Installation

Require the package. The service provider, the Approvals facade alias and the global approvals() helper are auto-discovered — nothing to register:

composer require roundly-consulting/approvals-for-laravel

php artisan vendor:publish --tag="approvals-migrations"
php artisan migrate

Publish-only migrations

The migrations are not loaded automatically — php artisan migrate creates nothing until you have published them. The six files land in database/migrations with timestamps that preserve their order, so migrate creates the four tables and applies the two schema additions in the order they depend on:

Do the models that give or receive approvals use UUID or ULID keys? Set key_type before you migrate — it types every polymorphic id column (see Models & schema).

Config (optional)

The package runs with zero host configuration. Publish the config only when you want to change a default:

php artisan vendor:publish --tag="approvals-config"

The only publish tags are approvals-migrations and approvals-config — the package ships no views or translations.

Next steps

• Add GivesApprovals to the model that decides and HasApprovals to the model that is decided on.
• Add RequiresApproval to anything that needs sign-off from several approvers.
• Record your first decision with the Approvals facade.