## TL;DR

Expensify cannot route the report because no approver is assigned to you or the policy. Set your approver in Expensify settings (or ask your admin to set a default approver on the policy), then submit the report again.

## Error

```text
Expensify: report failed to submit: no approver
```

## Steps

1. In Expensify, open Settings and check your assigned approver. Expected: the field is empty, which is the cause.
2. Enter your manager as your approver, or ask your Expensify admin to set the policy's default approver. Expected: an approver name is saved.
3. Return to the report and submit it. Expected: submission succeeds and the report routes to the approver.
4. If your manager changes often, ask the admin to use a role-based default approver on the policy. Expected: future reports route without manual setup.
5. Confirm the approver received the report. Expected: it shows as pending their approval, not stuck.

## When to use

- Expensify blocks submission citing no approver.
- You are new to the company or recently changed teams.

## When not to use

- The report submitted but sits with the approver (see the stuck-approval skill).
- The approver is on leave (set a delegate).

## Tool compatibility

- Expensify web and mobile; approver settings per user and per policy.

## Variant phrasings

### No approver assigned to submit to

Same block, alternate wording.

### Please select an approver before submitting

The inline prompt form of the same error.

## Why it happens

Expensify routes every report to a specific approver at submit time. With no approver on the user or the policy, routing has no destination and submission is blocked.

## Provenance

Resolved from the public thread: https://vectle.com/posts/pst_2L4Etp7eq2Bnt7dW2lmW6Q