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Performance Agreement Made And Entered Into By And Between

Use a PERFORMANCE AGREEMENT Made And Entered Into By And Between template to make your document workflow more streamlined.

What this performance agreement does

A Performance Agreement Made And Entered Into By And Between is a written contract in which identified parties define expected performance, deliverables, timing, payment, approval, and remedies for a specific business relationship. The parties complete the agreement by reviewing its negotiated terms, signing in the assigned places, and retaining the executed record. In the United States, electronic execution may be recognized under the ESIGN Act, 15 U.S.C. ch. 96, and applicable state law, including UETA in most jurisdictions. The contract itself still controls the obligations, deadlines, and conditions stated in its text.

Who uses this agreement and related forms

Contracting teams

Contracting teams use performance agreements to document services, milestones, acceptance criteria, payment conditions, and remedies between a provider and customer. They can also use signNow for related NDAs, change orders, invoices, HR forms, and consent records when each document has appropriate fields, signers, and retention rules.

Industry teams

Construction, real-estate, healthcare, legal, and creative-service organizations use performance agreements to coordinate obligations across clients, contractors, vendors, and internal approvers. signNow supports browser and mobile signing, role-based routing, reusable templates, and audit trails for the resulting execution record.

Business types that benefit from performance agreements

Performance agreements help organizations define measurable obligations and preserve evidence of approval across independent work, field projects, and enterprise procurement.

  • Solo consultants can use a performance agreement to state the exact service scope, milestones, acceptance requirements, and payment terms before beginning client work, then sign and store the executed contract without coordinating a paper exchange.
  • Construction and property-service businesses can send performance agreements to clients, subcontractors, and vendors from field or office locations, preserving approval order and completion evidence for projects with changing participants.
  • Enterprise procurement and operations departments can standardize performance agreement templates, delegate sending, and connect signed records to business systems while administrators control permissions across multiple teams and contract workflows.

These tasks are executed by both individual contributors and centralized administrators depending on organizational policy and required controls.

Features that support agreement execution

A performance agreement needs clear obligations, correctly assigned signatures, and a retrievable record of completion; signNow combines those steps in one workflow.

Field preparation

Upload the completed performance agreement and let signNow identify fillable areas, reducing manual field placement before assigning signatures, dates, initials, and required acknowledgments to each party.

Signer routing

Route the agreement to the contractor, client, manager, or other named signer in a defined order, so obligations and approvals are completed by the correct people.

Remote signing

Collect signatures through a browser or mobile device without printing the performance agreement, while preserving signer actions and completion details for the parties.

Reusable templates

Use a reusable performance agreement template for recurring projects, keeping payment terms, deliverables, acceptance criteria, and approval fields consistent across engagements.

Audit evidence

Store the signed agreement with its certificate of completion and audit trail, giving project teams a clearer record when performance or payment questions arise.

Workflow connections

Connect agreement data with supported business systems so completed performance agreements can be organized alongside customer, project, or operational records rather than handled through separate email chains.

How the agreement workflow works

The signNow workflow moves the performance agreement from an approved draft to a signed, retrievable execution record.

  • Upload: Upload the negotiated agreement
  • Prepare: Place fields for each signer
  • Route: Send in the required order
  • Archive: Store the completed record
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What the audit trail records

A signNow audit trail documents execution events separately from the agreement’s business terms, helping reviewers examine how the performance contract was completed.

01

Authenticate:

Records the signer’s selected authentication event.
02

Timestamp:

Captures date, time, and signer actions.
03

Hash document:

Links the signed document to its integrity record.
04

Seal record:

Preserves changes through tamper-evident completion data.
05

Complete:

Generates the certificate of completion.
06

Export trail:

Allows retrieval or export of audit evidence.

Recommended performance agreement setup

Configure the performance agreement around signer identity, execution evidence, secure storage, and the retention rule applicable to the underlying transaction.

SettingRecommendation
Authentication methodEmail verification with SMS OTP
Signature typeIntent-based electronic signature
Audit trailExport certificate and action history
Document retentionRetain under transaction-specific law
EncryptionTLS 1.2 or 1.3 and AES-256

Connect performance agreements to business systems

Use named signNow integrations to move signed performance agreements and related workflow data into CRM, ERP, project, collaboration, and cloud-storage environments.

Salesforce
Procore
Zapier
Microsoft Teams
Hub spot
Box
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Teams that use performance agreements

  • Construction contractors use this agreement to define project deliverables, milestones, payment terms, and acceptance standards before work begins. signNow lets project administrators upload the prepared document, assign signature fields to the contractor and client, and preserve the completed agreement with its audit trail.
  • Entertainment and creative agencies use performance agreements to document services, deadlines, approvals, and compensation for commissioned work. A signing coordinator can send the same approved template to clients, collect signatures remotely, and retain the final contract for project and payment records.

