Stop surprise renewals. Find the contract fast. Know your notice deadlines. Control vendor relationships like a system.
Most organizations lose money and create risk in the same predictable ways:
This collection gives you the beginner-friendly operating system to: store contracts correctly, extract the fields that matter, run a renewal cadence, and prevent "silent continuation" of bad terms.
You will learn how to:
A contract home you can actually use.
Notice windows and "received-by" requirements.
Auto-renewals and escalators (and why they matter).
Tie contracts to payment controls (optional but powerful).
This collection does not try to teach legal theory. It teaches the operational system.
If you are new, do this in order:
Build a Contract Index where every active vendor agreement has:
That single table prevents most renewal disasters. Start with the Contract Repository Setup Guide.
Never miss a contract renewal deadline again - templates and workflows for tracking renewals.
How to organize vendor contracts for visibility, compliance, and renewal tracking.
Prevent compliance gaps by tying vendor compliance to payment and renewal decisions.
Understanding auto-renewal clauses in vendor contracts - what to look for and how to negotiate.
How price escalation clauses work in real estate contracts and how to benchmark them.
These templates exist inside the resources above; this is what you should pull into your Template Vault:
Choose the next collection based on your pain:
v1.0 (2026-01): Latest release