As soon as an agreement expires, it’s no longer active in your workspace. Expiration keeps your agreements fresh by giving your team the opportunity to decide what to do with agreements over time.

A week before an agreement expires, Murmur automatically collects feedback from members of your workspace to ask them what should happen with the agreement. Here are your options:

• Extend ⏩ – Give it another go! When an agreement has gone well (and the team doesn’t feel the need to make any changes), you can simply extend it for the same amount of time it was active before (i.e. if it was active for a month, it will extend for another month).
• Change ✏️ – Keep it going, but make it different. When things could have gone better, propose changes to the agreement so it better fits your team’s needs. Any changes you propose will have to reach consent before they become active again.
• Archive 🚮 – Ditch it. Sometimes an experiment doesn’t go well, or your team just no longer needs to have it around. In these cases, toss it in the archive. You can always bring it back in the future.

After an agreement expires, you’ll find it in the “Expired” tab on your Agreements page. Note that any member of your workspace has the ability to propose changes to an agreement, but only admins can extend the expiration date, or archive.

To propose changes, go to the agreement and click “Propose Changes”.

Fast Track Extending Expiration or Archiving an Agreement

Rather than going through all three rounds of the Murmur Method, you can Fast Track a proposal to either extend expiration or archive an agreement:

• Open the agreement's feedback panel.
• Click "Propose Extend" or "Propose Archive".

Participants will then either consent or object to extending or archiving the agreement. If anyone objects, the proposal will be sent to the Understand round to go through the full process.

📚 Related content

• What is an expiration date?
• How do I set a proposal’s expiration date?
• How does Murmur collect feedback on an active agreement?