Note: Officials accounts are not available on the Bound mobile app at this time.
Once you are sent a contract for an event or series of events, they will show up right on your officials page. Contracts will show up as events on your calendar, and you can see all of your contracts in the Contracts window:
You can filter by All, Pending, Active, Declined, or Turned Back. Select the calendar icon to change the date range filter.
Accept a Contract
When a contract appears in Contracts, it will show Pending next to 'Contract Status' before you accept:
Click Complete Contract.
Signee name and email are pre-filled with your details. In most cases, you will not touch these fields.
Scroll down to review the Contract Details. The Contract Details appear after the ACCEPT/DECLINE buttons.
Contract Details includes: The game you're getting assigned to, mileage/route information, and compensation.
Click the green ACCEPT AGREEMENT button.
Accepted contracts will change to Accepted next to 'Contract Status', and can be viewed at any time in Contracts.
Decline a Contract
To decline a contract, simply click the red DECLINE AGREEMENT button instead. Enter a reason for declining, then click Submit.
Declined contracts will change to Declined next to 'Contract Status', and can be viewed at any time in Contracts.
Affirm Updated Pay
If the pay on a contract changes after you accept it, Bound asks you to review and affirm the new amount. The contract stays Accepted the whole time. You are confirming the money, not the assignment.
A contract waiting on you shows a Pay Affirmation Required badge next to Accepted in your contract list, along with an Affirm Pay button.
Note: You also receive an email when a contract needs your affirmation, so you do not have to watch your contract list for the badge.
In your contract list, find the contract marked Pay Affirmation Required and click Affirm Pay.
Review the PAY UPDATE - AFFIRMATION REQUIRED banner at the top of the screen. It names the old and the new amount, for example "Contract fee changed from $100.00 to $120.00."
Check the Official, Updated Compensation, and Signed fields.
Read the attestation: "By clicking affirm on this change, I, [Official Name], attest to reviewing and accepting the updated payment as listed on this contract."
Click AFFIRM UPDATED PAY.
A Pay affirmed banner appears and the badge clears from your contract list.
Note: Your contract status stays Accepted before and after you affirm. Affirming does not re-accept the contract or change your assignment.
Turn Back a Contract
Turning Back a contract is withdrawing from a competition after you have already accepted a contract. This should only be done in after communicating with the assignor that sent you the contract.
Example: the Bound system allows you to Turn Back a contract 24 hours before an event, but it goes against the assignor's policies on officiating.
Always verify with the assignor before turning back a contract.
Go to Contracts. Click the red Turn Back button on the contract you want to cancel.
Click the red CLICK TO TURN BACK AGREEMENT button.
A disclaimer will pop up. Type the reason you are turning back the contract in the box where it says Enter your reason.
Once you have entered a reason and confirmed you would like to back out of the competition, click Confirm Turn Back.
The assignor will be notified immediately once you click Confirm Turn Back.