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Pausing Onboarding Success Plans – How are you adjusting CTA due dates

  • May 13, 2026
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I am facing a recurring challenge with Onboarding Success Plans and wanted to learn how other GS admins are handling this.

Current setup

  • Onboarding Success Plans are created from templates
  • Objective CTAs have predefined due dates
  • When a customer requests a pause in onboarding, our OEs update the Success Plan status to “Paused”

Issue Even when the Success Plan is paused:

  • CTA due dates continue to age
  • CTAs turn overdue (red) in Cockpit
  • This creates noise and reduces trust in due dates, even though the pause is intentional and customer‑approved

From what I can tell, pausing a Success Plan does not automatically pause or shift CTA due dates based on the paused duration.

What I am looking to learn

  • How are you handling onboarding pauses today?
  • Are you using Rules Engine to shift CTA due dates after a pause?
  • Have you implemented a “pause clock” or paused‑days model at the Success Plan level?
  • Any best‑practice patterns to keep Cockpit clean and realistic for CSMs/OEs?

1 reply

SeanMag1
  • Contributor ⭐️
  • May 13, 2026

Haven’t had to solve for this, but would likely start by adding a second field to the success plan to capture Pause Duration.

So when your OE chooses status = Paused then they should also add an entry for 1 month, 2 months, 3, months etc. or something similar.

With that, you could create a rule to add 30/60/90 days or whatever to all existing Plan / CTA due dates. and it has the benefit of being able to report on Pause length details across customers