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Send, Sign, and Manage Agreements
- Recipient Options
- Cancel an email reminder
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- Overview of the e-sign page
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- View an agreement
- Create a template from an agreement
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- 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
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- Generate document from Power App form and Word template, send for signature
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- Generate agreement for selected Excel row, send for review and signature
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Support and Troubleshooting
Send in Bulk using a parent template
Send in Bulk is a process that uses a "parent" agreement template created by the sender to generate multiple "child" agreements for one or more recipients
The parent template is configured in three stages:
- Defining the Agreement details - The name, global message, and base files of the agreement.
- Defining the Agreement settings - The supporting configurations of the agreement, such as the reminder, expiration date, password, localization, etc.
- Add recipients - The list of recipients used to generate the child agreements, entered either:
- Manually, where each recipient is typed (or pasted) into the text field.
- Uploaded using a CSV file.
Method of adding recipients
Defining the Agreement details and settings is the same process regardless of how you add your recipients. However, how you intend to add recipients has far-reaching implications for the scope and options applied to the child agreements.
Before you start configuring a Send in Bulk parent template, know and understand which method you intend to use to add your recipients. If you intend to take advantage of the CSV import options, define your CSV before you begin building your template.
The manual input interface allows:
- Only one recipient per child agreement, with an optional counter-signature by the sender. There is no option to add additional external recipients, assign a different counter-signer, or move the counter signature into the first signature position.
- Up to 50 individual recipients can be added through the manual process, generating up to 50 child agreements.
Additionally, all configured agreement details and settings of the parent template apply to all child agreements. This includes:
- the role of the recipient
- the recipient's authentication method and value
- the expiration deadline for the child agreements
- the global message included in the email notification
- the locale used for the recipient experience
The CSV import method provides several practical improvements over the manual process, such as:
- Up to 1,000 child agreements can be configured through one Send in Bulk transaction.
- Up to 100 recipients can be included in each child agreement. Each recipient can have their own:
- Role
- Authentication type (including Email (None), Acrobat Sign auth, Phone (SMS), Password, and Knowledge-based authentication)
- Authentication value
- Private message (up to 1,000 characters)
- Each child agreement can be configured to include:
- Custom agreement name
- Custom "global message" in the email (up to 1,000 characters)
- Custom locale
- Custom expiration date
- Complex workflow structures (Sequential, Parallel, and Hybrid signature flows)
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Select the Send in Bulk tile.
If the tile is not present, then the user's primary group does not have Send in Bulk enabled.
If an error is generated asserting you don't have sufficient access, then the user's primary group isn't configured to allow access Send in Bulk, but the user is a member of a group with access.
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Once the Send in Bulk interface loads:
- Select the group from which the agreements are to be sent. If the group picker isn't available, then you only have access to one group. The group defines:
- the templates available for the transaction
- the signature options and requirements requirements
- the security applied to the agreements
- Select the Choose file button to pick the file that will be used as the base document for the agreement. You can select a file from:
- My computer. Selecting a file from your computer advances the configuration process immediately. If you need to use multiple files, you can select more files after the page refreshes.
- Template Library. Selecting from the Template option allows you to select multiple files from the library by checking the box in the list. Once all files are checked, select the Confirm button to add them to the transaction. The template library has two tabs:
- Templates. This is a listing of all templates available to the user through the group's template library.
- Recent Templates. This is a list of the most recently used templates in the group's template library.
Note:When using templates, it's vital that you test and verify that your template fields are properly assigned and working as expected before you create hundreds of agreements.
- Select the group from which the agreements are to be sent. If the group picker isn't available, then you only have access to one group. The group defines:
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The page refreshes to show the Agreement details.
There are three sections to review and edit as needed:
- Agreement files - The selected files or templates are already attached. If you need more files attached, select the Choose more files button and add files from your local computer or the template library.
- Files can be added from both sources as needed.
- Files selected from your local system can only be added one at a time. Multiple templates can be selected.
- Agreement name - The name of the agreement appears in the subject line of the recipient's email and is displayed prominently on the Manage page.
- The default Agreement name is imported from the first attached file.
- The agreement name is editable by clicking into the field and typing.
- Message - The message field contains the default global message that is inserted in the email body for all recipients. To edit the message field, click into the field and start typing.
- Agreement files - The selected files or templates are already attached. If you need more files attached, select the Choose more files button and add files from your local computer or the template library.
Configure or adjust the Agreement settings
The default values for the Agreement settings are inherited from the group settings. Each setting can be adjusted to accommodate the purpose of the template.
Based on the service level and group-level settings, different options may be included. Below are the most common:
Verify or configure the Completion deadline.
Depending on the nature of your agreements, you may or may not employ an agreement deadline.
If used:
- The default lifespan of agreements is defined at the group level. If you must edit this value frequently, talk with your admin to see if the default can be adjusted.
- The sender can modify this deadline during agreement composition (if group settings permit).
- Deadlines can be modified on the Manage page by the original sender (if group settings permit).
- Internal signers can be excluded from the deadline cancellation (if configured to do so in the group settings).
- The agreement automatically expires once the deadline is crossed and cannot be signed or completed. A new agreement must be created.
Edit the Completion deadline by selecting the Agreement settings edit icon and picking a new deadline from the calendar.
All agreements expire after being in progress for 365 days if not completed. This expiration deadline cannot be modified or suppressed.
Verify or modify the Reminder frequency.
The reminder frequency defines the cycle when reminders are emailed to the current active recipients for your agreement.
- The default reminder iteration is defined in the group settings.
- A default reminder message can be configured in the group settings.
- The default reminder can be edited during agreement composition (If permitted by group settings).
- Reminders that trigger every day have a 10-day life cycle. All other reminders have a 60-day lifecycle. Reminder lifespans cannot be altered.
- Reminder emails are sent at the same time of day the agreement is initially sent.
- Reminders can be configured on the Manage page after the agreement is sent.
- Recipients are only notified when they are the active participant in the agreement. They are not notified before or after (with the exception of the final notification containing the completed agreement PDF).
Edit the Reminder frequency by selecting the Agreement settings edit icon and picking a new frequency from the dropdown.
Add a password to view the final PDF.
The password entered into this field is exclusively for viewing the PDF.
- The password to view the final agreement PDF can be configured as a required field, an optional field, or a denied field in the group settings.
- The password strength (number of characters and complexity) is defined in the group settings.
- A default password value cannot be defined. It must be provided by the sender during agreement composition.
- When added, this password is embedded into the PDF as a security parameter, and can't be removed without the password.
- The password is not stored anywhere in the Acrobat Sign system, and cannot ber recovered by support.
To set password security when viewing the agreement PDF, select the Agreement settings edit icon and type a password into the field.
Configure Content Protection.
Content protection installs security to view the agreement agreement after it has been completed. The agreement will require the same authentication method to view as is configured to initially sign the agreement.
Verify or select a new localization language for the recipient's email.
The Language value indicates the localization for all Acrobat Sign template elements, like labels and instructions, in the recipient email and the e-signing page.
- The default localization is defined in the group settings.
- The default value can be edited (if group settings permit)
- The localization language is a distinct setting from the user's UI settings. It's possible to have the group's UI language set to US English and the group's default signing language set to Japanese.
Edit the Recipient's Language by selecting the Agreement settings edit icon and picking a new language from the dropdown.