2. Offer and Acceptance
Offers, invitations, revocation, counter-offers, acceptance, communication, postal rules, tenders and electronic contracting.
How to study the CPQ Foundation stage
Prepare each separately assessed component on its own terms, then connect law, regulation, client service and research across the full stage.
Core concepts
Concept 1
An offer shows willingness to contract on defined terms if accepted; an invitation invites offers.
Exam cue: Place each communication on a timeline.
Concept 2
Acceptance must correspond to the offer and generally be communicated by an authorised method.
Exam cue: Distinguish request for information from counter-offer.
Concept 3
Revocation, lapse, counter-offer and special communication rules determine whether agreement formed.
Exam cue: Check prescribed method, receipt and any postal-rule exception.
Risk pitfalls and guardrails
Treating an advertisement as always an offer.
Guardrail: Do not mix module boundaries, confuse marks with item counts, exceed professional authority or rely on an outdated or unverified legal source.
Assuming silence is acceptance.
Guardrail: Do not mix module boundaries, confuse marks with item counts, exceed professional authority or rely on an outdated or unverified legal source.
Applying the postal rule to instantaneous communications automatically.
Guardrail: Do not mix module boundaries, confuse marks with item counts, exceed professional authority or rely on an outdated or unverified legal source.
Memory anchors
Agreement timeline
Offer, communication, survival and matching acceptance.
Invitation to treat
A statement inviting others to make offers rather than promising acceptance.
Counter-offer
Rejects the original offer unless the offeror renews it.
Checkpoint rule
Do the check-up only after you can summarize each concept in one sentence and identify one dangerous pitfall from memory.
Knowledge Check (after reading)
Short check-up to confirm understanding of this module.
Check-up Questions
Goods displayed with a price in a self-service shop are ordinarily what?
An advertisement promises payment to anyone who performs stated conditions and shows serious intent. What may it be?
Answer all questions to submit.
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Move forward only after this module is stable.
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