Contract templates
Your standard agreements, saved so every contract doesn't start from nothing.
Templates → Contracts lists them by Name and when each was Updated.
Making one
Three routes:
New template opens the editor. Give it a Template Title and an optional Description saying when to use it, then write the body.
Save as template from a contract you've already written. Usually the better route. You write a sharper contract against a real job than in the abstract.
Add from CoreHue pulls a ready-made one out of CoreHue's library. Read the preview, then Add to library. It becomes your own copy from that moment.
Duplicate in a template's three-dot menu is the quick way to make a variant.
Opening a template opens its editor, so there's nothing to click through to edit it.
Using one
Use template in a template's three-dot menu opens a new contract pre-filled from it. You can also reach for one from inside a contract with Start from template under Actions, and from inside the contract builder in a proposal or on a booking service.
What to have
Most photographers need two or three:
A general one covering your usual work.
A wedding one, if you shoot weddings. They need more: timings, whether meals are provided, overtime, what happens if the day overruns, backup arrangements.
A commercial one, if you do commercial work. Different in substance: usage rights, licensing periods, exclusivity, invoicing terms.
Beyond that you're making work for yourself. Variations are better handled by editing the contract for that job.
Use variables
Write the template with variables rather than a placeholder client name. CoreHue fills them in from the contact, the booking and the invoice.
The whole value of a template is that you don't edit it every time. A template with "CLIENT NAME HERE" in it isn't finished. See Variables and blanks.
Leave blanks where the client knows better
For anything only they can tell you, add a client field they complete while signing: emergency contact, who mustn't be photographed, how they'd like to be credited.
The starter templates
New accounts get five, picked for the kind of work you said you do. Read them properly before you send one.
They are not vague outlines with blanks to fill in. They contain specific, binding commitments with real numbers. The wedding one alone commits you to a great deal: at least 400 edited images, delivery in 8 to 12 weeks, a gallery available for at least 90 days, keeping the images for 12 months, a 30% non-refundable retainer, the balance 14 days before the wedding, interest on late payment, a travel radius before costs are reimbursed, and a staged cancellation ladder.
Every one of those is a promise you would be held to. Several will not match how you actually work.
The wedding starter promises to keep the edited images for a period after delivery, and to keep the gallery available. Nothing in CoreHue enforces either.
Galleries stay online for as long as you keep them published and your subscription active. If your card fails and the account locks, gallery photos are permanently removed after 60 days. A contract promising a year of availability, on an account that lapses in month three, is a promise you have already broken.
If you keep a retention clause, keep your own archive of the files. Your client's gallery is a delivery tool, not a backup. See Plans and free trial.
Work through every number in a starter template and change it to yours. Then have a lawyer read your main one once. Contract law varies by country, and a starter template is a starting point rather than legal advice.
Editing a template later
Changes apply to contracts created afterwards. Anything already created keeps what it had, including contracts already signed.
If you started a new contract from a template and then improved it before saving, Update source template under Actions pushes your changes back to the template. That item is only offered while you're writing that first draft, not when you edit the contract later.
That's correct, but it means fixing a mistake in a template doesn't fix contracts already out. If a clause is wrong on something live, deal with that contract directly.
Attaching one to a service
A booking service can carry a contract, started from a template. Once again it's a copy, so later template edits don't reach the service. To change what a service sends, edit it on the service. See The booking flow.
Deleting
Delete removes the template permanently. Contracts already created from it are not affected, and CoreHue says so before you confirm.