Contracts Auto-Renew. The Exit Window Closes Without Warning.

The exit window is the period before a contract's end date during which you must give written notice to cancel or renegotiate. Most B2B supplier contracts include a 30 to 90 day notice requirement. If you miss that window, the contract auto-renews - often at the same rate, for the same term - whether you intended it to or not. The end date tells you when it expires; the exit window tells you when you actually have to act. ExpiryEdge alerts you before the exit window closes, not before the contract ends, because by then it is already too late.

Any contract that has an auto-renewal clause, a fixed notice period for exit, or a material spend attached to it. The most common categories are supplier and vendor agreements, software and SaaS subscriptions, office and equipment leases, maintenance and service contracts, insurance policy renewals, utility and telecoms contracts, partner or reseller agreements, MSAs and SOWs, and confidentiality agreements (NDAs and BAAs). For most mid-market businesses, a complete contract inventory is between 60 and 400 documents.

You enter the contract end date and the required notice period - for example, 60 days. ExpiryEdge calculates the date by which you must act (end date minus notice period) and schedules reminders before that date, not before the end date. Default cadence is 90, 60, 30, and 7 days before the window closes, but you can configure your own. Reminders arrive by email, SMS, WhatsApp, Slack, or Microsoft Teams, depending on what your team uses.

You have three options. First, check the contract for any cure period or post-expiry exit clause - about 1 in 5 contracts has one. Second, contact the supplier in writing and ask for an early exit; many will grant it to preserve the relationship, especially if you have other accounts with them. Third, treat it as a sunk cost and use the time before the next renewal to negotiate hard or migrate to an alternative. ExpiryEdge logs the missed window so it never happens to that contract again.

Yes. For each contract, you assign one primary owner plus any number of additional notified parties - typically the account owner, finance, and legal. You can also stage reminders so the 90-day alert goes to the account owner, the 30-day alert copies finance, and the 7-day alert escalates to the head of department.

CLM platforms (Ironclad, DocuSign CLM, Sirion, etc.) handle the entire contract lifecycle - drafting, redlining, negotiation, e-signature, storage, and renewal. They cost $20,000 to $250,000 a year and are built for large legal teams. Contract renewal tracking covers just the post-signature, pre-renewal stage: knowing what is expiring, when the window is, and who needs to decide. For most businesses with fewer than 500 contracts, full CLM is overkill - a dedicated renewal tracker captures 90% of the value at a fraction of the cost.

Yes. You can track contracts with any term length and stagger reminders against multiple dates within the same contract - e.g. an annual price review on month 12, a usage true-up on month 18, and the actual renewal window opening on month 22 of a 24-month agreement. Each milestone has its own owner, alert cadence, and audit trail.