Contracts and subcontracting

Xoolink does not give legal advice. The platform assembles a draft from information your pack has already produced — the parties, the subject of the mandate, the share frozen in the pact. That draft must be reviewed and adapted by a legal adviser before signature. This warning opens every generated document and cannot be removed.

Why an agreement on top of the pact

The pact binds members to each other on Xoolink: roles, value, confidentiality, split. The subcontracting agreement binds the offer lead to each partner before a court. That is what makes the split enforceable — without Xoolink being party to the contract, and without the platform having to hold your funds.

What the draft fills in automatically

• The parties: the offer lead and the partner concerned.
• The subject: the mandate as described in the pact.
• The price: the share frozen at signature, as an amount and a percentage. Never free text — a single source of truth.

To which are added the structural clauses: independence, intellectual property, confidentiality, personal information, termination and governing law.

What changes with jurisdiction

Three regimes are offered, because at least three clauses are not written the same way:

• Quebec — Quebec law and applicable federal statutes; protection of personal information under Law 25. No payment deadline is imposed between businesses: it is purely contractual.
• European Union — GDPR; Directive 2011/7/EU frames late payment (30 days by default, 60 at most where expressly agreed and not grossly unfair).
• France — GDPR and the Informatique et Libertés act; article L441-10 of the commercial code caps the deadline at 60 days from invoice, or 45 days end of month.

Where to find it

In your pack's space, on each line of the revenue split: pick the jurisdiction, generate the draft, copy it. Xoolink does not keep it — it is a working document you take to your adviser.

Before the pack: the non-disclosure agreement

Two organizations sizing each other up have to exchange information — methods, prices, client names — before they even know whether they will work together. From another organization's page, you prepare a mutual non-disclosure agreement: both sides disclose, both sides are bound.

It depends on no pack and no split, states that nothing obliges anyone to contract, and covers personal information according to your jurisdiction. Like the other templates, Xoolink does not keep it.

Starter clauses, so you don't face a blank page

Xoolink offers about ten generic clauses you can adopt in one click: liability insurance, limitation of liability, non-solicitation, cascading subcontracting, ownership of client data, right of reference, dispute resolution, delay and service levels. Clauses specific to your jurisdiction are added — interest on late payment in Quebec, the fixed recovery indemnity in Europe.

Adopting a clause copies it into your private library, where you edit it as you wish. These texts are written by Xoolink, remain generic, and fall under the same warning: they are a starting point, not bespoke drafting.

Your own clauses

You can save your in-house clauses — insurance, warranties, penalties, special conditions — in a library that is private to your organization, and tick them to insert them into the draft. They are added just before the governing law clause, which always stays last.

These clauses are visible only to active members of your organization. Xoolink shares them with no one and offers them to no other member. A collective library, where templates would circulate between organizations, would require prior legal validation: it does not exist today.

Its limits, stated plainly

A generic draft does not replace bespoke drafting. It covers neither sector-specific regimes (health, defence, public procurement), nor warranties and liability caps, nor the insurance some buyers require, nor the tax treatment between the parties. For a large mandate, have the agreement drafted.

Going further

The revenue split explains how the share is frozen and tracked. The electronic signature lets you seal the pact, and the execution space keeps milestones and documents in one place.