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Quarterly board hygiene

Once a quarter, prune what the team stopped using so the workspace reflects how you actually work now.

1

Review active boards

Archive boards for campaigns that ended. Archived boards keep their data and can be restored.

2

Run the conversion funnel

Stages where deals pile up or teleport past are stages that don't match reality — rename, merge, or delete them.

3

Reassign orphaned deals

Deleting a stage moves its deals to the Orphaned Deals panel — sweep it to zero.

4

Prune the field library

In Settings → Fields, delete fields nobody fills and fold one-off fields into folders. Update presets so new boards start clean.

5

Audit the tag library

Settings → Tags shows usage counts per tag. Merge near-duplicates and delete the dead ones.

Why It Matters

CRMs rot from the edges — unused stages, stale fields, duplicate tags. An hour a quarter keeps the whole team trusting the data.