing documents in requests
- Assigning approvers based on course type
- Syncing approved enrolments back to Weworkbook

Finance Departments

Maintain budget control with:
- Auto-escalation for high-cost course approvals
- Real-time expenditure tracking in ApproveThis dashboards
- Weworkbook payment status syncing to approval conditions

Compliance Officers

Simplify audits using:
- Timestamped approval records for every Weworkbook transaction
- Automated note logging in student profiles
- Role-based access to approval histories

Beyond Basic Approvals

While the Zapier integration handles core triggers, ApproveThis adds deeper control:

Vacation Delegation: Ensure enrolment approvals never stall when staff are OOO. Automatically reassign requests to backup approvers with full context from Weworkbook.

Dynamic Thresholds: Adjust auto-approval limits seasonally – e.g., higher thresholds during peak enrolment periods, stricter limits when approaching budget caps.

Multi-Level Escalations: For critical updates like course cancellations, require sequential approvals from academic leads, then financial controllers, with all decisions logged in Weworkbook.

Getting Started

Education providers using Weworkbook typically see ROI within 30 days through reduced manual workflows and faster student onboarding. To begin:

1. Register for ApproveThis (14-day trial available)
2. Review Weworkbook documentation for your key trigger points
3. Build your first Zap in under 10 minutes

For complex implementations involving multiple campuses or government compliance requirements, schedule a custom demo to map approval logic to your accreditation standards.

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Best Approval Workflows for Weworkbook

Suggested workflows (and their Zapier components) for Weworkbook

Create approval requests for new enrolments

When a new student enrolment is recorded in Weworkbook, this integration creates an approval request in ApproveThis. It streamlines the enrolment process by automating request validation. *Note: Ensure your approval workflow is configured properly in ApproveThis.*

Zapier Components

Weworkbook Logo

Trigger

New Enrolment

Triggers when a new student enrolment is made.

Action

Create Request

Creates a new request, probably with input from previous steps.

Create student notes for new approval requests

When a new approval request is initiated in ApproveThis, this integration adds a student note in Weworkbook. It helps maintain an audit trail for approvals and provides context for future follow-ups. *Note: Configure note details to match your internal processes.*

Zapier Components

Trigger

New Request

Triggers when a new approval request workflow is initiated.

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Action

Create New Student Note

Add a new student note into a student profile

Create approval requests for sent emails

When an email is sent from Weworkbook, this integration creates an approval request in ApproveThis. It validates communication processes and supports follow-up management. *Note: Ensure email content mapping is set up in your approval request.*

Zapier Components

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Trigger

New Email Sent

Triggers when a new email is sent from the Weworkbook system.

Action

Create Request

Creates a new request, probably with input from previous steps.

Create student records for completed approvals

After an approval workflow finishes in ApproveThis, this integration creates a new student record in Weworkbook. It ensures that only approved requests lead to new student records and reduces manual entry errors. *Note: Verify mapping between approval data and student records.*

Zapier Components

Trigger

A Request Is Approved/Denied

Triggers when a request is approved or denied.

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Action

Create Student

Create a student