# Manually approve a route

Usually, the squid sdk will handle approvals, but if you want to manually approve the Squid smart contracts to use tokens for a route, you can use the below command that execute the `approveRoute` method with `ApproveRoute` object as argument and return a `boolean`.

Type: [Types](/old-v2-documentation-deprecated/key-concepts/types.md#approveroute)

```javascript
const isApproved = await squid.approveRoute({ signer, route })
```

This will approve `amount` or `infiniteAmount` of `fromToken` required to do the transfer. Once the tokens are approved, you can execute the route.

### Checking route approval

You can also check if the route has been approved using the following method that retrieves an object with `isApproved` and `message` properties

```typescript
const { isApproved, message } = await squid.isRouteApproved({ sender, route })
```


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