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Facility use agreements

The hall is booked. The agreement should be signed before the keys are.

Somebody wants the room on the fourteenth. They need the agreement, the insurance acknowledgment and the rules, and the person who normally handles that is a volunteer with a day job.

What this document is

The agreement that lets somebody else use your building, field or room, on terms, for a date — with the cleaning, the alcohol, the insurance and the damage all settled in advance.

Also called: hall rental agreement · venue agreement · room hire form · field use agreement · space rental contract

Where it goes wrong

Not a feature list. These are the three moments this exists for.

The agreement that arrives after the deposit

Money first, terms later, because the terms live in a document somebody has to find and attach. By then the booking feels settled and asking for a signature feels like backtracking.

Insurance, which nobody chases until it matters

The agreement says they will carry cover. Whether anybody asked for proof is a different question, and the answer is usually no.

Damage, and the conversation afterwards

Without a signed record of the condition, the rules and who was responsible, the discussion about the broken thing is a negotiation rather than a matter of fact.

What happens instead

1

The agreement goes out with the hold

Date, room, fee and hours already in it. Signed before the booking is confirmed rather than chased after it is.

2

Rules and acknowledgments in the same link

Alcohol, decorations, cleaning, noise and keys as their own acknowledgments behind one link, so the person signs a set and you get a set back.

3

A list of what is outstanding, by date

Which bookings are short of which document, in date order, so the fourteenth is dealt with before the thirteenth.

We do not track certificates of insurance

A COI is a document from somebody else's insurer with an expiry and a renewal cycle, and doing that properly is a product in itself. The agreement records the promise to carry cover and to produce proof; collecting and diarising the certificate is still yours. We would rather say that than half-build it.

Who sends this one

The same document, sent by businesses that have nothing else in common.

Every trade we have written for

Questions

Can different kinds of booking get different agreements?

Yes. A wedding, a weekly class and a one-off meeting need different terms, and the set is chosen from what you already know about the booking rather than assembled by hand.

Does the person booking have to have an account?

No. They get a link, they sign on whatever they are holding, and the record lands in your account.

Can a volunteer administrator send these?

Yes, with permissions set so they can send and see what is outstanding without reaching billing or the rest of the account.

A hand holding a phone showing a document and a signature, outside a timber lakeside cabin, with two guests walking to the door with luggage.

Ready when the next guest is.

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