Archiving clients
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As described in the `Pricing Details Page <https://chimera.davidhobbsconsulting.com/pricing-details#archived-urls>`_, subscription tiers are based on **active** urls.

To control the number of active URLs, you can archive clients.

.. note:: If you are only analyzing a single site, you can safely skip this article. Archiving is mostly useful for agencies and consultants working on multiple other organizations' websites.


Seeing the current state
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You can see the current state of your clients in two places.

One page where you can see the active/archive status is on the `Clients <https://chimera.davidhobbsconsulting.com/tenants>`_ page. Here, you see the list of all your clients (even if they are billed against multiple billing organizations).

.. image:: images/archive/list-before.png
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Another location to see the active/archive status is on the Quotas and Users page, where you also see the number of active URLs that are remaining in your subscription.

.. image:: images/archive/billing-view.png
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Archiving a client
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.. note:: Archiving is not reversible. Please read `the description of archived vs. active URLs on the pricing details page <https://chimera.davidhobbsconsulting.com/pricing-details#archived-urls>`_.

Step 1. On the `Clients <https://chimera.davidhobbsconsulting.com/tenants>`_ page, click on the pencil next to the client you'd like to archive.

.. image:: images/archive/list-edit-button.png
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Step 2. On the left of the Clients page, click on ``Archive``.

.. image:: images/archive/edit-dialog.png
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Step 3. Click ``Yes, really archive this extent``.

.. image:: images/archive/warning.png
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Step 4. Check status.

Archiving is not instant. When you first select to archive, the state on the Clients page will change to ``Archiving``.

.. image:: images/archive/list-archiving.png
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In order to check the status (there is no progress circles page for this process), refresh the page.

The archiving is complete when, after refreshing, you see the state is ``Archived`` (the freed-up URLs will only be available once the archiving is complete).

.. image:: images/archive/list-after.png
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