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Terms of Service
These Terms explain how you may use ScopeDue to create client approval links, record priced change requests, track payment status history, manage handoff conditions, upload proof, and export Proof Packs. Please read these Terms before creating an account, sending client links, or using ScopeDue for billing-related records.
Plain-language summary
ScopeDue helps freelancers and small service providers create a clear business record of approvals, payment events, and handoff decisions. It does not provide legal, tax, accounting, debt collection, or payment processing advice. Your contracts, client relationships, payment methods, and professional obligations remain your responsibility.
What these terms cover
Using ScopeDue responsibly
Approval records
ScopeDue lets you document what changed, what it costs, whether the client approved it, and whether payment is required before work or handoff.
Payment status records
Clients may mark a payment as sent and upload proof. The freelancer is responsible for checking their own payment account and confirming receipt.
Proof Packs
A Proof Pack is a record export for approvals, payment history, receipt references, notes, and handoff events. It is a business record, not a legal outcome guarantee.
1. Agreement
Acceptance of these Terms
By accessing or using ScopeDue, you agree to these Terms of Service and any additional terms shown inside the product, on the pricing page, or during checkout. If you use ScopeDue for a business, freelance practice, studio, or organization, you represent that you have authority to use the service for that organization.
If you do not agree with these Terms, do not use ScopeDue, create approval links, upload client files, or invite clients to interact with your workspace.
2. Service purpose
What ScopeDue is for
ScopeDue is a client change approval and payment proof workspace for freelancers, solo studios, and small service providers. It is designed to help you keep client changes professional by creating clear records before work continues.
- Create a priced change request when a client asks for extra work.
- Send a client approval link with the request, price, timeline impact, and payment requirement.
- Track payment status history, including payment requested, client marked paid, proof uploaded, and freelancer confirmed received.
- Record whether work, source file release, or final handoff is locked until payment is confirmed.
- Export a Proof Pack for your business records.
3. Accounts and workspaces
Your account responsibilities
4. Client approval links
Rules for approval links and client pages
Approval links are meant to give clients a simple way to review a priced change request, approve or decline, ask a question, and understand what happens next. They should not be used to mislead clients, hide material terms, impersonate another person, or pressure a client into approving work they do not understand.
| Area | Your responsibility | ScopeDue record |
|---|---|---|
| Change description | Describe the additional work clearly and honestly. | Request title, description, price, and timeline impact. |
| Client approval | Use approval links for real client decisions, not fake approvals or misleading records. | Approval, decline, question, viewed, and related event history. |
| Payment requirement | Tell the client when payment is required before work, revision, source file release, or handoff. | Payment required before work or payment required before handoff status. |
| Private information | Avoid putting sensitive information in public-facing descriptions or messages. | Client-facing records and internal notes, depending on your settings. |
5. Payment status history
Payment records are not payment processing
ScopeDue may help you track a payment item connected to a change request, milestone, source file release, extra revision, final payment, or handoff condition. Unless a separate payment integration is clearly provided, ScopeDue does not move money, process card payments, hold funds, guarantee collection, or confirm money has reached your account.
Payment requested
You request payment for a billable change, revision, milestone, or final handoff condition.
Client marked paid
The client may mark payment as sent and upload payment proof. This does not mean ScopeDue or the freelancer has confirmed receipt.
Freelancer confirmed received
Only the freelancer can confirm that payment was actually received. Approved but unpaid does not mean ready to work when payment is required before work.
Core product rule
When you set a change request to require payment before work or handoff, ScopeDue is designed to help you keep the record clear: client approval and client marked paid are not the same as freelancer-confirmed payment.
6. Files, uploads, and proof
Files and Proof Packs
You may upload or reference files as part of a change request, payment event, receipt/proof record, source file release request, or Proof Pack. You represent that you have the rights and permissions needed to upload, store, use, and share those files through ScopeDue.
Do not upload
- Files you do not have permission to use.
- Malware, harmful code, or deceptive files.
- Unnecessary sensitive personal information.
- Content that violates another person’s rights.
Proof Pack limits
A Proof Pack can help organize your approval trail, payment status history, handoff status, and business record. It does not guarantee that a client, court, platform, payment provider, or other third party will accept your record or resolve a dispute in your favor.
