Your guide to Slack contract management

Did you know it was possible to generate agreements, submit vendor contracts, and track negotiations without ever leaving Slack?

Well, it is.

In this guide, we'll cover everything you need to know to make Slack the new legal front door for your business, maintaining control over contracts while enabling commercial teams to self-serve on contracts from the tools they know and love.

What is Slack?

Slack is a cloud-based messaging and collaboration platform designed to streamline communication within businesses.

Teams can chat in channels organized by topics or projects, or message individuals privately. Slack also supports file sharing, calls, and integrations with other tools to automate routine tasks and boost productivity.

However, the best thing about Slack is how well-integrated it is. You can connect the communication tool with virtually any of your existing tools, streamlining conversations, reducing friction, and keeping your teams working productively in one place. 

Can you manage contracts in Slack?

Businesses often use Slack to coordinate contract-related tasks—requesting contracts from legal, chasing approvals, and sharing updates. 

But these interactions are only a small part of the contract workflow. The rest happens across multiple disconnected tools: emails for negotiations, Word files for drafting, shared drives for storage, spreadsheets for tracking, and separate eSigning tools for execution.

While Slack does allow document storage, it isn’t built for contract management. Contracts require structured workflows, visibility into key dates and obligations, and seamless collaboration both pre- and post-signature—something Slack alone can’t provide.

That’s why integrating Slack with a contract management platform like Juro is a smarter approach. It enables teams to automate contract updates, centralize approvals, and keep stakeholders informed in real time—all without the need for manual follow-ups or constant app-switching.

Let’s explore how you can turn Slack into a highly efficient legal front door, and exactly what’s possible. 

How to manage contracts effectively in Slack

When you integrate Juro with Slack, contract management becomes faster, more automated, and far less manual. 

Instead of chasing approvals, sharing updates manually, or switching between tools, teams can manage contracts directly from Slack. Why make business teams log into your CLM if they don’t have to?

Here’s how Slack contract management works when you connect the platform with Juro. 

1. Self-serve on contract creation without leaving Slack 

Juro’s Slack integration enables business teams to generate contracts using pre-approved templates in just a few clicks—without leaving Slack. This speeds up contract creation and reduces reliance on legal for routine agreements.

Users can select a workspace and template, fill in a few predefined fields, and generate a contract in seconds. Depending on the template’s workflow, the contract can be sent for signing or reviewed in Juro.

This is far quicker than waiting on legal, who are often overloaded with contract requests. It’s also more controlled and compliant than manually drafting contracts in Word using a combination of existing (often dated) templates found in the shared drive.

2. Upload third-party contracts for legal review in Slack 

Managing vendor contracts can be a challenge when they arrive in different formats, through multiple channels, and require legal oversight before they can be signed. 

Juro’s Slack integration simplifies this by allowing teams to submit third-party contracts directly through Slack, where they are automatically stored and organized in Juro.

For example, imagine your procurement team receives a vendor agreement via email. Instead of it getting lost in your email inbox, or them having to log into your CLM software, they can simply upload it to Slack, where they already work from. 

They can also mark whether or not the document is already signed

From there, the contract is:

1. Automatically sent to Juro – The document is stored securely in Juro’s contract repository, ensuring it’s organized and easy to retrieve.
2. Categorized in the platform – The contract is organized based on the information provided during the upload, including the workspace it should live in, the template used, the document’s name, and the agreement’s status. 
3. Routed for legal review – The legal team is instantly notified in Slack, allowing them to review and approve the contract from their backlog in Juro. 

This workflow eliminates the need for email chains and manual uploads, reducing administrative overhead while ensuring contracts are properly stored and tracked. It also keeps legal and procurement aligned in real time, so contracts don’t get lost in inboxes or stalled in review.

3. Receive live updates on the progress of your contracts with Slack notifications 

With Juro’s Slack integration, teams receive real-time notifications about key contract events, from comments to approvals, signatures, and renewals. 

You can define the moments that matter most to your team. For example, you can set up a legal review channel to follow counterparty redlines on sales contracts. 

Whenever a counterparty adds their comments to a contract in Juro, that will pull through to your dedicated Slack channel, giving the commercial team full visibility into the progress of negotiations happening behind the scenes of their deals. 

You can even set up a wins or deals channel in Slack that notifies the team about signatures that get added to your commercial or employment contracts. By doing this, you can celebrate those all-important milestones together as soon as a contract makes it over the line. 

How Funnel automated 8000+ manual touchpoints with Juro and Slack

SaaS company, Funnel, transformed its contract review process by integrating Juro with Slack. As a result, they were able to reduce legal reviews by 88 per cent and automate more than 8000 touchpoints in a year. 

Before using Juro, it took at least fifteen manual steps to agree a contract, and that wasn’t scalable. With Juro’s Slack integration, Funnel automated workflows and connected contracts to their central communication hub. Now, their process looks like this:

• Sales creates a contract in Juro, triggering a Slack notification to legal.
• When sales requests approval, legal is notified in Slack.
• A legal team member reacts with 👀, signaling they’re handling it. This also triggers a Zapier integration that adds the task to Asana.
• Once approved, the contract is sent for signing via Juro.
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And Funnel aren't the only ones improving visibility and increasing efficiency using Juro. We power more than two million contracts for modern businesses like yours, offering a flexible and integrated solution for contracts.

Want to embed contracting into the tools your team use daily?

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. To find out more about Juro's Slack integration and how it'll benefit your team, fill in the form below.

Want to find out how you can integrate Juro with your other business tools? Check out these guides:

• How to manage contracts in HubSpot
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• How to manage contracts in Pipedrive
• How to manage contracts in Trello
• How to manage contracts in Airtable
• How to manage contracts in Clickup
• How to manage contracts in Asana