About Primary and Secondary Managers

Overview

You can specify both a Primary and Secondary Manager for a user on the User Details screen. When you specify a Secondary Manger, the Secondary Manger receives notification along with the Primary Manger.  The Secondary Manager is a backup who can handle the approval if the Primary Manager is unavailable.

When you specify the primary and secondary manager for the user, eCredit uses this information to identify:

  • The next person to notify that a credit line requires their approval. This notification can occur when a user does not have sufficient approval authority to approve a credit request, or when more than one approval is required to approve a credit line.

  • Users for whom managers can view work queue tasks. In the Work Queue module, a manager can view work queue tasks for users who are subordinate to them.

  • If the user has the authority to delete a credit line allocation, the primary and secondary managers for that user also have that authority.

  • If the user is an internal contact that you use to resolve disputes, you can set up the dispute notification so that the user's primary manager or the primary manager's manager receives a notification under certain circumstances.

  • If the user is a resolver or secondary contact for a dispute, the user's primary and secondary managers are able to access the dispute in the Dispute Management module.

  • If the user is a credit analyst for a parent account that has a credit line, the user can make allocations from the parent's credit line to any child account, and the primary and secondary managers for that user also have that authority.