Salesforce contract management guide for 2026

Integrations
October 27, 2025
6
min
Understand Salesforce contract management, how CLM works natively in Salesforce — and when to integrate a dedicated platform like Juro.

In this guide to Salesforce contract lifecycle management, we’ll cover everything legal and sales teams need to know about how to manage contracts in Salesforce more effectively, and how integrating Salesforce with a contract management system can help.

But first, let's explore what Salesforce is and does.

What is Salesforce?

Salesforce is one of the most popular customer relationship management (CRM) tools on the market, with over 150,000 customers. Businesses use Salesforce to connect with potential and existing customers, track deals, and capture opportunity data.

The data stored within Salesforce is usually used to draft a contract once a customer is ready to buy. However, it’s often during the contracting process that friction occurs. This is because deal management and contract management tend to be two completely separate workflows. 

Can you manage contracts in Salesforce?

In 2025, Salesforce introduced Salesforce Contracts, a native contract lifecycle management (CLM) app within Revenue Lifecycle Management. It brings templates, approvals, version tracking, and eSignature integration to Salesforce users.

For many, this sounds ideal. Everything — deals, quotes, and contracts — happens in one system.

But there’s a catch: Salesforce’s CLM was built for data, not people. And real contract management involves a lot of people: sales, legal, finance, and external counterparties.

That’s why many businesses, including Paddle, Mentimeter, Goldin, G.Network and Tamara, integrate Salesforce with Juro for better contract management. 

Can you use Salesforce for contract lifecycle management? 

While Salesforce can be used to support contract management processes, it is not a substitute for a contract management system

The limits of Salesforce Contracts

Challenge What happens in Salesforce How Juro fixes this
Complex setup Requires Salesforce admin configuration, custom objects, and Flows to go live. Juro is no-code — legal ops can build templates, workflows, and approvals in minutes, with native Salesforce sync.
Limited collaboration Only Salesforce users can view or edit; others need separate access or licences. Juro gives everyone access — sales, legal, ops, and counterparties collaborate in a browser workspace (no extra licences).
Offline negotiation Redlining happens in Word and email, creating version chaos and lost visibility. Juro offers real-time negotiation with tracked comments, redlines, and approvals — all in one document.
Disjointed signing eSignature tools like DocuSign or Adobe Sign require additional setup and uploads. Juro includes built-in eSignature — send, sign, and track in one platform, with automatic Salesforce updates.
Manual updates Teams upload signed PDFs and update fields manually after signature. Juro auto-syncs contract data, status, and PDFs back to Salesforce instantly — no manual work required.

A faster, smarter way to manage contracts in Salesforce

If you’re managing contracts directly in Salesforce, you already know the pain: endless copy-paste, version confusion, and time lost switching between tools.

Fortunately, there’s a better way. By integrating Salesforce with Juro, you can generate, manage, and sign contracts in one connected workflow — without ever leaving your CRM.

Let’s explore how it works.

Creating a contract in Salesforce with Juro

Once a sales rep opens the opportunity they want to close, all they need to do is click ‘New contract’, select a pre-approved template, and hit save. That’s it.

Juro automatically creates the contract, pulling in all the relevant data from Salesforce — names, values, dates, and more — directly into the right fields. Because legal teams have already defined these templates in Juro, every clause and field is exactly where it should be.

How to create a new contract in Salesforce

Making contracts smarter with conditional logic

For complex deals, legal teams can take things even further with conditional logic.

This feature lets templates adapt automatically based on Salesforce data. For example, if a deal exceeds a certain value, Juro can automatically add an extra approval clause or special terms.

It’s the perfect balance: sales get flexibility, while legal maintains control. Your business unlocks customization without compromise.

How Juro pulls data from Salesforce into contracts

Managing contracts in Salesforce and Juro

Once a contract is created, a copy attaches automatically to the Salesforce opportunity. No uploads, no lost documents. The opportunity’s status updates instantly, reflecting that a contract has been created and the deal is moving forward.

