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Send documents for eSigning from inside your app | signNow API

Embedded sending:
Send documents for signature from inside your app using the API

Create an embedded link that activates a workflow, allowing users to prepare a document, assign recipients, and send it out directly from your system.

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Simplify document preparation and sending inside your application

The signNow API not only allows your end users to sign documents within your app. It also empowers them to distribute documents for signature to an unlimited number of recipients. Users can customize documents using various types of fillable fields, assign these fields to specific signers, set up a signing order, and adjust the parameters of an eSignature invite before sending.

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signNow provides developers with complete SDKs for every popular language, allowing them to integrate eSignatures without writing a single line of code.
With signNow’s detailed documentation, integrating electronic signatures with your app is a breeze.
signNow goes beyond eSignatures. Use it to create fillable forms, request payments, and manage your documents securely using simple API calls.

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Key benefits of embedding document-sending workflows with the signNow API

No switching between apps

Streamline the process of collecting data and signatures for your users by allowing them to send documents directly from your app.

Enhanced collaboration

Empower users to access key documents and templates from one place and dispatch them for signature with a few clicks.

Increased flexibility

signNow makes it easy for your users to customize documents and eSignature workflows by fitting into their existing processes and aligning with specific requirements for each use case.

Ease of use

signNow is rated highly for its intuitive interface. This means your end users won’t find themselves confused or overwhelmed when preparing and sending documents via the service.

Explore common use cases for embedded document sending

Simplify business approvals

Implement the signNow API in a business management software, enabling users to prepare and send contracts for signature directly from the system, ensuring a seamless transaction process.

Streamline patient consent

Enable embedded document sending within a clinic’s CRM, allowing medical practitioners to prepare consent forms and send them to patients for signature, simplifying the documentation process.

Enhance educational administration

Incorporate document-sending workflows into a school's internal management system, allowing teachers and administrators to prepare and send permission slips or policy documents to parents for signature.

Accelerate new hires

Utilize the signNow API in a corporate HR system, enabling HR professionals to send out employee agreements and offer letters for signature, speeding up the hiring process.

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Enterprise-grade security and compliance

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PCI DSS certification

Safeguards credit/debit card data for every monetary transaction a customer makes.

21 CFR Part 11

FDA-backed standards for electronic documentation and electronic signatures.

HIPAA compliance

Protects the private health information of your patients.

CCPA compliance

Enhances the protection of personal data and the privacy of California residents.

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Trusted eSignature solution — what our customers are saying

Explore how the signNow eSignature platform helps businesses succeed. Hear from real users and what they like most about electronic signing.

This service is really great! It has helped...

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anonymous

This service is really great! It has helped us enormously by ensuring we are fully covered in our agreements. We are on a 100% for collecting on our jobs, from a previous 60-70%. I recommend this to everyone.

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I've been using SignNow for years (since it...

5

Susan S

I've been using SignNow for years (since it was CudaSign). I started using SignNow for real estate as it was easier for my clients to use. I now use it in my business for employement and onboarding docs.

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Everything has been great, really easy to incorporate...

5

Liam R

Everything has been great, really easy to incorporate into my business. And the clients who have used your software so far have said it is very easy to complete the necessary signatures.

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