Account setup & administration

Everything under Settings — your own profile and password, the workspace-wide defaults your admins set, branding, the emails Pishik sends on your behalf, and the guardrails your workspace runs inside.

Your profile: name, photo, and password

Your profile is yours to edit — no admin role required. It lives at Settings → Your profile, and your name and photo are what teammates see on the Team board, on dashboards, and in the activity log.

Update your name and photo

  1. Open Settings → Your profile.
  2. Under Profile photo, choose Upload photo (or Replace). Pick a PNG or JPG — Pishik crops it to a square automatically. Remove clears it back to your initials.
  3. Edit Your name — this is how you appear to teammates and in the activity log.
  4. Press Save profile. The button stays disabled until you've actually changed something.

The Account row shows your sign-in email and role for reference. You can't change either yourself — roles are managed by an admin under Settings → Team & users.

Change your password

Every member can change their own password, in the same tab:

  1. In Settings → Your profile, scroll to the Security section and press Change password.
  2. Enter your current password, then a new password of at least 8 characters (your admin can require a longer minimum), and confirm it.
  3. Press Change password.
Changing your password signs you out on every other device — a good habit if you think a session was left open somewhere. Your current session stays active. For how password resets and 2FA affect other sessions, see Sessions and sign-out.

The same Security section is where you turn on two-factor authentication. The full walk-through — QR enrollment, backup codes, and recovery — lives in Set up two-factor authentication.

Common questions

  • I forgot my current password. Use the password-reset link on the sign-in screen instead — see Can't sign in. An admin can also send you a reset from Team & users.
  • My email or role is greyed out. That's expected — only an admin can change roles, and sign-in email changes go through support.

Workspace defaults vs. your personal preferences

Pishik has two layers of settings, and it helps to know which is which:

  • Workspace defaults apply to everyone who hasn't chosen otherwise. Admins set them at Settings → Preferences.
  • Personal preferences are yours alone. Anyone can set them at Settings → Your profile, in the Personal preferences section. Where both exist, your setting wins for you and for the contracts you own.
SettingWorkspace default (admin)Your personal override
Default view (which screen Pishik opens on)Preferences → Default view: Board, Dashboard, or SentYes — Your profile
Default contract typePreferences → Default contract typeYes — Your profile
Email when a teammate @mentions youPreferences → Email people when @mentionedYes — Your profile (Email me when I'm @mentioned)
Automatic reviewer remindersPreferences → Automatic remindersYes — see automatic reminders
Reply-to address for your mailCompany → Reply-to emailYes, unless enforced — see branding
Overdue after (days without a decision)Preferences → Overdue after (default 5 days)No — workspace-wide only
Confirm before deletingPreferences → Confirm before deletingNo — workspace-wide only

Set your own preferences

  1. Open Settings → Your profile and scroll to Personal preferences.
  2. Pick a Default view, a Default contract type, and whether Pishik should email you when you're @mentioned. Each dropdown's first option is "Workspace default", which hands the choice back to your admin's setting.
  3. Press Save preferences. They apply to everything you do from then on.

Set the workspace defaults

You need: an admin or owner role. Open Settings → Preferences and set Default view, Default contract type, Email people when @mentioned, Overdue after, and Confirm before deleting. A pending review is flagged overdue on the board, dashboard, and flow map once it passes the Overdue after threshold without a decision.

In-app notifications for @mentions always appear regardless of the email setting — the toggle only controls whether Pishik also sends an email. The mention system itself is covered in Comments and @mentions.

Company branding: logo, name, and reply-to

You need: an admin or owner role. Branding lives at Settings → Company and shapes what reviewers see: your identity on every email and on the decision page they land on.

  1. Company logo — press Upload logo and choose a PNG, JPG, or SVG (PNG with transparency works best). Pishik auto-resizes it for email. It appears in the app sidebar, on the sign-in screen, and at the top of every review email.
  2. Company name — used in review emails, and shown in place of the logo when none is set.
  3. Reply-to email — the workspace default. When a reviewer replies to a Pishik email, their reply lands here (for example, contracts@yourcompany.com).
  4. Workspace URL is shown for reference — reviewer approve/reject links live at this address. It isn't editable here.

Whose reply-to wins

By default, replies go to your team's reply-to address — but each member can point replies to their own inbox from Settings → Your profile → Reply-to email. If you'd rather everyone use one company-wide address, turn on Require this reply-to for everyone in the Company tab. Members' personal reply-to fields then lock and show Set by admin.

A reply-to that isn't a valid email address means replies are lost. Pishik flags a malformed address inline, and you can't switch on Require this reply-to for everyone until a valid address is saved.

Which email service actually delivers the mail — Microsoft 365, Azure Communication Services, or your own SMTP — is a separate topic; see Send email from your own domain.

Customize the emails Pishik sends

You need: an admin or owner role. Compose every email your workspace sends at Settings → Email content. A live preview on the right updates as you type, so you always see what a recipient will get.

