# Editing, expiring and cancelling a proposal

> Change a photography proposal after sending it, move its expiry date, cancel it or start fresh with a duplicate, and what your client sees each time.

Source: https://help.corehue.co/docs/proposals/editing-a-sent-proposal/

Plans shift after a proposal goes out. A client asks for an extra hour, a date moves, or the offer needs to close. Here's how to change a proposal once it's with your client, and when it's better to start a fresh one.

> **Available on Plus and Pro**
Editing a sent proposal needs Plus or Pro. On Free, choosing **Edit** on a sent proposal opens an upgrade prompt titled **Edit this proposal**. See [CoreHue plans](/docs/plans-and-billing/corehue-plans).

## Editing a sent proposal

1. Open the proposal and choose **Edit**.
2. Make your changes. The contact or inquiry can't be changed once a proposal is sent.
3. Choose **Save changes**.

CoreHue keeps each version you send, so an acceptance is always tied to the exact proposal your client reviewed. Even so, it's kinder to keep changes to a live offer small, since your client may be reading it right now. If you change something important, let them know.

## Changing the expiry date

1. On a sent proposal, choose **Edit expiry** (or **Set expiry** if it doesn't have one).
2. Pick the new date and save.

The expiry runs to the end of that day in your business time zone, and your client's page shows the exact cutoff. Once your client has finished their steps, the expiry no longer applies.

## When a proposal expires

After the cutoff, your client sees "This proposal has expired" and is asked to contact you for a fresh one. They can still read what you sent, but they can't accept, sign or pay.

To revive it, open the proposal and choose **Duplicate proposal**. A new draft opens with everything filled in. Update the dates or prices and send it.

## Cancelling a proposal

1. Open the proposal's ⋯ menu and choose **Cancel proposal**.
2. Confirm. As CoreHue explains, "The client can no longer complete this proposal. Existing signatures and payments are kept."

Your client's page then says "This proposal was withdrawn".

You can cancel a sent proposal, or an accepted one while your client still has steps left and no booking exists yet. Once the booking is created, the booking owns the job. Unwinding it then means cancelling the booking, voiding the contract and refunding or cancelling the invoice, one step at a time. See [Cancelling a booking](/docs/managing-bookings/cancelling-a-booking).

> **Payments stay put**
Cancelling a proposal doesn't refund anything your client has already paid. If money needs to go back, refund it from the invoice. See [Refunding a payment](/docs/payments/refunding-a-payment).

## Duplicating instead

For genuinely different pricing, or the same offer for a different client, duplicate rather than edit. Choose **Duplicate** from the ⋯ menu. The new draft is filled in from the original, nothing is created until you save, and the original stays in your list as a record.

Declined and expired proposals offer **Duplicate proposal** as their main action, and cancelled ones offer **Duplicate**.

## Deleting a draft

A draft that was never sent can be removed with **Delete draft** in the ⋯ menu. Sent proposals can't be deleted. They stay as a record of what you offered.

## Frequently asked questions

### Will my client see that I changed the proposal?

Your client sees the latest version of the proposal when they open the link. CoreHue doesn't email them about the change, so drop them a note if it matters.

### Can I change who a proposal is for?

No. The contact or inquiry is fixed once a proposal is sent. Duplicate the proposal, pick the new recipient and send the copy.

### Can I reopen an expired proposal?

Not the original expired proposal. Choose **Duplicate proposal** on it, update the expiry date and anything else that's changed, and send the new one.

### What happens to a signed contract if I cancel the proposal?

The signed contract stays on record, along with any payments. Cancelling a proposal only stops your client completing the remaining steps.