The Timeline tab lists the deal's Important dates — the time-sensitive events of the transaction: earnest money, the investigation/loan/appraisal contingencies, the final walk-through, close of escrow, and possession.
Where the dates come from
You don't enter them. When the purchase agreement (and any counter offers) finish processing, LetterScript reads the agreed periods and computes the calendar dates. Counter offers win over the original contract — the timeline always reflects the finally-agreed terms.
Each date carries a badge:
- Verified — confirmed across documents or by you.
- Auto · review — derived automatically; give it a glance, especially right after a new counter offer changes terms.
A few dates render specially:
- Waived — a contingency the contract waived (a 0-day period) shows a Waived chip instead of a date; it never lands on the calendar or fires a reminder.
- Rolled dates — when a computed deadline lands on a weekend or holiday it moves to the next business day (the standard purchase-agreement rule, paragraph 25.J), with the adjustment noted under the date. You can turn this off — or switch to business-day counting entirely — in Settings → General → Deadline behavior.
Key dates vs. All dates
The timeline and calendar show your key dates by default. The finer-grained dates a transaction coordinator tracks — seller document delivery, the buyer's review window, informational property access, insurance steps, increased deposit, due diligence — sit behind the All dates toggle (they're tagged TC), so your day-to-day view stays focused.
Your own milestones and renames
Dates aren't limited to what the contract derives. In the Pipeline card on the deal's Overview tab you can:
- Add a preset milestone — inspection scheduled, appraiser scheduled, buyer/seller signing, loan funding, counter offer, and more.
- Add a custom milestone — free-form; name it anything and put it on the timeline.
- Rename any date — your name sticks, even when a re-processed document refreshes the underlying date.
The Schedule calendar
Click Open Schedule (or go to Schedule in the sidebar) to see every deal's dates on one Calendar — your whole pipeline's deadlines in a single view, with a Reminders tab beside it for the emails that fire as dates approach. See Milestone reminders.
From the same tab, Calendar sync can push these dates into your own Google or Outlook calendar, where configured — a one-way feed into a dedicated calendar in your account. See Sync deadlines to Google or Outlook Calendar.
If a date looks wrong or is missing
Deadlines depend entirely on the anchoring contract documents. If the purchase agreement or the latest counter offer isn't uploaded — or is still Analyzing — dates will be missing or stale. An empty timeline has an Upload documents button right there, so you can add the contract without leaving the tab. See Extraction didn't fill in.