The SignTheDoc blog
Product news, security deep-dives, and practical guides for getting agreements signed faster. 20 articles and counting.
Introducing Smart Fields: signatures that place themselves
Our new Smart Fields engine reads your document, finds every signature, date, and initial line, and drops the right field on it automatically. What used to take five minutes of dragging now happens the moment you upload.
What a court-admissible audit trail actually contains
Timestamps, IP addresses, and a tamper-evident hash — we break down every field we capture and why each one matters if a signature is ever challenged.
The complete guide to reusable templates
Turn your most-sent agreements into one-click templates your whole team can share. A step-by-step walkthrough with the mistakes worth avoiding.
How real estate teams close 3× faster with e-signatures
We surveyed 400 brokerages on how going paperless changed their closing timelines. The results surprised even us — and the reason was not the signing itself.
Signing on mobile just got a major upgrade
A rebuilt mobile flow, offline drafts, and push reminders that actually get documents signed. Everything new in the 4.0 app.
SignTheDoc raises Series B to build the future of agreements
We have raised $40M to keep making signing effortless for teams of every size. A note from our founders on what changes, what does not, and what we are building next.
Are electronic signatures legally binding? A plain-English answer
ESIGN, UETA, and eIDAS explained without the legalese — what makes an e-signature enforceable, and the specific documents where it still will not work.
Bulk send, rebuilt for thousands of recipients
Send one document to thousands of people, each with their own copy, prefilled fields, and independent audit trail — without your inbox becoming unusable.
What great onboarding paperwork looks like
New hires should arrive ready to work, not facing a folder of forms. How high-performing HR teams structure the packet between offer acceptance and day one.
Designing a signing order that does not stall
Sequential, parallel, or hybrid — how to route a document through approvers and signers without creating a queue that dies when one person goes on holiday.
API v3: embedded signing, webhooks, and idempotency
A cleaner REST surface, embedded signing that lives inside your own product, and webhook delivery you can actually rely on.
What SOC 2 actually certifies (and what it does not)
A SOC 2 badge is meaningful, but not in the way most buyers assume. Here is how to read a report and what to ask a vendor who waves one at you.
Why we publish every incident, including the embarrassing ones
We write a public post-mortem for every incident that affects customers, including the ones caused by our own straightforward mistakes. Here is the reasoning.
Conditional routing: workflows that adapt to the answers
Route a document to a different approver based on what a signer entered. One template can now cover cases that used to need six.
Seven ways to cut your signature turnaround time
Practical changes that measurably shorten the gap between sending a document and getting it back, ranked by how much difference they actually make.
Encryption, explained without the acronym soup
What "256-bit AES at rest and TLS 1.3 in transit" actually protects you from, what it does not, and why key management is the part that matters.
Digital consent and intake in a HIPAA-aligned practice
Moving patient forms out of the waiting room without creating a compliance problem — what to check before you send the first consent form.
Migrating a paper-based process without breaking it
A sequenced approach to moving an established paper workflow onto e-signature, including the compliance and change-management parts that usually get skipped.
The document fields that cause the most disputes
Ambiguous dates, unlabelled initials, and the auto-fill that quietly went wrong. The field-level mistakes that turn into arguments months later.
Volunteer waivers that actually get signed
Event-day clipboards do not scale. How nonprofits collect waivers, emergency contacts, and photo consent before anyone arrives.