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title: Give Approver Rights to Users
description: Learn how to give users approver rights in absence.io and manage who can review and approve leave requests.
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# Give Approver Rights to Users
You've got your account set-up, you have users requesting time-off and now you need someone to approve these requests! In this guide, you'll learn just how to do that. Please note, however, that these steps can only be done by an Admin, HR, or Owner.
So let's start!
1. Go to the users page.
2. Select the desired user from the list and click on them. (Still not able to find the desired user? Click **[here](https://info.absence.io/en/help-center/the-users-tab-and-its-functions?hsLang=en)** to get information about the tab "**Users**".)
3. Go to General within the Profile.
4. Mark the checkbox ("**This user is allowed to accept & decline absence requests**") to give **approver rights** to the desired user.
5. Click on Save to accept the changes.
The user is now set as an approver and can be selected as an approver within the absence request settings.
Note: **The user** can now be selected as an **approver** whenever an **absence request** is made and the user who is **requesting** the **absence** has no specific **assigned approver** (**also no department approver**).
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