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Agreement template

Work Authorization

The customer's written go-ahead for work at their property: the scope, the price, access, and how changes will be handled.

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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 12 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.

12 blanks in this document

business nameguest namejob addressdatescopepricepayment termsdepositstart datedurationworking hourswarranty period

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 Work Authorization, 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
  • Home address
  • Mobile number
  • Start date
  • Purchase order numberOptional

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.

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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 the home-improvement contract requirements where you operate — many states require specific notices, a cancellation right, and licence numbers on the document.

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.

Work Authorization

business name is authorised by guest name to carry out the work below at job address. Signed date.

  1. The work. scope. Anything not written here is not included; additions are agreed on a Change Order before they are done.
  2. Price and payment. price, payable payment terms. A deposit of deposit is due before work starts. The price assumes the conditions seen at the estimate; concealed conditions found once work starts are dealt with by Change Order.
  3. Schedule. Work starts on or about start date and is expected to take duration. Weather, supply and concealed conditions can move this, and business name will say so as soon as it knows.
  4. Access and site. The customer gives access during working hours, moves or protects belongings in the work area, and tells business name of any known hazard.
  5. Permits and code. business name obtains the permits its trade requires and works to the code that applies. Inspections are the customer's to allow and business name's to arrange.
  6. Warranty. business name warrants its workmanship for warranty period from completion. Materials carry their manufacturer's warranty.
  7. Cancellation. Either party may cancel before work starts on written notice; the customer pays for materials already ordered for the job.

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

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