shawfactor

This plugin creates an additional post status ‘restricted’. This status functions similarly to setting a post, page, or cpt to private. However with this plugin you can specify which roles have access to restricted posts
This is required because natively WordPress follows a publishing/editorial paradigm and therefore the ‘read_private_posts’ capability is only granted to admins and editors.

LH Restricted Post Status

Restrict access to posts, pages, and cpts by user role

Steve Henty

Gravity Forms Approvals is an add-on for the Gravity Forms plugin.
Gravity Forms Approvals adds simple approval processes to forms. This allows forms to be approved by an administrator upon submission. Approvals can be governed by conditional logic/routing to allow for a wide range of different workflow automations, such as:
<ul>
<li>Vacation request forms for employees to complete company-wide. Form submissions must be approved or rejected by the employee’s department director. Pending approvals must be displayed in a personalized list for each director. The data from approved forms will be sent to a Google Spreadsheet.</li>
<li>A system to handle the approval by the appropriate departmental director of all incoming invoices. e.g. Invoices over $9,999 must also have the approval of the Finance Director before the pricing data is sent to the ERP system.</li>
<li>Allowing user registration on the front-end but ensuring that WordPress account signups can be approved by multiple admins before they are created and before the activation emails are sent to the users.</li>
</ul>
FEATURES
<ul>
<li>Add new Approval functionality to your existing Gravity Forms forms.</li>
<li>Use a simple approval process for Gravity Forms entries or configure complex conditional logic approvals dependent on individual form fields, drop-downs, checkboxes, radio buttons, and more.</li>
<li>Send different notifications on approval or rejection events using conditional logic.</li>
<li>Compatibility with a wide range of Gravity Forms add-ons.</li>
</ul>
If you use it and like it <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/gravityformsapprovals/" rel="ugc">please consider giving it a rating</a>.
If this add-on doesn’t quite meet your needs, or if you’d like an add-on that will grow with your business workflow processes you may want to check out <a href="https://gravityflow.io" rel="nofollow ugc">Gravity Flow</a>. Gravity Flow supports multiple steps, process branching and loops, user input, approval policies, advanced conditional routing, timestamps, audit trail, comments, and it has a complete interface for users for pending tasks, submitting forms, and viewing the status of previously submitted forms.
If you’d like an add-on that will grow with your business workflow processes, check out <a href="https://gravityflow.io" rel="nofollow ugc">Gravity Flow</a>. Endlessly scalable, secure, and easy-to-use, Gravity Flow is a powerful – and affordable – alternative to pay-per-user SaaS workflow tools. 
Gravity Flow comes with an advanced Business automation feature set, including
<ul>
<li>Multiple steps with over 50 different step types</li>
<li>Process branching and review loops</li>
<li>Complete frontend experience for workflow participants</li>
<li>Entry editing in the frontend with User Input steps</li>
<li>Approval policies</li>
<li>Advanced conditional routing</li>
<li>Timeline for each entry with detailed activity log</li>
<li>Audit trails</li>
<li>Integration triggers for third-party services</li>
<li>Detailed reporting</li>
</ul>
It has a complete interface for users for pending tasks, submitting forms, and viewing the status of previously submitted forms. 
Gravity Flow is trusted by customers from the City University of New York to Verizon.
<h4>Requirements</h4>
<ol>
<li><a href="http://www.stevenhenty.com/out/gravityforms" rel="nofollow ugc">Purchase and install Gravity Forms</a> (Affiliate link)</li>
<li>WordPress 5.2+</li>
<li>The latest version of Gravity Forms.</li>
</ol>

Gravity Forms Approvals Add-On

Add simple approval workflow processes to your Gravity Forms.

LH Restricted Post Status vs Gravity Forms Approvals Add-On