Release Notes

Recent Common Paper releases and improvements.

February 4, 2025

Negotiation Hub Reports

We're proud to release into a beta this new feature that allows Common Paper users to analyze redlined versions of their agreements. The report compares the imported file against the original agreement and detects any changes to the Cover Page and Standard Terms and provides an AI generated summary of the impact of each change. Additionally, users can ask questions about each change and receive an AI generated response. Negotiation hub reports are automatically saved and accessible on each agreement's history page. Read more

February 4, 2025

Email Ingestion

We're excited to bring email ingestion support to the platform. Common Paper users can now forward (or cc) emails with DOCX and PDF attachments to the system in order to be processed as a signed agreement, collect signatures or stored as an in-progress file. Read more

January 16, 2025

Expired Agreement Request Enhancement

We've released a minor change today that makes it easier to change or remove the expiration date from agreement requests that have expired. When these agreements are listed on the agreement list page, users can now click on 'Request Expired' to immediately access the agreement settings to change or remove the date. Read more

October 30, 2024

Salesforce Integration

We’re excited to release a new integration into private beta that brings your Common Paper agreement status and information right into Salesforce alongside your Contacts, Accounts and Opportunities. Track the progress of your in-flight agreements, get quick access to signed PDFs, and even re-send nudges all without leaving your CRM. You can also create new agreements directly in Salesforce. Read more

September 18, 2024

Common Paper Software License Agreement v1.0

We just released the Common Paper Software License Agreement, a standard contract designed for B2B software products that are locally deployed / bring your own cloud / on-prem. Like all of our standard agreements, this was created by a committee of >45 commercial attorneys and is available for free under a Creative Commons license. That committee’s work was informed by feedback from founders and sales leaders.  Read more

August 7, 2024

Single Signer Support

We're excited to announce support for having only a single signer when using our signing solution for uploaded documents. This new feature allows for either an internal or external signer for a document, and leverages all the existing signing features including automated reminders and expiration dates. This is a great option when a counterparty has supplied a pre-signed agreement and is asking for you to apply signatures, or in a situation where only your counterparty needs to sign. Read more

July 12, 2024

Uploading Templates for Signature

We’re excited to release an extension to our existing feature for signing uploaded documents. This new functionality allows users to upload a document, place signature fields, and then save the document as a reusable template. Users can then send this template again and again for signature. This is a great solution for non-Common Paper agreements […]

June 18, 2024

Duplicating Agreements

Common Paper users can now create a new agreement using the values from an already sent agreement. This is great if you need to tweak and resend an in-flight agreement. The Duplicate functionality will show on any in-flight agreement, including expired and voided ones. Read more

June 13, 2024

Non-US Governing Law Support

We've recently added the ability for users to be able to specify non-US countries and administrative regions for the Governing Law and Chosen Courts terms in most of our standard agreements. This new capability can be toggled on via the Settings page, and allows for configuration of most countries in the world. Read more

June 12, 2024

Graduated Pricing Support

We've released a new pricing model to the Cloud Service Agreement (v2) fees section that allows users to specify graduated pricing. This new model supports applying this model through MagicBill as well, creating the appropriate usage based products/prices in Stripe. Read more

June 11, 2024

Automated Agreement Summaries

We’re excited to release a new feature that automatically creates summaries of completed agreements to help users get the key points of an agreement at a glance. Powered through a combination of structured data and AI, these new summaries are generated immediately after agreements are signed and are available both on agreements list page and […]

June 10, 2024

Design Partner Agreement v1.2

We’ve released a minor update to the Common Paper Design Partner Agreement standard terms. Read more

May 25, 2024

Personalized Email Summary Generation with AI

We're excited to release a new feature designed to help craft personalized messages to send along with Common Paper agreements. This new option automatically generates a summary of the agreement along with pointers on how to use Common Paper agreements. Users can also experiment with shifting the tone of the message to make it more or less formal. Once generated, the message can be edited prior to sending. Read more

May 13, 2024

Pre-filling and Editing Recipient Information

We’ve added some new features that allow Common Paper users to pre-fill a recipient’s title and notification address information when initially sending an agreement. Previously, these fields could only be filled by a recipient prior to signing an agreement. Additionally, we’ve added the ability for a sender to edit this information for an in-flight agreement. […]

May 1, 2024

Slack Integration

We're very excited to announce an integration between Common Paper and Slack. Available to all users of Common Paper, this new integration will send agreement updates directly to a configured Slack channel. Users can specify which notifications they wish to receive, and in addition to any public channel, notifications can be sent to any private channel that the bot has been invited to. For full details, check out our help docs. Read more

April 25, 2024

Voiding Agreements without Email Notification

We've released a small feature that allows Common Paper users to optionally notify their recipients when they void agreements. Previously, recipients were automatically notified. Turning off the notification is useful when clearing out very old agreements, or when needing to quickly void and resend an agreement. Read more

April 12, 2024

Vanta Integration

We're pleased to announce our new integration with Vanta. This new feature, available on any of our paid plans, automatically sends user account information to Vanta on an hourly basis to help audit compliance of the different standards that Vanta maintains. You can read more about our Vanta integration in our help docs. Read more

April 10, 2024

Cloud Service Agreement v2.0

're proud to release the latest version of the Common Paper Cloud Services agreement! The second version of our CSA adds a bevy of new improvements, including language covering AI and the use of data for training, improved support for trials and pilot programs and more flexibility for outlining the payment process. Read more

February 23, 2024

HubSpot Integration

We’re excited to release a new integration into private beta that brings your Common Paper agreement status and information right into HubSpot alongside your Contacts, Companies and Deals. Track the progress of your in-flight agreements, get quick access to signed PDFs, and even re-send nudges all without leaving your CRM. You can also create new […]

January 19, 2024

Usage based Items and Automated Billing

We're excited to launch support for usage based items in our Automated Billing feature for users using the Common Paper CSA! This new feature lets users specify metered billing items in their contracts, and have those automatically created as products in Stripe. Users can then report usage directly to Stripe and have their customers billed. Read more
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