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Contracts

What Is Obligation Management?

Tracking what each signed contract requires and when: payments, notices, reporting, renewals and deliverables.

Legal Tech GlossaryBy The Circle Desk

Why It Matters

Missed obligations cost real money, from unwanted auto-renewals to service credits never claimed. Obligation tracking is one of the clearest ways to show the business what contract technology is worth.

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Related Terms

Contract repository
A central, searchable store of an organization's signed contracts and their key data, such as parties, dates, values and renewal terms.
Auto-renewal
A contract term that renews the agreement automatically for another period unless one side gives notice by a set deadline.
CLM (contract lifecycle management)
Software that manages a contract from request through drafting, negotiation, approval, signature, storage, obligations and renewal.

General information, not legal advice. Part of the Legal Tech Glossary, 173 terms in plain English.