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Delete Option Grants and Pools

Remove individual stock option grants or entire option pools from your plan. Note: Option pools can only be deleted when they're completely empty.

Important: This process permanently removes grants from your records. For employees leaving the company, most companies use the offboarding process instead to retain a record of the original grant while managing vesting and lapsing appropriately.

Delete Individual Option Grants

  1. Navigate to Incentive plans โ†’ Stock Options (or Options depending on your region) from the main menu

  2. Click View Pool for the relevant option plan

  3. Choose your deletion method:

Delete Multiple Offers:

  • Tick the checkbox next to each offer you want to delete

  • Click Bulk Actions and select Delete Grants

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Delete Single Offer:

  • Click the trash icon ๐Ÿ—‘๏ธ on the right side of the offer

Delete an Entire Option Pool

You can only delete a pool after removing all offers within it.

  1. Navigate to Incentive plans โ†’ Options from the main menu

  2. Click View Pool for the pool you want to delete

  3. First, delete all offers using the steps above

  4. Click the trash icon ๐Ÿ—‘๏ธ in the top right corner to delete the empty pool

Important: Both draft and granted offers must be removed before you can delete the pool itself.