Contract guides · 2026
Contract templates,
written for your craft.
A generic contract treats a caterer like a tutor like a DJ. These guides break down the clauses each vertical actually needs, and BookNox generates the finished contract, signed online, from a real booking, not a blank PDF you fill in yourself.
Pick your vertical
13 contract guides.
- Photography contract guide: the clauses every photographer contract needs.
- Wedding planner contract guide: the clauses every wedding planner contract needs.
- DJ contract guide: the clauses every DJ contract needs.
- Wedding officiant contract guide: the clauses every wedding officiant contract needs.
- Venue rental contract guide: the clauses every venue contract needs.
- Florist contract guide: the clauses every florist contract needs.
- Catering contract guide: the clauses every caterer contract needs.
- Doula contract guide: the clauses every doula contract needs.
- Coaching contract guide: the clauses every life coach contract needs.
- Virtual assistant contract guide: the clauses every virtual assistant contract needs.
- Tutoring contract guide: the clauses every tutor contract needs.
- Videography contract guide: the clauses every videographer contract needs.
- Hair & makeup contract guide: the clauses every hair & makeup artist contract needs.
Educational summaries, not legal advice. Have a licensed attorney in your state review any contract before you rely on it. Sending the proposal first? Proposal templates carry the same clauses into the document your client signs.
Read by kind of work
Dated events vs ongoing appointments.
Nine of these guides cover dated event work, where the contract’s job is to hold the date, price the options, and define what happens on the day: overtime, cancellations, force majeure. Four cover ongoing appointment work, where the contract governs a relationship that repeats weekly or monthly: session policies, missed appointments, and how either side ends the engagement.
Wedding and event work
- Photography contract guide
- Wedding planner contract guide
- Videography contract guide
- DJ contract guide
- Wedding officiant contract guide
- Venue rental contract guide
- Florist contract guide
- Catering contract guide
- Hair & makeup contract guide
Ongoing appointment work
The shared foundation
Every contract carries the same protective core.
Every BookNox contract also carries the clauses that protect any service booking: a nonrefundable deposit tied to reserving the date, a cancellation policy written as liquidated damages (with a rebooking credit so it survives a court's reasonableness test), a force majeure clause, a liability cap with the legally required carveout for death and personal injury, binding arbitration (AAA/JAMS) with a small claims carveout, general provisions (severability, entire agreement, no waiver), and an electronic signature block that complies with ESIGN and UETA, with a SHA-256 tamper evidence hash.
The vertical guides above exist because that core is not enough on its own. A photographer needs a cancellation clause tied to a date that cannot be resold; a tutor needs the parent named as the contracting party when the student is a minor; a DJ needs a written overtime rate before the reception runs long. Each guide names the clauses its vertical adds and explains why each one is there.
From booking to signature
Generated from a real booking, not pasted together.
Your client builds the booking on your quote page: package, date, options. BookNox generates the finished contract for your vertical with the right clauses already in it, freezes the wording at send time, and collects a signature that complies with ESIGN and UETA plus the deposit through the same link. The signed PDF carries a SHA-256 tamper evidence hash and a full audit trail: IP, user agent, timestamps.
Educational summaries, not legal advice. Have a licensed attorney in your state review any contract before you rely on it.
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