How to make a service agreement?

Short answer

1. 1Go to 4mycontracts.net and select the «Services Agreement» category.
2. 2Fill in provider details, client details, and service scope.
3. 3Add specific clauses: term, payment schedule, confidentiality, SLA.
4. 4Sign electronically through a signing link or download the PDF for a handwritten signature.
5. 5Archive the contract in your account, accessible anytime.

What the law says

• Civil Code art. 1851–1880 — services agreement form, obligations, and legal effects.
• Civil Code art. 1270 — binding force: the contract is law between the parties.
• eIDAS Regulation (EU) 910/2014, Art. 25 — an electronic signature cannot be denied as evidence solely for being electronic; a qualified signature has the same effect as a handwritten one.
• GDPR art. 28 — if the provider processes personal data, a DPA clause is mandatory.
• Fiscal Code art. 7 pt. 3 — independent services vs. employment reclassification risk criteria.

Practical examples

• Monthly IT maintenance contract for a SaaS startup, with 99.9% uptime SLA and daily penalty clauses.
• Graphic design contract with external freelancer, payment on delivery, GDPR and IP assignment clauses.
• Quarterly financial consultancy contract between two LLCs, with 12-month non-compete clause.
• Turnkey software development contract with delivery milestones, 6-month warranty, and source code escrow.

Common mistakes

• Missing confidentiality clause (integrated NDA) when the provider accesses the client's sensitive data.
• Vague contract scope («general IT services») without specifying deliverables and acceptance criteria.
• No clause on intellectual property ownership of the provider's work results.
• Payment term absent or not linked to invoice issuance, causing disputes in enforcement proceedings.

How 4mycontracts helps

• Contract template with fields to fill in, drafted on the basis of the Romanian Civil Code.
• Simple electronic signature through a secure link — the signer needs no account.
• A signature certificate as PDF, with the IP address, time of signing and SHA-256 fingerprint of the document.
• Archive in your account, with the event history of each contract.
• Block-level negotiation with version comparison between drafts.