Dolphin User Types - Contracts
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Contracts created through Dolphin consists of different user types. It
is important to understand these differences.

In this article:

-  Differences of Dolphin Contract Users

**Differences of Dolphin contract users**

Contract Owner:

The abilities of the Contract Owner (denoted as Owned By in Dolphin) consist of:

-  Is the designated person responsible for the contract.
   
-  Can comment on internal and external spaces (automatically
   added) and needs no invitation to the collaboration space.

-  Recieves an alert when the contract is signed off.

-  Can be any user in Dolphin365 (Manager/Author/Reader).

Contract Manager:

The abilities of the Contract Manager (Denoted as Managed By in Dolphin) consist of:

-  Recieves alerts when Contract date change (end date/reminder date/renewal date) are made.

-  A Contract Manager can be a Dolphin365 Author or a Dolphin365 Manager.

-  Any Dolphin365 Manager or Author in the system can change the "state"
   of a contract except Readers.

-  The Contract Manager can only be changed by a Dolphin365 Manager or by
   himself.

Contract Creator:

-  This is only a text field to show the person who created the contract

**See Also:**

-  Comments
-  Alerts