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Approving tasting requests
This covers what to do when a brand asks to run a tasting at a store you approve for.
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Luba LibationsTasting approvals
🔒 Secure linkTasting request
Luba would like to run a tasting at your store
Festival Foods #130
ApproveDecline
Propose a different time
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Reviewing a request from your email
When a brand wants to run a tasting at one of your stores, you'll get an email. You don't need an account or a password.
- Look for the email. The button says Review this tasting (or Review these tastings if there's more than one).
- Click it. The link opens straight to a secure review page with the brand's name at the top. You'll see a small lock icon and the words Secure link.
- Read the details for each tasting: the store, the date and time, and the product.
Making your decision
Each tasting gives you three choices.
- Approve — the tasting is good to go.
- Decline — you don't want this tasting at your store.
- Propose a different time — the date or time doesn't work, but you're open to another.
To suggest a new time, click Propose a different time. A small form opens where you can set the Date, Start, and End, and add a Note for the brand. Then click Send suggestion. The brand (or the ambassador, if one is already lined up) gets your suggestion and can accept it.
That's it. Your decision is saved right on the page, and the brand is notified automatically.
When there are several tastings
If a brand sends more than one, the page gives you a few extra tools.
- Use the search box to find a specific one. You can search by store, city, date, or product.
- Click Download CSV if you'd like a copy of the whole list for your records.
- Click Approve all to approve everything still waiting, all at once.
☀ Good to know
- Once you've decided everything, the page shows "All caught up — the brand has been notified of your decisions." That means you're done.
- If all the dates have already passed, you'll see "These tasting dates have already passed — there's nothing left to review." Nothing more is needed.
- You can come back to the same link and change an Approve or Decline if you clicked the wrong one — up until 24 hours before the tasting. After that, the buttons go away, and you'd need to contact the brand.
- If a tasting is already booked with an ambassador, declining it may cancel their shift, so the page will ask you to confirm before it goes through.
- There's also an optional signed-in page, your queue, that lists every request assigned to you in one place. It uses a simple email-code login (no password), and each item just links back to the review page where you make your decisions.
⚑ If something’s not working
- The page says "Approval request not found."
- The link may have expired (links last 14 days) or been altered. Ask the brand to send a fresh one.
- You got a "too many requests" message.
- You're clicking a little too fast. Wait a moment and try again.
- The link asks you to sign in.
- A few sensitive requests need a login instead of just the link. Sign in with the email the request was sent to.
- Please don't forward the link.
- It's a secure, personal approval link tied to you. If someone else needs to approve, ask the brand to send it to them directly.
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