After creating multi-tiered change orders for a client contract, commitment, funding, or prime contract, you will notice that Procore's default setting is to apply a cascading change order status. In Procore, a cascading change order status refers to Procore's default behavior where the status of a lower-tier change order automatically mirrors the status of the higher-tier change order.
To learn more about the different change order tiers, see What are the different change order tiers in Project Financials?
If your project team wants to disable the cascading change order setting, your company's Procore Administrator or a user with 'Admin' level permissions on a project's Commitments tool must submit a request to your company's Procore point of contact. Your Procore point of contact can disable this setting on a per-project basis. When this setting is disabled, Procore allows your lower-tier change orders to have a different status from the highest-tier change order until the highest-tier change order is set to 'Approved.' However, to add a potential change order to a higher-tier change order, a potential change order must be in a non-approved status.
A potential change order (that has been linked to a higher-tier commitment change order) can be changed to the 'Approved' status while the commitment change order is in the 'Pending' status.