7. Billing and subscriptions
Paid plans, trials, and billing terms
If ScopeDue offers paid plans, trials, usage limits, or subscription billing, the current plan details will be shown on the pricing page or during checkout. You agree to pay the fees shown when you subscribe, upgrade, renew, or purchase a paid feature.
Subscription access, cancellation, renewal, refund, and billing-provider rules may depend on the plan and checkout flow presented at the time of purchase. Do not rely on an old screenshot, cached page, draft plan, or third-party summary as the current billing terms.
8. Acceptable use
What you may not do
- Use ScopeDue to create false approvals, fake payment proof, fake receipts, or misleading Proof Packs.
- Use approval links to harass, threaten, deceive, or impersonate another person.
- Use ScopeDue as a substitute for legal, tax, accounting, debt collection, or regulated professional advice.
- Attempt to bypass authentication, access another workspace, scrape private pages, or interfere with service availability.
- Upload malware, spam, illegal content, or content that violates intellectual property, privacy, or publicity rights.
- Publicly expose private client, project, approval, payment, file, or Proof Pack URLs without appropriate permission.
9. Content and ownership
Your content remains your responsibility
You keep the rights you have in the content you add to ScopeDue, including project descriptions, change request text, client messages, files, notes, payment proof references, and Proof Pack exports. You grant ScopeDue the limited permission needed to host, display, process, store, secure, transmit, export, and support that content so the service can operate.
You are responsible for making sure your content is accurate, lawful, and appropriate for the clients and projects involved.
10. Privacy and security
Privacy, security, and private pages
ScopeDue is built around records that may involve clients, projects, payments, files, and business decisions. Public SEO pages may be indexed, but private app dashboards, client-specific project pages, private approval links, and user-specific Proof Packs should not be treated as public marketing pages.
Read the Privacy Policy to understand how personal information may be handled, the Cookie Policy if cookies or analytics are used, and the security approach for plain-language information about account access, approval links, uploads, and private routes.
11. Availability and changes
Service availability, updates, and support
ScopeDue may change, improve, limit, suspend, or discontinue parts of the service over time. Features may vary by plan, workspace, beta status, region, or product stage. We may also update these Terms when the product, billing model, legal requirements, or service operation changes.
If something is not working, check the status page or contact support through the contact page.
12. Disclaimers
No legal, tax, accounting, or payment guarantee
ScopeDue helps create a clear business record of approvals, payment events, and handoff decisions. It is not a substitute for legal, tax, accounting, payment processing, debt collection, or professional advice.
ScopeDue does not guarantee that a client will approve work, pay an invoice, accept a change request, release a dispute, or treat a Proof Pack as conclusive evidence. You are responsible for your contracts, client communications, pricing, tax records, accounting records, and payment collection practices.
For product boundaries and safe expectations, read the Legal Disclaimer.
13. Limitation of liability
Business decisions remain yours
To the extent permitted by law, ScopeDue is not responsible for lost profits, lost revenue, lost clients, unpaid invoices, failed collections, rejected proof records, payment provider delays, client disputes, project delays, data you enter incorrectly, or business decisions you make based on your use of the service.
Some jurisdictions do not allow certain limitations, so parts of this section may not apply to you. This page should be reviewed by qualified counsel before public launch and billing activation.
14. Suspension and termination
Ending or limiting access
You may stop using ScopeDue at any time. ScopeDue may limit, suspend, or terminate access if an account violates these Terms, creates security risk, uses the service abusively, fails to pay required fees, or creates operational or legal risk for the service or other users.
Where practical, you should export important business records and Proof Packs before closing an account or deleting workspace data.
15. Contact
Questions about these Terms
For questions about these Terms, billing, account access, privacy, security, or product limits, contact ScopeDue through the contact page. Include your workspace email, the related project or approval link if relevant, and a short description of the issue.
Before signup or billing
Read the terms, then create clear records
These Terms are here to set expectations before you use ScopeDue for client approvals, payment status records, handoff rules, and Proof Packs. When you are ready, use ScopeDue to create a clear record before the work continues.