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Agreement template

Change Order

One page for work beyond what was agreed: what changed, what it costs, and a signature before anybody carries on.

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Where this comes from

Not a sample we wrote for this page. This is the document the product puts in your account, as a draft, the moment you say what you do.

Written for your trade

Name your trade during setup — home services and contracting — and this is waiting for you, already written, in your words, with the blanks marked and the points a lawyer settles flagged for one. Edit it, or paste in what you already use.

It is a starting point and not legal advice: the wording is yours to change and your attorney's to check.

How it reaches your account

  1. Say what you do. Pick your trade when you set up; nothing to find or download.
  2. It is there as a draft. The 14 blanks marked, and 1 point flagged for a lawyer.
  3. Settle the notes, then send. The product will not send it with a note still in it.

How this works for home services and contracting

What it asks you to fill in

Read off the document itself, so this list cannot drift away from what the document actually asks for.

14 blanks in this document

change numberoriginal datebusiness nameguest namejob addressdatechange descriptionreasonprice changeprevious pricenew pricepayment termsschedule changenew completion date

Each one is a box on the send screen, and a value your own system can pass through the API. The rest of the wording is the same for every signer.

How they are filled

  • Once per send, from what you already know.
  • Or from your own system, through the API.
  • Into the document, never into its wording.
  • What somebody signed is the version they were shown.
Page one of the Change Order, as a blank copy for Example Business: the document's title and opening clauses, with a line for each blank still to be filled in.
Page one as the dashboard prints a blank copy: every blank a line, named.

Questions it can ask

Beyond the blanks, a template can ask the signer questions. These come from the product's own question library and suit this document; add them, change them, or write your own.

As the signer sees them
  • Purchase order numberOptional
  • Billing referenceOptional
  • Start date
  • I have read and understood this document

Each question is checked where it is answered — a date that is on the calendar, a birthday that is not in the future, an address long enough to be one — in the same words on the signing page, on the counter tablet and in the API, and the signature waits until every required one is done.

  • Sections. Group questions under a heading, and give a section a page of its own.
  • Conditions. Show a question only when an earlier answer calls for it; a hidden question is never asked and never owed.
  • Flags. Put an answer in front of your staff when it needs a person, such as a safety box left unticked.
  • Questions first. Ask them before the document is shown, and the document after.

Everything a template carries →

What a lawyer has to settle

These are the notes already written into the document, not our opinion about the law where you operate. The product refuses to send a document with one still in it, which is the point of them.

SignSealer does not give legal advice and this document is not legal advice. What it does is put the questions in front of you before somebody signs, rather than after.

Check whether change orders where you operate need the same notices as the original contract.

The document

The real text, with the blanks shown as blanks and the notes above lifted out so they are read rather than skimmed past.

Change Order

Change order change number to the Work Authorization dated original date between business name and guest name for job address. Signed date.

  1. The change. change description.
  2. Why. reason.
  3. Price. The contract price changes by price change, from previous price to new price, payable payment terms.
  4. Schedule. The expected completion changes by schedule change to new completion date.
  5. Everything else. All other terms of the Work Authorization stay as they are. No work described here starts until this is signed.

By signing the customer authorises this change and confirms that they have read it and meant to sign it.

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