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title: "How to let reps send mail without losing control"
description: "Let reps send approved mail on their own while approvers control new designs, campaign copy, gift budgets, and higher-risk launches."
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# How to let reps send mail without losing control

> Let reps send approved mail on their own while approvers control new designs, campaign copy, gift budgets, and higher-risk launches.

Source: https://trysincerely.com/guides/let-reps-send-mail-without-losing-control

Let reps send direct mail on their own, but only from designs someone already approved. A second person signs off on anything new: a new design, held campaign copy, and every gift. Give each rep a monthly gift budget, and keep a switch that stops one rep's sending without taking them out of the workspace.

A rep with a warm account can then get a postcard out the same afternoon. When finance asks who approved the design and the spend, each one has a name on it.

## Control the two ways a rep program goes wrong

The first failure is off-brand mail. A rep needs a piece for an account today, edits a draft, and sends it before marketing sees the change. The logo may be old, the claim may be unsupported, or the return address may be wrong. A brand kit alone does not prevent this. The control is the line between editing and approving.

The second failure is runaway gift spend. A $70 gift feels small when one rep sends it. It looks different when seven reps each send several in the last week of the month. A workspace budget catches the total, but a per-member limit answers a different question: how much may this person commit before another person reviews the plan?

Do not solve either problem by routing every postcard through an approval queue. That turns a one-minute follow-up into an operations ticket. Put the review on the parts that change risk: new creative, held copy, gifts, and campaign launches that cross a stated threshold.

## A role setup for a ten-person team

Consider Northstar Analytics, a fictional team with seven sales reps, a marketing lead, a revenue operations manager, and a VP who owns the workspace.

| Person                     | Sincerely role | What the role is for                                                                      |
| -------------------------- | -------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Seven sales reps           | Member         | Send one-off pieces from approved designs, finish follow-ups, and record outcomes         |
| Marketing lead             | Approver       | Approve designs and campaign copy after reviewing the current version                     |
| Revenue operations manager | Admin          | Build campaigns, manage the brand kit, set member policies, and handle workspace settings |
| VP of Sales                | Owner          | Keep full workspace authority and act as the final backstop                               |

This split matters because sending and approving are different permissions. A member may send one piece, but cannot approve a design. An approver may approve a design or a held copy draft, but does not receive workspace-setting authority. Admins and owners have both campaign and workspace control.

If one senior rep should build campaigns, revenue operations can grant that member campaign access without changing the rep into an admin. The grant does not give the rep workspace settings. The team can also block that person's one-off sending while leaving their membership and history intact.

## How Sincerely enforces the boundary

The Send screen shows a member only designs that already have approved status. An approver or admin can see a draft there, but sending that draft counts as approving the exact version under review. A member cannot take that shortcut. If a draft reaches the server without design-approval permission, the send is refused.

Design approval is not an automatic brand check. A person reviews the design. Marketing should still own the approved set, and revenue operations should limit design editing to people who can manage campaigns. Sincerely then keeps routine one-off sending inside that reviewed set.

Campaign copy starts in `review each` mode. In that mode, a person with approval authority reviews each held draft before it can proceed. The team may choose a different review mode for a campaign, so do not tell reps that every piece always needs a separate click.

The Team tab adds three controls to the role:

- **Send mail** allows or blocks the member's one-off sends.
- **Build and run campaigns** gives campaign access to a member whose role does not include it.
- **Monthly gift budget** limits the gift value that member can commit in the current month.

The gift budget is checked before a one-off send and again when funds are reserved. The reservation check locks the member row, so two sends cannot both spend the same remaining headroom. A limit of $300 with $250 already committed leaves $50. If Maya tries to send an $85 gift, Sincerely refuses the one-off instead of quietly spending $35 too much.

## Put a second person on higher-risk launches

Sincerely creates a launch approval request when the planned gift value is over $1,000, when one piece carries more than $2.50 of gift value, or when the launch would push the launcher past their monthly gift budget. The cheapest catalog gift is $49, so in practice every gift, one-off or campaign, waits for an approver. Any event-triggered campaign also needs flow approval because it can enroll contacts while nobody is watching.

