Approve, for export, the submissions the preview said would not ship.

This is the "[ Approve all 4 ]" button (PRD §2.2). It calls the SAME policy function the single-row Approve button calls — payments.approve_earning — once per submission, server-side. One round trip instead of N, one rate limit instead of N, and exactly one definition of what approving means.

Two cases it handles that the per-row button never sees:

• a submission whose ledger row does not exist yet. The accrual sweep materialises rows lazily, so a freshly submitted case may have none. reconcile_task_accruals runs first, which is the same call the admin ledger makes on every page load.
• a submission whose author does not accrue payment at all (an advisor on the equity-only model). There is no money to approve, and the work is still real: the export gate moves on its own. "Approved money ⇔ exportable record" holds vacuously — there is no money either way.