SkieCan app approval be turned off for a trusted organisation?
Yes. The Skie owner can turn app approval off for a particular organisation. Its own apps then skip the waiting step and can be published straight away. It is set per organisation by the owner, not by a school admin, and is meant for organisations that have earned that trust.
By default, an app an organisation adds yourself waits for Skie approval. For many schools that is the right amount of care. For a large, established customer that adds apps all the time, the wait can become an obstacle, especially at the start of term.
To avoid that, the Skie owner can switch approval off for that organisation. After that, its admins paste a Play link, confirm the category and age band, and publish. There is no waiting state. The change applies to the whole organisation, so it covers schools and branches beneath it, subject to what the owner allows branches to do.
Turning approval off removes a check, so it moves responsibility to your own admins. Keep the other safeguards in place. The category and age band should still be set carefully, the impact preview should still be used before an app goes on a list, and the organisation app store gives you Draft and Publish so you can review before release.
Remember what stays fixed. All apps still come from Google Play, unknown sources stay blocked, and alternative browsers, VPN apps and proxy apps are always blocked whatever the list says. A practical tip is to ask for approval to be turned off only after you have a named person who owns the app store and signs off every addition.