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Docusign Trainer Tips: Automatic Template Matching

  • February 12, 2025
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Glen.Steinhardt
Docusign Employee
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Your eSignature users may not be aware that an eSignature template for the document they’re preparing to send to a customer may already exist in your eSignature account.  As a result, they may be spending unnecessary time going through the process of creating an envelope when instead they can just use a template that has been already configured for them in your account

Avoid this unnecessary time waste by utilizing a feature called Automatic Template Matching.

Automatic Template Matching scans the text of a document upon upload during the envelope creation process to determine if that same document may already exist in a template.  If so, you can simply click a button to apply that template to your document and your envelope is configured!

Take a look at this Trainer Tip video in which Product Trainer Glen Steinhardt shows you how to configure Automatic Template Matching for your account

 

Key Take-aways:

  • This feature is already enabled for all eSignature accounts by default!
  • An eSignature administrator configures the account-wide process that reviews the text and information in a document to determine if it matches a saved template.
  • Every user can set their own parameters to determine whether a template will be automatically matched.

 

Additional Resources:

For further information about Automatic Template matching, check out the following article:

Template Matching

We also have instructor-led courses on many other topics. Please visit our live training calendar and register for a course today !

 

 

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Great Video, especially explaining the custom IDR zones many wouldn’t be family with.
Also interesting is the option to Enable page-level template matching to apply template matching to each page of your uploaded files.

FYI - automatic 40 days exclusion, what most people aren’t probably aware of:

Eligible for matching

When you create a template, it is automatically eligible for template matching. When you upload files to Docusign, eligible templates are included in the pool of templates evaluated for a match. The template remains eligible as long as it has been used within the past 40 days. This is the default matching state for all templates.

After 40 days of no activity on an eligible template, the matching state switches to Excluded. The template remains in your account, it is just not used for matching.

See Include or Exclude Templates From Template Matching