Hello @PeterMcC 
 

May be the date you are seeing “Fee Agreement Date” which is Effective Date of agreement.
but the date that you should look for “Signed Date”. that’s what i suggest here.

Thanks!

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I’m a complete beginner so please give me some slack and thanks for your assistance so far. Apologies, I have just returned from a long holiday.

My theory (but should be easy to recreate by the wonderful people on this site) is I think that the original document was generated on the 11th February 2021, and it had a docusign signature for me to sign, which I did on the 1st March 2021. However, when I asked for a copy of the document the finance company may have sent me a pdf of the original document (when it was created on the 11th February 2021) by mistake rather than a copy of the document that I signed on the 1st March 2021.

To prove this I just need to create a simple document with a docusign signature, then wait a day then sign it. Then create a pdf of the original and if the docusign has the same date as when it was created then hey presto we have the answer. 

Unfortunately, I am a pensioner with very little computer/ document skills. This answer to this question is very important to me and I would appreciate some independent expert assistance to provide the answer to my theory.

Kind regards,

Peter

Hi @PeterMcC,

Thank you for reaching out to the Docusign Community. 

The versioning of the document you received will be defined by the point in time when the file was downloaded. This means that if you had already signed the envelope, the sender will not be able to download a version prior to the one available on the Docusign website.  For more details on this topic, see:

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Taking this into consideration, if the sender sent you a version of the document without the signatures, after the completion of the envelope then they must have kept an older version of it.

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Alejandro R. | Docusign Community Moderator  

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Hi Alejandro, Thank you very much for the reply.