Completing a Contract

Once a Contract's milestones are all settled, mark the Contract itself as Complete so its status reflects that the work is finished.

Complete is for Contracts whose milestones are all finished. If you instead need to end a Contract early — before its milestones are done — see Terminating a Contract or Withdrawing a Contract depending on whether it's already fully signed.

Once every milestone on a Contract has reached an accepted state (or been paid), an Admin can mark the Contract itself as Complete from the Actions section of the Contract page. This updates its status from Active to Completed.

• The Complete button stays disabled — with a tooltip explaining why — until all of that Contract's milestones are approved (or Finance Approved, if your organisation requires financial sign-off) or already paid.

• This is a manual step, not automatic. A Contract doesn't move to Completed just because its milestones are finished — an Admin needs to click Complete.

If a Contract Variation has been created against this Contract, the original Contract and the Variation are separate records, each with their own Complete status. Marking a Variation as Complete does not automatically mark the original Contract as Complete, and vice versa. If you want both to show as Completed, mark each one individually once its own milestones are settled.

For where this fits into the wider process — drafting, signing, and paying milestones — see Contract Execution & Milestone Payments.