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This template provides general legal language. For complex or high-value agreements, consult a qualified attorney.
A contractor agreement sits between a freelance contract and a supply agreement. It is used when the other party is a business, sometimes with its own staff, engaged to deliver a defined outcome rather than to work under your direction.
The two clauses that matter most are the ones people skip: how the work is accepted, and who carries the risk if something goes wrong on site or in production. Everything else tends to be negotiable.
What is being delivered, and how both sides will know it is finished. An acceptance procedure with a review window prevents the open-ended "not quite right yet" that stalls final payment.
The total, what triggers each payment, and whether a percentage is retained until completion. Milestone payments protect both sides on anything lasting more than a few weeks.
Start, completion, and what happens if either slips. Say which delays are excused, because weather, access and client-caused delay are the usual causes and the usual arguments.
What cover the contractor carries, and the cap on liability. This is the clause that decides who pays when something is damaged, and it is the one most often left out of short agreements.
Whether the contractor may bring in others, and whether they remain responsible for that work. Silence here usually means yes, which may not be what the client assumed.
That the contractor is a separate business responsible for its own tax, insurance and staff. Important for the client's own exposure.
Mostly scale and structure. A freelancer is an individual selling their own time and skill; a contractor is a business delivering an outcome, sometimes with staff of its own. The contractor agreement therefore leans harder on acceptance, insurance and subcontracting.
It is common on physical work and unusual on knowledge work. If you do, say exactly what releases it and by when, or it becomes a dispute of its own.
Yes. Contractor agreements are e-signed routinely and are valid under eIDAS in the EU and equivalent legislation elsewhere.
This is not legal advice. It describes what these documents normally contain and how the rules commonly differ between countries. Rules change and your situation may not be ordinary. For anything with real money or real risk attached, have a qualified lawyer in the relevant country read it before you sign.