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- Admin Console Overview
- User Management
- Adding users
- Create function-focused users
- Check for users with provisioning errors
- Change Name/Email Address
- Edit a user's group membership
- Edit a user's group membership through the group interface
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- User Identity Types and SSO
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- Product Profiles
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- Settings Overview
- Global Settings
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- New Recipient Experience
- Self Signing Workflows
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- Collect form data with agreements
- Limited Document Visibility
- Attach a PDF copy of the signed agreement
- Include a link in the email
- Include an image in the email
- Files attached to email will be named as
- Attach audit reports to documents
- Merge multiple documents into one
- Download individual documents
- Upload a signed document
- Delegation for users in my account
- Allow external recipients to delegate
- Authority to sign
- Authority to send
- Power to add Electronic Seals
- Set a default time zone
- Set a default date format
- Users in Multiple Groups (UMG)
- Group Administrator Permissions
- Replace recipient
- Audit Report
- Transaction Footer
- In Product Messaging and Guidance
- Accessible PDFs
- New authoring experience
- Healthcare customer
- Account Setup
- Add logo
- Customize company Hostname/URL
- Add company name
- Post agreement URL redirect
- Signature Preferences
- Well formatted signatures
- Allow recipients to sign by
- Signers can change their name
- Allow recipients to use their saved signature
- Custom Terms of Use and Consumer Disclosure
- Navigate recipients through form fields
- Restart agreement workflow
- Decline to sign
- Allow Stamps workflows
- Require signers to provide their Title or Company
- Allow signers to print and place a written signature
- Show messages when e-signing
- Require signers to use a mobile device to create their signature
- Request IP address from signers
- Exclude company name and title from participation stamps
- Apply Adaptive Signature Draw scaling
- Digital Signatures
- Electronic Seals
- Digital Identity
- Report Settings
- New report experience
- Classic report settings
- Security Settings
- Single Sign-on settings
- Remember-me settings
- Login password policy
- Login password strength
- Web session duration
- PDF encryption type
- API
- User and group info access
- Allowed IP Ranges
- Account Sharing
- Account sharing permissions
- Agreement sharing controls
- Signer identity verification
- Agreement signing password
- Document password strength
- Block signers by Geolocation
- Phone Authentication
- Knowledge-Based Authentication (KBA)
- Allow page extraction
- Document link expiration
- Upload a client certificate for webhooks/callbacks
- Timestamp
- Send Settings
- Show Send page after login
- Require recipient name when sending
- Lock name values for known users
- Allowed recipient roles
- Allow e-Witnesses
- Recipient groups
- CCs
- Recipient Agreement Access
- Required fields
- Attaching documents
- Field flattening
- Modify Agreements
- Agreement name
- Languages
- Private messages
- Allowed signature types
- Reminders
- Signed document password protection
- Send Agreement Notification through
- Signer identification options
- Content Protection
- Enable Notarize transactions
- Document Expiration
- Preview, position signatures, and add fields
- Signing order
- Liquid mode
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- Upload options for the e-sign page
- Post-sign confirmation URL redirect
- Message Templates
- Bio-Pharma Settings
- Workflow Integration
- Notarization Settings
- Payments Integration
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- SAML Settings
- SAML Configuration
- Install Microsoft Active Directory Federation Service
- Install Okta
- Install OneLogin
- Install Oracle Identity Federation
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- Data Governance
- Time Stamp Settings
- External Archive
- Account Languages
- Email Settings
- Migrating from echosign.com to adobesign.com
- Configure Options for Recipients
- Guidance for regulatory requirements
- Accessibility
- HIPAA
- GDPR
- 21 CFR part 11 and EudraLex Annex 11
- Healthcare customers
- IVES support
- "Vaulting" agreements
- EU/UK considerations
- Download Agreements in Bulk
- Claim your domain
- Report Abuse links
- System Requirements and Limitations
Send, Sign, and Manage Agreements
- Recipient Options
- Cancel an email reminder
- Options on the e-signing page
- Overview of the e-sign page
- Open to read the agreement without fields
- Decline to sign an agreement
- Delegate signing authority
