EsignCenter takes a PDF or Word file, collects signatures on it, and hands everybody back a sealed copy with a record of what happened. This page walks you from a brand-new account to your first signed document.
Create your account
- Choose Create free account and enter your name, your email address and a password — or use Continue with Google, which skips the password.
- If you signed up with a password, open the confirmation email we send you. You cannot sign in until you do, and the link only takes a moment.
- Sign in. You land on your dashboard, on the free plan, with no card on file.
The free plan is free permanently. It gives you 5 completed documents a month, 15 sends a month, 10 documents out for signature at once, 1 user and storage for your signed agreements. Free plan limits explains exactly how each of those is counted.
Send your first document
- Start from a document. Drop a PDF or a Word file onto your dashboard, or open one of the starter templates that come with a new account.
- Place the fields. Drag a signature box, a date and any text boxes onto the page, and say which signer fills in each one.
- Add the people. Type a name and an email address for each signer. If one person has to go before another, switch on the signing order.
- Send. Each signer gets their own private link by email.
When the last person finishes, everyone receives the completed PDF. It is digitally sealed and carries a trusted timestamp, and an audit trail PDF travels with it listing when the document was sent, opened, agreed to and signed, and from which network address.
Find your way around
- Templates — the documents you reuse, with their fields already placed. See Templates and fields.
- Documents — everything you have sent, and how far each one has got.
- Settings → Usage — live meters for this month, and the date the monthly counts reset.
- Settings → Billing — start a trial, change plan or manage your card. See Billing and your free trial.
If you get stuck
Every article here links on to the next one, and our support form reaches a real person. Tell us what you were trying to do and what happened instead, and we usually reply within one business day.