1. Parties and document selection
Engagement identifier: $ENGAGEMENT_ID. DealDot legal entity: $DEALDOT_LEGAL_ENTITY. Client legal entity: $CLIENT_LEGAL_ENTITY. Authorized contacts: $AUTHORIZED_CONTACTS. Effective date: $DATE. Identify the accepted master agreement version and each applicable schedule or addendum by title and version.
Do not incorporate every public draft automatically. Record any negotiated amendments expressly. The order of precedence is the signed amendment, accepted client-specific order/SOW, applicable service schedules and master terms, with data-processing priority on that subject and mandatory law controlling.
2. Purpose and scope
Business objective: $BUSINESS_OBJECTIVE. Project scope: $PROJECT_SCOPE. Deliverables: $DELIVERABLES. Record each output, intended use, technical or content requirements and objective acceptance criteria. Describe exclusions and assumptions in $EXCLUSIONS_AND_ASSUMPTIONS.
Separate available work from planning-stage possibilities. Identify platform choices, supported integrations and known limitations. A possible later service is not part of the present commitment. Define what constitutes completion rather than treating a broad business objective as a guaranteed result.
3. Responsibility and inputs
Client inputs and approval authority: $CLIENT_RESPONSIBILITIES. DealDot work and contact: $DEALDOT_RESPONSIBILITIES. Record who provides facts, photos, rights, access, approvals and testing. If BlueDotHost hosting is relevant, attach the responsibility record and identify the contracting/billing arrangement.
Personal-data processing requires a completed processing record where applicable. List providers, required accounts, permissions and data notices. Specify credentials and record-transfer channels without placing secrets in the SOW itself.
4. Dates, dependencies and acceptance
Start date: $START_DATE. Service term: $SERVICE_TERM. Milestones and committed dates: $DATE or an expressly itemized schedule. Dependencies: $DEPENDENCIES. Distinguish targets, Client review dates and binding delivery dates.
Acceptance criteria: $ACCEPTANCE_CRITERIA. Review window and correction process: $REVIEW_PERIOD and $CORRECTION_PROCESS. State whether silence has any agreed lawful effect; otherwise it does not automatically establish acceptance. Launch, publication or spending authorization should be express and separate where needed.
5. Price and payment
Agreed price: $PRICE. Currency and tax treatment: $CURRENCY_AND_TAXES. Payment schedule: $PAYMENT_SCHEDULE. Recurring and usage charges: $RECURRING_AND_USAGE_FEES. Approved expenses and third-party purchases: $AUTHORIZED_EXPENSES.
Distinguish DealDot fees from hosting, domains, licenses, provider usage and advertising spend. Record budget limits and who can authorize a change. Do not insert a billing cycle, fixed completion rule, deposit, late fee or refund policy that has not been accepted.
6. Ownership and support
Final-work ownership or license: $IP_TERMS. Background and licensed materials: $BACKGROUND_AND_THIRD_PARTY_MATERIALS. Identify included editable/source files, account access, export formats and transfer conditions. Portfolio permission: $PORTFOLIO_PERMISSION; an omitted permission does not authorize display.
Ongoing work, maintenance and support: $SUPPORT_SCOPE. Service levels, if any: $ACCEPTED_SERVICE_LEVELS. Specify the responsible party and actual commitment. No unspecified uptime, backup, response-time or unlimited-update promise applies.
7. Renewal, cancellation and risk allocation
Renewal mechanism/date: $RENEWAL_TERMS and $RENEWAL_DATE. Cancellation, notice, cure and any agreed charges/credits: $TERMINATION_TERMS. Transition: $TRANSITION_SCOPE. Data disposition: $DATA_DISPOSITION.
Complete reviewed governing law/forum, any liability cap, exclusions, claims allocation and mandatory carve-outs. Use $GOVERNING_LAW, $DISPUTE_FORUM, $LIABILITY_CAP and $CLAIMS_ALLOCATION where needed. These are decisions to make before signing, not facts supplied by the public website.
8. Change Order record
Change identifier: $CHANGE_ID. Original Engagement/version: $ENGAGEMENT_ID. Requested change and reason: $CHANGE_DESCRIPTION. Revised Deliverables, price, payment and dates: $DELIVERABLES, $PRICE, $PAYMENT_SCHEDULE and $DATE. Record dependencies, acceptance criteria and responsibilities affected.
Identify precisely which original terms are modified; all others continue under the accepted Engagement. Obtain mutual written acceptance by authorized representatives before changed work or spending starts. A request is not itself approval of extra fees or a revised commitment.
9. Acceptance and retained copy
DealDot authorized signature/acceptance: $DEALDOT_ACCEPTANCE. Client authorized signature/acceptance: $CLIENT_ACCEPTANCE. Acceptance date: $DATE. Attach the completed terms and preserve a reviewable copy of all incorporated versions.
Uncompleted fields that affect scope, pricing, responsibility or risk should be resolved before acceptance. A public-page draft is not an electronic checkout or a substitute for the parties’ actual agreement.