Quick answer
No. Nothing about the calls blocks a step or a sign-off. Four calls and two meetings can each be switched on or off, firm-wide in Settings, per client on the client card, or for one job on the job's client calls card. Turning one off does not lose the questions it would have carried.
What is on by default
The Before call, the records pushback call, the During call and the After call are on. The pre year-end and post year-end meetings are off. A job you create to test AllDone on work you have already finished starts with all of them off, because there is no client to ring.
What changes when a flow is off
The card stays. The call is still listed, with a line saying it is off for this client or for the firm, and a control to switch it back on.
You cannot record a note against it. Recording is refused with the reason and the option to enable the flow first. Notes recorded earlier are kept and badged.
Open questions become your own parked items rather than a client wait. The stage shows the count as parked, and the records screen keeps the outstanding items on the outstanding records card. Nothing is dropped.
The After call data block is not assembled, since nothing is going to be presented.
If you already hold your own meetings
Many firms do, and the point of the toggles is that AllDone fits round them. Switch the flow off and use the agenda as your own preparation: the firm-wide settings page lets you reword the Before and After agendas, reorder them, add items of your own and edit the client emails, so the questions ride on your meeting instead of a new one.
Where the setting wins
The most specific setting applies. A per-job toggle beats the engagement approach, which beats the client card, which beats the firm default. A compilation job switches the Before call, the pushback call, the During call and the After call off on its own unless you say otherwise.
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