Generate employee contract with Airtable

Creating an employee contract can be tedious for micro-business owners and small businesses. It requires a template and filling the template with the correct data.

It can be annoying. Today, I will show you how to implement a process to automatically generate employee contracts in PDF thanks to Airtable and Typeflow.us.

Why should I use Airtable to employee invoices?

Building an employee contract system with Airtable is relevant because it offers efficiency, organization, and flexibility. Here’s why:

- Centralized Repository

Airtable acts as a single source of truth for employee data, contract details, and related documents, making it easy to organize and access.

- Automation

Use Airtable automation to send contract reminders (e.g., renewal or expiration) and follow-ups, ensuring compliance and timeliness.

- Dynamic Document Generation

With integrations (e.g., Google Docs or Typeflow), you can use Airtable data to generate personalized contracts automatically, reducing manual effort.

Setting up the Airtable base

You can use the Airtable base we prepared for you. You will have a table for your employees.

This template includes all the necessary fields and structure to manage your invoices effectively:

  • A table for your employees
  • Integrates all the fields needed to generate employee contract properly
  • You have an attachment field for the future invoices generated.
  • You can also find a button field to generate PDFs.

Setting Up Typeflow

You can use this employee contract template from Typeflow.us.

It has all the variables to generate an an employee contract. Of course, feel free to adapt it.

Then, you can map the data between the Airtable fields and the Google Docs variable.

When done, you can import the link to the button field. Now, click the button whenever you want to generate PDFs for specific user.

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Going further with Airtable Automation

It's also possible to generate PDFs automatically, thanks to automation.

  1. Go to automation
  2. Select one trigger to run your automation.
  3. Select Run a script
  4. Past the script from Typeflow (from automation Script).
  5. Create a variable named record_id() with the value Airtable Record ID on the left side.
  6. Then you can run whatever you want as the next step, like emailing.

Try to generate a PDF

Just try our product by filling this form. You will receive by email a - fake - employee contract generated by Typeflow based on the data you give.