Quick Start
Get PurpletGo set up and your first offboarding running in a few minutes.
Create your account
Go to app.purpletgo.com (opens in a new tab) and sign up with your work email. The first person to sign up becomes the Super Admin for your organization.
Invite your team
Navigate to Settings → Team and invite the people who'll handle offboardings. Roles you can assign:
- Admin - full operational access, minus billing and org-hierarchy management
- HR - manages offboarding checklists, compliance, exit interviews, and access revocation; bulk/layoff-style offboarding runs through HR too
- Manager - creates and advances offboardings for their own reports
- Developer - read-only visibility into offboarding and asset records
Add your employee directory
Go to Settings → Employees and either click Add Employee to add someone manually, or use Bulk Import to upload a CSV (columns: full_name, email, plus optional employee_id, job_title, department, phone, github_username). Your plan sets a cap on total employees - Free is 5, Starter 20, Growth 50, Team 100, Enterprise unlimited.
Create a checklist template
Checklist templates are a Starter-plan-and-up feature. Go to Settings → Templates and click New Template to build a reusable task list for a role, or import one of the pre-built templates from the gallery (Engineering, Sales, Finance, Healthcare, Legal, HR, Marketing, or Contractor/Vendor). On the Free plan, every offboarding just gets a default six-item checklist instead.
Start your first offboarding
Click Start Offboarding on the Offboarding board. The wizard walks you through four steps:
- Pick the employee from your directory and set their resignation date, last working day, and separation reason
- Select which connected integrations to revoke access to
- Set an asset return deadline and, if you're on Starter or above, apply a checklist template
- Review and confirm
Once created, the offboarding lands in the Notice Period column.
Advance through stages
Move the employee through the board as work gets done:
- Notice Period → knowledge transfer, exit interview
- IT Revocation → revoke access to every selected app (the stage won't let you move on until everything's revoked)
- Asset Recovery → confirm equipment has been returned
- Completed → the record is closed and the audit trail is final
Every checklist completion, status change, and access revocation is logged to the audit trail automatically - no extra setup needed.
What's next?
- Connect integrations so PurpletGo can revoke access automatically
- Set up SAML SSO for enterprise login (Enterprise plan)
- Configure the self-service portal for departing employees
- Explore the API to automate offboarding triggers from your HRIS