Multiple signers on one document

Colour is the whole interface

Each recipient card takes a colour from a palette of five, assigned by its position in the list and cycled beyond that. The card, its bar, its badge and every field placed for that person all use it. There is no dropdown on the field asking who it belongs to. You select a signer, and everything you drop onto the page belongs to them until you select somebody else. Getting into the habit of clicking the card first is the entire trick to placing fields for three people without mixing them up.

Nobody sees anybody else's fields

When a signer opens the document, the API returns only the fields tied to their recipient row. The other parties' boxes are not dimmed or locked, they simply are not there. That is a server-side filter rather than a display choice, so there is no client-side trick that reveals them, and a signer cannot fill in a box that was never sent to their browser.

Everyone needs somewhere to sign

The envelope refuses to send if any signer has no signature, initials or signature block field placed for them. The message names the person, which is the common case in a hurry: three cards created, fields placed for two of them. A date field alone does not satisfy it, because the date is stamped from the moment of signing rather than being an act of signing.

Signatures accumulate one at a time

Each person's fields are drawn into the document as they finish, not all at once at the end. The second signer opens a copy that already carries the first signature, which matters when the parties want to see who has committed before they do. Every stamp is written to a new file rather than overwriting the last one, so the state of the document after each signature stays retrievable.

One person, two blocks

A director who signs both as an individual and on behalf of a company is still one recipient. Give them one card and place two signature blocks with different role headings. Duplicate cards sharing an email address and an order position are collapsed into a single recipient before anything is saved, so you cannot accidentally send the same person two invitations for the same document.

How it works, in three steps

1. Step 1

   Add a card per person

   Name and email each. The colour comes from the card's position, so the order you add them in is the order of the palette.

2. Step 2

   Select a card, then place their fields

   Everything you drag onto the page belongs to whoever is selected. Check the colour of each box before you move on.

3. Step 3

   Send and watch the badges

   Each row moves through Waiting, Viewed and Signed independently, and the envelope only completes when every one of them has signed.

Limits worth knowing

• 25 recipients per envelope, and 500 fields across all of them.
• The colour palette holds five colours. A sixth signer reuses the first colour.
• Every signer needs at least one signature, initials or signature block field before the envelope can go out.
• If one person declines, the envelope stops there. The signatures already collected are not applied to a completed file.

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