Approvals
Approvals: formal client sign-off
When a client is happy with a page, they can mark it as approved. Reviso records who approved, when, from what IP / user-agent, and (Pro) attaches a PDF certificate to the notification email.
How a client approves
From review mode on any page → Approve this page button at the bottom of the sidebar → confirm. Reviso captures their name + email (which they entered when they first commented) plus the page URL and timestamp.
What’s logged
For every approval:
- Approver name + email
- IP address + user-agent (forensic, not displayed by default)
- Page URL + title
- Exact UTC timestamp
This data lives in wp_reviso_approvals and is exportable on request (we’ll add a built-in export in a future release).
Approval certificate (Pro)
When a page is approved, the notification email includes a PDF certificate attachment, and Reviso → Approvals has a View / Print certificate button for each record. It contains:
- Project name + page title
- Approver name + email
- Approval timestamp
- Page URL
- Approval reference ID
You can keep the certificate with the project paperwork as a record of sign-off.
Reverting an approval
Reviewers cannot withdraw an approval themselves. If a client changes their mind, or new feedback changes the verdict, someone on your team reverts it:
- Open the approved page in Bricks, Elementor or the block editor and open the Reviso feedback panel.
- The panel footer shows Page approved by …. Click Revert approval and confirm.
You need permission to edit that page. Reverting applies to the page as a whole, not to one review: it deletes every approval record stored for the page, so those entries disappear from Reviso → Approvals, and every review that had the page marked Approved shows it as In review again. Comments are not changed, and a certificate that was already emailed is not recalled. If you need to keep the original sign-off, print its certificate (Pro) or note the details before you revert.
Reopening a finished review
This is separate from page approval. If a review is set to close when the client finishes, a reviewer clicking Finish & notify the team makes it read-only: existing feedback stays visible, but no new comments can be added. To take feedback again, open the review under Reviso → Reviews and click Reopen for comments. Reopening a review does not change any page approvals, and reverting an approval does not reopen a finished review.
Per-page status in a multi-page review (Pro)
When you’re running a multi-page review, the reviewer landing shows a progress bar, “3 of 8 approved”, and each page has a badge:
- To do, no one has visited it yet
- In review, someone has left a comment but not approved
- Approved, sign-off received
When every page in a review is approved, you’ll get a roll-up notification email so you know the entire round is closed.