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Revoke access after you have sent a document

One click removes the document from everyone who has the link — instantly, permanently, and on the record.

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What it does

Revoke cuts off access to a document that has already left your outbox. The next time anyone opens the link — including someone who opened it five minutes ago — they see a closed page instead of your file.

Why it exists

Email has no undo. Once a contract, a term sheet or a salary letter is out, the sender has no say in who reads it or for how long. Revoke puts that decision back in the sender's hands.

How it works

1. Open the document in FINIS

Every send has its own control page with status, recipients and history.

2. Press Revoke

Access ends immediately. No waiting, no support ticket, no email to the recipient asking them to delete it.

3. The recipient sees a closed page

The file is no longer served. The link resolves to a notice that access has ended.

4. The action is logged

The time of revocation is written to the document's history so you can prove when access ended.

When to use it

Wrong recipient

You sent the right file to the wrong person.

Deal fell through

The other side no longer needs your numbers.

Someone left

An employee, contractor or adviser should no longer hold the document.

Superseded version

A newer draft exists and the old one should stop circulating.

An example

A founder sends a data room link to an investor who then passes on the round. One press of Revoke and the deck stops opening — no awkward email asking them to delete it.

Questions

Does revoking delete the file?

Revoke ends access. Destroy goes further and erases the file itself from FINIS storage.

What if the recipient already downloaded it?

FINIS documents open in a secure viewer rather than downloading, so in normal use there is no local copy to worry about.

Can I revoke for one recipient only?

Yes — each recipient gets their own link, so access can be ended individually.

Related

Capabilities and guides that work alongside this one.

Destroy

Not 'access revoked'. The file is erased, and the destruction is on the record.

Expire

Decide at send time how long the document should live. FINIS closes it on schedule, with nothing left for you to remember.

Track

Every open, every recipient, every timestamp — in one history you can show to someone else.

Control

Recipients, devices, lifetime, watermarking and access — all decided by the sender, all changeable afterwards.

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