---
title: "Events — Approvals for Laravel | Roundly"
description: "Twelve events cover every transition — plus the umbrella ApprovalStatusChanged to observe all of them from one listener."
url: https://roundly-consulting.com/open-source/docs/approvals-for-laravel/events
language: en
---

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# Events

Each transition dispatches an event carrying the relevant model. All events live in RoundlyConsulting\\Approvals\\Events and expose their payload as public properties:

| Event | Payload | Fired when |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `ApprovalRequested` | approval | a pending decision is asked for (ask()) |
| `ApprovalApproved` | approval | a decision is approved |
| `ApprovalRejected` | approval | a decision is rejected |
| `ApprovalCancelled` | approval | a decision is withdrawn — by cancel(), by a toggle-off, or an outstanding ask retired because its request resolved, its stage settled or your app closed the round (close()) |
| `ApprovalExpired` | approval | a pending or approved decision lapses |
| `ApprovalRequestResolved` | request | a request reaches approved, rejected or expired — or your app closes it as cancelled or expired (close()); once, after its outstanding asks are retired |
| `ApprovalToggled` | actor, entity, hasBeenApproved | toggle() / toggleApproval() runs |
| `ApprovalStageOpened` | stage | a staged request opens a stage |
| `ApprovalStageCleared` | stage | a stage clears as approved |
| `ApprovalDelegated` | delegation | an approver delegates authority |
| `ApprovalDelegationRevoked` | delegation | a delegation is revoked |
| `ApprovalStatusChanged` | subject, from, to, actor | umbrella — every status transition of a decision or request, alongside the granular event |

## The umbrella event

Subscribe to ApprovalStatusChanged once to observe all transitions: a decision approved, rejected, withdrawn — including by a toggle or by a change of mind that supersedes it — or expired, an outstanding ask retired when its round closes, and a request resolved, expired or closed by your app. It carries the subject (the Approval or ApprovalRequest that changed), the from and to ApprovalStatus, and the actor when one is known — null for a resolved request or a retired ask:

```php
use RoundlyConsulting\Approvals\Events\ApprovalStatusChanged;

class AuditApprovalChanges
{
    public function handle(ApprovalStatusChanged $event): void
    {
        // $event->from, $event->to, $event->subject, $event->actor
        logger()->info("approval moved {$event->from->value} -> {$event->to->value}");
    }
}
```

## Granular listeners

```php
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Event;
use RoundlyConsulting\Approvals\Events\ApprovalApproved;
use RoundlyConsulting\Approvals\Events\ApprovalRequestResolved;

Event::listen(function (ApprovalApproved $event): void {
    $approval = $event->approval;   // the Approval model
});

Event::listen(function (ApprovalRequestResolved $event): void {
    $request = $event->request;     // approved, rejected or expired — see $request->status
    $subject = $request->subject;   // e.g. the Release
});
```

An ask() creates a pending decision rather than changing one, so it fires only ApprovalRequested. Stage changes and delegation also fire only their own events — not the umbrella one.

## When a round closes

Whether its decisions resolve it, it lapses or your app closes it, a round’s events come in one order: ApprovalCancelled and ApprovalStatusChanged for each retired ask, then ApprovalRequestResolved, then ApprovalStatusChanged for the request. A listener of the resolution never sees an ask still waiting on the round.

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