Common Paper Startup Deals & Discounts

Common Paper runs an application-based program for early-stage startups that lowers the cost of putting professional contracting infrastructure in place before legal headcount exists. Qualifying companies can access the standard agreement templates at no charge and receive a meaningful discount on the paid plans for their first few months, with total value in the few-hundred-dollar range depending on team size and usage.

The offer is designed for founders and early revenue teams who are signing their first batch of customer, vendor, and partner agreements and want a repeatable system rather than ad-hoc documents. Because the discount applies to per-seat subscriptions, the savings scale with how many people on the team need to draft, negotiate, and sign.

Eligibility is typically tied to being a genuinely early-stage company that has not previously been a paying customer, and approval is granted on a per-application basis rather than automatically. The practical benefit is that a startup can adopt standardized templates, AI-assisted negotiation, and post-signing billing during the period when cash is tightest and clean contracting habits matter most.

Closing customer contracts at volume - revenue teams use standardized SaaS agreements plus AI redlining to move many similar deals through negotiation and signature quickly.

Early-stage contracting without in-house legal - founders adopt vetted open templates for NDAs and service agreements before hiring a lawyer or general counsel.

Contract-to-cash automation - teams that want signing to trigger billing connect Stripe so customers are invoiced and charged immediately after they sign.

Renewals and obligation tracking - operations and finance teams rely on structured term tracking to surface upcoming renewals, upsell moments, and key dates without spreadsheets.

Common Paper publishes transparent, per-seat pricing alongside a free entry tier:

• Free - $0, with template and document generation, automatic billing, customer activity alerts, and a low monthly agreement cap.
• Startup - around $50 per user per month, adding agreement branding, customer-initiated agreements, structured contract data export, and a higher agreement allowance.
• Growth - around $100 per user per month, adding multiple user roles, custom payment links, and upsell and renewal workflows with a larger agreement allowance.
• Enterprise - custom pricing via sales, adding custom integrations, backups to tools like Box or Drive, and custom account capacity.

Plans are billed per user and bounded by monthly agreement volume, so the right tier depends on team size and deal flow. Confirm current numbers on the vendor's pricing page.