I've tried three different ways of creating a workflow to have a task created/email sent/smoke signal sent up to notify our purchasing employee order materials for approved estimates. Walking across the building and telling her or emailing her with attachments is inefficient. Workflows appear to provide the perfect solution to this. But none of the ways I've set it up will actually result in her being notified (whether inside of quickbooks or in her email) that there's an estimate that was changed to "approved" that she needs to go start the purchasing process for. 

I do not simply want an estimate turned into a PO, that is not helpful (every line item in an estimate has multiple products that must be purchased to make it happen--example: we're a flooring company. the tile line item means that tile, plus thinset, plus grout, plus floor prep, etc). I just want it to alert purchasing automatically when an estimate status is changed to "accepted". Can anyone help with this? Because the next one I want is once purchasing is done with it, to send it to scheduling for them to schedule installation.

I've tried everything I can think of. Does anyone have a solution?