EchoSign Summer 2009 Release

Overview Video (2 mins)

Position Signature Blocks, Form Fields, Initials and More

Effective now, you can instantly position signature blocks, form fields, initial boxes, date fields, and more simply by checking one new box on the Send page.

When you do, it will bring up a brand new 100% web-based interface for placing signature and other fields exactly where you want them - in just seconds!

Chose Your Signature Type: Instant, Script, or Handwritten

EchoSign has added two powerful new ways to sign in addition to our trademark Instant e-signatures, you can now select Advanced signatures, which allow an instant script signature placed anywhere in the document, or if you want, Handwritten biometric signatures, where signers can sign with a mouse.

Full Google Docs & Apps Support

EchoSign has added full support for sending all types of Google Docs for signature -- documents, spreadsheets and presentations -- and uniquely, for all types of Google accounts, including Premiere and Education.

Building Forms in the Powerful New Document Library

EchoSign Spring 2009 adds a powerful new option for building your own documents templates and forms for repeated use and even share them with other users in your company.

For those of you who use PDF forms created in Adobe Acrobat or Nitro PDF - no problem, we continue to support the rich functionality of those forms in EchoSign and even made them better.

But now, if you want to build a standard form on the web, without Adobe or any other desktop software - you can.  Just select Add Document to Library from the Home tab.

Get PDF Forms Completed and Signed in Seconds using our 100% Web-Based Signing Wizard

For those of you using PDF forms, we've build a powerful new engine that will convert your PDF forms to web-based forms (HTML) on the fly -- and then back to PDF for archiving. 

The new EchoSign Signing Wizard is 100% web-based, works both on PCs and Macs and does not require software to be downloaded or installed on the signer's computer.

What that means is no more Mac or other problems with Adobe Reader and Adobe forms.  You can keep all of the power of PDF forms, and lose the headache.

Automatically Create EchoSign Forms from any Document using Text Tags

EchoSign allows you to easily place signatures, initial boxes and forms fields in your document simply by adding special text tags in your document. Tags may appear in any document type including PDF, Microsoft Word, Powerpoint, Excel, Zoho and Google Docs, and simple text files (*.txt)

EchoSign will convert any text-based document containing those tags into a powerful EchoSign Form, allowing allow you to collect data from your signers, position signature and initials fields in your documents, collect multi-party information from sender and signers and more.

Extract Data from Signed Forms

EchoSign Spring 2009 makes it easy to create forms and send them for signature.  We've also made sure you can easily access the data collected in those forms.

EchoSign now allows you to extract the data collected from your signers directly from the EchoSign Manage page, by email or through the enhanced EchoSign API.  In addition, data can be pushed directly back into Salesforce.com.

Share and Manage Forms Across Your Company

Using our new Document Library, you can not only create forms right on EchoSign, but share them across any user in your group, or your entire company/organization.

Just check either option when you Add a Document to the Library from Home.  Anyone will then be able to reuse and update that form across your company.

Instantly Sign or Approve any Document You've Been Sent

Our Approve function on the Home tab just got a whole lot better.

Now, in just one click, you can add a handwritten signature to any document you've been sent.

No more need to try and figure out how to get your own hand signature onto a document.  Now, just sign the document right on the screen with your mouse, and a PDF copy will be instantly sent to whomever you want.

Custom Workflows in EchoSign-for-Salesforce

We've taken the very successful custom workflows from our web product and added them into Salesforce.  

Whoever needs to sign, approve, or notify, or receive copies, in what order can now be custom configured in Salesforce.

And because EchoSign is natively integrated inside of Salesforce as a custom object, workflows and other events (such as getting out an invoice) can be automatically triggered off Salesforce e-signing workflows.

Fax It In Instead

For some time, we've offered a user-setting to allow your signers to fax back a document instead of e-signing.

We've now rolled this out to all customers and made it much simpler to choose with a simple link next to the "Click to eSign" button.

EchoSign Summer 2009 for Salesforce Customers

EchoSign Summer 2009 introduces many new features and options for EchoSign for Salesforce customers without requiring them to upgrade the EchoSign AppExchange app in their Salesforce org.

EchoSign-for-Salesforce now allows you to improve your signers' experience, send forms for signature without using PDF forms, create your own custom workflows and more...

Enhanced European Character Support

For those of you in Europe or with European customers, we've enhanced European character support when you select Advanced or Biometric signatures as your default signature type.

EchoSign also has fully localized time-stamps and dates as well.