After an agreement is signed by both parties, sometimes you'll need to make changes to it without triggering a full new agreement or order form. These alterations could include things like:

The best way to handle these changes in Common Paper is using Amendments.

Note: The Common Paper Amendment can also be used as an Addendum to add additional terms to an underlying agreement.

In order to create a new amendment, you'll need to start from a signed agreement, which you can either create natively in the app or upload.

Issuing amendments is supported for any agreement type in Common Paper.

Click into the agreement that you wish to create the Amendment for and choose Issue Amendment from the Other Actions menu.

This will bring you to the Create Amendment screen and automatically associate the new amendment with the underlying agreement.

Amendments are very simple agreements and have few required parts.

The Underlying Agreement will be automatically populated from the agreement that you are issuing the amendment for - your customer will have access to this agreement when reviewing the amendment.

The Amendment Date is the effective date of the amendment - usually the date that the last party signs, although you can set it to a specific date if you'd prefer.

The Terms to Amend are the most important part of the agreement, and is where you specify what's changing. For each distinct part of the agreement you wish to amend, add a new term. Each Term to Amend has a term name (for example, Cloud Service Fees) and a description (for example, Add 3 additional software licenses at $400/month per license).

You can add as many terms as you'd like. If you don't want to break them into individual terms, you can use a blanket term like Changes and write them all into the description field.

You may also add Attachments to an amendment if you'd like to include pricing exhibits, term updates, or other documents.

Beyond these fields, Amendments operate like any other Common Paper agreement and allow you to specify signers, send test agreements, toggle on/off allowing negotiation, and more.

Amendments will show in the main agreement list. You can see the parent agreement at any time on the agreement history page.

If you need to cancel or end a signed agreement before its natural expiration, you can use an Amendment to formally document the termination. There is no separate "Cancel" or "Void" option for signed agreements - an Amendment is the supported path.

To terminate a signed agreement, create a new Amendment and add a single Term to Amend. Set the term name to something like Termination and write a plain-language description of what both parties are agreeing to - for example:

The parties agree to terminate the Cloud Service Agreement effective [date]. All obligations under the agreement shall cease as of that date, except for any terms that expressly survive termination.

Once both parties sign the Amendment, it serves as the formal record of termination alongside the original agreement.