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Paecto vs Excel — Smart Contract Manager vs Manual Spreadsheet

A spreadsheet can list your contracts. It can't read your PDFs, alert you on WhatsApp, or tell you which contracts are at risk.

Stop maintaining a spreadsheet. Let Paecto do it — automatically.
Feature
Paecto
Excel / Sheets
Store contract list
Automatic renewal alerts
AI data extraction from PDFs
WhatsApp AI assistant
Cancellation deadline tracking
Protection Score
Document attachment
Manual
Subscription manager
Manual
Calendar export (.ics)
Provider directory
No maintenance required
CSV import
GDPR export
Manual
Mobile access
Partial

Scenario: you've been tracking contracts in a spreadsheet for years

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Paecto

Import your existing CSV in one click. Paecto maps the columns and enriches your data automatically.

Excel / Sheets

The spreadsheet keeps working — until a colleague breaks a formula or you forget to update it.

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Paecto

Add a new contract: upload the PDF. AI fills all fields in 10 seconds. No typing.

Excel / Sheets

New contract: open spreadsheet, add a row, type everything manually. 15 minutes minimum.

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Paecto

Automatic WhatsApp + email alerts 90, 30, 15 and 7 days before each deadline.

Excel / Sheets

You'd need a macro, a script or a reminder system built from scratch. Or you just forget.

Paecto

Everything is always up to date. Your whole contract history in one place, always accurate.

Excel / Sheets

The spreadsheet drifts. Old rows are never deleted. Nobody trusts the data anymore.

Who switches from Excel to Paecto

Spreadsheets work — until they don't. Here are three setups where the gap shows up fast.

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Self-employed with a dozen contracts

Insurance, internet, leasing, software subscriptions. Your spreadsheet has the prices but nobody warns you the day before a renewal. Paecto reads each PDF, surfaces the cancellation deadline, and pings you 90/30/7 days before.

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Small company tracking supplier contracts

Five colleagues edit the same file, formulas break, the latest version is on someone's laptop. Paecto gives every team member proper access with roles, an audit log of every change, and a shared provider directory — no more 'who has the final version?'

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Property manager with a multi-asset portfolio

Tenant lease, PNO insurance, boiler maintenance, syndic charges — multiplied by 15 units. A spreadsheet collapses; Paecto links each contract to the right property, exposes a search bar that finds anything in 200 ms, and produces an iCal feed your team can subscribe to.

Migrate from Excel in 3 minutes

You don't need to redo months of work. Paecto reads your spreadsheet, maps the columns, and keeps the rows you've already typed.

  1. 1

    Export your sheet as CSV

    1 min

    File → Download → Comma-separated values. Any column structure works — Paecto matches by content, not by header name.

  2. 2

    Drop the CSV into Paecto

    1 min

    Paecto auto-detects which columns map to provider, dates, amounts, and asset. Review the preview, fix anything it guessed wrong.

  3. 3

    Turn on the alerts

    1 min

    Pick the notification channels (email, WhatsApp), pick how many days before expiry you want to be warned, hit save. Done.

Why people switch from spreadsheets to Paecto

Your spreadsheet won't send you a WhatsApp alert when a contract is about to expire — Paecto does.

Entering contract data manually takes 20 minutes. Paecto's AI extracts everything in 10 seconds from a PDF.

A spreadsheet can't read your documents or answer 'when does my home insurance expire?'

No protection score, no risk overview — just rows and columns with no intelligence.

Spreadsheets break when colleagues edit them. Paecto handles multi-user access cleanly.

Import your existing CSV into Paecto in one click — migration takes less than a minute.