Common Paper supports saving agreements as drafts. You can use drafts to start working on an agreement and finish up later, or download your draft as a Word doc or PDF.

First, create a new agreement from a template. At the end of the page, under the agreement settings, you will see an option to save a draft.

Draft agreements are given a special status. You can filter on this status from your Agreements page.

From your Agreements page, click on the name of the draft and find "edit agreement" in your "Other actions" list. The same option is also available while previewing the draft. To remove a draft, click on its name to view the agreement history page and choose "delete agreement."

You can also edit drafts through the Common Paper API or an AI assistant connected to Common Paper. Changes made there appear the next time you open the draft in Common Paper, and each edit is recorded as Draft edited in the agreement history. Only drafts can be edited this way, and drafts can only be deleted from the agreement history page.

If your draft agreement was signed outside of Common Paper, you can upload the signed PDF to your draft. This will mark the agreement as complete.

Standard users can only send agreement drafts they've created. Admin users can view and send all drafts.