Beta Testing Agreement

Let customers or partners test pre-release software while protecting your confidential information, owning the feedback and limiting your liability.

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Guidance notes included
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Tech & SaaS

Beta Testing Agreement

About this document

What it’s for

An agreement between a software business and a business that will test a pre-release (beta) version of its product. It sets out what the tester can do with the beta, what feedback they will give, who owns that feedback, how confidential information and test data are protected, and that the beta comes without the usual warranties.

When to use it

  • Closed or private beta programmes with selected customers or partners
  • Early-access pilots before a commercial launch
  • User testing of a new feature or major release

What’s inside

The document is laid out in the sections below. Each one comes with a plain-English guidance note explaining what it does and what to change.

  1. Definitions and interpretation
  2. The beta programme
  3. Licence to use the Beta Product
  4. Tester’s obligations
  5. Restrictions
  6. Feedback and intellectual property
  7. Confidentiality and publicity
  8. Test Data, Usage Data and data protection
  9. Fees and incentives
  10. No warranty
  11. Limitation of liability
  12. Termination and end of the Beta Period
  13. General
  14. Governing law and jurisdiction

Also included

  • Test plan
  • Severity definitions

How to complete it

  • Complete the programme details in Schedule 1
  • Choose the feedback ownership option in clause 6
  • Decide whether testers may use real personal data (clause 8) – the safer default is no
  • Attach the bug report form in Schedule 2 to your testing instructions

Key points to check

  • Written for business testers – see the note in clause 1 if testers are consumers
  • Keep the beta separate from production systems and backed up

Our templates are professionally structured starting points for UK businesses, not legal advice. For anything complex, unusual or high-value, have your final version checked by a solicitor.

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