Respond to an offer

Find your offer

Offers appears in the sidebar once you have an offer. If you dismiss the notice, it returns when a new offer arrives.

1. In an offer email, select Review your offer to open that offer with its current terms. Offer update emails use Review offer and open your Offers page.
2. In the app, select View offers in the notice at the top of the page, or open Offers in the sidebar.
3. Use the tabs to find the offer: Needs response, Waiting, Active, Past or Documents.
4. When shown, filter by All, Enterprise or Small Business.

Respond to a company offer

While you can counter, the offer reads Accept this rate or counter once with your own. After you counter, the offer moves to Waiting and you get an email when the client responds.

Decline asks you to confirm with Decline offer. Select Keep offer to go back. Declining can’t be undone.

1. Select Respond to offer on the offer, or open the offer from the list.
2. Review Offer terms and the amount offered.
3. Select Accept (the button shows the amount), Counter or Decline.
4. To counter, enter your amount and select Send counter. Select Cancel to go back.

Sign a company offer

Signing starts only when you select Review and sign in the list or Review & sign in the offer. Some offers open straight at Ready to sign with Review & sign and Decline offer; declining those asks you to confirm with Yes, decline.

If the offer shows Agreement in preparation or Agreement emailed, Lawtrades sends the agreement by email. Sign it from that email.

1. When the offer shows Ready to sign, select Review and sign.
2. Read the agreement in Review & Sign Contract and sign it.
3. Wait for the confirmation, then select Back to offers, or View engagement when it appears.

Respond to a startup offer

Accepting or countering includes your signature. If the client counters, your earlier signature is voided and you can respond again.

If you see Waiting for the client's payment before you can accept., check back later.

1. Open the offer marked Small Business and select Review and sign.
2. Review the amount, billing and scope.
3. Select Accept & sign (the button shows the amount) to accept and sign.
4. To propose a different amount, select Counter & sign. Choose Hourly or Flat fee, enter Your rate or Your flat fee, then select Continue to sign.

Decline a startup offer

If you choose a reason about rate or scope, you can select Send a counter-offer instead. Declining can’t be undone.

1. Open the offer and select Decline.
2. Choose a reason and add a note if you want to. Both are optional.
3. Select Decline offer.

After you sign

A company offer shows your progress and the next step. Follow the action shown on the offer. Open engagement appears once your engagement is active.

Find a signed agreement

If an offer will not load, select Retry. Contact support if an offer you expect is missing.

1. Open Offers and select Documents.
2. Select Download agreement on the offer.