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How to create an agreement - Description

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The details of your agreements will contained information such as, the licensee, agreement terms, currency, sell - off etc.

Please see below the steps to enter the details of the agreement.

Note: The fields listed might be different depending on your agreement fields set-up. Refer to the below link to set the agreement defaults.

How do I Set Up Agreement Default Fields? (copied) | Set-Up | Licensor Support | TOC | Licensor Help | ScreenSteps (screenstepslive.com)

Create an agreement

1. Access the agreement section

2. Create New Agreement

Select the role "You" will be having.

1. Licensor - If you are the property owner and will be receiving royalties from Licensee.

2. Licensee - If you are paying out royalties to Licensor.

(I will be the Licensor)

Search the licensee name your agreement is with

1. You can enter a few letter of the licensee name and press search. The search will go thru the licensee section to search for the licensee.

2. If you cannot find the licensee name you can "Add New Licensee". This will add a new licensee to the agreement and to the licensee section.

NOTE: Please verify that your licensee does not exist first, to eliminate duplicate.

How to create a new licensee? | Licensee Profile, Contacts, Users | Licensor Support | TOC | Licensor Help | ScreenSteps (screenstepslive.com)

Enter the Agreement Category, Agreement Name and Agreement Number.

1. Agreement Category - Can be used to group agreement types together.

2. Agreement Name will default to the name of the Licensee+Agreement. You can change the name manually

3. Agreement number can be set in you set-up to follow certain sequence (See link here on how to set up) or you can manually edit.

How do I Set Up Agreement Default Fields? | Set-Up | Licensor Support | TOC | Licensor Help | ScreenSteps (screenstepslive.com)

Select Licensor and Licensee contacts

The licensor and licensee contacts comes from the users in the set up or the Address book in the licensee section.

Select Agent, Sub-Agent and Workflow.

Agent, Sub-Agent and Workflow drop down are populated from data already in the system. These fields are not mandatory.

Select the Term Dates of the agreement

1. Start Date of the agreement

2. End Date of the agreement

3. Royalty Start Date, when do you expect your first royalty report.

4. Signature Date, can be use to set a guarantee

5. Sell-Off Period, how many days after the agreement expiration a licensee can sale the residuals of products.

What is the signature date and how does it affect my Agreement? | License Agreements | Licensor Support | TOC | Licensor Help | ScreenSteps (screenstepslive.com)

Select the Currency and Taxes

1. Exchange Rates: Select the method on how you will calculate exchange rate:

A- European Central Bank rate

B- Fix Rate

C- Upload Rates.

2. Currency, select the currency of your agreements.

3. Currency conversion dates

A- No Currency Conversion

B- First Day of Period

C- Last Day of Period

D- Average over Period

E- On upload Date

4. Deduct Withholding taxes. Enter the withholding  tax % and the withholding will appear when creating an invoice.

5. Value Added Tax. Enter the value tax % and it will appear when creating an invoice.

 How do I set up currency conversion on an Agreement using fixed exchange rates? | License Agreements | Licensor Support | TOC | Licensor Help | ScreenSteps (screenstepslive.com)

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Enter terms of your agreement

When entering the above terms they will show on the term sheet report.

Enter Payment Instruction

The drop down option for the payment instruction comes from the set up you have created in, set up> invoices.

1. Royalty payment instruction. Select the payment instruction specific to the agreement.

2. Advance Payment instruction. Select the payment instruction specific to the agreement.

3. Guarantee Payment instruction. Select the payment instruction specific to the agreement.

4. Guarantee Payment instruction. Select the payment instruction specific to the agreement.

How do I set up payment instruction on my invoices? | Set-Up | Licensor Support | TOC | Licensor Help | ScreenSteps (screenstepslive.com)

 

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