The person who requested a campaign launch cannot approve their own campaign-launch request. For Northstar, the marketing lead can review a rep's request, while the VP can cover the marketing lead. Name that backup before the first request arrives. A policy that depends on one person being online is not much of a policy.

These approval rules do not mean every member send waits for another person. Maya can send an approved postcard to a mailable contact when the workspace has credit headroom and no other guardrail stops it. Review returns only when she changes the design, chooses a held copy path, sends a gift, or prepares a campaign that meets an approval rule. A gift beyond her remaining budget is refused before it reaches an approver.

## Keep gift dollars separate from ordinary mail

Sincerely's dollar budgets cover gifts. They do not meter the dollar value of postcards, letters, or notes written by hand by a person. Ordinary mail draws from prepaid mail credits and remains bounded by the plan's piece cap. Campaign gift budgets and the workspace's monthly gift budget apply to gift catalog value.

That distinction should appear in the policy your reps read. "You have a $300 monthly mail budget" is wrong if the control only covers gifts. Write "You may commit up to $300 in gift value this month. Postcards and letters use the shared prepaid credit balance and plan cap."

The [direct mail budget controls guide](https://trysincerely.com/guides/direct-mail-budget-controls) covers the other limits around a launch. A [workspace-wide frequency cap](https://trysincerely.com/guides/direct-mail-frequency-caps) still limits how often the same contact can receive Sincerely mail, regardless of which rep sends it.

## Where gifting platforms offer more control

Sincerely's model fits a team that wants reps to send approved mail and selected gifts from one system. A company whose main job is enterprise gifting may need a deeper approval operation.

[Sendoso's campaign approval queue](https://support.sendoso.com/hc/en-us/articles/360050552232-Requiring-Approval-on-Campaigns) can hold gift sends after a sender places them, then let an approver review and update them in Send Tracker. Choose Sendoso when that pending-send queue matters more than keeping mail campaigns and holdout measurement together.

Reachdesk is stronger when finance wants wallet structure. Its [team wallets](https://support.reachdesk.com/hc/en-gb/articles/6044845224465-How-to-Create-Manage-and-Use-Team-Wallets) centralize funds and support custom monthly limits for each user. Its [manual campaign approval flow](https://support.reachdesk.com/hc/en-gb/articles/4415899272081-Require-Approval-on-Manual-Campaign-Sends) holds gifts for review and lets admins or campaign managers approve or reject pending sends in bulk. That is a better fit for a gifting team that already organizes funds by team and user.

Postal gives a campaign owner a useful middle ground for recipient-choice gifts. A Postal MagicLink can carry a set budget, and the owner can turn on approval to accept or deny orders. Postal's [corporate gifting budget guide](https://www.postal.com/blog/build-a-better-budget-for-corporate-gifting-in-2025) also describes team-budget reporting. Choose Postal when link-based gift choice is the main rep motion.

Before rollout, write down who owns the approved design set, who covers approvals when that person is away, each rep's gift limit, and who may build campaigns. Then have one member send an approved postcard, try a draft, and try a gift over their remaining budget. The policy is ready when all three paths give the result the team expected.

## Related questions

- [Direct mail for SDR teams](https://trysincerely.com/playbooks/sdr-teams): Direct mail for SDR teams: decide when a send is earned, choose the recipient, follow with a call, and report honestly.
- [How to set budgets and spending limits for direct mail](https://trysincerely.com/guides/direct-mail-budget-controls): Set direct mail budgets with term credits, prepaid top-ups, piece caps, approval thresholds, and a final preflight before anything ships.
- [What is a direct mail frequency cap?](https://trysincerely.com/guides/direct-mail-frequency-caps): A direct mail frequency cap limits how many physical pieces one person receives in a rolling period. Set it across campaigns, triggers, and one-off sends.
- [How to manage direct mail suppression across campaigns](https://trysincerely.com/guides/direct-mail-suppression): Keep one durable do-not-mail decision per contact, check it at dispatch time, and cancel every queued piece that has not reached the print vendor.
- [What makes a direct mail platform enterprise-ready?](https://trysincerely.com/guides/enterprise-direct-mail-platform): Enterprise direct mail fails on duplicates, runaway spend, and missing proof, not features. Six tests to run in a pilot, and which platforms fit which program.

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