Release Notes

Recent Common Paper releases and improvements.

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

December 14, 2023

Design Partner Agreement v1.1

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

December 14, 2023

Creating templates with old versions

By default, when we release new versions of our standard agreements any new templates created use them. In some cases, Common Paper users may wish to create new templates using previous versions, and we've added support within the app to handle these scenarios. Additionally, we've added more information about the versions, including list of changes for each. Read more

December 6, 2023

Viewing/Restoring Archived Templates

Now available in the Common Paper app is access to archived templates, along with the ability to view and restore those templates at a later time. There's a link to these templates on the Templates page below the existing list of templates. Read more

December 1, 2023

Sender/Signer Reminders

We've expanded our email reminders to include sending reminders for agreements waiting for review or signature to Common Paper senders or signers. Previously, only recipients were prompted to take action on agreements, but now internal users will also receive email prompts to keep the signature process flowing. This feature leverages the existing notifications settings, and requires no additional configuration. Read more

November 30, 2023

Improved Template Selection

We've released a new version of our template picker that makes it easier to find the agreement that best matches a use case. The updated feature offers a keyword search that includes related terms for each agreement as well as some pre-built categories. It's available during onboarding or on the Templates page in an account. Read more

November 16, 2023

Billing Notification Email

We've added a small feature that allows Common Paper users to provide a billing notification email address to their automated billing configuration. This email address will get copied on any automated billing related email that is sent from Common Paper, and helps give insight to a finance or billing team into what's being sent to recipients to help collect payment. Read more

November 16, 2023

Automated Billing Info Reminders

For Common Paper users leveraging our automated billing feature, we've released billing reminder emails that prompt recipients to provide their billing contact information after they've signed their agreement. This helps ensure that we have the information needed to create new subscriptions and invoices in Stripe, and helps our users get paid quickly. Read more

November 15, 2023

Letter of Intent

We've just released the Letter of Intent as a template available within Common Paper. If you have interested prospects but it will be a while before you can get a sales contract signed, a Letter of Intent can help bridge the gap and provide validation you can share with potential investors or other third parties. It’s non-binding, informal, and designed to make it easy for potential customers to say yes before committing to a sales contract or a design partnership. Available via download from our website or in the app today. Read more
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