> This is the Markdown of a Backed Help Centre page, https://admin.backed.giving/help/administrator/contracts/checklist-contracts.md. Every page is listed at https://admin.backed.giving/help/llms.txt.

> This page uses Backed's default terms, such as Funding Round and Application Template. An organisation may rename them, so read each as your organisation's own term if you've renamed it.

Ready for your Contracts to go live?

Ensure you've double checked the following:

1. Write a contract template under `Plan > Form templates > Contracts`, check its `Contract text` and its personalisation tokens, and save it.
2. Decide whether to `Assign contract numbers automatically`, and set the `Contract number format`, under `Settings > Profile and terms`.
3. Check your `Standard terms` and the signature methods signatories can use, under `Settings > Profile and terms`.
4. Create the contract categories you report by: `New Category` under `Settings > Contract categories`.
5. Set up the `Request types` people can raise about a contract, under `Settings > Contract categories`.
6. Review the emails sent about contracts under `Communicate > Email templates`, in `Contracts`.


Labels that name `Contract` use your organisation's own term if you've renamed it.

## See also

- [Contract templates](contract-templates.md)
- [Create and send a contract](create-and-send-a-contract.md)
- [Contract requests](contract-requests.md)
- [Categories and tags](../organisation/categories-and-tags.md)