{"section":"tutorials","requestedLocale":"en","requestedSlug":"customer-approval","locale":"en","slug":"customer-approval","path":"docs/en/tutorials/master-data/customer-relations-management/customer-approval.md","branch":"main","content":"Customer approval is carried out in Master Data and can be done via the Admin or via API. See below for instructions on each of the two forms of approval.\n\n## Approving customers via Admin\n\nTo approve customers in the Admin, follow the steps below:\n\n1. In the VTEX Admin, access **Store Settings** > **Storefront** > **Master Data.**\n2. Inside the box __Profile System__, click on the  <i class=\"fas fa-bars\"></i>   icon next to __Customers__.\n3. Click the row of the customer you want to approve.\n4. At the bottom of the page, click on the `Edit` button.\n5. Select the checkbox next to the __Approved__ field.\n6. At the bottom of the page, click on`Save`.\n\nAfter that, the store content will be displayed to the selected customers. \n\n## Approving customers via API\n\nYou can approve multiple customers at once via a [Master Data API](https://developers.vtex.com/docs/api-reference/masterdata-api) route.\n\nAll information related to a customer can be interpreted as a document in the __Customer__ [data entity](/en/docs/tutorials/data-entity). Therefore, the [PATCH Update partial document](https://developers.vtex.com/docs/api-reference/masterdata-api#patch-/api/dataentities/-acronym-/documents/-id-) route must be used to change the __Approved__ field value in bulk.\n\nCheck the [Import customer data](https://developers.vtex.com/docs/guides/import-customer-data) guide to learn which fields are required for a specific individual document."}