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  • March 8, 2018
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Docusign Employee
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HI 

I need to sign a document (on docusign with my electronic signature) before sending the contract to besigned by others electronically and returned. I have read all the guidance but cannot see how to do this. Any help appreciated! 

thank you  

Best answer by Community Expert

Just include yourself as Recipient #1 and then have everyone else with a Signing Order of 2 or greater. Make sure to actually assign yourself signature fields on the document before sending the envelope.

If you want to be a Signer on the envelope, you actually have to be a recipient on the envelope. Otherwise what you're referring to is simply placing a signature on a document without confirmation, which means you could be doing it with someone else's signature and thus defeating the whole purpose of electronic veririfation.

Hope this helps.

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Docusign Employee
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Just include yourself as Recipient #1 and then have everyone else with a Signing Order of 2 or greater. Make sure to actually assign yourself signature fields on the document before sending the envelope.

If you want to be a Signer on the envelope, you actually have to be a recipient on the envelope. Otherwise what you're referring to is simply placing a signature on a document without confirmation, which means you could be doing it with someone else's signature and thus defeating the whole purpose of electronic veririfation.

Hope this helps.

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