Hello Theo,


In theory what you want to do is possible with both Zapier and Integromat.

I think the challenge might be finding a digital sign platform that you can upload a doc for others to sign. Most platforms that I know you would need to setup the document in the platform in order to have it signed on the platform. Hopefully someone on here will be able to point us to the right app.

In terms of esign platforms - check out https://esignatures.io/ . I have no affiliation or connection, it’s just a very simple and cool app.

I look forward to reading others responses

Cor

This is indeed a challenge; there are no services that I’m aware of where you can submit a PDF and have it transformed into an e-signing-capable document. All of the e-signature services use a template approach that allows them to bind digital signatures to the resulting document. This is a key requirement because third parties cannot have the ability to substitute either a document with a signature or a signature with a document. Indeed, they must control the binding of data and digital signature fields into a unified binary that cannot be easily modified.

As such, you probably need a process like this, a solution architecture that has worked well for many Airtable clients. Note the only two blue lines represent the manual steps - all other steps in the process are automated.

Thank you both for your replies!

@Bill.French are you able to give me a little more information on the Automation script to send the PDF to and from ESignatures?

Almost any scripting environment is capable of using the Airtable API to achieve processes like this. I tend to use the Google Apps Script environment because most businesses have that and it’s free and open to develop javascript tseverless] apps.

Documents themselves are based on templates in E-Signatures which contain substitution field names that are populated through the E-Signatures API. The automation script runs every ten minutes looking for contract jobs to run and then uses the Airtable data to replace the values in the template and E-Signatures then builds the PDF with digital handlers to get signatures from designated parties.

I use signrequest for this task.

Airtable form information received. I click a checkbox(airtable) to send a template via signrequest prefilled(Zapier) with form data for signature. If there are more than one signer you can make another column(Airtable) for their email before clicking the checkbox in airtable.

The signed document (PDF) is then sent back into airtable for record keeping. The only manual task is basically clicking the Checkbox to initiate the process and if needed adding more signers.

Look up


Signrequest How to pre-fill a document using external IDs

Thank you all for your answers!

@Anthony_Vila I ended up creating a very similar workflow using Signnow.

For anyone that comes across this topic in the future, as Anthony said, you need to find a signing platform that will allow Zapier to trigger the sending of a template - the template can be prefilled with the data entered in the Airtable form/table.

Also, just to note at this stage, Integromat does not appear to have any integration with signing platforms to achieve this same result.

Yep, that’s one way to do it, but there are others that don’t involve Zapier. It depends on your requirements which implementation approach works best.

Hi Theo

Here is is two great links that will probably sort you out. Especially the video from Gareth Provonost.He is excellent with automation and Airtable. Cor does not know it yet,but this is his next project for our company. Hope this help.

https://youtu.be/c_pG5R3XkTk

Jotform Approval Singnature Workflow

Drikus

Sorry,after I send this one I saw I am a month late.

:face_with_hand_over_mouth:

Drikus

Anthony, would you be willing to walk me through this process? This is exactly the problem I have bee struggling with !

Integromat supports at least 3 signing platforms (and maybe more): eSignatures.io, Eversign, and Zoho Sign.

They don’t yet support some of the bigger players, like HelloSign or DocuSign, although technically you could use Integromat with any website that has a REST API to tap into.

It also says on Integromat’s feature request page that native DocuSign support is “in progress”, although when it rolls out, it will require the purchase of a DocuSign API Plan. (Not sure if Zapier has the same requirement for DocuSign.)

Hey @Anthony_Vila, thanks for this. Got it all working except the last step, sending the signed document back to AirTable from SignRequest. Cannot seem to figure out how to make this happen? Thanks in advance.

It’s a bit more complicated for this step.

I would add the Id of the row from(airtable) into the title somewhere in zapier task you made. Use something like" john doe contract -id1324224-"

The reason for the lines are important. We make one separate zapier task to check for new signed contracts. Use the formatter task to extract the Id between the text between (- -) (-id7372837-) and have it search for that specific Id row in airtable. Then have zapier place the document in a column labeled file field in airtable.

The id is important because there isn’t that much data from the file to extract to place it in the appropriate spot in airtable. So when sending the signrequest one must put some time of placeholder like the id of the field in the title of the document.

Best regards,

Tony Vila

@A_La_Plancha the way that I dealt with this is an update field step as the last part of the zap to kick-start the signing process, basically get Zapier to write the document ID (signrequest and signnow both supply this Document ID) back into a blank airtable “Doc ID” field.

Then have a separate zap that is triggered once the signing process is complete - this zap will cross reference the “Doc ID” field with the ID of the completed document and then upload the completed PDF to the blank attachment field for the record.

Also, if anyone else comes across this - Integromat has just released signnow integration which is great news!

If you would like an out of the box solution, we have built an extension that integrates directly with eSignaturesio. You can use it to send documents for signing and they would be automatically uploaded to Airtable when they are signed.

Dude, I have exactly the same question!

I am not aware of the Airtable documents for electronic signature. At the moment, I began to use various documents very often. Now I began to learn more and more about the different types of documents and programs for them. Now I continue to engage in this area of ​​activity, but I can not say anything. I love my job and in general, each program is good in its own way. Right now I only use one document program. I found this program on one site. Now I sit in this program all the time, and it became more comfortable for me to work. I just want to develop this site so that those who use documents do not look for complex programs for documents, but use this one and do not find it difficult to work.

https://pdfliner.com/form_8962

I see three issues with your comments:

That’s great that you like running documents from PDFLiner, however, the lack of any integration options make it virtually impossible to use it for any process automation and digital signing typically requires that we remove humans from the processing to lessen the chances of nefarious activity involving sensitive information that must be digitally signed.

Let me be sure I understand - you are the creator of PDFLiner? If so, you should make it really obvious to readers.

Terms of Service… (make sure you read them)

PDFLiner may use third parties including partner and affiliates to sell, deploy, configure, and/or support Services. By using the Services, you consent to PDFLiner sharing your account data with third parties in order to enable such third-party activities.

Thank you for the tip! However the issue I’m facing is that I first create the external IDs for every field in the document that needs to be prefilled. Then I enter the JSON structure on Zapier corresponding to each field, however the document that is generated does not contain the data that it should fetch from airtable. Any idea ?

This is a 5m (detailed) video about connecting Airtable + Zapier + eSignatures.io

Link to video:


https://esignatures.io/docs/airtable_guide

Hi there! Yes, you can definitely do this using the listed connectors. There's a article How to set up DocuSign Airtable integration that provides an example scenario using Make (formerly Integromat) to attach documents generated from Airtable records with the help of Plumsail Documents. I hope the link will be useful to everyone who is looking the same information!