Performance agreement use cases

Real signNow customer examples show how organizations manage related document execution; each performance agreement still requires transaction-specific drafting and review.

Real estate operations

Martin Properties uses signNow for online document execution in its real-estate operations, a relevant model for performance agreements covering property services, responsibilities, and transaction-related deliverables.

  • Mobile and offline document execution
  • Online delivery to necessary parties

Tim Martin, founder of Martin Properties, describes processing and executing documents online while maintaining compliance and security, including mobile and offline work. That workflow can help a real-estate business circulate a performance agreement when parties are away from the office, while the agreement’s own negotiated terms remain controlling.

Technology distribution

Tech Data uses airSlate SignNow to improve internal and external customer service, a useful enterprise context for agreements involving deliverables, approvals, and service performance.

  • Faster movement from signature to revenue
  • Internal and external document workflows

Bob Dutkowsky, CEO of Tech Data, says the company uses airSlate SignNow to improve internal and external customer service while increasing speed to revenue. The story illustrates how a large organization can route performance-related documents electronically, although it does not establish terms for any particular agreement.

Why teams look for DocuSign alternatives

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Record-keeping practices for signed agreements

Retain the signed agreement with execution evidence, apply the rule for the underlying record category, and protect access throughout the contract lifecycle.

Export the agreement and audit trail together

Export the completed agreement, certificate of completion, and audit trail together after all required parties sign. Keep the exported files in a controlled repository so the signed terms and execution evidence remain linked during contract review or dispute resolution.

Match retention to the record category

Apply the retention period required for the transaction’s record category rather than assuming every performance agreement has one federal deadline. For example, retain payroll-related records for three years under 29 CFR §516.5 when the agreement supports FLSA payroll documentation.

Control access to executed records

Restrict access to the signed agreement according to project responsibilities, and review shared links, administrator permissions, and downloaded copies. Remove access that is no longer required while preserving the authoritative executed record and its completion history.

Archive the executed version securely

Store the final PDF, completion certificate, and audit trail in secure archival storage with a consistent naming convention. Preserve the version sent for signature so later reviewers can distinguish negotiated drafts from the executed performance agreement.

Mobile options for performance agreements

signNow mobile apps support performance agreement workflows on iOS and Android devices. Teams can review, complete, and sign assigned documents from supported mobile environments, including workflows that require offline signing or camera-based document capture.

  • Mobile apps iOS 15+ and Android 9+
  • Offline mode Offline signing available
  • Document capture Camera document capture

Administrators should manage mobile access through organizational policy, confirm signer identity requirements, and test the performance agreement on the devices used by contractors, clients, and field personnel. Regulated deployments may also require SSO, API access, managed devices, and additional certificate or long-term-validation configuration.

Privacy and disclosure pitfalls

  • Personal addresses, payment details, or project information may remain visible in every downloaded copy of the executed performance agreement.
  • A signer may complete the document without a clear electronic-record disclosure when the transaction involves a consumer and ESIGN consent requirements apply.
  • Shared signing links can reach an unintended recipient if the sender does not verify the recipient, access scope, and required authentication level.
  • A template may omit measurable acceptance criteria, leaving the signed performance agreement unable to resolve whether a deliverable met the parties’ stated standard.

Troubleshooting performance agreement workflows

Resolve signer, field-assignment, legal-recognition, plan, and regulated-data questions before treating the performance agreement as fully executed.

A signer cannot find the performance agreement email when the invitation is filtered or sent to an incorrect address. Confirm the recipient address, resend the invitation from signNow, or provide a controlled signing link after verifying the signer’s identity.

A signature field assigned to the client is missing from the contractor’s view because the field belongs to another role. Edit the signNow document, confirm each field’s recipient assignment, and resend the corrected agreement before collecting signatures.

A signer asks whether the electronic performance agreement is legally recognized. ESIGN, 15 U.S.C. ch. 96, generally establishes electronic-signature equivalence in interstate commerce; UETA applies in adopting jurisdictions, while New York uses ESRA. Obtain legal review for the transaction.

A consumer-facing performance agreement may require electronic-record disclosures under 15 U.S.C. §7001(c), including paper-record rights and electronic-access procedures. Configure the disclosure and consent process before sending through signNow when a consumer is a party.

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A performance agreement involving protected health information requires more than an electronic signature. signNow identifies HIPAA compliance as requiring a BAA; the parties must also limit disclosures, use appropriate access controls, and confirm their healthcare compliance obligations separately.

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