Contracts via email

[kinch]

Would asking a customer to respond to an email with the contract in it with the following statement "I agree to the contract in the message I am responding to." Or something like this be suitable?

Just wondering how everyone gets there clients to sign their contracts? Most of my clients are in Calgary, but Calgary can take a while to get around with no vehicle.

I may get a fax machine soon too.

[budafist]

I list the contract terms in an email and write at the end:

If you agree to these the terms of this contract, please forward the necessary text/images to me to begin this project.

[kinch]

I list the contract terms in an email and write at the end:

Thanks :) That's what I was looking for.

[Ned]

Just wondering how everyone gets there clients to sign their contracts? Most of my clients are in Calgary, but Calgary can take a while to get around with no vehicle.

Ah, you're in Calgary. I knew you were in Canada, but I didn't know you were so close to me. ;) I live just a couple hundred miles north of you. I'm sure you can guess where.

[PrintDriver]

A lot of my specialty vendors require us to print and fax back a signed contract. In fact we require a signed contract as well with our clients for orders over a certain amount.

Long live the fax machine! LOL.

Anyone can say yes to an email and say later it wasn't them. Tough to contradict a signature.

I guess it all depends on how much the contract is for but I'd always suggest getting the sig in writing somehow.

[morea]

^ that's what I do, essentially. I ask the client to print the document (which I have already signed when I fax it to them), sign it, and then either fax or email it back to me. Then I save the document in the folder with the job files.

[kinch]

Ah, you're in Calgary. I knew you were in Canada, but I didn't know you were so close to me. ;) I live just a couple hundred miles north of you. I'm sure you can guess where.

Fort Saskatchewan??? :P

My Girlfriend actually lives there, and she rides into Edmonton (Which is where I assume your from.) each day to go to NAIT.

[ArchVis]

I'm of the print and fax school of thought. I don't trust the phone lines in my old house, though, so I signed up for a toll-free fax-via-email service. My clients love it.