# Issue a Revision

Mark a compiled package as submitted and it becomes a permanent, numbered revision.

Six weeks after a package goes out, someone asks what was actually in it. If the answer lives in a folder of files that kept changing, you don't have one. Issuing a revision fixes that: the exact bytes you sent are kept forever.

![A submittal after issuing: the revision is a permanent record with its own downloads](https://submittalkit.com/static/images/help/issue-a-revision-issued.webp)

## What issuing does

On a submittal's page, **Mark as Submitted** promotes the compile into a permanent revision. The issued files can never change afterward, no matter how much you edit the submittal later. Every revision lands on the [Submittal Log](/help/submittal-log) with its submitted date and review status.

Numbering runs Initial, Rev 1, Rev 2 (or Rev A, Rev B, depending on your revision naming setting), and each new submission continues the sequence automatically. See [Submittal numbering](/help/submittal-numbering).

## Issue in one step

1. Open the submittal. When it reads **Good to go**, you can compile first to review the package, or skip straight to issuing.
2. Click **Mark as Submitted**. With a reviewed compile ready, that compile is recorded as the revision. With no fresh compile, one click compiles, verifies, and issues in a single step.
3. Confirm. The revision appears at the top of the Revisions list and on the log.

If the package is short of documents its recipe requires, the confirmation warns you first rather than refusing, so a deliberate partial submission is still one click.

## Preview what you issued

Every revision in the Revisions list opens in the same preview window the rest of the app uses, with a download beside it. Packages that include signed originals offer a complete-package download: the primary PDF, every untouched signed original, and a README. No more saving a file just to check what went out in Rev 2.

## Withdraw a revision that never went out

Issued the wrong thing? **Withdraw** the latest revision. Its snapshot is deleted and the number is freed, so the next submission is issued under the same label. Use it only for a package that was never actually sent; a package the reviewer has seen belongs on the record.

## The next round

Issuing freezes the revision, not the submittal. The working submittal stays fully editable, so when the review comes back [revise and resubmit](/help/returned-reviews), you fix the documents and issue the next revision from the same place.

> Compile and issue are separate on purpose: [compile](/help/compile-a-submittal) as many times as you like while you review; only Mark as Submitted creates a record.

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Submittal Kit · Revisions & Review · Updated 2026-08-15
Canonical: https://submittalkit.com/help/issue-a-revision