Quip
Quip is Salesforce's collaborative document, spreadsheet, and project-board product, and it is being retired.
Definition
Quip is Salesforce's collaborative document, spreadsheet, and project-board product, and it is being retired. New paid, free, and trial accounts stopped being sold on February 17, 2026. Existing subscriptions cannot be renewed after March 1, 2027, and free accounts lose access at the end of that month.
What set Quip apart was live Salesforce data inside the document. An account plan showed Opportunity rows that refreshed each time it opened. Two Salesforce-integrated feature sets shipped: Quip Advanced (previously Salesforce Anywhere Advanced) and Quip (previously Quip for Customer 360). Underneath sat subscriptions from Quip Starter through Quip Plus to Quip Advanced, and Setup lists it under Quip (Salesforce Anywhere).
Salesforce is pointing customers at Slack and Agentforce Sales. Nothing migrates on its own, so anything worth keeping must be exported before your subscription lapses.
In plain English
“Quip was a shared notepad where several people could type at once. It could pull real numbers out of the company's customer records, so the notes never went stale. Salesforce is switching it off, and nobody will move your writing out for you.”
Worked example
A 300-seat brokerage runs Quip Advanced with 140 account-plan documents on Account record pages. Their order form ends on November 30, 2026. One more renewal would buy a year. The admin prices that against a clean break and does not renew. Bulk export runs in October, and the 20 plans still in active use convert to Slack Canvas.
What the Quip shutdown means for content you still have
The Salesforce hooks a plain document tool never had
Flow core actions could create a doc when an Opportunity hit a given stage, then attach it to that record. Lightning components put the doc on the page beside the fields, dropped in through Lightning App Builder. That is the part no standalone editor matched.
The timeline, and what actually starts your clock
Salesforce lists Quip under active retirements, timed by Order End Date rather than a release. Selling stopped first, on February 17, 2026, when new accounts closed to non-customers. March 1, 2027 is the last renewal date, and free users keep access until March 31, 2027. There is no single switch-off day; everything else keys off your own contract.
What happens to documents if you do nothing
Once your term ends the wind-down runs in three phases. Read-only access lasts roughly 90 days: logins work, collaboration does not. Logins are then blocked for about 30 days, and deletion itself takes around another 30. Salesforce will not move Quip content on your behalf. Five months after term end the documents are gone.
Getting content out, and the parts already switched off
Single documents export by hand. Bulk export runs through the Automation and Admin APIs, and only on Quip Plus and Quip Advanced. Orgs with a Slack plan can convert docs to canvases instead. Quip Slides went in 2021, the Windows and Android apps in June 2024, new custom Live Apps in March 2025. All third-party Live Apps followed that July.
Trust & references
Cross-checked against the following references.
- Quip Retirement (opens in new tab)Salesforce
- Salesforce Active Product & Feature Retirements (opens in new tab)Salesforce
- Quip New Custom Live App Retirement (opens in new tab)Salesforce
- Retirement of Quip Desktop App for Windows and Quip Mobile App for Android (opens in new tab)Salesforce
- Quip Third Party Live App Retirement (opens in new tab)Salesforce
- Quip to Slack Canvas Conversion: How Account Matching Works (opens in new tab)Salesforce
Straight from the source - Salesforce's reference material on Quip.
Hands-on resources to go deeper on Quip.
About the Author
Dipojjal Chakrabarti is a B2C Solution Architect with 29 Salesforce certifications and over 13 years in the Salesforce ecosystem. He writes and edits salesforcedictionary.com, published by KineticBit Inc., to help admins, developers, architects, and cert/interview candidates sharpen their fundamentals. More about Dipojjal.
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+5 pts / dayQ1. After which date can Quip subscriptions no longer be renewed?
Q2. An admin does nothing after the org's Quip term ends. What happens first?
Q3. Which products does Salesforce name as the destination for Quip use cases?
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