Document retention lets you control how long DigiParser keeps documents after they are finished.

You can choose to:

• Keep documents forever
• Automatically delete them after a time period (for example, 30 days)

This helps if you want to keep your workspace clean or follow your own data retention policy.

1. Open your parser and go to Settings → Parser Settings.
2. Scroll to Parsing Configuration.
3. Find Document retention.

Choose Keep forever if you want documents to stay in DigiParser until someone deletes them manually.

Choose Auto-delete after if you want documents to be removed automatically after a set time.

1. Select Auto-delete after.
2. Enter a number.
3. Choose a unit: Days, Weeks, Months, or Years.
4. Click Save Parser.

The minimum value is 1 day.

Auto-delete applies to documents that are already finished:

• Processed documents
• Failed documents

Documents that are still in progress are not removed:

• Uploading
• Queued
• Processing

• Start with a longer period first (for example, 30 days), then shorten later if needed.
• If your team audits older documents, keep a longer retention period.
• Export important data before reducing retention time.

• Exporting Data – Export data before old documents are removed
• Managing Parsers – Pause, resume, or delete parsers
• Credits and Billing – Understand billing and account behavior