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Engagement letters that do not live in three inboxes

8 July 20265 min read

The three-inbox problem

Partner inbox: "signed engagement attached". Practice inbox: "please confirm scope". Client inbox: "what am I signing?". Nobody is sure which version is current. That is a professional indemnity footnote waiting to happen.

Single-system engagement flow

Pull client details from onboarding. Generate letter from approved template with service scope and fee basis. Send for acceptance via portal or tracked email. Signed copy lands in document vault on the client record with timestamp and signer.

Staff should see engagement status before they open the job — green means go, grey means chase, red means stop.

Templates with discipline

Version templates centrally. Ban local Word copies. Review annually and when services change — MTD scope, payroll bureau, advisory lines. One source of truth, always.

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