In our previous blog, we explored the most interactive and collaborative stage of the contract lifecycle - Negotiation & Collaboration, where multiple teams refine and finalize the terms that shape a contracts.
Now, we move into the next critical stage: Review & Approval - the point where all your hard work must pass through compliance, legal checks, financial scrutiny, and stakeholder sign-off.
And this is where most organizations get stuck.
Review & Approval becomes a bottleneck not because contracts are complex, but because processes are unclear, routing is manual, reminders are inconsistent, and visibility is limited. In this blog, we’ll explore why approval workflows slow down, what organizations can do to automate them, and how PACT turns this bottleneck into a streamlined, transparent, audit-ready process inside Jira.
The approval stage should be fast, structured, and predictable. Instead, most teams experience confusion, delays, and back-and-forth because:
Finance, legal, procurement, security, and leadership all need to review different components. When routing isn’t automated, approvals get stuck simply because the contracts sits in someone’s inbox.
Teams depend on:
Without automated reminders or deadlines, approvals become inconsistent and unpredictable.
If changes from the negotiation stage aren’t clearly visible during review, approvers may:
This pushes the contracts back into negotiation - causing delays and frustration.
Every organization has mandatory checkpoints, but without defined workflows, these reviews are often:
This creates serious legal and audit risks.
Most delays occur due to:
Approvals depend on someone manually forwarding the document - a guaranteed source of bottlenecks.
Teams constantly ask:
Without a status tracker, approval stages become black boxes.
When an approver is unavailable, the process freezes entirely unless there is:
Few organizations implement this - resulting in days or weeks of delays.
Just like negotiation benefits from structure, approval workflows need automation and clarity. Here are proven ways to remove bottlenecks:
Automatically route contracts to the right stakeholder based on:
Avoid unnecessary waiting with:
Approvers should see:
All in one place, without searching through emails or folders.
A clear dashboard showing:
This prevents confusion and enables accountability.
Every action should be:
This protects the business and ensures compliance.
PACT doesn’t replace Jira workflows - it uses them. This means your approval logic, conditions, transitions, and automation rules stay exactly where your teams expect them.
PACT enhances the process with:
You can configure approvals using:
Every approval step becomes a clear stage in the Jira workflow.
From the PACT UI, users can easily see:
No more confusion, no more guessing “Who has this now?”
Approvers see all contracts details without leaving Jira:
Everything they need is already within the contract's context.
PACT enables:
Approvals stay connected to real work, not scattered across emails.
Every approval action is automatically logged by Jira:
Audit readiness becomes a natural part of the workflow - no extra effort needed.
PACT doesn’t introduce a new approval system. It simply leverages Jira’s workflow power and adds contract intelligence, visibility, and structure.
With PACT , your approval process becomes:
This sets the foundation for the next stage of the contract lifecycle, where approvals turn into finalized agreements.
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