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Employee Contract Template
Download a free employment contract template, set the role, pay and terms, and e-sign it with your new hire in minutes.
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Employee Contract Template
An employee contract, or employment agreement, sets out the terms between a company and a worker: role and responsibilities, salary, hours, benefits, confidentiality, and how either side can end the relationship. Our free employee contract template gives HR and founders a complete, editable starting point so a new hire can be onboarded without drafting from scratch.
Download the template as a Word document, fill in the position, compensation and start date, then export to PDF or send it for signature. With Portant you can connect a Google Sheet of new hires and generate a personalized employment contract for each one, then collect e-signatures automatically.
How to automate your employee contracts
Step 1
Open Sheet
Select the Google Sheet you want to use as the data source for your contracts. Portant connects directly to your spreadsheet to pull in the data it needs.
Step 2
Connect Template
Connect your Google Docs, Slides, or Sheets contract template. Portant will link it to your spreadsheet data source so it knows which fields to merge.
Step 3
Customize
Customize your contract with merge tags like {{Party Name}}, {{Terms}}, and {{Effective Date}}. Format it with your branding, colours, and layout.
Step 4
Create
Create contracts automatically when new rows are added to your sheet, or generate them manually in batches. Send via email or save to Google Drive.
How to automate your business contracts with a template
How employee contracts automation works
Step 1
Step 1: Open a Google Sheet
Open a Google Sheet with your contract data. Include party names, terms, effective dates, and any other fields you need to merge into your contracts.
Step 2
Step 2: Connect your contract template
Open the Portant add-on and connect your Google Docs contract template. Portant scans for merge tags and maps them to your spreadsheet columns.
Step 3
Step 3: Customize your output
Set up your delivery method. Email contracts to signers, save as PDFs in Google Drive, or request eSignatures directly through Portant. Use merge tags in emails too.
Step 4
Step 4: Automate your contracts
Turn on auto-create to generate contracts for every new row. Process rows in batches or schedule the workflow to run at set times.
Benefits of a employee contract template
Eliminate unnecessary manual work
Stop spending hours copying and pasting data from spreadsheets into documents. Portant automates the entire process, pulling data directly from your source and generating completed documents in seconds. Focus on the work that matters, not repetitive formatting tasks.
Make your documents more accurate
Manual document creation leads to errors, from wrong names to outdated figures. Portant maps data fields directly to your template, eliminating typos and ensuring every document is accurate and consistent. Your team sends fewer corrections and your clients get the right information every time.
Built into Google Workspace
Portant works natively with Google Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Gmail. There is no new interface to learn, no data to export, and no switching between tools. Your team stays in the apps they already use while Portant handles the document generation in the background.
What teams say about Portant
“Portant has been a game-changer for Clipboard! It's saved our sales team countless hours every week by generating order forms, proposals and contracts with info from HubSpot automatically filled in.”
“This product is a gamechanger for all of those painful manual document merges. Love what you and the team have built!”
“This software brilliantly takes over the tedious process of creating and sending invoices. This not only saves time but massively reduces errors of data entry.”
“Love this product. Have been using it for over a year and the integration to Google Workspace is awesome. Lots of credit for listening to your users!”
“Truly a gamechanger! Portant streamlines these tasks and allows me to focus on the things that require my attention and problem-solving!”
“Portant has been a game-changer for Clipboard! It's saved our sales team countless hours every week by generating order forms, proposals and contracts with info from HubSpot automatically filled in.”
“This product is a gamechanger for all of those painful manual document merges. Love what you and the team have built!”
“This software brilliantly takes over the tedious process of creating and sending invoices. This not only saves time but massively reduces errors of data entry.”
“Love this product. Have been using it for over a year and the integration to Google Workspace is awesome. Lots of credit for listening to your users!”
“Truly a gamechanger! Portant streamlines these tasks and allows me to focus on the things that require my attention and problem-solving!”
Frequently asked questions
A solid employee contract covers the job title and duties, start date, salary or wage, working hours, paid leave, benefits, confidentiality and intellectual property, notice periods and grounds for termination. Our template includes each of these sections so you can adapt them to the role.
Yes. You can download the employee contract template for free, edit it in Word or Google Docs and export it to PDF. There is no signup, no watermark and no per-document fee.
Yes. After you customize the template you can sign it electronically and request a signature from your new hire. Portant sends the contract for e-signature and saves the signed copy to Google Drive.
Connect a Google Sheet of new employees to Portant, add merge tags to the template for name, role, salary and start date, and a tailored employment contract is generated for every row, ready to send and sign.
The template is a practical starting point, not legal advice. Employment law varies by country and state, so for high-stakes or unusual roles have a qualified lawyer review the final contract.
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