Pactbound

Free handover document generator

Answer the questions below and download a complete handover document as a PDF. Free, no account, and nothing you type is sent anywhere.

It covers the seven things a handover needs: scope, systems and access, current state, known issues, in-flight work, contacts, and a sign-off block. If you want the reasoning behind each section, that is in what belongs in a handover document.

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The PDF is built in your browser. There is no upload, no account, and no copy on our servers. A tool that asks for your client's systems and unpatched issues has no business collecting them.

1. Scope

2. Systems and access

Never put passwords in a handover document. Name the system and how access moves.

3. Known issues

The section that decides who pays when something surfaces later. Write it with severity attached.

4. In-flight work

5. Contacts and dependencies

0 systems, 0 disclosed issues, 0 in-flight items, 0 contacts.

What this does not do

It produces the document. It does not establish that the other side received it, which is the part that gets disputed. Your copy is a file with a modification date you control, sent through a mail server you control, and a signature on the last page records that someone signed a page rather than what was in front of them when they did.

Closing that gap needs three things the document cannot supply on its own: a hash fixing the contents at the moment they were sent, an acknowledgement naming each disclosed issue and tied to a person, and a timestamp neither party controls. Pactbound does that, and the free tier covers five sign-offs a month.