Below are a few tips to help you with your first experience on the Bonterms Platform. These cover the most common questions recipients have, and your Recipient Center has additional articles and guides if you need more help.
What is Bonterms, Standard Agreements and the Platform?
Bonterms publishes standardized contract templates called Standard Agreements, including NDAs, Cloud Terms, PSAs, DPAs, BAAs, and more. These agreements are drafted and reviewed by a cross-industry Committee of over 120 lawyers and are designed to reflect balanced, market-aligned terms.
When used on the Bonterms Platform, a Standard Agreement is customized, negotiated and signed through a Cover Page, which sets the deal-specific Key Terms and any proposed, agreed-upon Additional Terms.
As a recipient:
You do not need to create an account.
You do not need to pay to review, negotiate or sign.
You are not obligated to accept any proposed terms.
Always have legal counsel review a Standard Agreement before use.
The Bonterms Platform is designed to make negotiation clear and collaborative. Instead of exchanging redlines, each party proposes changes directly to specific deal terms. All proposed changes are clearly tracked and reviewed step-by-step until both sides agree.
You can:
Review proposed terms
Suggest changes
Propose Additional Terms
Accept or reject counterproposals
Sign once all terms are agreed
Nothing becomes final until both parties agree and the Cover Page is signed.
I'm the wrong person at my company to receive this, what do I do?
If you’re not the right person to handle this Deal, you have two options
- Simply reassign Ownership of the Deal by clicking the Deal Team button at the top-right of the Platform, or
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Create an Account and Add a Team Member.
- Click the Bonterms Logo on the top-left side of the Platform.
- Go to Settings → Team and invite your team members.
- On the Deal, click Deal Team and either add team members as Viewers or transfer Ownership to the correct recipient.
- This method also allows you to utilize Deal Roles such as Reviewers or Approvers.
What if I want to propose changes?
All deal-specific terms are negotiated through the Cover Page.
The sender will have proposed Key Terms (such as Effective Date or Governing Law) and may also have included Additional Terms, which modify or supplement the Standard Agreement.
As the recipient, you can Accept, Reject or Modify any Proposed terms. You can also add your own Additional Terms, which add to, replace, or delete provisions of the Standard Agreement. Nothing is final until both parties agree and the agreement is signed.
Can I download or share a copy of the Cover Page?
Yes. By clicking on the Cover Page tab of the proposed agreement, you can download a DOCX version of the proposed terms to share with your team.
Once you accept and/or propose changes to the terms and send back to your counterparty, you can then download the following, which will reflect your accepted terms and any proposed changes:
A PDF or DOCX of the current Cover Page, and
A ZIP file containing the full agreement (the Cover Page plus the complete Standard Agreement in PDF form).
How do I add team members to help me with this deal?
Create an Account, Add a Team Member to your Organization and then Add a Team Member to a Deal using the Deal Team button.
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