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# Introduction to Contract Management

Contract Management lets you create service and maintenance agreements that generate work orders automatically.

Use it to manage recurring work without rebuilding the same planning setup each time.

### What Contract Management helps you do

Contract Management is useful when you need to:

* plan recurring maintenance visits
* avoid manually creating repeated work orders
* stop automatic generation on a fixed end date

This helps you keep service agreements predictable and easier to maintain.

### How it works

Each contract stores the agreement details and the work order setup.

Generated work orders follow that setup automatically.

Contracts can also include:

* renewal behavior
* days in advance
* contract-specific work order details

### Frequently asked questions

<details>

<summary>What is the difference between a contract and a work order?</summary>

A contract defines when work should be created.

A work order is the actual task to complete.

</details>

<details>

<summary>Can one customer have multiple contracts?</summary>

Yes.

You can create multiple contracts with different terms and schedules.

</details>

<details>

<summary>Do contracts create invoices automatically?</summary>

Contracts generate work orders.

Invoicing follows the work order process.

</details>

### Related topics

* [**Contract Management**](/marketplace-packages-and-power-ups/power-ups/contract-management.md)
* [**Create and manage contract terms**](/marketplace-packages-and-power-ups/power-ups/contract-management/create-and-manage-contract-terms.md)
* [**Create a contract**](/marketplace-packages-and-power-ups/power-ups/contract-management/create-a-contract.md)


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