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title: Configure Legal Simple Contracts
description: Set up the foundation data for legal simple contracts so employees can use them to submit a legal request to the legal department.
locale: en-US
canonical_url: https://www.servicenow.com/docs/r/australia/employee-service-management/legal-simple-contracts/config-legal-simple-cont.html
release: australia
product: Legal Simple Contracts
classification: legal-simple-contracts
topic_type: concept
last_updated: "2026-03-12"
reading_time_minutes: 2
breadcrumb: [Configure, Legal Simple Contracts, Legal Service Delivery Practice Applications, Legal Service Delivery, Legal and Contract Operations, Employee Service Management]
---

# Configure Legal Simple Contracts

Set up the foundation data for legal simple contracts so employees can use them to submit a legal request to the legal department.

As an administrator, review the installed components and modify them or add new ones as applicable.

-   **[Define a user as an internal signer](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/employee-service-management/legal-simple-contracts/define-internal-signers.md)**

    Define a user as an internal signer so that the signer can be added to a contract template to automatically populate in a contract document for a request.

-   **[Create a contract type](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/employee-service-management/legal-simple-contracts/create-contract-type.md)**

    Create a contract type for defining different types of legal contract requests.

-   **[Legal contract templates](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/employee-service-management/legal-simple-contracts/document-template-block.md)**

    Create a document template that can be used when submitting a legal contract request to generate a standard legal contract with predefined content. You can create templates of HTML, PDF and Microsoft Word types.

-   **[Configure a rule for selecting a legal contract template](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/employee-service-management/legal-simple-contracts/configure-legal-contract-template-rules.md)**

    Configure a rule to identify and use the correct contract template based on the submitted legal request and generate a contract document for the requester.

-   **[Set up external signature and storage configurations](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/employee-service-management/legal-simple-contracts/setting-up-legal-external-app-config.md)**

    Set up external app configurations for legal contracts to enable services for electronic signature of contract documents and saving the signed contract documents in an external storage.

-   **[Email notifications](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/platform-administration/t_CreateANotification.md)**

    Configure email notifications to be sent when various events occur. Some possible event triggers might be when a signatory signs or declines to sign a contract document or all signatories have signed the contract document.

-   **[Configure Microsoft Dynamics CRM for sales contracts](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/employee-service-management/legal-simple-contracts/integrate-legal-ms-dynamics-crm.md)**

    Integrate with Microsoft Dynamics CRM to import active opportunities data and information on sales representatives and their associated sales accounts into the tables in the ServiceNow instance.

-   **[Schedule import set jobs to pull data from the CRM system](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/employee-service-management/legal-simple-contracts/schedule-import-sales-contract-crm.md)**

    Schedule import set jobs to pull sales representatives and associated sales accounts and active opportunities data from the CRM system into the ServiceNow instance.

-   **[Create a deflection rule for sales contracts](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/employee-service-management/legal-simple-contracts/create-contract-deflection-rule.md)**

    Create a deflection rule for providing guidance to requesters for a sales contract based on specified conditions.