URL: https://help.carbonvoice.app/workspaces/advanced-settings
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# Advanced workspace settings

Premium workspaces can be configured to help make sure conversations and messages that
belong in your workspace end up there, and stay only as long as your policies allow.

For help setting these up, reach out at [support](https://cv.chat/support) in the app.

## Default conversation

**Available on Lite plans and above.**

Set a workspace as the default place conversations are created, and the interface will
preselect it. This is a simple on or off setting.

## Workspace colors and watermark

**Available on Standard plans and above.**

A color and watermark make a workspace's conversations stand out from those in your
personal space or another workspace. You'll need to provide:

- **Color** — a HEX value.
- **Watermark** — a 64 × 64 PNG.

On the **home screen**, the conversation list shows the color as a stripe down the left
and as a hue on the card, with the watermark across the background.

![Workspace color home](/img/workspaces/workspace-color-home.webp)

In **conversation history**, the color and watermark appear at the top.

![Workspace color history](/img/workspaces/workspace-color-history.webp)

## Retention policies

**Available on Standard plans and above.**

A retention policy permanently deletes messages and conversations older than a period
you set. There are two separate periods:

- **All named conversations and DMs** — messages older than X days are deleted nightly.
- **Async meetings** — counted in days *after* the meeting ends. Everything is
  preserved while the meeting is running; once it ends, the messages and conversation
  are cleaned up X days later.

> Retention cleanup runs nightly in PST, so actual deletion happens X days after the
> cutoff plus however long until the next nightly run.

## Related

- [Roles and access controls](https://help.carbonvoice.app/workspaces/roles-and-access-controls)
- [Connect a domain to your workspace](https://help.carbonvoice.app/workspaces/connect-a-domain)