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Most organizations track contract renewals in a spreadsheet or a SharePoint list, and for a while that is the right answer. These guides show how to do it well, and say plainly where each approach stops working.
Excel
Tracking contracts in Excel: what works, and what it cannot do
How to build a good contract register in a spreadsheet, and the four things one can never do however well you build it. Starting in Excel is correct. The question is when it stops being enough.
SharePoint & Power Automate
Contract renewal reminders in SharePoint: what works, and where it breaks
A list, one flow, an afternoon's work, and it holds up fine for a small portfolio. Then the four places it quietly breaks, including the date comparison that runs clean for months while notifying nobody.
Contracts
Notice periods: the deadline that is not written on your contract
Why a ninety day notice clause on a contract expiring 31 March really means 31 December, and the six reasons organizations miss that date even when they know it exists.
Contracts
Auto-renewal clauses: the decision that gets made by doing nothing
Why the renewal term, not the clause itself, decides what forgetting costs. Where the price quietly moves on renewal, and why evergreen contracts fall out of every register.
These are written to be useful whether or not you ever buy anything. If you get past the point where they help, that is what Obliga is for.
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