To reduce the load of a sealing operation required for the preparation of an application document.

This application management system 1 is configured as an application management system for managing an application document which should be sealed, and provided with a recording means 2 which records document information related to the contents of an application document and attributes related to management, an approval requesting means 3 which requests the approval of seals to be applied to a document, a decision approving means 4 which decides the presence/absence of approval based on a reply to the approval request, and applies the end of approval to the approval information of the attributes when it is approved, and applies the denial of approval to the approval information of the attributes when it is not approved and a printing means 5 for printing the application document by applying a seal image to the predetermined location of the application document concerning the document information applied with the approval information showing the end of approval. Concerning the application document which should be sealed, the sealer's approval for the document is preliminarily obtained, and the application document is printed by using the document information and the seal image information, so that the seal image can be outputted on the document.