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Accelerate workflows with eSignatures

Request electronic signatures and easily manage vendor agreements, customer contracts, stakeholder sign-off and more – all without leaving Google Workspace. 

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Seamless electronic signatures

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Open the eSignature sidebar

From Google Docs: Go to Tools > eSignature. 

From Google Drive (Beta): Open your PDF contract in Drive > Top-right menu (three vertical dots) > eSignature.

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Enter eSignature details

From the eSignature sidebar, you can manage signers and drag and drop fields into your document. Then, click "Request eSignature" to notify signers.

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Sign documents

Open the email titled "eSignature request for [document name]". Click "Sign" and fill in the details.

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What can you use electronic signatures for?

Streamline your contract management workflows by sending, signing and storing a variety of documents from Google Workspace.

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Vendor agreements

Execute contracts with vendors and easily reuse contract templates.

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Customer contracts

Request eSignatures for customer contracts and get progress notifications.

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Stakeholder sign-off

Streamline sign-off processes with internal and external stakeholders.

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Vendor agreements

Execute contracts with vendors and easily reuse contract templates.

Stylised UI states 'two pending' signatures on a contract.

Customer contracts

Request eSignatures for customer contracts and get progress notifications.

Stylised UI says 'eSignature completed'.

Stakeholder sign-off

Streamline sign-off processes with internal and external stakeholders.

Benefits of eSignatures in Google Workspace

Request eSignatures in minutes

Quickly request signatures, see the status of pending signatures and view completed contracts.

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Sign documents on the go

Easily sign an official contract directly from your mobile device.

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Easily create and manage contract templates

Draft a contract directly from Google Docs, and use it as a template to initiate multiple eSignature requests.

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Frequently asked questions

  • An electronic signature is an efficient way to collect legally enforceable signatures for many electronic documents.

  • eSignatures are legally binding in many countries or regions for many types of documents. This includes the US and EU. For example, the US federal government established the validity of e-signature through the Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act or ESIGN in 2000. This act grants eSignatures the same legal status as handwritten signatures in most contexts.

  • Google Workspace's tool for eSignature is designed to comply with generally applicable requirements for electronic contracts in many countries or regions, including:

    • elDAS simple electronic signatures (SeS) (European Union)

    • ESIGN Act 2000 (United States)

    This tool is built on Google Workspace's common infrastructure that is designed to comply with a number of general security and data laws and standards, such as SOC 2 Type II, Department of Defense IL4 authorisation, ISO/IEC 27001, GDPR. For the full list, please refer to Google Cloud compliance hub.

  • Google Workspace's tool for eSignatures will be available at no cost for users on the Google Workspace Individual plan. We will roll out eSignature to more Google Workspace plans in the upcoming months. 

    Note: The ability to initiate an eSignature request from a PDF in Google Drive is currently in beta. We have closed sign-ups for this beta.

  • For eligible users, you can follow these steps to start your eSignature request:

    From Google Docs: Go to Tools > eSignature. 

    From Google Drive (Beta): Open your PDF contract in Drive > Top-right menu (three vertical dots) > eSignature.

    For detailed instructions, take a look at this Help Centre article.

  • Yes. Google's eSignature tool utilises certificates issued by a certificate authority that is an approved member of the Adobe Approved Trust List (AATL) programme.

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