From there, both teams can collaborate in Juro: reviewing, negotiating, approving, and signing — all in one unified workspace.

Meanwhile, the contract’s key data flows both ways. Salesforce stays up to date, while Juro provides custom dashboards, insights, and renewal reminders to help you stay proactive.

Juro's data-rich contract repository makes post-signature contract management simple.

By bringing Juro and Salesforce together, you connect your CRM with your contract management — turning what used to be a bottleneck into a seamless flow.

Benefits of integrating Salesforce with Juro

For lawyers, integrating Salesforce with Juro can reduce the scope for human error, standardize sales contracts, and reduce contract risk. But it also enables them to focus on high-value work, rather than becoming buried in low-value contract admin work.

For sales reps, Salesforce contract management means they’re able to close deals faster and generate contracts on demand. This is a huge benefit for scaling businesses as it enables them to capture revenue faster and more efficiently as a result of self-serve. 

If you’re interested in finding out more about how Juro’s integration with Salesforce can help your business automate sales agreements, hit the button below. 

To find out which other tools you can connect with Salesforce, check out this guide to the best Salesforce integrations.

Intelligent contracting is here.

Juro embeds contracting in the tools business teams use every day, so they can agree and manage contracts end-to-end - while legal stays in control.

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Frequently asked questions about Salesforce contract management 

Does Salesforce have a CLM?

Yes. Salesforce Contracts is a native CLM app within Revenue Lifecycle Management. It manages contract templates, versions, and approvals inside Salesforce.

Is Salesforce Contracts enough for full contract automation?

It depends. If you only need simple sales contracts managed by Salesforce admins, it may work. But for collaboration, negotiation, and ease of use, Juro offers far more flexibility.

Can Juro integrate with Salesforce?

Yes. Juro integrates natively, letting you generate, sign, and sync contracts without leaving Salesforce.

Can you manage contracts in other CRMs?

It is definitely possible to manage contracts in other CRMs if you integrate them with a contract tool like Juro. Check out these guides on how to manage contracts in other CRMs:

How much does Salesforce Contracts cost?

According to Salesforce, Salesforce Contracts is charged at around $50 per user per month, but costs vary depending on setup and prerequisites.

What is the difference between CPQ and CLM in Salesforce?

CPQ (Configure, Price, Quote) in Salesforce handles product configuration, pricing, and quote generation before signature, while CLM (Contract Lifecycle Management) manages the creation, negotiation, signing, and renewal of contracts after the quote is approved.

Do legal teams use Salesforce?

Legal teams often use Salesforce for certain manual tasks, like extracting deal data to populate contract templates, for example. But this is only necessary if they don't have a contract management tool like Juro in place. To find out more, check out this brief guide to Salesforce for legal teams.

About the author

Sofia Tyson
Senior Content Manager at Juro

Sofia Tyson is the Senior Content Manager at Juro, where she has spent years as a legal content strategist and writer, specializing in legal tech and contract management.

Sofia has a Bachelor of Laws (LLB) from the University of Leeds School of Law where she studied the intersection of law and technology in detail and received the Hughes Discretionary Award for outstanding performance. Following her degree, Sofia's legal research on GDPR consent requirements was published in established law journals and hosted on HeinOnline, and she has spent the last five years researching and writing about contract processes and technology.

Before joining Juro, Sofia gained hands-on experience through short work placements at leading international law firms, including Allen & Overy. She also completed the Sutton Trust’s Pathways to Law and Pathways to Law Plus programs over the course of five years, building a deep understanding of the legal landscape and completing pro-bono legal volunteering.

Sofia is passionate about making the legal profession more accessible, and she has appeared in several publications discussing alternative legal careers.

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Intelligent contracting is here.

Juro embeds contracting in the tools business teams use every day, so they can agree and manage contracts end-to-end - while legal stays in control.

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