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  • December 19, 2025
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I’ve been trying to sign a document from my doctor for 4 days but I’m having a lot of problems with this site, this is ridiculous. I couldn’t even post this yesterday, there was no place to type my problem.

At any rate, I received an email from Docusign telling me to sign a document from my doctor. I clicked the link, signed up, and couldn’t find the document. Now when I sign in I get a dead end, it wants me to create an envelope which I can’t do because it also tells me I have too many drafts and there’s no way I can delete them. I can’t leave this page, I’m stuck on it. Luckily I have 3 docusign.com tabs open and I can post here using this tab to sign?

I’ve received 3 emails from Docusign telling me to sign but it won’t let me sign. What can I do? Do I have to be a paying member to sign? Do I have to pay for support?

 

Best answer by mr1

@vinwil 

You do not have to pay to sign. You don’t even need an account to sign.

You should be able to click on the link in the email and follow that to he document. Do you have the email? (If not, you can ask the Doctor’s office to resend the link).

Once you have the email, you can either click on the link - or copy the link and paste it into a browser. Since you are having issues - try copying the link, then opening a private window in your browser and pasting the link in.

 

If you have a DocuSign account - you can also try logging in through a private window.  The document to sign should be in your ‘inbox’ (Check the “agreements tab - I think that’s where you can see the ‘inbox’ and other folders).

 

NOTE: It is my understanding that, if you signed up for an account AFTER you received a link to sign - that envelope will not be part of your account.. Only envelopes received AFTER you sign up will be part of your account. You’ll need the email link to access envelopes sent before you had an account.

 

here are the directions from DocuSign:

https://support.docusign.com/s/articles/How-do-I-sign-a-DocuSign-document-Basic-Signing?language=en_US

 

You can try to access support on the support page - there are some options for free accounts.

https://support.docusign.com/s/contactSupport?language=en_US&rsc_301

 

good luck

mr1

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  • December 19, 2025

@vinwil 

You do not have to pay to sign. You don’t even need an account to sign.

You should be able to click on the link in the email and follow that to he document. Do you have the email? (If not, you can ask the Doctor’s office to resend the link).

Once you have the email, you can either click on the link - or copy the link and paste it into a browser. Since you are having issues - try copying the link, then opening a private window in your browser and pasting the link in.

 

If you have a DocuSign account - you can also try logging in through a private window.  The document to sign should be in your ‘inbox’ (Check the “agreements tab - I think that’s where you can see the ‘inbox’ and other folders).

 

NOTE: It is my understanding that, if you signed up for an account AFTER you received a link to sign - that envelope will not be part of your account.. Only envelopes received AFTER you sign up will be part of your account. You’ll need the email link to access envelopes sent before you had an account.

 

here are the directions from DocuSign:

https://support.docusign.com/s/articles/How-do-I-sign-a-DocuSign-document-Basic-Signing?language=en_US

 

You can try to access support on the support page - there are some options for free accounts.

https://support.docusign.com/s/contactSupport?language=en_US&rsc_301

 

good luck

mr1


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  • December 21, 2025

Thank you mr1.


I opened an account after I clicked the Docusign email link to docusign.com. When I click that link now it takes me to a page that tells me to upload a document and add a recipient. That’s not right, I don’t want to provide a document, I want to view and sign one. I’m not a doctor, I’m a patient. There are no documents in my inbox.

 

I’m unable to chat with Docusign, when I click the link they provide it goes nowhere.  Phone and email support are apparently a pay service. I tried to contact my doctor but they haven't returned my call or email so far.


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Hello ​@vinwil,

Thank you for reaching out to DocuSign Community! I notice you've already marked ​@mr1 response as the Best Answer—the solutions provided are spot-on and accurate.
I'm checking to see if you still need assistance or if you still need to contact support based on your last response.
Live chat is available to free accounts—if you run into any glitches, please attempt the basic troubleshooting steps 👉 Basic troubleshooting steps for common Docusign issues
If you've created an account (likely a free trial), you can open a support case directly after logging in—it's available for paid and trial customers 👉 How do I contact Docusign Customer Support?
You may try our alternative signing method 👉 Use a Security Code to access Docusign documents
If the challenge continues, reach back out to your sender. They may have required you to log in before signing the envelope, which caused the issue. In that case, the sender can adjust the settings or resend it to your new DocuSign account.
Let me know how I can help next!

 

Regards,

Melanie | Docusign Community Moderator


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  • January 3, 2026

Thanks Melanie.

 

I contacted my doctor’s office and they said they never use Docusign. I’m not sure why I received the emails from Docusign, there was never anything I could view or sign. I guess I’ll never know.

 

Every time I signed in Docusign treated me like I was somebody sending out a document to be signed not like somebody looking to sign a document, I don’t know why that is. I thought it was strange that I was given a “free trial”.

 

At any rate I guess I don’t need anything to be done.