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Business Sale Agreement
This uniquely powerful and full-featured automated business sale/purchase agreement plugs numerous holes found in standard form, static templates and puts top-tier level documentation in the hands of all businesses, large and small. Extremely flexible and capable of adapting to any business sale, whether simple or highly sophisticated.
Website Terms of Use
Our customised Website Terms of Use include comprehensive rules governing how people can use your website, along with strong, top-tier quality disclaimers and limitations of liability. Suitable for everything from brochure websites to online stores, directories and marketplaces.
Website Returns Policy
If you sell physical goods on your website, you need a clear and well-constructed Returns Policy. Use this document to clarify when refunds are available, how refunds are provided and the rules regarding shipping costs for returns.
Privacy Policy
If your business collects any personal information, there may be strict privacy protection obligations that you need to follow. Tailored to suit your website and your business, our automated solution is the quickest and easiest way to ensure that you have a professional policy in place.
Independent Contractor Agreement
Engaging staff as independent contractors rather than employees requires a carefully constructed Independent Contractor Agreement. Our automated solution is highly flexible across all areas, including the scope of services, fees, invoicing and payment structures. Includes features designed to protect your business.
Terms of Business for Service
Create fully customised terms of business to match your business’s specific needs and circumstances. Designed to be provided alongside a proposal, quote, work order or similar document, this solution offers unrivalled flexibility in the areas of ownership of intellectual property, payment and invoicing, termination options, indemnity, non-solicitation provisions and more.
Transfer of securities (director approvals package)
Automatically prepare the board approvals, application forms and new/replacement certificates for up to 5 transfers of securities, all in one go. Each transfer can have a different buyer/seller and can even relate to a different class of securities. Suitable for transfers of all types of securities (eg, options, convertible notes, units in a unit trust, etc).
Terms of business for services
Create fully customised terms of business to match your business’s specific needs and circumstances. Designed to be provided alongside a proposal, quote, work order or similar document, this solution offers unrivalled flexibility in the areas of ownership of intellectual property, payment and invoicing, termination options, indemnity, non-solicitation provisions and more.
Issue of securities (director approvals package)
This pack enables you to process up to 5 applications for the issue of new securities.Our highly-intelligent system determines whether to use written resolutions or a board meeting, based upon the answers you provide. Automatically prepare the board approvals, application forms and new certificates all in one go.
Services Agreement for a Single Client
This is a top-tier quality Services Agreement containing comprehensive terms for the provision of services by a specific service provider to a particular identified client. Designed to generally favour the service provider, including non-solicitation provisions. Flexible enough to cover almost any type of services and any arrangement structure.
Applications for new securities
This solution prepares the application forms needed to process up to 5 applications for the issue of new securities in a company or unit trust.
Transfer of lease
To properly replace the tenants in a lease, you need a Transfer of Lease that is structured as a “Deed of Novation” so that both the rights and the obligations of the tenant are transferred. This top-tier solution has streamlined what is usually a fiddly and time-consuming process.
Securities transfer forms
This Smart Q&A form allows you to prepare an instrument of transfer for each sale/purchase of securities. You can process up to 5 transfers in one go even where each transfer has a different buyer/seller. You can also draft transfer forms relating to securities of a different type/class (eg, options, convertible notes, units in a unit trust, etc).
New certificates for transferred securities
Create all of the certificates required to process up to 5 transfers of securities, all in one go. This includes both a new certificate for each purchase and, for any vendor selling only part of its holding, the required replacement certificate as well.
Employment Contract
Our full-form, top-tier quality Employment Contract has been meticulously drafted to set the “gold standard” for employment contracts in Australia. This is a highly comprehensive document, designed for use by employers who are serious about protecting their business from liability and competition. Use this for everything from a casual assistant position to a high-level professional or executive role.
Employee Option Plan
Building on and improving ATO-approved documentation, our high-tech Employee Option Plan has been designed as a tax-deferred scheme, whether or not the startup tax concessions apply. Our expert team has tightened up the drafting and taken the document to the next level. Automatically generate customised offer letters at the same time.
Employee Handbook
Customisable to meet the requirements of any business – from office environments to food-related businesses and even construction/manufacturing – our Employee Handbook provides a comprehensive set of staff policies and procedures, unrivalled by any other product available online.