Set when a gallery expires

• Basic plan and above

Every gallery has an Available until date. After it passes, clients can no longer open the gallery. Expiry doesn't delete anything: your photos stay in your account.

Set the date

1. Open the gallery in the editor and select Gallery Settings.
2. In Access, set Available until.

On the Free plan, every gallery expires 30 days after it is created and you can't change that. On paid plans you choose the period. New galleries start with 90 days unless you change your defaults, and you can pick anything from 7 days up to a year, or leave a gallery unlimited. Common choices are 1 week, 2 weeks, 1 month, 3 months, 6 months, 1 year and Unlimited.

You can also set your usual period once in Gallery defaults.

See what is expiring

On the Galleries page, the Expiring filter shows galleries with seven days or less left, and Expired shows galleries whose date has passed. Cards show "Last day" or the number of days left.

What clients see

• While the gallery is open, you can turn on Expiry banner in Features → For client to show clients when it closes.
• Once it has expired, the client sees a page that says "This gallery's viewing window has closed", with a button to keep the gallery forever in the Memory Vault. If you have a public profile, there is also a Contact your photographer button.

Clients can also be prompted to keep a gallery forever before it expires. See Memory Vault.

Give clients more time

To reopen an expired gallery or extend an open one, set a later Available until date.

Good to know

• Expired galleries are not deleted automatically, and they still count towards your plan's active gallery limit until you archive or delete them.
• To free up storage for galleries you no longer share, see Archive and restore a gallery.
• To remove a gallery, see Delete a gallery.

Related articles

• Gallery settings reference Every setting in a gallery's Gallery Settings panel: access, features, upsells, Memory Vault and activity, with what each does and which plan it needs.
• Archive and restore a gallery Archive finished galleries to free up storage and keep your active gallery count down, then restore them whenever you need to.
• Delete a gallery and restore it from the trash Move a gallery to the trash, restore it within 24 hours, delete it permanently, and what happens to clients' Memory Vault copies.