Put an end to missed contract renewal dates with Contract Hound!
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Ranked a
Top Contract Reminder Tool by PC Mag
"Overall, the reminder and alerting capabilities are simple but effective... Contract Hound is an intuitively designed and simple to use alternative.
– Rob Marvin, PCMag.com
Carrie Vissers
Executive Assistant at Extremity Medical
“Contract Hound helps me stay on top of contracts, reduces my stress, and helps me focus on other things that matter...”
Before Contract Hound, I was using Excel to stay on top of the contracts. It was stressful at times because reminders weren’t coming into my email. I wanted something to help me be less chaotic.
While looking for contract software, I felt like a lot of the other software had more bells and whistles than I needed and wasn’t worth the price. What I wanted was something simple, user-friendly, and not cumbersome.
When I switched to Contract Hound, I found it was user-friendly and easy to manage. It’s not overwhelming and I can see the information that I need. Contract Hound helps me stay on top of contracts, reduces my stress, and helps me focus on other things that matter.
I’d say Contract Hound is a bargain.
Vanessa Rodriguez
Executive Assistant at Bragg
“When my day is busy with back-to-back meetings, the last thing I want to do is spend an hour just uploading contracts…”
I always worry when the CFO asks me for a file: is this going to be the time that I can't find it? Before Contract Hound, I had to go into our huge filing cabinet and hope the file was alphabetized correctly. This would take me 5-10 minutes to find the right file *if* it was easy to find. Otherwise, it would take much longer.
I’ve never had that fear of missing a file since switching to Contract Hound. I can search for it by title, vendor, or I can scroll through ALL of the documents if I can’t remember what it is called. I love that documents are easy to find. If I can’t find the file, it’s usually because it wasn’t sent to me, which I love the confidence I have in the app.
I love how easy it is to search and find the right documents too. I don't have to go through every single email with similar-sounding subject lines to find what I need.
If you're someone that needs reminders about contracts and when they're ending, I recommend checking out Contract Hound. I like that I receive an email from Contract Hound to let me know that I have 30 days before a certain contract expires.
When my day is busy with back-to-back meetings, the last thing I want to do is spend an hour just uploading contracts.
Now, I can click on the file directly from my email, drag it into Contract Hound. I don't need to go looking for it, download it to my computer, then upload it somewhere else.
“Never lose or miss a contract renewal ever again…”
"Contract Hound gave us the central location for which to store contracts... It allows you to store, manage and view your contacts in one secure platform that ensures you never lose or miss a contract renewal ever again.
James Brown
Operations Director, Journey Holdings
What You'll Get with Contract Hound
Contract Hound is the world's easiest contract management software, designed specifically for small businesses and non-profits.
Read on to find out more about our simple, powerful features in our contract renewal reminder software.
No More Missed Expiration Dates with Automatic Reminders
Never miss a contract expiration date, or other important milestone. Schedule an expiration reminder, and we’ll send email reminders before anything big happens. Coming soon: Receive your expiration reminder by text message!
Reduce Signoff Times with Workflows
Need to run a new deal past legal, ops and logistics? Set up a workflow — this will send the paperwork to each team only when it’s been approved by the previous one – making signoff 10x faster and ensuring a bulletproof contract status.
Sleep Easy with Individual Permissions
Your whole team can use Contract Hound — but you decide who gets access to what. Who can view what, and who can edit what, is completely up to you. You can also set up your expiration reminder to go to the entire team, or just yourself.
Be Productive On-The-Go with Mobile
If you’ve got an internet connection, you can access all your files from anywhere in the world, on any device. It's as easy to use as desktop, whether you're checking contract dates or the contract status, setting contract expiration dates, or want to see expiration reminders. If you want to edit a contract, or create a new one, you have everything you need, right in the palm of your hand.
"Amazing contract reminder software"
– Mike Gingerich
Consultant, Speaker and President of Digital Hill Multimedia
How Can a Cloud-Based Contract Reminder App Help?
Take 10 small businesses like the one that you work for.
Now, imagine an important deal they’ve signed. It could be a supplier/rental agreement, some sales terms, an insurance schedule, or a lease. Anything you want.
Here’s what you’ll find happens when that contract expires:
Only 1 will be better off.
- Four businesses won’t even notice that the contract expires. They’ll continue on the same terms and assume they can continue as normal. Later, they’ll receive an invoice at a higher rate (or worse, a time-consuming audit). They’ll put it down to the cost of doing business, and pay it with a grumble about their shrinking margins.
- Three will notice that the contract is going to expire, or recently has done, and they’ll scramble to sign new terms. They’re unprepared going in and they don’t have all the data on the ROI of the contract in front of them. They’ve done no competitive analysis to make sure they’re not paying an above-market rate. But, they’re responsible businesses and they know the agreement needs to be renewed, even if there’s a cost to it.
- For two of our ten businesses, the contract will no longer matter. They don’t need the service anymore. Perhaps it's because they’ve already found an alternative. Or (more likely) they’ve disappeared in the current climate. Shut down, gone bust or acquired by somebody else.
Only one will be better off.
Because they knew the contract was expiring two months before it actually did.
Because they assigned somebody to look into it before it expired, using an expiration reminder software like Contract Hound.
Because they found the terms hadn’t been met, or that they were overpaying, or that there was a cheaper deal on the market.
That business saved money and lived to fight another day – but they were the only one.
90% lose and only 10% win.
That’s the power of good contract management.
Now ask yourself. What excuses are you making for not being in the 10%?
Perhaps you don’t think there’s time to follow up on every contract – after all, you have so many!
But if you have *that* many, how much money are you leaving on the table?
Perhaps you think that you have a system – somebody’s got this on a spreadsheet somewhere, right?
In our experience, this is rarely true for SMEs. One person might have an idea of SOME of your commercials. But nobody will be consolidating them, and they certainly won’t be tracking expirations and owners for them. It’s just too much.
Perhaps you think you’re too small for contract management?
Too small to save money? Seriously? Small businesses rarely have the margins of large businesses, so every cent saved and reinvested in growth can make a difference. We’ve worked with countless companies who think that they’re fine keeping every expiration reminder in Excel – and then realize how much money they were wasting on inefficiency.
In fact, small businesses need contract smarts more than anybody else – which is why they use Contract Hound.
Contract Hound is the ONLY contract management software designed with small businesses in mind. You business is complex enough, so we don’t try to force a complicated contract management process on you.
You don’t have time for bells and whistles – you just want to drag to upload, get easy email expiration reminders for contract expirations, and have one-click approval workflows if the boss needs to sign it off before it goes.
So we built a platform that does that – and then we put a guarantee behind it.
If you don’t get your contracts ported to us in your first month of usage, so you can be in the 10% of winners, we’ll refund you in full.
Better yet, if you sign up within seven days, we’ll upload all your contracts for you, so your cost to install becomes $0.
Contract Hound is the best contract management solution for small business – that’s why we built it. Our only goal is to help small businesses move from Excel or paper-based contracting to their first cloud based contract management workflow.
Give us a spin today, and we’ll be delighted to prove the power of Contract Hound to you!