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# Budget Ownership in Approval Chains

> Watch how to configure which approval level deducts budget, giving intermediate managers real spend ownership, with automatic revert on decline.

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## Steps

<Steps>
  <Step title="Open the award's approval workflow">
    Edit the award and go to its multi-level approval configuration.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Choose the budget deduction level">
    Configure at which approval level the budget is deducted — set it to L1 or L2 to give those managers real budget ownership instead of only final-approval deduction.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Confirm the wallet">
    The points are deducted from the originating wallet at the level you set, within that manager's wallet limits.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Rely on auto-revert">
    If a nomination is declined after budget deduction, points automatically return to the originating wallet — no manual reconciliation needed.
  </Step>
</Steps>