# Terminate events

Depending on your event configuration, your event can be stopped :

- At a specific date
- After a certain duration (from the event start date)
- Manually, by an event manager

##### Event lifecycle

High level lifecycle of an event is as follows:

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##### Stoping an event manually

Open the event and click on the "Terminate event":

[![image.png](https://docs.sandboxstudiosoftware.com/uploads/images/gallery/2026-04/scaled-1680-/r2Yimage.png)](https://docs.sandboxstudiosoftware.com/uploads/images/gallery/2026-04/r2Yimage.png)

All leases will be terminated, users will be notified, and accounts are going to cleanup before returning to accounts pool.

[![image.png](https://docs.sandboxstudiosoftware.com/uploads/images/gallery/2026-04/scaled-1680-/GF9image.png)](https://docs.sandboxstudiosoftware.com/uploads/images/gallery/2026-04/GF9image.png)