# Contracts

> Record an agreement with a customer or an employee, with its value, dates, terms and signed copy.

*Section: Projects and team work · Updated: 2026-10-19 · Needs the plan feature: contracts*

By the end you will have recorded an agreement with a customer, such as a year's supply of kitchen goods to a hotel, with its value, dates and documents.

> **Note:** Contracts come with some plans only. If **Contracts** isn't under **Team & projects** in your menu, your plan or your role doesn't include it.

## Create a contract

1. **Open [Team & projects › Contracts](/app/contracts)** and **click Create Contract.**
2. **Pick the Party Type:** **Customer** for an agreement with a customer, **Employee** for one with a member of staff. Then pick the **Customer** or the **Employee**.
3. **Link a Project** if the contract belongs to one.
4. **Write the Subject,** such as **Kitchen supplies for 12 months**. The **Contract Number** fills itself.
5. **Enter the Value and pick the Type:** **Service**, **Lease**, **Sales**, **NDA**, **Employment** or **Other**.
6. **Set the Start date, the Finish date and the Status:** **Draft**, **Active**, **Expired** or **Cancelled**.
7. **Write the Details,** the terms, with the editor's bold, lists and links.
8. **Click Submit.**

![Create contract: Party Type Customer, Customer Green Valley Hotel, Project Green Valley Hotel kitchen refit, Contract Number CON-20261019-0001, Subject "Kitchen supplies for 12 months", Value (USD) 2400, Type Sales, Start date 01/11/2026, Finish date 31/10/2027, Status Active, Details, Hide from customer, and Submit.](https://armpos.online/storage/help/87fd445b8c-contracts-1-create.webp)
*The value is in your shop's money, whatever the label says.*

**Value (USD)** keeps that label whatever your currency: type the amount in your own.

## The contracts page

The page opens with counters (**Active**, **Expired**, **About to Expire**, **Recently Added**, **Trash**), charts by type and value, and the list.

![Contracts: Contract #, Subject, Party Type, Name, Value, Type, Start date, Finish date and Status, with CON-20261019-0001 "Kitchen supplies for 12 months", Customer, Green Valley Hotel, $2,400.00, sales, 2026-11-01 to 2027-10-31, active.](https://armpos.online/storage/help/bd6bd9bc29-contracts-2-list.webp)
*Open a contract from its row for its attachments, comments and renewals.*

Open a contract to see its tabs: the contract itself, **Attachments** (the signed copy), **Comments**, **Renewal History**, **Tasks**, **Notes** and **Templates**, and to download it as a PDF.

- ArmPOS doesn't change a contract's status by itself: set it to **Expired** when it ends.
- A contract records an agreement; it moves no money or stock. Invoice the customer with sales as usual.

## What's next

[Projects and tasks](/app/help/projects-and-tasks).