Custom Statuses

Statuses are the kanban columns on your roadmap. Convot ships five editable defaults, and you can add your own.

Default statuses

The defaults are fully editable - rename them, change the color, change the icon, or toggle public visibility. You can also delete ones you don’t need.

Managing statuses

Go to Settings → Apps → [your app] → Roadmap statuses (or the statuses panel within the Roadmap admin page).

Edit a status

1. Click the status row.
2. Change the name, color (hex or preset swatch), and icon (choose from the preset icon set: clock, progress, check, lightbulb, flag, sparkles, dot, or x).
3. Toggle Show on public board on or off.
4. Save.

Add a status

1. Click New status.
2. Enter a name and pick a color and icon.
3. Choose whether to show it on the public board.
4. Save.

Delete a status

Deleting a status makes the items that were in it “Unassigned” - they don’t disappear, they just have no status label until you reassign them. The items themselves stay on the board.

Public board rules

Between 3 and 5 statuses can be shown on the public board at a time. The Show on public board toggle controls this per status. Statuses with it off are admin-only and never visible to customers, making them useful for internal stages like “Declined” or “Won’t Fix”.

Icon auto-assignment

If you don’t pick an icon, Convot assigns one based on the status name (e.g. a name containing “progress” gets the progress icon, “shipped” gets the check icon). You can always change it afterward.

Next steps

• Creating roadmap items
• The public roadmap board