Last updated on
Jul 20, 2023
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- Admin Console Overview
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User Management
- Adding users
- Create function-focused users
- Check for users with provisioning errors
- Change Name/Email Address
- Edit a user's group membership
- Promote a user to an admin role
- User Identity Types and SSO
- Switch User Identity
- Authenticate Users with MS Azure
- Authenticate Users with Google Federation
- Product Profiles
- Login Experience
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Account/Group Settings
- Settings Overview
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Global Settings
- New Recipient Experience
- Self Signing Workflows
- Send in Bulk
- Web Forms
- Power Automate Workflows
- Library Documents
- Collect form data with agreements
- Limited Document Visibility
- Attach a PDF copy of the signed agreement
- Include a link in the email
- Include an image in the email
- Files attached to email will be named as
- Attach audit reports to documents
- Merge multiple documents into one
- Download individual documents
- Upload a signed document
- Set a default time zone
- Users in Multiple Groups (UMG)
- Group Administrator Permissions
- Replace recipient
- Audit Report
- Transaction Footer
- Healthcare customer
- Account Setup
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Signature Preferences
- Well formatted signatures
- Custom Terms of Use and Consumer Disclosure
- Navigate recipients through form fields
- Restart agreement workflow
- Decline to sign
- Allow signers to print and place a written signature
- Require signers to use a mobile device to create their signature
- Request IP address from signers
- Digital Signatures
- Electronic Seals
- Digital Identity
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Report Settings
- Security Settings
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Send settings
- Require recipient name when sending
- Lock name values for known users
- Allowed recipient roles
- Allow e-Witnesses
- Recipient groups
- CCs
- Recipient Agreement Access
- Field flattening
- Modify Agreements
- Private messages
- Allowed signature types
- Reminders
- Signed document password protection
- Send Agreement Notification through
- Signer identification options
- Content Protection
- Signing order
- Liquid mode
- Bio-Pharma Settings
- Notarization Settings
- Payments Integration
- SAML Settings
- Data Governance
- Time Stamp Settings
- External Archive
- Account Languages
- Email Settings
- Migrating from echosign.com to adobesign.com
- Configure Options for Recipients
- Claim your domain
- Report Abuse links
Send, Sign, and Manage Agreements
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Recipient Options
- Cancel an email reminder
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Options on the e-signing page
- Overview of the e-sign page
- Open to read the agreement without fields
- Decline to sign an agreement
- Delegate signing authority
- Download a PDF of the agreement
- View the agreement history
- View the agreement messages
- Convert from an electronic to a written signature
- Convert from a written to an electronic signature
- Navigate the form fields
- Clear the data from the form fields
- E-sign page magnification and navigation
- Change the language used in the agreement tools and information
- Review the Legal Notices
- Adjust Acrobat Sign Cookie Preferences
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Send Agreements
- Send (Compose) page
- Send an agreement only to yourself
- Send an agreement to others
- Written Signatures
- Recipient signing order
- Send in Bulk
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Authoring fields into documents
- In-app authoring environment
- Create forms with text tags
- Create forms using Acrobat (AcroForms)
- Fields
- Authoring FAQ
- Sign Agreements
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Manage Agreements
- Manage page overview
- Delegate agreements
- Replace Recipients
- Limit Document Visibility
- Cancel an Agreement
- Create new reminders
- Review reminders
- Cancel a reminder
- Access Power Automate flows
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More Actions...
- How search works
- View an agreement
- Create a template from an agreement
- Hide/Unhide agreements from view
- Upload a signed agreement
- Modify a sent agreement's files and fields
- Edit a recipient's authentication method
- Add or modify an expiration date
- Add a Note to the agreement
- Share an individual agreement
- Unshare an agreement
- Download an individual agreement
- Download the individual files of an agreement
- Download the Audit Report of an agreement
- Download the field content of an agreement
- Audit Report
- Reporting and Data exports
Advanced Agreement Capabilities and Workflows
- Webforms
- Reusable Templates
- Transfer ownership of web forms and library templates
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Power Automate Workflows
- Overview of the Power Automate integration and included entitlements
- Enable the Power Automate integration
- In-Context Actions on the Manage page
- Track Power Automate usage
- Create a new flow (Examples)
- Triggers used for flows
- Importing flows from outside Acrobat Sign
- Manage flows
- Edit flows
- Share flows
- Disable or Enable flows
- Delete flows
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Useful Templates
- Administrator only
- Agreement archival
- Webform agreement archival
- Agreement data extraction
- Agreement notifications
- Agreement generation
- Custom Send workflows
- Share users and agreements
Integrate with other products
- Acrobat Sign for Salesforce
- Acrobat Sign for Microsoft
- Other Integrations
- Partner managed integrations
- How to obtain an integration key
Acrobat Sign Developer
- REST APIs
- Webhooks
Support and Troubleshooting
The eIDAS Regulation (No 910/2014) (EU eIDAS) came into force in 2016. It created a Europe-wide legal framework for electronic signatures.
Upon the UK leaving the EU, the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 converted EU eIDAS into UK law (UK eIDAS) and modified some of the provisions via a Brexit statutory instrument (eIDAS SI).
- UK eIDAS retains many important features of EU eIDAS, but also introduces several important modifications that impact the legal treatment of electronic signatures. Key points include:
- UK eIDAS preserves the mutual recognition of electronic signatures and other trust services by allowing the technical standards and specifications in UK eIDAS to mirror those in EU eIDAS. This means that e-signing platforms (and trust service providers) established in the EU can continue to provide their trust services to UK customers.
- Under EU eIDAS, only a ‘qualified electronic signature’ (QES) has the equivalent legal standing of a handwritten signature as it provides more security and a higher level of authentication than a standard electronic signature. The elevated status of the QES is maintained by UK eIDAS. QES will therefore play a significant role in helping organisations manage some of the legal challenges associated with cross-border transactions between UK and EU.
- The UK-EU Trade and Cooperation Agreement 2020 (TCA) includes a guarantee that neither the UK nor the EU may discriminate against electronic signatures and electronic documents solely on the grounds that they are in an electronic form. However, the TCA has adopted a new definition of electronic signature that diverges from the common definition in EU eIDAS and UK eIDAS, and introduces a strict requirement for ‘data integrity’. Adobe confirms that all electronic (and digital) signatures generated on the Adobe Acrobat Sign platform satisfy this requirement.
- Although the TCA excludes certain categories of contract (including real estate contracts, wills and notarial documents), it broadly aligns the future development of UK and EU laws in relation to the type of electronic and digital signatures available on the Adobe Acrobat Sign platform. This is reassuring to UK customers, especially for cross-border transactions with EU parties.
- Overall, the combination of UK eIDAS, the Electronic Communications Act 2000 and case law supports the continued use of electronic signatures to execute domestic transactions (under English law).
- Because EU and UK eIDAS left some discretion to EU member states to prohibit electronic signatures or to require a particular type of electronic signature such as a QES, for cross-border transactions, a UK party must always consider on a case-by-case basis whether an electronic signature will be recognised, and the document be registrable and enforceable, in every jurisdiction relevant to the transaction. See our separate guide to EU/UK Cross-border transactions and eIDAS
- For a more comprehensive overview of the laws governing electronic signatures in the UK, refer to Electronic Signature Laws & Regulations - England & Wales and Electronic Signature Laws & Regulations - Scotland
- For a fuller treatment of the impact of Brexit on electronic signature laws in the UK, see the joint paper published with law firm CMS and Adobe. Brexit briefing: What is the impact on electronic signature laws in the UK?