App store approval process

Question

Hi,
I'm SharePoint admin of a SharePoint online tenancy, and feeling really thick, but I'm struggling with the process of users requesting an app.
Scenario:
User from his site goes Site Contents -> Add an app -> SharePoint store and finds a free app.  He chooses "Request it".
I go to the appCatalog on our tenancy, edit the request item in the list, marking it as "approved".
Then what?  The user still seems unable to add the app to his site, he can see that I've approved it, but can't get any further.
I realise this is probably really simple, but I can't understand it.
I have found that as admin, I can go and get the app, but a) that doesn't seem right to me, if it were to cost money, I don't want to pay for it, and b) it becomes available to install on every single site in our tenancy, I thought I was just approving it
for one site.
Thanks a lot.  Ps is this my first post so if I've done something wrong, I apologise in advance!
Richard.

Answer 1

Approving an app purchase will approve it for the entire tenancy, not just a specific site.  That's the way its designed to work.  Also, does your user have the required permissions to add an app to a site.  it requires the
Manage Web site and Create Subsites permissions to add an app for SharePoint.  Regular users won't have those permissions.
Paul Stork SharePoint Server MVP
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