The process of creating, sending and signing Common Paper agreements has grown in its flexibility and complexity since its debut, and there have been more and more questions on how to do things that aren't covered elsewhere in the documentation.

Here are a few of the most common questions and answers.

Yes. Common Paper works for any company regardless of where it's based. The standard agreements default to US governing law and courts, but you can enable non-US options in your organization settings - see Support for Non-US Governing Law and Chosen Courts for instructions.

Keep in mind that the standard agreements were drafted by a committee of US-based attorneys. If your company operates outside the US, we recommend having local counsel review the terms to confirm they work in your jurisdiction.

You can now click on the Provide More Info link in the Recipient section when sending a new agreement to have access to add recipient title and notification address information. These fields are optional, and your recipient will have the ability to add or update this information themselves when they are asked to sign your agreement.

Currently, Common Paper does not allow a sender to sign a standard Common Paper agreement before sending it to a recipient.

The one exception to this is when collecting signatures for an uploaded agreement, in which case you can specify who should sign first.

At the moment, we don't have support for multiple signers in the software. The best workaround for now is likely to download the Word docs from our system, get the two signatures, and then upload the executed versions back in for record keeping.

Yes. Where you download from depends on whether you sent the agreement or received it.

Click into the agreement from the home page to open its agreement history page, where there are options for downloading either DOCX or PDF versions. These versions reflect the latest proposed changes, without redline markup, if the agreement is in-flight, or the finalized version if the agreement has been signed.

Note: Once the agreement has been signed, the DOCX version can no longer be downloaded.

You don't need an agreement history page. Open the agreement from the link in the email you received, click Other actions, and select Download as PDF or Download as Word (DOCX). You can do this while you're reviewing the agreement, including while you're proposing changes.

Download as Word (DOCX) isn't offered for uploaded agreements. For those, download the PDF.

If you negotiated the agreement outside Common Paper, for example by editing the Word download, you can upload the final version to collect signatures or store it alongside your other completed agreements. Don't do this for changes proposed in Common Paper. Uploading creates a second, separate agreement - see the next question.

You don't need to create one. On an agreement negotiated in Common Paper, the redline is only how proposed changes are shown for review. The agreement itself already contains the latest proposed terms.

To accept the proposed changes, sign the agreement. Depending on your setup, the button reads Accept and send for signature or Sign agreement. Signing incorporates every proposed change, and the signed PDF is a clean copy with no redline markup.

If your recipient wants a clean copy to review before signing, download the PDF as described above and send it to them. The PDF shows the latest proposed terms without redline markup. If there are no more changes, they sign the same agreement through the link they already have.

NOTE: Don't upload the downloaded PDF or Word file to send it for signature. That creates a second, uploaded agreement instead of completing the one you negotiated, and the original stays unsigned.

Yes. On the Agreements page, click More options to expand the advanced filters. At the bottom right of the filter panel, you'll see two export buttons:

To download a specific subset - like only your signed NDAs or agreements from a particular date range - use the filters to narrow the list first, then click Export PDFs. Only the agreements matching your filters will be included in the export.

Because exporting a large number of agreements can take some time, the file is not available immediately. The user who clicked the button will receive an email when the export is ready, with a link to download it.

Yes! In order to adjust terms within an agreement you've already sent to a recipient, use the Propose Changes link when viewing the agreement history page. You'll see a redlined preview of your changes before anything is sent, and when you send them, your recipient gets an email letting them know the agreement has changed. You can propose changes until one side has signed the agreement. See Proposing Changes to a Sent Agreement for details.

No. When you create a template or send an agreement in Common Paper, nothing reviews it with AI before it goes to your counterparty. The agreement is built from the Common Paper Standard Terms plus the Cover Page values you enter, so check those values before you send.

Gerri is a separate Common Paper product for reviewing agreements your counterparty sends you against your company's playbook. It doesn't review templates or agreements you create and send from Common Paper.

Yes! For agreements that have been created in Common Paper (and not uploaded), you'll see an action for Duplicate Agreement. This feature copies all of the configuration of this agreement and pre-fills that info into a new agreement form. The new agreement will use the underlying template and version of the agreement being duplicated. From the creation screen, you can change any/all aspects of the agreement to match your needs.

Note that for standard users, they will only be able to duplicate agreements that they have sent, and for agreements where there are items that are normally unconfigurable by these users, they will use the template defaults.

The options for removing/deleting an agreement vary based on how the agreement was created and its current state. These options will appear on the agreement history page.

Here are the current options:

If you are interested in terminating an agreement so that you can change the terms, check out this article for some other ways to handle that.

If you have completed agreements that you wish to remove, please reach out to [email protected].