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Adding new team users is usually one of the first tasks to do, this short video shows you how.
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Read more about user management.
This video gives a general overview of the Legalesign app, watch this video to learn how the app is structured.
If you are new to eSignature software you will have no problem understanding the easy to use structure. But if you already using a solution give it an extra cou…
A short video tour around the PDF edit page, how to add and amend form fields.
Short videos on how to align your fields easily and quickly.
Replace checkboxes with dropdown lists. Checkboxes work on paper, but dropdown lists are much better in a digital format.
If…
You can brand all public facing aspects of the system (i.e. emails to signers and your signing page). You need to be an admin user.
**Emails**
Go to 'Admin' and then 'Signer experience' . At the top of that page you can add your logo and change the format of your outbou…
All your document upload and sending activity are contained within a "team" also known as a "group". Teams enable you to silo your data and roll out Legalesign effectively through different offices or departments. It only takes a few seconds to make a new team.
The number of …
Next steps
Set emails to go to signers sequentially, or at the same time.
You can decide whether a document is sent to multiple signers simultaneously, or in order. Admins can set the default for the whole team, but users can set this when sending out a document. For admins, go to **Admin** > **Signer Experience** > **Email Options** >…
Reminder schedules are the most efficient way of ensuring your signatories action your document.
Reminder schedules can be set to fit different documents or Parties. Get started quickly by selecting to 'just send' the reminder email and choosing a frequency to send them, e.g.…
You may want extra documents emailed to your signer that you do not want signed, but only attached. For example, your general terms of business or other related information.
Signers, Approvers and CC'd third parties (reviewers) can receive these extra email attachments. The a…
You can add any text at the top of the signing page, alongside each form field a signer may need to complete, and on the PDF download page shown after e-signing. All emails are customisable.
Top of the signing page
By default, this section contains compliance text that is…
This article explains how to change the email subject line for a signer in Legalesign.
Admin permissions within your team are required.
To change the subject line of email notifications go to **Admin** > **Signer Experience** > **Email Text**. You will see that th…
Advanced
With bulk send you can send out customised PDFs to hundreds of people to esign. Ideal where you have a lot of people to fill out a form or sign documents en-masse.
Using a CSV/XLSX filled with signer detail and values for your sender fields, you 'mail merge' that document wit…
Placeholders are like mail merge fields that define where you want a value that will be defined later. You will want to use placeholders for signer names for example.
You can use these placeholders in any email-related text field. Tick "**Use everytime**" if you'd like to se…
Add specially formatted text (tags) into your Word or PDF documents and Legalesign will automatically convert them into form fields. You can go straight to sending out your document for online signature or approval. Upload to Send in a couple of clicks.
Tags eliminate time on…
To distribute a document from a team to another, ensure you have Admin permissions. This feature is particularly useful when you have a person in charge of creating documents that then need to be supplied in separate groups.
Please note an Admin user can distribute documents…
Signing experiences give you incredibly fine-grained control, right down to a per-signer level, discover more about how to use them in this short video.
For example you can create an entirely new brand or use signing experiences to provide different languages to different si…