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Google Workspace Offboarding & Data Archiving

Take Full Control of Your Offboarding and Archiving Workflows in Google Workspace

What is employee offboarding automation?
The event-driven process of revoking access, archiving data, and enforcing compliance when an employee leaves — without IT manually touching Google Directory, Drive, Gmail, or Chat one app at a time. Zenphi triggers offboarding flows from Directory, Group, or HRIS events, then executes account suspension, data transfer, archiving, device sign-out, and stakeholder notification automatically.

Securely revoke access, transfer or archive data, and enforce compliance — automatically and at any volume. Zenphi gives IT teams complete control over every offboarding step, powered by event-driven workflows and flexible data-hosting options.

Google Workspace native · Event-driven · Flat pricing
Offboarding Workflow
Live in production
Detect → Revoke → Archive → Notify
Trigger
Directory or Group event detected
Google Directory, Groups, or HRIS event starts the offboarding sequence
Automated
Revoke
Access revoked and sessions ended
Account suspended, OAuth tokens revoked, devices signed out
200+ actions
Archive
Data transferred and archived
Drive ownership transferred, Gmail and Chat archived to storage
Auditable
Trusted by IT & Operations teams at
Google
Gordon Food Service
Emerson College
Daily Harvest
Campbell University
Lift Schools
Tabby.ai
Action Behavior Centers
NYC Department of Education
NC State University
90%
Less Manual Effort
Every step — from account suspension to data transfer and audit documentation — runs automatically, freeing IT teams from repetitive tasks.
3x
Faster Offboarding
Automations triggered instantly from Google Directory or Group events complete user offboarding in minutes instead of hours — even across thousands of accounts per month.
Flat
Pricing, Not Per-User
Zenphi's operation-based pricing removes the per-user overhead of traditional lifecycle tools.
Enterprise-level flexibility

Enterprise-Level Fully Flexible Workflow Automation

Zenphi goes beyond traditional lifecycle management tools by giving you full control over how workflows are triggered, executed, and audited — all natively integrated with Google Workspace.

What Zenphi automates

Enterprise-Ready Security

Compliance, role-based access, and data encryption for peace of mind.

Event-Based Automation

Trigger workflows automatically from any event in Google Workspace.

Fully Customizable

Flexible, no-code workflows tailored to your organization's policies.

Hosted in Your Cloud

Deploy Zenphi directly inside your infrastructure so data never leaves your environment.

Google Workspace coverage

Which Tool Handles Offboarding Across Google Directory, Groups, Drive, Gmail & Chat?

Zenphi is a no-code Google Workspace user lifecycle management platform. On the offboarding side, a single flow can trigger on a Google Directory or Group change, revoke sessions, transfer Drive ownership, archive Gmail and Google Chat content, and sign the user out of every device — with no scripting required.

App
Offboarding action
Detail
Google Directory
Detects the offboarding event and suspends the account automatically
Triggered by Directory, Group, or HRIS changes
Google Groups
Removes the user from every group and shared mailing list
Runs across all groups simultaneously
Google Drive
Transfers file and Shared Drive ownership, then revokes external sharing
Ownership goes to manager or successor
Gmail
Archives mailbox content, sets auto-forwarding, notifies HR and security
Archived to your chosen storage location
Google Chat
Archives visible messages and metadata via API or ingests Vault legal-hold exports
API-based or Vault-based, your choice
Full feature set

A New, Smarter Approach to Offboarding Automation — Built for Google Workspace

Feature 1
Triggers

Event-Driven Automation

Trigger workflows from Google Directory changes, Group membership updates, HR system events, Forms submissions, email arrivals — or any system that can call an API.

Feature 2
Actions

200+ Actions

Automate suspension, deletion, license cleanup, notifications, device sign-outs, file transfer, sharing cleanup, and more — without scripting.

Feature 3
Archiving

Advanced Archiving & Compliance

Archive Gmail, Drive, and Google Chat content to your selected storage — preserving metadata, applying retention policies, and consolidating Vault data when needed.

Feature 4
Hosting

Hosted in Your Cloud Environment

Deploy Zenphi directly inside your infrastructure — so data never leaves your environment. Prefer cloud deployment? Choose your region and storage location for full data residency control.

The full offboarding flow

A Complete Offboarding Flow — Tailored to You

Every organization offboards differently. Zenphi adapts to your policies, roles, and compliance frameworks — all executed in seconds, automatically.

