Over the years, many types of contracts have been developed to govern the relationship between workers and employers. All these contracts have been created to provide flexibility for the parties involved. Additionally, the primary function of an agreement is to provide a legal framework for all the parties involved.
One such type of contract is the independent contractor agreement. With the rise of remote work and freelancing, the use of independent contractors has sharply increased within the United States of America.
Definition
An independent contractor agreement is a type of contract that defines the terms of an agreement between an organization and a freelancer. Within this document, all requirements between the employer and the employee are stipulated. Typically, an independent contractor agreement can be referred to as a freelance agreement or consulting contract.
Features of an Independent Contractor Agreement
This type of contract has many features. These features include fields and terms of the agreement. Some of the features are described below.
- All information about the contractor and the company hiring them is included in the agreement. Such information includes names, contact information, and addresses of the parties.
- The contract contains the fields for the two parties to sign either digitally or physically.
- The validity time of the agreement is specified in the document. If the project has deadlines for the delivery of milestones, this information is usually written.
- Within this document, details of the type of work are stipulated. Likewise, the expectation for each party is clearly stated.
- The date when the contract began must be stated.
- An independent contractor agreement must contain the amount of money the contractor will be paid when the contract ends or when milestones are completed. The type of compensation could be hourly or fixed.
- To include a bit of flexibility, the parties may decide to include a choice to terminate the contract before the date it expires.
- Where applicable, a non-disclosure agreement must be signed between the company and freelancer. This document is a separate document that is signed by the parties. However, reference must be made to it within the main agreement.
- Other laws that are specific to a state or county are included in the document.
Independent Contractor Agreement form – Guide
In this tutorial, we will show you how to fill out the Independent Contractor Agreement form using Postman. We prepared a screenshot of the sample document.
Step 1: Open Postman Workspace
First, you will open the Postman workspace to perform the operation.
You can check out our Postman tutorial to help you set up the PDF.co Postman Collection.
Step 2: PDF Fill PDF Forms and Configurations
In this step under the Collections, select the PDF Filler PDF Forms to fill out the PDF document. Then, choose the POST /pdf/edit/add (with simplified params) to fill out the URL and the field string.
You may now press the Send button to see the result. Copy and paste the URL to view the output.
Here is the cURL Code Snippet of the PDF Filler PDF Forms.
curl --location --request POST 'https://api.pdf.co/v1/pdf/edit/add' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--header 'x-api-key: your-api-key' \
--data-raw '{
"async": false,
"encrypt": false,
"name": "Independent Contractor Agreement",
"url": "https://drive.google.com/file/d/10LvQHZj8pgK-pebUHXFLbEuNGo6kOvSp/view?usp=sharing",
"fieldsString": "0;Client;John A. Doe|0;Mailin
g Address;Babag|0;City;Lapu-lapu|0;State;Cebu|0;Contractor;Doe John|0;Contractor Address;Umapad|0;Contractor City;Mandaue|0;Contractor State;Cebu"
}'
Step 3: Postman Output
Here is the output of a PDF document that we successfully processed.
In this tutorial, you learned how to fill out the Independent Contract Agreement form using Postman. You also learned how to use the PDF Fill PDF Forms to fill out a PDF Document.
