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-**Upload**: Upload a scanned or saved image of your signature.
-**Default**: Use the default signature stored under *My Signature* in settings.
⚙️ The options selected here will determine what appears in the signature widget during document creation and signing. You can also change these preferences while creating the document.
⚙️ The options selected here determine what appears in the signature widget during document creation and signing. You can also change these preferences while creating the document.
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Admins can enforce company-wide signing policies by restricting signature methods platform-wide.
> In the **Console Application > General**, admins can set allowed signature types at the organization level. Only the selected types will be shown on the **Preferences > Signature** page for users.
In **Console Application > General**, admins can set allowed signature types at the organization level. Only the selected types will appear on the **Preferences > Signature** page for users.
<img width="436" alt="Signature type setup console" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/c8c3de19-e82e-464a-977b-cdf3fd12aed7" />
### 👤 User-Level
> Navigate to **Settings > Preferences** to configure user-level signature types.
If a user sets preferred types here, only these will be shown when adding signature or initial widgets during document creation.
Navigate to **Settings > Preferences** to configure user-level signature types.
If a user sets preferred types here, only these will appear when adding signature or initial widgets during document creation.
<img width="436" alt="Signature type setup preferences" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/ae413b24-fe53-4aa9-9242-624574f1d7b3" />
### 📄 Document-Level
> While creating a document, users can set specific allowed signature types.
While creating a document, users can set specific allowed signature types.
Only these will be available to the signer—useful for legal or regulatory requirements.
<img width="436" alt="Signature type setup signature widget" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/d64510e1-df14-44fe-8020-45b17c612238" />
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## 🔔 Notify on Signatures
Enable or disable email or in-app notifications when a document is signed.
The document owner will receive email notifications when a document is signed.
- **Yes** Receive alerts for each completed signature.
- **No** Notifications are turned off.
> User can change this option while creating the document or template.
**Details**:
The document creator will receive an email notification whenever a signer signs the document.
> Users can change this option while creating the document or template.
**Note**: Regardless of this setting, a **completion email** with the signed document and completion certificate is **always sent** to all signers and the document owner.
<img width="436" alt="Preferences setup" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/5adad567-6c01-4766-9b10-db3f95ad65d3" />
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## 📬 Send in Order
Decide whether the document should be signed **sequentially** or **simultaneously** by multiple signers.
- **Yes** Signers receive the document in a set order.
- **No** All signers receive the document at once.
- **Yes** Signers receive the document in a set order. The next signer gets access only after the previous one has completed signing.
- **No** All signers receive the document at once and can sign independently of one another.
> User can change this option while creating the document or template.
**Details**:
- **Yes**: Signers are notified one after another. The next signer gets access only after the previous has completed signing.
- **No**: All signers receive links at the same time. They can sign independently of one another.
> Users can change this option while creating the document or template.
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The tour feature provides guidance for first-time users. You can turn this off for a cleaner, uninterrupted experience:
- **Yes** Show onboarding tips.
- **No** Disable tour prompts *(recommended for experienced users)*.
- **Yes** Show onboarding tips. Enables guided tooltips for the signer during the signing process.
- **No** Disable tour prompts *(recommended for experienced users)*. Speeds up the signing experience.
> User can change this option while creating the document or template.
**Details**:
- **Yes**: Enables guided tooltips for the signer during the signing process.
- **No**: Disables the tour, speeding up the signing experience.
> Users can change this option while creating the document or template.
💡 **Tip**: Disable if your users are already familiar with OpenSign™.
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- Webhooks
### 📅 Date Format
- Used as the **default format** for date widgets when creating documents.
- Applies in all flows including APIs.
- The selected date format will be applied by default to the date widget if no specific format is chosen during document creation.
- This default format applies in all flows including APIs.
### 🕒 Time Format
- Supports **12-hour** and **24-hour** formats.
- Affects timestamps in certificates, logs, and webhooks.
<img width="436" alt="Preferences setup" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/5bb9ad1a-f3c7-4b6e-9469-1bb003e1eec0" />
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## 🧪 LTV Enabled Signatures
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**LTV (Long-Term Validation)** ensures that signatures remain valid and verifiable even after certificates expire or are revoked.
### 🔐 Key Features:
- Embeds certificate chain
- Includes CRLs and OCSP responses
- Enables offline verification
- Embeds certificate chain
- Includes CRLs and OCSP responses
- Enables offline verification
- Complies with PDF standards like **PAdES**
### 📌 Why It Matters:
Even if a certificate becomes invalid in the future, the LTV-enabled signature stays verifiable.
### ✅ Use Cases:
- Legal Contracts
- Financial or Medical Records
- Legal Contracts
- Financial or Medical Records
- Long-term archiving requirements
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In the **Preferences > Email** tab, users can customize email templates for:
### ✉️ Request Signature Email
Once set, all signers will receive the customized request email.
All signers will receive the customized request email once it is set.
### 📩 Document Completion Email
On completion, all signers receive the custom-formatted email with the signed document.
All signers receive a custom-formatted email with the signed document upon completion.
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Adds a second verification step when logging in.
### Benefits:
- Enhances account protection
- Requires time-based code from an app like Google Authenticator
#### Benefits:
### How to Enable:
1. Go to **Security > Setup 2FA**
2. Scan the QR Code with an authenticator app
3. Save Recovery Codes for backup
4. Enter verification code to complete setup
- Enhances account protection
- Requires a time-based code from an app like Google Authenticator
#### How to Enable:
1. Go to **Security > Setup 2FA**
2. Scan the QR Code with an authenticator app
3. Save recovery codes for backup
4. Enter the verification code to complete setup
> If 2FA is enabled, youll be prompted for a verification code after entering your password.
[![how to setup 2fa](https://img.youtube.com/vi/cgVBBetnbO8/0.jpg)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgVBBetnbO8)
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### 🛡️ Passkey Authentication
@@ -170,27 +180,25 @@ Adds a second verification step when logging in.
Passkeys offer **passwordless** and **phishing-resistant** sign-in.
#### 🔐 Key Features:
- Use fingerprint, face ID, or device PIN
- Passwordless and secure
- Use fingerprint, Face ID, or device PIN
- Passwordless and secure
- Reduces credential theft risks
### 🛠 How to Register a Passkey:
1. Click **Register another passkey**
2. Your device prompts biometric or PIN-based authentication
#### 🛠 How to Register a Passkey:
1. Click **Register another passkey**
2. Your device prompts biometric or PIN-based authentication
3. On success, the passkey is saved and listed under **Your Passkeys**
### 🧾 Managing Your Passkeys
Each passkey entry shows:
- Name (e.g., "Windows Edge")
- Created Date
- Last Used Date
- Credential ID
#### 🧾 Managing Your Passkeys
##### ✏️ Rename:
#### ✏️ Rename:
Click the **pencil icon** to rename a passkey.
#### 🗑 Delete:
##### 🗑 Delete:
Click the **trash icon** to remove a passkey.
⚠️ This revokes access via that method.