A Statement of Work isn’t a standalone contract — it’s a short document issued under an existing Master Services Agreement (MSA) that the two parties have already signed. It incorporates that MSA by reference and adds only what changes from one engagement to the next: the scope of work, the schedule, and the price. Everything else — liability, IP, confidentiality — stays governed by the MSA. Download the ready-to-fill template below, or read the checklist first.
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This document is a general-purpose template provided for information only. It is not legal advice, it does not create a lawyer–client relationship, and nobody has reviewed it against your situation.
Laws differ by country, state and province, and they change. A clause that is standard in one place can be unenforceable — or illegal — in another. Terms that are ordinary between two businesses can be void in a consumer or employment context.
Read every clause before you use it, fill in every blank, and delete anything that does not apply. For anything high-value, unusual, or that you could not afford to lose a dispute over, have a qualified lawyer in your jurisdiction review it before it is signed.
Reference to the underlying MSA
The MSA date and the parties to it, named explicitly. A SOW is not a contract on its own — it only works because an MSA already governs the relationship.
Client and Service Provider names
Full legal names and addresses of both parties to this specific engagement.
Scope of work
What the Service Provider will actually do, described specifically enough that "done" is verifiable — not "marketing services," but the deliverable list underneath it.
What’s out of scope
An explicit exclusion list, so extra requests get a change order instead of scope creep nobody agreed to.
Deliverables
The concrete outputs the Client receives — files, milestones, a finished product — listed individually.
Schedule and milestones
Start date, completion date, and any interim milestones with their own due dates.
Price and payment schedule
The fee (fixed, hourly, or milestone-based) and when each portion is invoiced and due.
Order of precedence
A statement that the MSA controls everything except scope, schedule and price, which this SOW controls — so nobody has to guess which document wins in a conflict.
Signatures & date
Both parties sign and date the SOW itself, in addition to having already signed the MSA.
Fill in the template above with the scope, schedule and price for this engagement, then send it to the other party for signature. They sign online and never need an account, and the finished file comes back sealed with an audit certificate showing who signed, when, and from where.
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