Contract statuses are used to check the progress of service contracts. A service contract can have various phases and can be handled by several people. Everyone must be able to check the progress of the service contract.
Contract statuses ensure that this progress information is always available. Possible contract statuses are: draft request, negotiation, etcetera. The use of service contract statuses is mandatory.
The status indicates the stage the service contract is in, i.e. 'Offer', 'Order', 'Actual costing' or 'History'. These statuses determine the processes you can run for the service contract. If a service contract or service contract version has an 'Order' or 'Actual costing' status, the service contract or service contract version is effective. In that case, the following processes can be run: