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go4clic Integration

ApproveThis manages your go4clic Integration approvals.

April 17, 2025

Integration Category: Education

When Bureaucracy Meets E-Learning Chaos

Let's get real - your training managers spend more time chasing signatures than actually improving courses. Faculty chairs drown in enrollment emails. Finance teams play spreadsheet tag with budget approvals. Meanwhile, your LMS platform (we see you, go4clic users) sits there full of unrealized potential.

ApproveThis doesn't just "integrate" with go4clic - it weaponizes it. We're talking about transforming that sleek course management system into an actual decision-making engine. No more copy-pasting data between tabs. No more "Did you get my approval request?" slack messages. Just clean, automated workflows that make your academy look competent.

Why This Combo Doesn't Suck

go4clic handles the brains of your training ops - course creation, user management, all that academic jazz. ApproveThis? We're the spine. When you connect them through Zapier, you get:

  • Automatic enrollment approvals that don't require 3 logins
  • Budget checks before courses ever go live
  • External reviewer access without buying extra LMS licenses

Example: Your corporate client wants to audit leadership training content. Instead of exporting PDFs and playing email tennis, you route it through ApproveThis. Their team votes directly in email - no go4clic accounts needed. Decision hits the LMS automatically. You look professional.

Real Workflows for People Who Hate Meetings

1. Course Publishing That Doesn't Embarrass You

Scenario: Your instructional designer just uploaded a new compliance course. Normally, this triggers a 2-week email chain involving Legal, HR, and that one SME who's always on vacation.

With the integration:

go4clic detects the new course → ApproveThis pings all required approvers via email → Legal reviews on mobile during commute → HR head delegates review when OOO → Course goes live automatically once thresholds met.

Bonus: Use calculated fields to auto-approve updates under $500 budget changes. Because micromanaging $20 typo fixes is beneath you.

2. Enrollment Without the Paperwork Hangover

Problem: Your university's executive MBA program requires 4 signatures per enrollment. Applicants get ghosted for weeks. Coordinators develop a nervous twitch.

Solution:

Admissions team submits app → ApproveThis routes to department heads → Conditional logic skips redundant approvals for returning students → Auto-enroll in go4clic upon final sign-off → Student gets welcome email before they even check status.

Key detail: Approval groups let you require consensus from the finance committee while letting faculty approvals happen in parallel. No more "Who's holding this up?"

3. Budget Audits That Actually Prevent Fires

Nightmare fuel: Your coding bootcamp accidentally offers 50% scholarships to 200 students because someone fat-fingered a discount rate.

Prevention mode:

go4clic course pricing changes → Trigger approval workflow with amount comparisons → Finance director gets SMS alert for anything over 15% discount → Rejections roll back the LMS change automatically → Approvals update go4clic pricing instantly.

Pro move: Set escalation rules so denied requests bounce to CFO after 24hrs. Because sometimes you need to light a fire under people.

Setup That Won't Make You Swear

1. Grab an ApproveThis account (free trial works)
2. Connect both apps in Zapier - here's the Zapier guide
3. Pick your trigger:
- New go4clic course? → Approval check
- Enrollment request? → Auto-route to department heads
4. Set thresholds so small stuff auto-approves
5. Test with a $1 course change to feel powerful

Pro tip: Use go4clic's webhooks if you need real-time updates. Otherwise, Zapier's 15-minute checks work fine for most academies.

Who Actually Benefits From This?

Corporate Training Teams

Stop being L&D's paperwork lackey. When sales needs urgent product training, your workflow:

Request → Auto-check against Q2 budget → Route to Sales VP if over $10k → Push approved course to go4clic → Enroll team before the quarter ends.

Universities Running Continuing Ed

Continuing education departments are approval hell. Adjunct faculty contracts? Certificate program pricing? Use approval thresholds:
- Auto-approve adjunct rates under $5k
- Escalate anything with "emergency" in title to Dean
- Enroll approved instructors in go4clic with proper permissions

Healthcare Compliance Officers

When new protocols drop, you need training live yesterday. Bypass bottlenecks:
1. Update go4clic course
2. Approval workflow pings legal & compliance
3. Both approve? Course goes live instantly
4. Denied? Comments auto-send to your team

Critical: Vacation delegation ensures someone's always available to approve. No more waiting for Karen from Legal to return from Maui.

Why This Isn't Just Another Integration

ApproveThis doesn't just send data to go4clic - it enforces your actual decision-making rules. While other tools might auto-enroll users, we let you:

- Require sequential approvals for chain of command
- Set dollar limits that trigger different reviewers
- Automatically convert approvals into LMS actions
- Track every decision in reports auditors love

Example: A vocational school uses calculated fields to auto-approve enrollment if GPA >3.5 AND financial aid cleared. Combines two systems into one intelligent process.

Cool Features You'll Actually Use

Beyond basic approvals:

Email-based rejections: Faculty can deny enrollments from Gmail with feedback. Syncs to go4clic comments automatically.

Dynamic due dates: Make approval deadlines match course registration windows. No more stale requests.

Approval by exception: Only get notified when something exceeds normal parameters. (Yes, you can finally stop approving every $10 textbook change.)

Getting Started Without the BS

1. Sign up for ApproveThis - takes 3 minutes
2. Connect to go4clic via Zapier (seriously, it's checkboxes)
3. Clone our pre-built template:
- Course approvals
- Budget checks
- Enrollment workflows
4. Add your reviewers
5. Let the system handle the nagging

Not sure? Book a 15-minute demo. We'll show how to cut approval delays by 80% using your actual go4clic account. No sales jargon - just proof it works.

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Best Approval Workflows for go4clic

Suggested workflows (and their Zapier components) for go4clic

Create approval requests for new go4clic course listings

When go4clic provides a list of academy courses, this automation creates an approval request in ApproveThis for review before courses are publicly listed. This integration is ideal for academies that want to ensure quality control of course content. *Note: Ensure course criteria are configured in the ApproveThis workflow.*

Zapier Components

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Trigger

Academy List Courses

An endpoint to list all courses of an academy.

Action

Create Request

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

Enroll users in go4clic courses for new approval requests

When a new approval request is initiated in ApproveThis, this automation enrolls the user directly into a selected course in go4clic. This integration speeds up the enrollment process after an approval decision and reduces manual task handling. *Note: Verify enrollment details are mapped correctly between the two apps.*

Zapier Components

Trigger

New Request

Triggers when a new approval request workflow is initiated.

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Action

Enroll User on Course

Enrolls a user into a course within go4clic

Enroll users in go4clic courses after request approval

This integration monitors approval outcomes in ApproveThis and enrolls users in go4clic courses once a request is approved. It ensures that course participation only proceeds after necessary decision-making processes, streamlining both enrollment and quality assurance. *Note: Confirm that the approval status is accurately transmitted to the enrollment action.*

Zapier Components

Trigger

A Request Is Approved/Denied

Triggers when a request is approved or denied.

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Action

Enroll User on Course

Enrolls a user into a course within go4clic