Contract 26.1 Release Notes

This is a preview of the upcoming release. General release is available starting 02-MAR-2026

• Contract writer decimal precision – Value tags in Contract writer Microsoft Excel templates now support the full precision stored in the database. Excel has a limit of 15 digits, and you must stay within that range. Using the full decimal precision stored helps with accuracy when generated spreadsheets are used to create summations. Read more

  Excel removes any ending zeros after the decimal point.

  InEight recommends that you update your Excel templates and use the Excel Number format to specify the decimal places. To find the Number format, right-click in a cell and then select Format Cells. You can then select the Number category and update the Decimal places field.

• Master agreement associated contract types configuration – New configuration settings for both contract types and master agreements let you choose which master agreement types can be associated to a contract type. You can also restrict contract creation to master agreements. Read more

  Previously, a toggle in each contract type's configuration (organization Settings > Contract > Configurations > Contract type configuration setup) indicated whether association to a master agreement was allowed. Now, those settings have moved to the master agreement configuration.

  The Associated contract types section has been added to the Contact type configuration setup for a master agreement. This section lets you associate contract types to a specific master agreement. You can add any contract type that is not a master agreement to be associated with the master agreement.

  

  The Allow association to Master agreement toggle has been replaced with the Restrict creation to Master agreement association. When the toggle is set to Yes, the contract type can only be created through master agreement association. When the toggle is set to No, contracts can be created through the main register, imports, or bid packages.

  

  You can only add a new restricted contract through the Associations tab of the master agreement. When you add a new or existing contract to a master agreement, only contacts of the type listed in the master agreement are shown.

  For existing master agreements, the Associated contact types section of the master agreement configuration automatically shows any contract type that had the Allow association to Master agreement toggle set to Yes in the previous release.

• Associate a payment claim to a contract-level schedule of values – The option to add a payment claim has been added to the contract-level schedule of values register. Read more

  

  You can now click the Associate to schedule item icon and then select Payment claim. A dialog box opens and you can add a new payment claim. The payment claim is added to the Payment claims register, and the schedule of values is automatically associated.

• Placeholder Approval required settings for workflow and publishing – The setting for requiring approval for placeholder documents in workflow and publishing (organization Settings > Contract > Configurations > Contract type configuration setup > Define supporting documents requirements) are now configured separately. Previously, a single toggle switch controlled approval requirements. Read more

  

  If approval is required for workflow, it is automatically required for publishing.

• Automatically fill placeholder document upon generation – When you generate a template document for applicable document types, placeholder documents of that type are automatically filled. Read more

  If the Save in supporting documents tab toggle is set to Yes in the Generate contract template dialog box, the placeholder is automatically filled for the following document types:

  • Contract – Draft contract

  • Vendor change order – Draft change order

  • Payment form – Other

  • Payment claim – Other

• Add additional subtypes to Insurance document placeholders – You can now select multiple subtypes when you add an insurance document to fill a placeholder, so you do not have to add the same document for each applicable placeholder. Read more

  When you add an Insurance placeholder document, the Add another subtype icon now shows in the Edit supporting document dialog box.

  

• Recall invoice from a payment claim from the vendor payment claim invoice register – Vendors can now recall an invoice from the Payment claim invoice register. Previously, a pending invoice could only be recalled from the main Invoice register. Read more

  The Recall button has been added to the vendor payment claim Edit invoice dialog box for pending invoices.

  

• Resend vendor change order – If you have the Stop integration sync permission, you can now resend an executed vendor change order. Resending the vendor change order lets you resend the VCO via API in case of a communication failure with the ERP system without resending the entire contract. Read more

  The Resend Vendor change order (Request) button has been added to the contract-level Vendor Change order log. The button is enabled for executed vendor change orders only.

  

  In Administrative notes for the vendor change order, it shows that the vendor change order was resubmitted.

• Certification values reflect Summary progress value – When you associate a contract schedule of values to a payment claim, the Summary progress values of the selected contract’s schedule of values automatically populate the Certified section of the payment claim schedule of values. If a date filter was applied at the time of associating, only the values within the date range show.

• Additional details added to the payment form auto submission failure notification – The email notification sent when a payment form auto submission fails now includes all reasons the submission failed, so you can quickly see the items that need to be corrected.

• Released to date total on Contract register – A total has been added to the Released to date on the Contract register, so you can quickly see the total for all contracts. Read more

  

• New tag for contract retention net withheld to date – The new <<Contract retention net withheld to date>> general tag shows the sum of the total retention withheld, less the total retention release requested on all payment forms for the selected contract.