Stake expenses online

I am a stake finance clerk, and everytime I submit a reimbursement for a member (in the new LUFAS function) it seems to sit a long time... and I think it is because an additional / new person (not previously accustomed to approving) is required for the new LUFAS function (vs. the legacy MLS physical check function)... our stake president is of course required to sign the (electronic) checks, but is there some way to automatically get attention/signature of the additional signer that appears to be needed (off in the there somewhere).
BOTTOM LINE QUESTION:
I am (correct if wrong) under the impression that I have to ping one of his counselors every electronic check to go in and sign too (first?) where only the stake pres. himself was required for a physical check.
Don't get me wrong: a 2nd signature has been / is still required besides them, and that's me (both legacy MLS and LUFAS)

danowhitmer wrote:I am (correct if wrong) under the impression that I have to ping one of his counselors every electronic check to go in and sign too (first?) where only the stake pres. himself was required for a physical check.

For an electronic reimbursement it requires 2 approvers but (at least in the US) the first approver is always the person who submits the reimbursement (in other words--you). Only one other approver is needed. If the Stake President does the approval then it will record him as the 2nd approver and it will mark the expense as being reviewed by him. If a counselor approves the expense then it will start processing the expense but the stake president will still need to review it. But the payment will be made even if he hasn't reviewed it yet. His review is only required before the audit (of course there should be verbal approval from the Stake President regardless of who approves).

So really it is no different than a physical check.

Whenever you enter a reimbursement the system should also send an email to the stake president and the counselors letting them know that there is an expense that needs to be approved. You may want to check to make sure they are receiving those notifications and that at least one of them is acting on them.