iPhone and Android
Most approvals are not hard decisions. They are easy decisions waiting for somebody to be back at a desk. The phone app is the same AxisFlow, cut down to the four things worth doing one-handed: see what is waiting, read why, approve it, or send it back with a reason.
An approval lands on the lock screen the moment it reaches you, not in tomorrow morning's email. Reminders and rejections do the same; everything else does not, which is why people leave it switched on.
Photograph the quotation, add the lines, send it. The draft is saved before the photo is uploaded, so a dead spot in a stairwell costs you nothing.
The app opens and shows what was waiting last time you had a connection. Approving needs the server, because an approval decided offline is an approval somebody else may already have made.
The same account you already use. No separate password, no separate setup — sign in once and the phone stays signed in.
Three taps, and it behaves like any other app on the home screen.
It has to be Safari for this — Chrome on an iPhone cannot add an app to the home screen. And notifications only work once it has been added, which is Apple's rule rather than ours.
Open it nowFrom the Play Store, or straight from the browser — the same app either way.
If your company has not switched notifications on yet, the app says so on the account screen and everything else still works.
Open it nowNo. It is the same email address and password you use in the browser. If your address is in more than one company, the app asks which one you want on this phone.
Once every three months at most, and the clock resets each time you use it — so a phone in daily use never asks again. A phone left in a drawer stops working, which is the point.
Sign in anywhere else, open the account screen, and sign that phone out. It stops working immediately and its notifications stop with it. Your administrator can do the same from the people screen.
Press and hold a row to start picking, then tap the rest. Each one is still decided on its own and recorded on its own — if a rule stops one of them, the others go through and you are told which did not.
No. Nothing runs in the background. A notification arrives through the phone's own push service, which is the same one your messages use.
Only if the phone itself is unlocked — the app sits behind the phone's own lock screen like everything else. Nothing is stored on the phone except a list of what was waiting, and signing the device out from elsewhere clears its access straight away.
The phone app is part of AxisFlow, not an extra. Every plan includes it, for everybody in the workspace.