# TooManyApprovedOrders (/docs/errors/chain/TooManyApprovedOrders)

The owner already has eight live approvals. Cancel or complete an existing order, or wait for its expiry, before approving another.

Declared by the `LimitOrders` pallet; it classifies to the semantic code [`limit_exceeded`](/docs/errors/limit-exceeded).

Declared at [`pallets/limit-orders/src/lib.rs#L552`](/code/pallets/limit-orders/src/lib.rs#L552).

## Remediation [#remediation]

A chain-side capacity limit was hit; reduce the size or count of the request

The same explanation is available in the terminal: `btcli explain TooManyApprovedOrders`.