# Certificate of insurance (COI) reminders

Source: https://contracko.com/contract-reminder-tools/certificate-of-insurance-reminder

# Certificate of insurance (COI) reminders

Extract vendor COI expiration dates, required coverage limits, additional-insured terms, and renewal-collection deadlines.

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Best for certificates of insurance, vendor insurance requirements, and the insurance clauses inside vendor or subcontractor agreements.

PDF or DOCX, up to 25 MB. One free extraction per day. No signup needed.

## Keep every vendor COI current

Contracko automatically identifies the deadlines and obligations in your contract and sets reminders for you.

Renewal dates

Auto-renewal triggers and the next term start.

Notice deadlines

The last safe day to act before a clause locks in.

Expiration dates

When the current term ends, with renewal context.

Obligations

Reports, certificates, approvals, and recurring tasks.

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## Reminder guidance for this contract type

### Tracking vendor COIs is a compliance job, not a calendar entry

A certificate of insurance proves a vendor carries the coverage your contract requires. The catch is that COIs expire, usually annually, and the vendor has no incentive to send you the renewal proactively. So the burden falls on you to chase it before the old one lapses. Let it slip and an uninsured subcontractor may keep working on your sites or systems, quietly transferring their risk onto you. Worse, your own customers and lenders often require you to evidence that every vendor is insured, so a stale COI becomes your compliance failure, not just the vendor's.

### The gap forms in the days before expiry

COI lapses are almost always a timing problem, not a coverage problem. The vendor renews their policy, but the certificate proving it sits on someone's desk while the old one on file expires. The fix is lead time: request the renewed certificate weeks before the current one ends, verify the limits and additional-insured wording still match the contract, and only then reset the clock. A reminder that triggers the collection well ahead of expiry, and escalates if the vendor is slow, is what closes the window where you are technically exposed.

## Quick answers

Short answers to the questions we get most about reminder extraction.

- **Q:** How does the certificate of insurance reminder work?
  **A:** Upload your vendor contract or a certificate of insurance as a PDF or DOCX. We run an AI extraction on the document, find the COI expiration date, the required coverage limits, additional-insured and endorsement terms, and the renewal-collection deadlines, and suggest reminder dates for each. You can then start a free Contracko trial to track everything automatically, or note the dates yourself.

- **Q:** How is this different from an insurance policy reminder?
  **A:** An insurance policy reminder tracks your own coverage. A COI reminder tracks other parties' proof of coverage, your vendors and subcontractors. The risk is different: you need their certificates current so an uninsured supplier never works on your behalf and so you can prove compliance to your own customers and lenders. The tool focuses on collecting and verifying those third-party certificates.

- **Q:** What happens after the extraction?
  **A:** You'll see a list of suggested reminders pulled from your document, each anchored to the clause it came from. From there you can start a free Contracko trial to track them automatically with email alerts and owner assignments, or just note the dates yourself.

- **Q:** Can it track COIs across many vendors?
  **A:** The free tool reads one document at a time. Teams managing dozens or hundreds of vendor certificates use a Contracko trial to keep every COI expiry and coverage requirement in one tracked view, with reminders to chase renewals before they lapse.

- **Q:** What happens to my contract after I upload it?
  **A:** Your document is transmitted over TLS encryption and processed by AI providers under terms that exclude training on your data. If you start a Contracko trial, the file moves into your private workspace and stays there.

## Other reminder pages

Each page is tuned to a different contract type or reminder job.

### [Free contract reminder tool](https://contracko.com/contract-reminder-tools/contract-reminder-tool)

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### [Performance bond expiration reminder](https://contracko.com/contract-reminder-tools/performance-bond-expiration-reminder)

### [Business license renewal reminder](https://contracko.com/contract-reminder-tools/business-license-renewal-reminder)

### [Vendor contract renewal reminder](https://contracko.com/contract-reminder-tools/vendor-contract-renewal-reminder)

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