Detect Event

Detect offboarding or access change

Revoke Access

Securely deactivate the account + revoke sessions

Archive Data

Archive and transfer owned data

Manage Devices

Clean up access on every device and external share

Communicate

Notify HR, managers, and security

Full Control Over Hosting

You choose where your data lives — deploy Zenphi in your own cloud or pick a region and storage location to align with sovereignty policies.

Customer outcomes

Why Customers Love Us

★★★★★

"Thanks to Zenphi, our compliance and data security protocols have improved by 100%. We are also saving now up to 40–50 hours per workflow, completely eliminating the need for manual file sharing audits."

Francis Frain
Assistant VP, Information Security & IT Infrastructure, Emerson College
★★★★★

"Zenphi simplifies Google Workspace user lifecycle management tasks effortlessly. With its help, I successfully automated our new hire process, ensuring smooth communication and data management throughout the onboarding journey."

Kevin Vacanti
Advanced IT Support Specialist, Purple Wave
★★★★★

"Zenphi supports our IT operations, including user lifecycle management, very efficiently. We value its flexibility and adaptability to our needs. I would say that with Zenphi, as long as you know what you want, then you can create any workflow that suits your needs."

Sabapathy Sasitharan
IT Support Specialist, SOCAR Malaysia
★★★★★

"There were many processes we chose not to automate with Apps Script due to the complexity. Zenphi changed that. The workflows that are now available to us thanks to Zenphi reduced our team's ticket requests by 83% in 2024-2025."

Jeff Johnson
End User Experience Lead, Gordon Food Service
★★★★★

"What makes Zenphi stand out is an added value that goes beyond comprehensiveness of API end points. It's subflows, ability to run processes in parallel, Regex, native integration with Gemini — all these things make building Zenphi workflows actually enjoyable."

Jens Gössing
Google Workspace Architect, Google
Zenphi in action

Zenphi In Action: Google Workspace Offboarding & Data Archiving Automation

Success story

Offboarding At Google

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Why IT teams choose Zenphi

Zenphi vs Traditional Lifecycle Tools

Lifecycle management and migration platforms like CloudM that handle predefined user lifecycle actions are useful but limited. Zenphi lets you design, trigger, and extend workflows across any event or system, giving you the flexibility to automate offboarding the way your organization actually operates — at a fraction of the cost.

Capability
Zenphi
Lifecycle Tools
Workflow Triggers
Directory, Groups, Audit Events, HRIS API, Forms, Gmail arrival, time-based
Mostly limited to provisioning/deprovisioning triggers
Workflow Logic
Fully customizable with conditions, loops, approvals, integrations
Predefined sequences
Data Archiving
Archive Gmail, Drive & Chat to any storage + Vault export integration
Fixed destinations, limited Vault visibility
Device & Access Cleanup
List devices, remote sign-out, block, wipe, revoke external sharing
Limited device or access management
Cost Model
Based on workflow operations
Based on user count
Hosting & Residency
Deploy inside your cloud or choose a storage location
SaaS-only hosting
FAQ

Questions IT Teams Ask About Offboarding Automation

Yes — for most Google Workspace organizations, Zenphi can fully automate user offboarding, data archiving, and account management processes that CloudM handles. The key difference is flexibility: with Zenphi, you define how workflows are triggered, what actions happen, and where data is archived, without per-user pricing or predefined templates.

Zenphi can start workflows based on Google Directory, Google Groups, or Google Audit Activity events, email arrival, Google Form submission, or an event in your HRIS system — and can also update HR systems and groups when an employee is suspended.

Zenphi can archive data from Gmail, Google Drive, Shared Drives, and Google Chat, with configurable storage destinations and automatic retention rules.

Yes. Zenphi can update or remove Gmail signatures as part of an offboarding sequence or as an independent bulk process across multiple domains and logos, triggered by a Forms submission.

Most teams can deploy a functional offboarding workflow in just a few days using Zenphi's no-code designer, with solution architects available to assist with setup or migration.

Yes. The same event-based automation extends to employee onboarding, license management, approval workflows, vendor onboarding, and other human resources workflows within the same Zenphi workspace.

Human support

Human Support, Always Live

While other platforms push you through chatbots and endless loops before reaching a real person, Zenphi takes a different approach. Our Customer Success team is always live — no bots, no scripted responses, no wasted time.

Even though Zenphi is an AI enablement platform, we believe some things should never be automated — like the way we support our customers.

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