# Agreements

Agreements are used for two purposes: 

1. **Loyalty program terms:** Display terms and conditions that customers must agree to in order to participate in your loyalty program.
2. **Referral offer terms:** Present terms that referred prospects must agree to before claiming a [referral offer](https://docs.perkville.com/features/settings/advanced/broken-reference). This includes requirements such as opting into text message marketing.

## **Accessing agreements**

Business administrators can access the Agreements feature from the Dashboard by navigating to "Settings" in the left navigation, then selecting "Agreements" on the subsequent page.

**Key features and functionality**

* **Tracking Versions:** Agreements track all agreement versions, ensuring compliance history is maintained. When a customer agrees to an agreement, we capture:
  * Version agreed to
  * Customer's name at the time of agreement
  * Customer's email address at the time of agreement
  * Customer's IP address

## **Creating agreements**

1. Click on the "Create an agreement" button.
2. Fill in the following fields:
   * **Internal name:** Used for internal identification purposes.
   * **Agreement text:** This is the text that customers or prospects will agree to. You can include hyperlinks using the provided format.
   * **Version:** Assign a human-readable version to the agreement (e.g. v1.0).
   * **Applicable referral offers:** Associate the agreement with specific referral offers.
   * **Display to users when they join?:** Toggle to display the agreement when users join the loyalty program.
   * **Active:** Toggle to activate or deactivate the agreement.
   * **Required:** Toggle to make the agreement mandatory or optional.

The customer profile will display the agreements a customer has agreed to.