When talk about electronic signature, DocuSign came a long way, and considered 1 of the pioneer in the industry. It is easy to use, able to create document for electronic signature with ease, and able to let the target personnel to save the signature for later use.
The only thing is, at the moment, there is no free plan option available.
Pre-requisite check
Initial requirement
Let’s look at how it started, as well as the initial design
URL
https://www.docusign.com/
Platform
DocuSign is a cloud SAAS (Software as a service) platform, make sure the one who pay your salary are comfortable with that
Account
You will need a DocuSign account to start to use it.
Cost
There is no free plan as to-date, you can opt for 30 days trial without credit card.
Let's get started
Configure the document
1. Upload the document template to start with. To make thing easier for you, you can use the sample we prepared here.
2. Indicate the signer, you can have more than 1 signer in a document.
3. Specify the area for signature. 1 document able to have more than 1 signer. You can specify other attributes like Name, Signed Date as well.
4. Specify the actual signer’s name for the area they should sign. You don’t want any signer sign at any signature box, do you?
5. Lastly, time to send out the document for all the signers to sign.
Let's try it out
1. DocuSign will send out the email to the signers in the document. Signers will receive an email just like below
2. Click on the link, signers will be brought to the document, where they can signed
3. Based on the email, signer only able to sign at the box they assigned to
4. Once they signed, you will be able to receive a complete document, with all the signature required. Of course, you can chase those, who yet to sign as well.
5. So, that’s all, it is not difficult to have an electronic signature for your official documents that required signature, it is not even using coding which you can start the digitilization process for your official document.
