How do I record a contract signed on paper?

Full walkthrough: Write a senior deal in the guide covers drafting, the vault and extraction step by step.

Recording a paper-signed deal means recording the signature and filing the document. They are separate, and only one of them is what filing does.

Record a signed deal, on the player's offer, is the button that records a signature. It marks the contract signed, closes any signing link still live on the player's phone, lists them in the squad and sends their Clubhouse invite.

The contract's Signed paperwork section stores the document. Dropping a signed PDF there files it safely and changes nothing else: the deal stays a draft or an offer, the link stays live, nobody is listed and no invite goes out.

Do both, in either order. Clubhouse says so as you go — while a deal isn't recorded as signed the paperwork card tells you filing won't record one, and if the agreement you file carries an execution date it says the two disagree and offers Record a signed deal on the spot. File it and move on and the deal waits under Paperwork says signed in the amber notice at the top of Contracts, with the date off the paper and a button straight to the recording.

The rest of this article is the second job: getting the paper's terms into the contract.

A deal signed on paper has its terms only on the paper. Filing the scan and typing its schedule out were two separate jobs, and until the second one was done the budget priced a real contract at nothing.

Now the file does the typing. Drop the signed agreement in and Clubhouse reads it: the competitions it names, every payment and what it pays, the term, the date it was actually executed, and any special conditions. It takes about half a minute.

Nothing is saved from a read. Everything arrives in the contract form for you to check, change and save yourself — the read is a first draft of the typing, never a decision.

Attach the scan under Contract document while you're writing the contract: drag it onto the panel, or browse for it. The reading starts straight away and the form fills around you, so you can keep typing while it works — anything you filled in yourself is left alone, and the report says so when it leaves something be.

Clear these puts the form back exactly as it was, if you'd rather start from scratch.

The file is filed against the contract the moment you save, so there's no second trip to make.

A contract can be on file with the paperwork attached and no payments recorded against it — a deal filed in a hurry, or one that predates the read. Open the contract, drop the agreement onto Signed paperwork, and the report gives you one of two answers:

• The stored terms match — the record and the paperwork agree. Nothing to do.
• Ready to bring in 5 payments and the signed date — each payment listed as it would be created, with its amount and its clause, so you can see exactly what the next screen will hold.

Review and update opens the contract with those figures in it, ready to change. Nothing saves until you press Save changes, and that one save writes both the contract and its payments — the budget forecast, the wage bill and the salary cap all price wage lines, so they pick the deal up immediately.

Afterwards the Signed paperwork section says what happened: Updated from the signed agreement just now. It doesn't claim the terms now match, because you may well have corrected a figure on the way through — it's your contract, not the reading's.

A read only offers terms it can bring in safely:

• Payments and competitions arrive only where the contract has none recorded. It will never overwrite a schedule you've already entered; the report shows you the disagreement and you decide what to do about it.
• Dates and the contract type arrive only where they disagree with what you hold. A field that already matches is left alone.
• Special conditions arrive only where the contract has none.
• A competition worked out from the dates rather than named on the paper is offered, not applied — Use it takes it, and declining costs nothing.

Every value a read brings in says where it came from: From the agreement · 1.5 under the field. Tap the clause number and it shows the words it was read from, so a wage can be checked against the agreement without opening the PDF.

Where the model returned a value it couldn't tie to a clause, that line is amber and says Check this. Those are the ones worth a look.

The salary figure gets its own line, because it's the one number nobody can verify by eye: it says what the guaranteed money works out to across the term, and whether that agrees with the salary printed on the agreement.

A photo of a photo, or a scan too faint to make out, says so plainly: We couldn't read this agreement. The document is still filed either way — the read is a convenience on top of a file that is already safely stored — and you type the terms as you always did. Try again re-reads it if the first attempt was a fluke.

A read used to live and die inside the panel it ran in, so the next person to open the contract had no way to know it had ever been checked. Now the Signed paperwork section shows the last one — Checked against the signed agreement on 2 Sep 2026 — with what was flagged, and Check again to re-read the current file.

Re-reading is the honest way to make an old check actionable again: what's kept is the verdicts, not the reading itself, so bringing terms in always works from a fresh look at the document.

• A contract out for signature is locked while the family is looking at it. Withdraw the offer first if the terms need changing.
• A terminated contract can't be edited at all.
• A variation, termination letter or other document isn't read. Only the contract itself is — checking a termination notice against a wage schedule would produce a confident, meaningless disagreement every time.