How to Customize Your Contract Text

Replace the default contract body on your Contract PDF with your own rich-text legal language.

Written By Dennis Rodin

Last updated 17 days ago

If you have your own contract wording (custom legal clauses, regional language requirements, or just a different tone) you can override the default MonuDesk contract body with your own text. Find it in Settings → Documents.

How it works

Type or paste your contract body into the custom contract text editor and click Save. This is a rich-text editor, so you can apply formatting like bold, italics, headings, and lists right in the field. From that point on, every Contract PDF you generate uses your custom text instead of the default MonuDesk contract body.

If the editor is empty, the Contract PDF falls back to the built-in default contract body. Clearing the editor later returns you to the default.

What it changes

Your custom text replaces only the body of the Contract PDF. Everything else stays the same:

  • Order header, customer info, and decedent info stay unchanged.

  • Line items, totals, and payment summary stay unchanged.

  • The signature block at the bottom stays unchanged.

Only the contract clauses in the middle of the document are swapped.

This change does not affect Quote PDFs, Invoice PDFs, Receipt PDFs, or Shop Tickets. It applies to the Contract PDF only.

Tips

  • You can paste from a Word document and your formatting comes along, since the field is a rich-text editor. Bold, italics, line breaks, and paragraph breaks are preserved.

  • To go back to the default at any time, just clear the editor and save.

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