Compare contracts and drafts

The draft goes to the other side and comes back with changes. Sometimes it comes back with Track Changes on; often it doesn't, or some changes were made with it off. In Verso, you drop the version you sent and the one you received and see, side by side, every word that came in or went out, without relying on what the other side marked.

What you can check

• The draft that came back against the one you sent, clause by clause.
• The signed PDF contract against the last approved Word draft, to know whether the text that was signed is the text that was negotiated.
• Two versions of a template, to see what changed in your firm's standard.

How a change shows up

The previous version sits on the left and the new one on the right. A word that came in shows in green, one that went out in red. A clause that changed position shows as moved, not as deleted in one place and written in another. Formatting doesn't count: changed bold, fonts and margins don't become differences, and neither do the quotes and dashes swapped by autocorrect.

Each block of changes comes with the paragraph before and the one after, in gray, so you read the change in the context of the clause.

Confidentiality: the contract never leaves your computer

The file is read and compared inside the browser. Verso's server only handles sign-in and the license, and has no address that accepts a file. The page declares a Content-Security-Policy that stops the browser from connecting to any other domain, and loads no third-party script. You can check it in your browser's Network tab, as the FAQ entry on this shows.

Limits

• Verso shows the text difference. The legal reading of it is still yours.
• With PDFs, the comparison is a reconstruction of the text, and the screen says so. Check the passages it points out. A scanned PDF, with no text, needs OCR first. The details are in compare PDFs.