How to Scale Contract Lifecycle Management with Signzy’s Contract360

We’ve been helping Indian businesses handle their contracts for years now, and here’s what we’ve learned: the companies that grow fastest are the ones that don’t get bogged down in paperwork.

Think about it – every deal, every new customer, every partnership starts with a contract. When that process is smooth, everything else flows better. Your sales team closes deals faster, your legal team focuses on strategy instead of chasing signatures, and your customers actually enjoy working with you.

Whether you’re processing 10 agreements a month or 10,000, whether you’re a startup in Bangalore or an enterprise with offices across India, the process should feel effortless. 

We’ve gathered insights from hundreds of clients and forum discussions to build the solution. But first, let’s start with the basics – what exactly is contract lifecycle management, and how do you automate it at scale?

What is Contract Lifecycle Management? (And How to  Automate It at Scale?)

Contract Lifecycle Management is basically the art of not losing your mind while managing contracts from start to finish. You’ll be already agreeing with me if you’ve been there, but still, let’s put the (real) Contract Lifecycle Management process in perspective:

1. Someone needs a contract, so they email legal. 
2. Legal pulls up a template from 2019, makes some changes, emails it back. 
3. The business team has “a few small edits” which turn into a complete rewrite. 
4. Then it goes to finance for approval, who adds more changes. 
5. Eventually, after approximately 8-10 email threads, everyone agrees on something. 
6. It gets sent for signatures and sits in someone’s inbox for a week or two.
7. Gets printed, signed, scanned, and somehow ends up in a shared folder that nobody can find six months later.

So, this was contract lifecycle management when done manually. The need for automation is obvious if you can feel the process through my words. 

But the real question wasn’t whether to automate. It’s how to do it at scale, without breaking your existing workflows or spending six months on implementation.

That’s why we, at Signzy, have built Contract360, a comprehensive, end-to-end solution to automate your contract processes in a digital environment. 

We ensured businesses can scale their operations without any extra hassle by following three core principles: 

• Templates that work across your entire organization
• APIs that integrate with whatever systems you’re already using
• Compliance that’s built-in rather than bolted-on later.

 With that said, let’s now see why you should care about it at all.

How Can Automated Contract Management Help Your Business?

Different solutions offer different things, and we’re not going to pretend there’s a one-size-fits-all answer. But here’s what we can tell you about how Signzy’s Contract360 specifically helps – we basically took the most painful problems we kept hearing about in client surveys and public forum discussions, then reverse-engineered those into one solution.

So, below, we are going to answer the five most “queries” we came across, and then answer how a contract management solution (specifically Signzy’s Contract360) solves it.

• How to Standardize Contract Creation Across Organization?

We loaded Contract360 with 200+ pre-built templates specifically for Indian businesses. Not generic international templates that you have to hack apart, but actual agreements for loan processing, vendor onboarding, employment contracts, and everything else you’re probably creating from scratch every time. 

The templates understand Indian legal requirements, local languages, and business practices because they were built by people who actually work in this market.

• How to Handle Multiple Digital Signature Types?

Instead of juggling three different signature platforms depending on who’s signing what, Contract360 handles Aadhaar eSign, DSC, and certificate verification in one API call. Your customer prefers Aadhaar? Done. Your international partner needs DSC? Also done. 

• How to Automate Stamp Duty Calculation Across All Indian States?

Every state in India has different stamp duty rules, and getting it wrong means penalties, delays, and very unhappy auditors. 

Contract360 automatically calculates the right amount based on your contract type and location, then handles the SHCIL integration so the stamping just happens. No more spreadsheets, no more manual lookups, no more nervous calls to your legal team.

• How to Integrate Contract Management Software with Existing CRM Systems?

The number of times we’ve heard “it doesn’t integrate with our CRM” is honestly embarrassing for our industry. Contract360‘s RESTful APIs work with whatever you’re already using – Salesforce, SAP, your custom banking system, that ancient ERP you can’t replace yet. 

Data flows both ways, so contracts get populated automatically and completion status updates your other systems.

• How to Track Contract Obligations and Renewal Dates?

Six months from now, when someone asks about the renewal terms in that vendor agreement, you shouldn’t have to play detective. 

Contract360’s centralized repository tracks obligations, deadlines, and renewal dates so nothing falls through the cracks. Search by company, date, contract type, or even specific clauses. Your contracts become useful business assets instead of digital paperwork.

How to Implement Contract Management Automation in Your Business?

Implementing contract automation is actually much simpler than most people expect. 

With Contract360, we’ve seen companies go from manual processes to fully automated workflows in 2-4 weeks. Implementation typically follows three phases: 

1. Mapping your existing contract types to our pre-built templates or customize new ones based on your specific requirements.
2. Integrating API with your current systems – whether that’s Salesforce, your banking platform, or your ERP system. 
3. Setting up your approval workflows and train your team on the new process.

Actually, we can explain this more specifically based on your unique business requirements if you’d like. Just book a demo here.