The benefits of a CLM system – cheat sheet

A typical contract takes about 40 hours to make and costs $6,900, according to the World Commerce and Contracting Association (WCC). With a CLM platform, you reduce the number of hours and lower the costs for contracting considerably.

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Closing deals faster with a streamlined contracting process means quicker revenue. As an example, the international e-commerce company NA-KD reduced the time to signature request by up to 80% after automating their contract processes with Precisely.

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Most legal teams say contracting workload is too high. A CLM platform automates many of the repetitive and administrative tasks that take up too much of the legal team’s time. This lets your legal team focus on more productive tasks.

No one wins on working in silos. Still, it is very common for organisations to collaborate too little. With a CLM platform, you open up the possibility to share the contracting work among several departments and teams. A user-friendly CLM platform lets legal predefine and automate workflows and permissions – this makes anyone feel confident handling contracts, even persons without a background in law.

A cloud-based CLM platform gives authorised persons access to contracts – anytime, anywhere. A perfect feature for a flexible and agile organisation.

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A CLM provides you with increased ease of doing business. You and your customers will notice. Become a brand that people love for its ease and smoothness. 

User-friendly and modern tools will assist your staff where they need it the most. Ease their workload and reduce the time spent on administrative tasks to improve employee satisfaction and retention.

By implementing a good process you have done the groundwork. With a CLM in place, you have all the conditions for continued growth and prosperity without reinventing the wheel.

A CLM platform helps you keep all your contract processes and data centralised within a single system. Everybody knows where to store and look for information. The archive should be searchable so you can easily find what you are looking for with the help of metadata.

Many CLM platforms have integrations that make it possible to connect them to other software such as Salesforce, Google Workspace, HubSpot, or Bamboo. By doing this you add the possibilities of contracting into an already existing workflow.

With a CLM platform, you always have a general view (if you want) of the status of each contract. This way, you always know what’s going on, what needs to be renewed, and who you are waiting for to sign. A comprehensive overview of your contract processes makes them easier to track and faster to scale, both up and down, according to the changing needs of your business.

A CLM platform offers user roles adapted to the responsibilities and permission that each user should have. While some users are only allowed to make questionnaire-based drafting, others can administer the entire contract lifecycle and set user permissions.

Ease legal’s contract burden by involving them only when needed. Many of your contracts could be created risk-free by other departments thanks to the rule-based workflow and pre-approved templates from legal.

Thanks to questionnaire-based drafting, anyone with access can draft a contract just by answering a few questions. Depending on the answers, the CLM platform creates a draft with the corresponding content and clauses.

A CLM platform can help you identify the contract pressure every department or team has, as well as where bottlenecks occur. It provides you with data and insights on how to make your processes more efficient.

A CLM platform should offer document versioning with a detailed audit trail and activity log so you can keep track of who does what.

Without a proper contract software in place, it can be hard to be compliant with GDPR or SchremsII, for example. A modern CLM platform should comply with all GDPR requirements and prevent organisations from having personal data dispersed across multiple locations and platforms.

A CLM platform reminds you of all the important dates and events, just in time. You don’t have to worry about staying on top of important events like renewal or expiration dates. The platform does it for you.

Time is money! A CLM platform helps you spend less time on contacting. Think about how many hours are spent on contracting every quarter or year in your company – it’s definitely not necessary to spend that many hours on something that can partly be done automatically.

A contract can end up being worth less than anticipated without a proper contracting process in place. This can be the consequence of a wrongly structured contract, vaguely formulated language, or forgotten clauses or terms. With a CLM platform, this could be easily avoided.

Say goodbye to ever being late again. With a CLM platform that helps you create compliant contracts and that reminds you of important events, you save penalty costs.

Don’t risk losing customers because of slow processes. Smooth and efficient processes will make your customers stay and do business with you.

Don’t miss out on potential revenue because of missed opportunities. By exporting reports from your CLM platform you can discover new possibilities or bottlenecks that need to be fixed.

E-signatures save an incredible amount of time since you do not need to post or deliver contracts on paper. A click is all that’s needed. Going digital with your signatures also cuts the material spending.

Contracts stored in physical places, emailed back and forth, and managed in several systems at a time increase the risk for mistakes or lost data.

Contract data should be kept in a safe place where it can only be accessed by authorised individuals. Make sure the CLM platform provides a sufficient amount of levels for user roles and 2-Step Verification (also known as two-factor authentication) to access.

If your competitors already have adopted digital contracting solutions and are operating with ease in a fast-paced environment, they have a strong advantage. Your brand image might be perceived as uncompelling, unmodern, and complicated to work with, in comparison. Customers will always choose a fast and smooth partner in business.

Talent expects to be in a workplace where they can make a real change and focus on what matters. Legal professionals are in high demand on the job market, and they will choose to work for a company where they can use and develop their skills.

Legal tech liberates your legal staff from doing repetitive tasks by automating them.

Things that are nice-to-haves can become must-haves tomorrow. What happens if you keep the status quo?