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How to make a document expire automatically

Set the lifetime when you send. FINIS closes the document on time, every time.

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The situation

Documents rarely need to be readable forever. Offers, drafts, diligence material and temporary access all have a natural end date — one that nobody ever gets round to enforcing.

FINIS lets you attach that end date at send time: a fixed date, a number of hours, or expiry after the first view.

What to do

1. Choose a lifetime

Date, duration, or first-view expiry.

2. Send

The recipient sees how long they have.

3. It closes itself

Access ends automatically and the event is logged.

The FINIS capabilities involved

Expire

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

Boomerang

Set a return date at send time. When it arrives, control returns to you automatically.

Destroy

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

Questions

Can I extend it later?

Yes, before it expires.

Does expiry delete the file?

It ends access. Combine it with Destroy to erase the file as well.

Related

Capabilities and guides that work alongside this one.

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The full list of what FINIS can do.

Post-send control

Why any of this is possible.

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