Contract Default Settings

There is one setting for contracts. Everything else you might think of as a contract setting — your terms, your cancellation policy, your clauses — lives in your contract templates.

The setting

Settings, then Contracts, holds a single switch:

Require Venue Signature on Contracts — when on, a contract is not finished when the client signs it. Somebody from your venue countersigns before it is complete.

That is the whole tab.

Where your terms actually live

Your terms are the text of your contract templates. A template is the document — deposit, payment schedule, cancellation policy, liability, everything — and a contract is generated from one.

This means:

• Different terms for different situations is a second template, not a setting.
• Changing your cancellation policy is editing the template's text.
• There are no tiered refund fields to fill in. If your policy is 90 days full, 60 days half, you write that into the clause.

A new template does not start empty — it opens with a complete starter agreement you edit down to your own terms.

The clause library

Reusable paragraphs live in a clause library, and you reach it from inside the template editor rather than from Settings: open a template, and the library button inserts a saved clause at your cursor.

Clauses are grouped as Pricing, Cancellation, Liability, Venue, Caution, Timeline and Custom.

This is the right place to keep the paragraphs you reuse across templates — noise limits, alcohol policy, photography rights — so that fixing the wording once fixes it everywhere you insert it next.

What is not configurable

• No expiration period. Contracts do not expire on a timer you set here.
• No auto-expire. Nothing marks an unsigned contract dead after N days.
• No signature-method setting. How a client signs is part of the sending flow, not a default you choose here.

Practical use

• Set the countersignature switch to match how you actually work. If nobody at your venue ever signs, leave it off, or every contract will sit looking unfinished.
• Keep one good template and copy it for variants, rather than maintaining five that drift apart.
• Put anything you have said twice into the clause library.

Frequently Asked Questions

Where do I set my deposit percentage? In the template text, alongside the rest of your payment terms. It is not a field.

Does editing a template change contracts already sent? No. A contract keeps the terms it was generated with. Use a contract amendment to change one that has gone out.

Can I use my attorney's language? Yes. Templates are rich text — paste it in whole.