> This is the Markdown of a Backed Help Centre page, https://admin.backed.giving/help/administrator/contracts/contract-templates.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.

A contract template holds the text a contract is generated from. Contract templates are kept under
`Plan > Form templates > Contracts`. `Contract` is your organisation's own term if you've renamed it.

## Write a contract template

1. Go to `Plan > Form templates` and open the `Contracts` tab.
2. Select `New Template` to open `New Contract Template`, and name it.
3. Write the `Contract text`. Personalisation tokens fill in the contract's, the applicant's and the
   application's details when a contract is generated. In the preview they print blank, because a
   template has no contract to fill them from.
4. Select `Save`. Each save makes a new version: `Contract template saved as version …`.

## Versions

`Saved versions` lists every version of the template, with when it was saved; the newest is marked
`Current`. Open a version to read it.

A saved version cannot be changed. Contracts made from it keep its text. To change the text, edit the
template, which makes a new version.

## Settings that shape contracts

`Settings > Profile and terms` holds the contract settings: `Assign contract numbers automatically` and its
`Contract number format`, `Preview the contract by default`, the signature methods signatories can
use, and `Standard terms`.

## See also

- [Create and send a contract](create-and-send-a-contract.md)