How I Built a Multi-Department Workflow Routing System in Laravel with Inertia.js

The Problem I Was Trying to Solve When I started building VMMS — a voucher management system for government offices — one of the hardest parts wasn't the UI or the database schema. It was the workflow routing. A voucher request doesn't just go to one office. It goes to multiple departments in a specific order — each one needs to process it before passing it to the next. And at any point, a department can: Complete their step and pass it forward Reject the entire request Flag it for missing docum