Shared across every email

Three blocks appear on all outbound mail — review requests, reminders, and status updates alike:

  • Email signature — signs off every email, above the clause.
  • Confidentiality / privilege clause — fine print at the foot of every email.
  • Email subject prefix — prepended to every subject (up to 40 characters) so recipients can filter their inbox, e.g. [Contract Review].

The signature and clause are rich text; Pishik sanitizes the HTML before sending.

Per-email-type messages

Below the shared blocks, three sub-tabs each carry their own message and preview:

  • ReviewerReviewer instructions, shown in every review-request email and on the reviewer's decision page.
  • Reminder → the Reminder message sent when a reviewer is nudged.
  • Status → the Status message intro line, plus Default contents that decide how much a status email reveals.

Under Default contents you choose how much of the flow to show — Whole review flow, Where it is now, or General status only — and toggle individual details: Reviewer names, Approve / reject outcomes, Decision dates, and What's coming up next. These are defaults; you can override any of them per send from a contract — handy for hiding reviewer names from an external party. See Send a status update.

  1. Edit any field; watch the Live preview update.
  2. The header shows Unsaved changes until you press Save.
These are workspace-wide — there is one signature and one confidentiality clause shared by every email the team sends. Per-contract, personal touches happen when you send, not here.

Contract types and reviewer departments

You need: an admin or owner role. Two small lists keep your workspace tidy: the contract types people pick from, and the departments your reviewers are grouped by.

Contract types

Types appear in the Type dropdown when someone creates a contract. Manage them at Settings → Contract types:

  1. Add a type by typing a name (e.g. Lease, Partnership) and pressing Add. Duplicates are rejected.
  2. Reorder with the move-up / move-down arrows — the order here is the order of the dropdown.
  3. Remove a type with the trash icon.
A type that's in use can't be removed — Pishik shows "In use by N contracts — can't remove". Reassign or archive those contracts first. To set which type is pre-selected on new contracts, use Preferences → Default contract type, not this screen.

Reviewer departments

Departments group your reviewer book. Manage them from Settings → Reviewers → Manage departments:

  1. Add a department by name.
  2. Rename one to update it everywhere — every reviewer in it moves with the change.
  3. Merge by renaming a department onto a name that already exists: Pishik asks to confirm, then moves all its reviewers into the target.
  4. Delete a department; its reviewers become Unassigned (nothing is lost).

Every change is recorded in a Recent changes log inside the dialog. Unassigned is a reserved name — you can't create a department called that. Adding reviewers themselves is covered in Add reviewers to your reviewer book.

Configure automatic reviewer reminders

Pishik can chase reviewers who haven't decided yet, so you don't have to. There are two places to set it — and, like other preferences, personal settings win for the contracts you own:

  • Workspace default (admin): Settings → Preferences → Automatic reminders.
  • Your own schedule (anyone): Settings → Your profile → Personal preferences → Automatic reminders.

Reminders always go out on the contract owner's schedule.

  1. Turn Automatic reminders on.
  2. Set Remind every N days — anywhere from 1 to 30.
  3. Set the cap: up to N reminders — from 1 to 10. This is the total number of automatic reminders each reviewer receives for a review; manual nudges don't count against it.
  4. Choose Send them at a time of day. Reminders go out on your local clock — Pishik records your timezone when you save.

What automatic reminders won't do

  • They only chase pending reviewers on contracts that are In Review with an active stage. A decided or draft contract is left alone.
  • They stop at your cap, and never double up on a reviewer within the same day.
  • The 45-day cutoff: once a review has sat silent for more than 45 days, automatic reminders stop for it. A review that quiet needs a human decision — resend it, reassign it, or revise & restart — not another robo-nudge. See Remind and resend and Handle a rejection.
Reminders aren't firing? Check that the contract is In Review, that a reviewer is still pending, that you haven't hit the reminder cap, and that the review is under 45 days old. You can always nudge manually — see Remind and resend.

Workspace limits: contracts, outbox, and saved paths

A Pishik workspace runs inside a few generous guardrails. You'll almost never meet them, but here they are in plain numbers:

WhatLimitWhat you see at the cap
Contracts per workspace5,000"Too many contracts."
Sent log (outbox) entries20,000"Outbox too large."
Saved review paths500"Too many saved paths."
Total workspace data2.5 MB"Workspace too large."

A couple of things worth knowing:

  • The 5,000-contract cap counts every contract in the workspace — active and archived alike. Archiving a finished contract to the Repository tidies your board but doesn't free a slot; to reclaim one you'd delete the contract.
  • The 2.5 MB size limit is metadata only — share links, workflow state, notes, and comments. Your actual documents never count against it, because they stay in your own storage (the share-link model).
  • These are not the beta's seat limit. Reviewers are unlimited and free; seats apply only to people who sign in, and are capped at 10 per workspace during the beta — see Seats and reviewers.
Pishik is not "unlimited contracts" — the ceiling is 5,000 per workspace. If you're genuinely approaching it, talk to us; we'd love to hear about the volume.