Customize Decision Types

The six built-in decision types — Accept, Conditional Accept, Major Revision, Minor Revision, Reject, Desk Reject — are always available and drive a paper's submission status. You can add custom verdict labels on top for conferences that need finer distinctions like Accept as Poster, Shepherd, or Reject and Resubmit.

Navigate to Conferences → your conference → Settings → Decision Types in the sidebar.

The page has two sections:

• Built-in — the six fixed types. They drive the submission's lifecycle status (accepted, rejected, in revision) and can't be renamed, recolored, or deleted.
• Custom — verdict labels you add. They appear in the decision dropdown and filters but don't change a paper's status — useful when you want a granular outcome label without altering the lifecycle.

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Add a Custom Decision Type

1. Click "Add Decision Type"
2. Fill in:
   • Label — the verdict text chairs will pick (e.g. Accept as Poster)
   • Description (optional) — shown alongside the label on this settings page; helps other chairs understand when to use it
   • Color — the badge color, chosen from four families that mirror the built-ins:
     • Accept-like (green) — positive outcomes
     • Major-revision-like (orange) — substantial revision asks
     • Minor-revision-like (amber) — light-touch revision asks
     • Reject-like (red) — negative outcomes

3. Click "Add Decision Type" to save

The new label is immediately available to all chairs (and AEs/SEs) making decisions in any track of this conference. It also appears as a filter option on the decisions page.

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Rename or Recolor

Click the rename icon next to a custom decision to change its label, description, or color. This works whether or not the custom is in use — a label change updates everywhere, including on past decisions that referenced it.

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Delete

Custom decisions you haven't recorded on any submission yet can be deleted with the trash icon.

Once a custom decision has been recorded on at least one submission, the delete affordance becomes disabled — hovering shows a tooltip explaining why. A badge next to the row shows how many submissions currently carry that decision. You can still rename it, but to delete it you'd first need to change the affected decisions to something else.

Built-in decisions can never be deleted.

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Where Custom Decisions Show Up

After you add one, it appears in:

• The Decision dropdown when track chairs / AEs / SEs make a decision on a submission
• The Decision filter on the track's decisions page
• The decision badge wherever a decided submission is rendered (decisions page, paper detail, MCP responses, CSV exports)
• The decision-letter email to authors, using the label and color you set

See Make Decisions on Submissions for the track-chair workflow that uses these verdicts.