Reports extract and present your contract data in tables and other graphical visualizations, based on the criteria that you choose. Administrators can track key business metrics and trends easily with reports, and use them to identify outliers. 

They enable administrators to make well-informed decisions by arriving at actionable insights from a plethora of diverse data. The reporting capability of Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM) software transforms contracts from static documents to strategic assets. 

In Zoho Contracts, we have 30+ standard reports across different aspects of contract management. You can further filter the data in the standard reports using the filter options available for each report. You can also download and print these reports. 

List of Standard Reports 

Zoho Contracts supports the following list of standard reports. The reports are grouped based on various aspects of contract management, as listed below.  

General 

A general report presents the contract data based on any of the standard attributes of contracts. For example, status or renewal type of contracts.

The following reports are available in this category:  

• Contracts by Status
  
• Contracts by Contract Type
  
• Contracts by Department
  
• Contracts by Approval Workflow Type
  
• Contracts by Renewal Type 
  
• Contracts by Initiated Party
• Active Contracts
  
• Renewed Contracts
  
• Extended Contracts
  
• Amended Contracts
  
• Expired Contracts
  
• Terminated Contracts
  
  

Activity or Milestone

When a contract owner creates the contract, it is in the Draft state. The contract then travels through different milestones, such as Approval, Negotiation, and Signature, after which it can finally become Active. 

Activity or Milestone reports filter the contracts based on their position in reference to any of these milestones.  

The following reports are available in this category:

• Contracts Pending for Approval 
  
• Contracts Pending for Negotiation
  
• Contracts Pending for Signing
  
• Contracts Waiting to be Active 
  
• Contracts Became Active Within a Period
  
• Upcoming Renewals
  

Performance

Performance reports will help you identify areas in your contract management process that need your attention, and mitigate bottlenecks, if any.

Some of the critical metrics to analyze the performance of a contract's execution are its cycle time (i.e., the period between the time of contract creation and the time when it becomes active), the number of times it gets rejected during approval, and the number of negotiation cycles it undergoes. 

The following reports are available in this category: 

• Average Cycle Time by Contract Type
  
• Top Contracts with Long Cycle Time
  
• Top Contracts with Long Approval Time
• Top Contracts with Most Approval Rejections
  
• Top Contracts with Long Negotiation Time
  
• Top Contracts with Maximum Negotiation Cycles
  

Clauses

Regulatory changes in the industry, or even an internal policy change, will demand changes in some of the clause languages. Clause reports can enable an effective assessment of the impact of these changes across all your business deals.

The following reports are available in this category: 

• Clause Type vs. No. of Contracts
  
• Clause vs. No. of Contracts
  

Obligations

Obligation management is central to keeping the risk of any enterprise at check. With obligation reports, you can filter the obligations based on a variety of parameters, track their progress, and quickly identify defaults. 

The following reports are available in this category:

• Overdue Obligations 
  
• Recurring Obligations 
  
• Obligations by Obligation Owner
  
• Obligations by Counterparty
  
• Obligations by Priority
  
• Obligations by Status
  
• Obligations by Obligation Category
  

Counterparty

Counterparty reports give the number of contracts signed with a particular counterparty or counterparty type. A deeper understanding of the behavior of a counterparty or a counterparty type can equip you to devise better negotiation strategies.  

The following reports are available in this category:

• Counterparties by Counterparty Type 
  
• Counterparty vs. No. of Contracts 
  
• Counterparty vs. No. of Contracts Signed
  

Users 

User reports help you evaluate the performance of the individual members in your organization. 

The following reports are available in this category:

• Users vs. No. of Created Contracts 
  
• Users vs. No. of Contracts Collaborated 
  
• Users vs. No. of Approval Pending Contracts 
  
• Users vs. No. of Approved Contracts 
  
• Users vs. No. of Approval Rejected Contracts 
  
• Users vs. No. of Sign Pending Contracts 
  
• Users vs. No. of Signed Contracts 
  
• Users vs. No. of Sign Declined Contracts