Workspace lifecycle

How Fungies keeps your workspace active, what happens if it goes inactive, and how to bring it back.

Fungies never deletes a workspace the moment it goes quiet. Instead, an inactive workspace moves through a series of recoverable stages — with plenty of warning by email — and your data stays safe until the very last step. This page explains exactly how that works and what keeps a workspace protected forever.

The short version: sign in every couple of months and you never have to think about this. Any workspace that has ever taken a payment is kept active forever and is never paused or deleted.

What keeps a workspace active

A workspace stays active as long as any one of the following is true:

You sign in regularly

Signing in at least once every couple of months keeps a free workspace active.

You've made a sale

Any workspace that has ever taken a paid order is kept active forever.

You have an active subscription

Workspaces with a live subscription are always kept.

Your Stripe account is live

If your connected Stripe account can accept payments, the workspace is always kept.

If none of these apply — typically an empty or abandoned workspace on the free plan — it becomes eligible for the inactivity lifecycle below.

The inactivity lifecycle

If a free workspace stays inactive, it moves through these stages. Every stage before deletion is fully recoverable — just sign back in.

Heads-up email (7 days before)

We email the workspace owner about a week before anything happens, so you have time to sign in and keep the workspace active.

Paused

The workspace and its store are taken offline, but nothing is deleted — your data, settings, and store are fully intact. Sign in at any time to bring it straight back online.

Archived (30 days later)

If the workspace stays paused for about a month, it's archived. It's still recoverable and your data is retained — you'll get another email with the date it's scheduled for removal.

Permanently deleted (90 days later)

About three months after archiving, if the workspace is still untouched, it and its data are permanently deleted. We send a final reminder before this happens.

Deletion is the only irreversible step. Up to that point you can restore everything simply by signing in before the date in your reminder emails.

How to bring a workspace back

Sign in

Go to app.fungies.io and sign in with the owner account.

Open the workspace

Selecting the paused or archived workspace reactivates it and brings your store back online automatically.

If a workspace has already been permanently deleted, it can't be recovered — please contact support and we'll help you get set up again.

Workspaces that are never swept

Some workspaces are exempt from the inactivity lifecycle entirely and are always kept active:

Kept forever when…	Why
The workspace has ever taken a paid order	Fungies keeps your transaction records as your Merchant of Record
It has an active subscription	You're an active, paying customer
Its connected Stripe account can accept payments	The store is live and ready to sell

Even after a workspace is deleted, Fungies retains the invoices and financial records required by law and by our role as Merchant of Record. Deletion removes your store and its content — not the tax/accounting trail for past sales.

Questions?

If you're unsure about the status of a workspace or need help restoring one, reach out at support@fungies.io — we're happy to help.