Offboard a SaaS tool without leaving landmines

Offboard a SaaS tool without leaving landmines
The decommission checklist everyone skips until something breaks.

1 — Export your data before you cancel, not after.
Why: most platforms revoke API access the moment the subscription lapses.

2 — Grep your codebase and tag manager for the tool's API keys and snippets.
Why: an orphaned script keeps firing and either errors loudly or leaks data quietly.

3 — Find every downstream integration consuming its data.
Why: killing a source mid-pipeline breaks reports nobody traces back for weeks.

4 — Rotate any shared credentials the vendor had access to.
Why: offboarding a tool means offboarding its access, not just its login.

5 — Document what replaced it in the same place you'll look next audit.
Why: future-you will wonder why a workflow points at a dead endpoint.

That's the stack for this week. Forward to a teammate.