Use case 02 / Contract workflows
A connected workflow for
maintenance contracts
We connect customer information, service pricing and document preparation so a maintenance contract can move through a clear sequence of decisions.
Explore the approach- Configure
- Prepare
- Sign
The short version
Maintenance contract workflow automation helps service businesses carry customer, property and pricing information through preparation, documents and signing. We developed a connected process with customer-data comparison, configurable services, backend calculations, reusable PDFs and digital or printable signing options. The focus is practical continuity: use the information already available, make necessary decisions visible, and retain the records needed for follow-up.
01 / The problem
The handoffs become the work
Preparing a maintenance contract can mean finding a customer in operational software, checking details in another record, assembling services, calculating a price and transferring everything into a document. A change near the end sends someone back through the earlier steps.
Someone must decide which address is current, whether a customer already exists and which services belong in this contract. When those decisions are scattered across tools, the person sending the document has to reconstruct its context.
Signing adds another branch. Some customers can complete the digital process. Others need a printable document. Both routes need to start from the relevant contract information.
02 / The idea
Carry the decisions forward
We approached the contract as a connected business process. Customer reconciliation, service selection, pricing and documents each contribute information that the next step needs.
The product insight was to keep those decisions close to the work. Let a person compare conflicting customer details before importing them. Store the chosen service and pricing context with the contract. Generate documents from that saved information. Offer a signing route suited to the situation.
03 / The solution
From customer record to signing choice
Reconcile information before creating more of it
The workflow can compare a customer record with information from an external field-service system. A user reviews differences and chooses the fields to bring across. Where an existing customer is the right match, a linking route lets the user connect that record.
This keeps a human decision at an important point: two similar names are a reason to look closer. They are not, by themselves, proof that two records should be merged. Company checks keep these customer operations within the relevant business context.
Make pricing part of the contract
The configurator carries customer context into contract preparation. Service and pricing choices then update the saved contract through backend calculations. Number parsing, monetary rounding and display formatting are handled explicitly rather than left to each person preparing a document.
That gives the workflow a defined place to process a pricing decision. The person sending the contract can return to its saved selections, rather than treat a spreadsheet total or an edited paragraph as the only record of how the price was prepared.
Build documents from saved information
PDF generation reads the contract and its related service information, applies document templates and supports company-specific text. The generated document can be stored and linked back to the contract record.
PDF preparation is part of the handoff to a customer. Reusing saved information gives the document a clear source. Templates let a business adapt its presentation without asking staff to assemble every contract from an empty page.
Support digital and paper-based moments
The digital route validates access to the specific contract, records the submitted signature and acceptance context, and connects to document generation and follow-up notifications. The printable route checks access before generating a document for manual signing.
Printing a contract does not mark it signed. Recording digital acceptance and producing its PDF are also separate steps. These distinctions keep the meaning of each action clear and leave room to handle a document-generation or communication failure separately.
04 / Our skills
How our skills came together
Business-process analysis connected the customer record to the final signing decision. UX work turned comparison, configuration and signing choices into actions that fit the person doing the job.
Application development joined those actions to saved contract data and backend calculations. Integration engineering handled the boundary with the external customer system. Document automation brought reusable templates, PDF generation and contract records into the same process.
Company context shaped these customer and contract operations. A shared application needs to know which business a request belongs to before it reads a customer, changes a contract or produces a document.
05 / What it enables
What the approach enables
The application supports a repeatable route through customer checks, service configuration, pricing, documents and signing choices. Teams can review selected data changes, reuse saved contract information and distinguish preparation from acceptance.
For a service-business owner, this is a useful starting point for automation: connect the decisions that already belong together, then make each handoff easier to understand and continue.
06 / A little more detail
Questions & answers
Can the workflow use an existing field-service system?
Yes. The integration compares external customer information with an application record and lets a user choose fields to import. It also supports linking to an existing customer. This is a controlled workflow, with direction and scope defined for each action.
Can customers sign on paper?
Yes. A document-bound access check supports a printable contract for manual signing. Downloading that PDF does not itself record a completed signature; the paper-signing process remains a separate operational step.
Does a recorded signature mean the document was delivered?
No. Signature recording, PDF generation and notification delivery are separate operations. A workflow should track their meanings separately so staff can follow up on the step that still needs attention.
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