SaaS Service Level Agreement (Uptime and Support Schedule)

A service level schedule for software-as-a-service – availability commitment and how it is measured, planned maintenance, support response times, service credits, status reporting and exclusions – to attach to your SaaS terms.

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Guidance notes included
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Tech & SaaS

SaaS Service Level Agreement (Uptime and Support Schedule)

About this document

What it’s for

Business customers buying software-as-a-service want to know how reliable the service will be and what happens if it goes down. A service level agreement (SLA) sets a measurable availability target, explains how downtime is measured and what counts as an exclusion, and gives the customer service credits if the target is missed. This schedule is designed to sit alongside the SaaS Subscription Terms in this range.

When to use it

  • When selling SaaS to business customers, especially larger ones or those who rely on the service daily
  • When a customer asks for an uptime guarantee or service credits
  • When reviewing your hosting and support arrangements

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
  2. Availability commitment
  3. Measurement
  4. Service credits
  5. Support
  6. Status reporting and incidents
  7. Backups and recovery
  8. Customer responsibilities

Also included

  • Annex – Core functions

How to complete it

  • Set an availability percentage you can actually meet – check your hosting provider’s own SLA
  • Fill in your maintenance window, support hours and response targets
  • Decide the service credit levels and cap

Key points to check

  • 99.9% monthly availability allows only about 43 minutes of unplanned downtime a month
  • Make sure service credits are stated to be the customer’s sole remedy for missing the SLA, except for serious failures

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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