Quip
Quip is a Salesforce collaboration and productivity platform (acquired in 2016) that combines documents, spreadsheets, chat, and task management in a single workspace, integrated with Salesforce records for contextual document collaboration.
Definition
Quip is a Salesforce collaboration and productivity platform (acquired in 2016) that combines documents, spreadsheets, chat, and task management in a single workspace, integrated with Salesforce records for contextual document collaboration. Salesforce has announced the end of life for Quip, with all subscriptions unable to be renewed after March 1, 2027. After subscription expiration, instances go through a 90-day read-only phase, a 90-day blocked login phase, and then data deletion. Salesforce recommends migrating to Slack and Agentforce.
In plain English
“Quip is a Salesforce collaboration platform (acquired in 2016) that combines documents, spreadsheets, chat, and task management. Salesforce has announced end of life for Quip: subscriptions can't be renewed after March 1, 2027, followed by read-only, blocked login, and data deletion phases. Salesforce recommends migrating to Slack and Agentforce.”
Worked example
Verdara Consulting adopted Quip in 2018 for its 200-person consulting practice - embedded docs and spreadsheets on every Salesforce Opportunity, real-time collaboration during client engagements, project chat alongside the artifact. With Salesforce announcing Quip's end of life (subscriptions can't renew after March 1, 2027), the IT director starts a six-month migration plan: project chats move to Slack channels, structured docs move to a Confluence/SharePoint library, and the Opportunity-embedded artifacts get exported and re-attached as Files. The firm doesn't wait for the read-only and blocked-login phases; it migrates while Quip is still fully functional, and by Q2 2026 the team is fully off Quip with all institutional knowledge preserved.
Why Quip matters
Quip is a Salesforce collaboration and productivity platform (acquired in 2016) that combines documents, spreadsheets, chat, and task management in a single workspace, integrated with Salesforce records for contextual document collaboration. Salesforce has announced the end of life for Quip, with all subscriptions unable to be renewed after March 1, 2027. After subscription expiration, instances go through a 90-day read-only phase, a 90-day blocked login phase, and then data deletion.
Salesforce recommends migrating to Slack (which Salesforce also owns) and Agentforce as the go-forward collaboration platforms. Organizations currently using Quip should plan their migration carefully: exporting data, moving workflows to alternative platforms, and training users on the new tools. Mature migration planning starts well before the deadline to avoid rushing against the read-only and data deletion phases.
How organizations use Quip
Helps Quip customers plan migration to Slack and alternative collaboration tools before the end-of-life deadlines.
Treats Quip end-of-life as a migration trigger, moving their collaboration workloads to Slack.
Exported Quip data well before the deadline to avoid rushing against the read-only phase.
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