Guest Writer Agreements Made Easier
How to Create and Manage Writer Agreements in WriterGate
As a content marketing manager, you may need to onboard guest writers to expand your writing capacity. As a part of the onboarding process, you may need to sign legal agreements with them, such as NDAs and Writer Agreements. Typically this takes time, and you will need to create them, send them over for digital signature and track their validity for future renewals.
Enter, WriterGate Agreements
WriterGate helps you easily create and manage corporate agreements, digitally sign them, attach them to a writer profile, and reuse them as templates for new hires. With this, you can significantly reduce the time it takes to create and manage agreements.
Note: This feature is only available in WriterGate Business plan.
Who Can Create Agreements?
Initially, the enterprise owner role has the permission to manage agreements across your organization. However, this permission can be assigned to another user if required.
Figure — Assigning agreement management permissions
Getting Started With WriterGate Agreements
1. Create an Agreement Template
In WriterGate, you first need to create an Agreement Template to start. This template contains placeholders such as the target user name, sign date, and signatures. Then you can reuse the template for any future agreement with a few clicks.
Visit the agreements module in your organization, and click “New” to start with your first agreement template.
Use the rich text editor to update your agreement terms with required placeholders and click “Create” to create it.
Afterward, you can use these templates for your new hires and future revisions.
2. Invite the Writer to WriterGate
Then you need to invite your Writer to your organization. We do this because it allows us to email the agreement to the Writer to sign it digitally. In addition, the agreement is tracked under the user profile for future reference.
To do this, you need to follow the below steps:
- Go to the user’s organization profile.
- Head over to the agreements tab.
- Click “Add” and assign the agreement!
It’s as simple as that, and in fact, we’ve illustrated a video below of us assigning an agreement to our new hire in under 30 seconds!
And that’s it! You’ve created an agreement for your new hire using a reusable template!
3. Signing the Agreements
Well, WriterGate automatically notifies all the signees of the document via email, prompting them to review & sign the terms of the agreement!
Figure — Signing the agreement
Please note that WriterGate maintain an audit trail of the agreement. Therefore, it collects your IP Address and Device Information for traceability.
Finally, once everyone signs the agreement, WriterGate updates the agreement status and notifies everyone.
Well, Can I View The Audit Trail?
Yes! WriterGate allows the signees and users with the Agreement Management permission to view the audit trail by visiting the detailed agreement.
And thats it! We’ve compiled an agreement template and then assigned an agreement for your new hire in under five minutes!
But Wait, We’ve Got One More Surprise
Sometimes you need your writer to review the agreement before you send it. Therefore, WriterGate allows sharing a “read-only” version of your agreement with anyone before signing.
To do so, head to your sign link, and use the toolbar on top to grab the Share URL. Then, you can share this URL with anyone to read your agreement.
Try the WriterGate Business Plan for free for 30 days now. If you have any questions, reach out to us at support@writergate.com.
