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The information contained in this section applies to IBM WebSphere Commerce Version 7.0.0.9 and Feautre Pack 8. The documentation also applies to all subsequent releases and modifications until otherwise indicated in new editions.
Administering
Overview of administering a WebSphere Commerce site
In WebSphere Commerce the person who performs administrative tasks is called a Site Administrator. The Site Administrator installs, configures, and maintains WebSphere Commerce and the associated software and hardware. The administrator responds to system warnings, alerts, and errors, and diagnoses and resolves system problems. Typically, this person controls access and authorization (creating and assigning members to the appropriate role), manages the Web site, monitors performance, and manages load balancing tasks. The Site Administrator might be responsible for establishing and maintaining several server configurations for different stages of development such as testing, staging, and production. The Site Administrator also handles critical system backups and resolves performance problems.
Organization Administration Console
The Organization Administration Console enables administrators to manage organizations, business users and member groups. Access Control policies can also be managed and approval requests can be processed.
Approvals
Accurate, secure transactions require that a second individual approve some electronic marketplace actions before they proceed. This individual, called an approver, can accept or reject requests to perform a specific action. During the organization registration process, the organization administrator selects the business processes for which they want to enable approval. This is done by signing up for the appropriate approval member group during membership registration. The organization administrator also populates the approver member groups. Only users within these groups have the authority to accept or reject requests to perform those actions for which approval has been enabled.
Approving or rejecting approval requests
Approvers and administrators with the appropriate access can make approval decisions on two different pages: Approval Requests or Summary. If you prefer to have the request details in front of you before indicating your decision, you may prefer to work from the Summary page.

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Approving or rejecting approval requests

Approvers and administrators with the appropriate access can make approval decisions on two different pages: Approval Requests or Summary. If you prefer to have the request details in front of you before indicating your decision, you may prefer to work from the Summary page.

Procedure

Open the Approval Requests page:
- (All business roles) Open the WebSphere Commerce Accelerator and click Store > Approval Requests.
- (Site Administrator, Buyer Administrator, Buyer Approver, Seller Administrator) Open the Organization Administration Console and click Approvals > Approval Requests.
If you do not see this menu, then your logon ID does not have the appropriate authority to perform this task. Contact your Site Administrator.
Select the check box for the request you are working on.
If you want to review the details of the request before making a decision click Summary
Click Approve to approve the request or Reject to reject it. The requests that have been approved or rejected will no longer appear on the list. A message box indicates if the approval or rejection attempt was successful.
The check box on the column heading row acts as a toggle. It will either place a check in all boxes or remove checks from all the checked boxes.