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A contractual obligation is a commitment that a party has made in the contract and must perform: delivering, meeting a service level, submitting a report, providing a certificate, undergoing an audit, paying by a given date. Since the 2016 reform, Article 1103 of the French Civil Code provides that lawfully formed contracts have the force of law for those who made them, and non-performance gives the creditor access to the remedies under Article 1217. Depending on its wording, the obligation is one of means or one of result, which changes what must be proven.

In Pactolane, you create an obligation from the obligation manager by choosing the contract, the type, the due date, a description, the status and the person responsible. The table gathers all the obligations in the portfolio; you mark them as completed as you go, and those whose date has passed automatically get the “overdue” badge. The overview counts obligations by status and can be filtered by contract or by counterparty.

PactAI identifies the obligations in a contract when you run the obligation analysis on it: it lists the commitments the contract contains and indicates which party is responsible for each. You review this list, choose the obligations to track and record them with their owner and date. PactAI speeds up the inventory; the decision to track, and the check against the text, remain yours. PactAI is available on the Growth and Scale plans. Learn more about PactAI.

In Pactolane, an obligation is a commitment to be performed, carried by a person responsible and tracked with a status; a deadline is a contract date (renewal, end, notice, milestone) that triggers reminders. The two complement each other: for an obligation whose date is critical, also record a deadline with reminders at D-30, D-7 or D-1. Learn more about deadline and renewal tracking.

In Pactolane, you track a supplier's obligations by filtering the overview on that counterparty: you see at once its pending, in-progress, completed and overdue obligations, across all its contracts. That's the basis of a supplier review. For a service provider or subcontractor, from €5,000 excl. VAT, the URSSAF vigilance certificate is one of the documents to request when the contract is concluded and then every six months until performance ends (Articles L. 8222-1, R. 8222-1 and D. 8222-5 of the French Labor Code): record each expected renewal as an obligation, with its date and owner. To organize this tracking across your whole supplier base, see the page on Pactolane for procurement teams.

Pactolane's obligation tracking is included in the Growth (€499 per month excl. VAT, 14-day free trial) and Scale (from €2,500 per month excl. VAT) plans. These plans also include deadline tracking with alerts, PactAI and contract families. Full details are on our pricing page.