How To Negotiate a Contract With a Cloud or SaaS Provider. Contract negotiation is an opportunity to engage with your cloud or SaaS vendor and provider in a comprehensive dialogue about the terms and language contained in the Agreement, the level of service, and support you expect for your company. Terms in the contract that you believe would be fair and beneficial to all parties might not be seen that way by a SaaS provider.
What are some contracts terms which are critical to negotiate? Here are just a few. If the level of service or software is not working out for your company you should be able to terminate the contract. Before signing, read the fine print and make sure that if you terminate with let’s say seven months to go that the SaaS Provider is not going to require your company to pay for each month left remaining in the Agreement.
What is a Service Level Agreement or better known as an SLA? This is a guarantee from the SaaS provider that the services will be up and running for a minimum amount of time say 99.9% of the time. Some SaaS providers do not give a copy of their SLA’s to customers but rather maintain them internally. As a customer, you should insist on getting a copy of your SaaS provider’s Service Level Agreement.
To learn more about what other SaaS contract terms are important and should be negotiated please call SaaS Software Lawyer Andrew S. Bosin for a free initial legal consultation at 201-446-9643.
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