Settings
These three numbers decide what the register calls urgent. They are not cosmetic — every deadline on every screen is recomputed from them.
Reference data
The values every dropdown in the register offers. Departments are a list. Statuses and renewal types are behavior, so a custom one is your wording mapped onto something the engine already knows how to compute.
Departments
Used to scope what a department manager can see, so this list is also an access-control list. Retiring one hides it from the pickers but never deletes it — contracts already reference it by name.
Lifecycle statuses
A status is not just a label — it decides which actions are legal. You cannot terminate something that was never executed. So a custom status is your wording mapped onto a behavior the engine already understands: call it “Pending Legal Review” and have it behave like in-negotiation, and the register keeps computing correctly.
No custom statuses yet.
Renewal types
These decide arithmetic, not wording. Automatic and evergreen roll the term forward; manual and fixed-end do not. A custom type borrows one of those four behaviors, so every deadline stays computable no matter what you call it.
No custom renewal types yet.