Clients should be able to comment on a specific post rather than reply to an email thread, so feedback stays attached to the content it concerns. Cloud Campaign sends a no-login approval link where clients approve in one click or request changes on individual posts, with status tracked in your dashboard.
The default approach is emailing a calendar document and receiving replies like "the third one needs work." At one client that is merely annoying. At fifteen it produces a real failure mode: feedback detached from the post it refers to, ambiguity about which version was approved, and revision requests buried in threads nobody can find at publishing time. The cost is not only time. It is the posts that go out without the change nobody logged.
The client opens the queued content, sees each post as it will appear, and acts on it individually: approve, or request a change with a comment attached to that post. The comment travels with the post, so whoever makes the edit sees the request in context. The post's status flips to indicate a change is needed, which keeps it out of the publishing queue until it is resolved and re-approved.
Three things determine whether clients use the workflow rather than reverting to email. It has to open without a login, because a password wall pushes them straight back to their inbox. It has to work on a phone, since most client reviews happen between other meetings. And approval has to be one click, with commenting available but not required, so the common case of everything being fine takes seconds.
After edits, the revised post should go back for approval rather than being treated as covered by the original sign-off. That single habit prevents the most common dispute in agency social work, where a client remembers approving something different from what published.
Clients review through a no-login approval link, approve in one click, and leave change requests on specific posts rather than in an email thread, with status flowing back to the agency dashboard automatically. Approval workflows are included on every plan, white-labeled links come with the Team and Agency plans, and unlimited users means every client contact who needs to weigh in can. The creative approval software page shows the client-side view.
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