- Restart the agreement
- Download a PDF of the agreement
- View the agreement history
- View the agreement messages
- Convert from an electronic to a written signature
- Convert from a written to an electronic signature
- Navigate the form fields
- Clear the data from the form fields
- E-sign page magnification and navigation
- Change the language used in the agreement tools and information
- Review the Legal Notices
- Adjust Acrobat Sign Cookie Preferences
- Send Agreements
- Send (Compose) page
- Overview of landmarks and features
- Group selector
- Adding files and templates
- Agreement name
- Global Message
- Completion Deadline
- Reminders
- Password protect the PDF
- Signature type
- Locale for the recipient
- Recipient signature order/flow
- Recipient roles
- Recipient authentication
- Private message for the recipient
- Recipient agreement access
- CC'd parties
- Identity check
- Send an agreement only to yourself
- Send an agreement to others
- Written Signatures
- Recipient signing order
- Send in Bulk
- Send (Compose) page
- Authoring fields into documents
- In-app authoring environment
- Create forms with text tags
- Create forms using Acrobat (AcroForms)
- Fields
- Field types
- Common field types
- E-signature fields
- Initials field
- Recipient name field
- Recipient email field
- Date of signing field
- Text field
- Date field
- Number field
- Checkbox
- Radio button
- Drop-down menu
- Link overlay
- Payment field
- Attachments
- Participation stamp
- Transaction number
- Image
- Company
- Title
- Stamp
- Field content appearance
- Field validations
- Masked fields values
- Setting show/hide conditions
- Calculated fields
- Field types
- Authoring FAQ
- Sign Agreements
- Manage Agreements
- Manage page overview
- Delegate agreements
- Replace Recipients
- Limit Document Visibility
- Cancel an Agreement
- Create new reminders
- Review reminders
- Cancel a reminder
- Access Power Automate flows
- More Actions...
- How search works
- View an agreement
- Create a template from an agreement
- Hide/Unhide agreements from view
- Upload a signed agreement
- Modify a sent agreement's files and fields
- Edit a recipient's authentication method
- Add or modify an expiration date
- Add a Note to the agreement
- Share an individual agreement
- Unshare an agreement
- Download an individual agreement
- Download the individual files of an agreement
- Download the Audit Report of an agreement
- Download the field content of an agreement
- Audit Report
- Reporting and Data exports
- Overview
- Grant users access to reporting
- Report charts
- Data Exports
- Rename a report/export
- Duplicate a report/export
- Schedule a report/export
- Delete a report/export
- Check Transaction Usage
Advanced Agreement Capabilities and Workflows
- Webforms
- Reusable Templates (Library templates)
- Transfer ownership of web forms and library templates
- Power Automate Workflows
- Overview of the Power Automate integration and included entitlements
- Enable the Power Automate integration
- In-Context Actions on the Manage page
- Track Power Automate usage
- Create a new flow (Examples)
- Triggers used for flows
- Importing flows from outside Acrobat Sign
- Manage flows
- Edit flows
- Share flows
- Disable or Enable flows
- Delete flows
- Useful Templates
- Administrator only
- Agreement archival
- Webform agreement archival
- Save completed web form documents to SharePoint Library
- Save completed web form documents to OneDrive for Business
- Save completed documents to Google Drive
- Save completed web form documents to Box
- Agreement data extraction
- Agreement notifications
- Send custom email notifications with your agreement contents and signed agreement
- Get your Adobe Acrobat Sign notifications in a Teams Channel
- Get your Adobe Acrobat Sign notifications in Slack
- Get your Adobe Acrobat Sign notifications in Webex
- Agreement generation
- Generate document from Power App form and Word template, send for signature
- Generate agreement from Word template in OneDrive, and get signature
- Generate agreement for selected Excel row, send for review and signature
- Custom Send workflows
- Share users and agreements
Integrate with other products
- Acrobat Sign integrations overview
- Acrobat Sign for Salesforce
- Acrobat Sign for Microsoft
- Other Integrations
- Partner managed integrations
- How to obtain an integration key
Acrobat Sign Developer
- REST APIs
- Webhooks
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Support and Troubleshooting
Enable one or more styles of signature you are willing to accept: Types, Drawn, and Image.
In electronic signature workflows, how a signature is applied is generally less critical than the signer’s intent to agree. The audit log captures and supports that intent and provides the legal foundation for enforceability.
