January 25, 2023
Whilst your terms of business can protect your business risk, they will be of no benefit to you unless they are properly incorporated into your contract with your customer.
In an ideal world, your terms and conditions will be signed off by your customer to evidence that they agree to those terms. This is easiest to achieve where you are entering into a bespoke contract with them, or where you are selling online and your customer has ticked a box to say they have read and accept your terms and conditions (providing that the full terms have been made available to the customer to read beforehand).
More often than not, you will seek to rely on your standard terms of business, but they will not be signed off by the customer. In fact, your customer might be looking to rely on their own standard terms of purchase.
Here are some quick tips to keep in mind when contracting on your standard terms:
If you need any advice with navigating any of the issues raised above, please contact Siobhan Williams on swilliams@darwingray.com / 02920 829 118 for a free initial chat to see how we can help you.
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