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Contract approvals in a fixed order, legal first

Legal reviews the contract, then finance reviews the value and term. The order is part of the policy, so finance never signs off on a draft that legal has not seen.

What goes wrong today

Reviews in the wrong order

Finance agrees to terms that legal later rejects, and the deal goes back to the start.

Outside parties left out

An external adviser has to approve, but they have no account, so the approval happens by email.

Versions everywhere

The contract under review is in one thread, the comments in another.

What the template gives you

A new workspace offers ready-made templates on its Policies page. Contract Review is one of them, and this is what it sets up, ready to edit. You can also build the same policy from scratch.

The request form

  • Counterparty Text, required
  • Contract value Currency, required
  • Term (months) Number

The route

  1. 1 Legal review Any legal reviewer
  2. 2 Finance review Any finance reviewer Starts only after legal approves

Make it yours

External approvers

Add an outside adviser by email. They open a secure link, confirm a one-time code and decide, with no account.

An executive stage for large deals

Add a stage that runs only when the contract value is above your limit.

The contract on the request

Attach the draft to the request, so every reviewer reads the same file.

Approve with conditions

Legal can approve subject to a change, and the condition is recorded with the decision.

Watch it in the app Creating an approval policy Build a complete approval workflow: a request form, a multi-stage route with SLAs, and conditional rules that skip, add or auto-approve stages.

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Questions

Does the external approver need an account?

No. They receive a secure link by email and confirm a one-time code to open the request and decide.

Can legal and finance review at the same time?

Yes, if you want that. Put them on parallel branches instead of in order.

Can a policy change affect contracts already in review?

No. Each request keeps the route it started with, so editing the policy only affects new requests.

Is there a record of who approved each contract?

Yes. The audit trail records every submission, decision and file, with the person and the time.

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Start from this template today

The Free plan includes three active workflows, five people and 50 requests every three months.