For example, recipients may type their name—or even enter a symbol or mark, like an “X”—to indicate agreement. This practice has long been accepted in both physical and digital formats. What matters is that the signer deliberately chose to apply a signature and that the action is recorded in an auditable, traceable way.
Because of this, signatures applied through typed names, image uploads, signature stamps, or copied images can still be legally valid—even though they don’t resemble traditional handwritten signatures.
Note: Some compliance regulations may require a specific type of signature, such as a digital signature. These requirements are outside the scope of this group of settings.
Signature input options
Acrobat Sign supports three ways for recipients to sign or initial, as defined by the Allow recipients to sign and initial by setting:
- Typed – The recipient enters their name, and one of four available fonts is used to display the signature.
- Drawn – The recipient draws their signature using a mouse, stylus, or touch screen.
- Image – The recipient uploads an image of their handwritten signature.
There is a fourth signature option if the account enables Stamp workflows. A stamp can be used as a signature if explicitly enabled.
Configuration
Availability:
- Acrobat Standard and Acrobat Pro: Supported
- Acrobat Sign Solutions: Supported
- Acrobat Sign for Government: Supported
Configuration scope:
Administrators can enable this feature at the account and group levels.
Access this feature by navigating the administrator's configuration menu to Signature Preferences > Allow recipients to sign and initial by
When this option is enabled, the signature panel provides the Type option for the recipient to apply their signature.
The typed signature option allows the recipient to simply type in their name, and the application applies that name string using one of four signature fonts.
The font style always starts with the first font, and applies subsequent recipient signatures in the same order (if the Dynamically choose signing font option is not enabled).
Dynamically choose signing font.
Acrobat Sign applies signature fonts in a fixed sequence, similar to an ordered list—starting with Font1 and progressing to Font4. The order is always the same: Font2 follows Font1, Font3 follows Font2, and so on.
When the Dynamically choose signing font option is enabled, it doesn't randomly select the font for each recipient. Instead, it randomly selects the starting point in the font sequence. After choosing the initial font, the system cycles through the fonts in order.
For example, if the dynamic setting starts with Font3, the following signature will use Font4, then Font1, and so on.
The illustration below shows a non-dynamic example with eight signatures. The sequence follows two complete cycles through the font set.
The example below shows how fonts are applied when Dynamically choose signing font is enabled. In this case, the randomized starting point is Font4, but it could have started with any of the available fonts, including Font1. Once the starting font is chosen, the remaining signatures follow the standard sequence. In this case, Font4 is the starting font, and Font1 is the second recipient.
Enabling the option to Draw a handwritten signature and initials on the screen adds the Draw icon to the signature panel.
This allows recipients to use a mouse, stylus, or finger to draw their signature—providing one of the closest representations of their actual handwriting, especially on touch-enabled devices.
Because drawing with a mouse or trackpad can be difficult, it's a good idea to enable an additional signature type to ensure all recipients can complete the signing process smoothly.
Because a drawn signature is treated as an image, no name text is automatically captured. The recipient must manually enter their name in the field at the bottom-left of the signature panel. This name is used in the audit report to represent the signer.
If the recipient's name is included during the compose process, that name will appear as the default in the name field within the signature panel.
When the Upload an image of their signature and initials option is enabled, the Image icon appears in the signature panel.
This option is ideal for recipients who sign documents frequently and want to reuse a scanned version of their signature saved as a standard image format, such as JPG or PNG.
Like drawn signatures, image uploads provide a high-quality representation of the recipient’s signature. When signing, recipients can select the Image icon and upload the file directly from their device.
- Image signatures don't include the signature line chrome that a "well-formatted signature" normally would.
- Because an image of a signature has no name text that is automatically captured, the recipient must manually enter their name in the field at the bottom-left of the signature panel. This name is used in the audit report to represent the signer.
- If the recipient's name is included during the compose process, that name will appear as the default in the name field within the signature panel.
By enabling the Image and Drawn signature types, the option to use a Mobile device to capture the signature is added to the signature panel. This options allows a recipient to send a link to the signature panel to their touch screen or stylus device, where the signature is captured and returned to the agreement.
(This option is not available to Acrobat Sign for Government accounts)
Related settings
There are several settings that are involved with or that parallel the signature types allowed: