serg | Posts: 18

Signing for a spouse - 2 signers, but one session?

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Years ago, with our initial eSign implementation we noticed a significant drop off when we required a married couple to sign separately. In many states, we found that it was acceptable to have two signature tags, one for each spouses, in one eSign session to make electronic signing as simple as possible. Now that we're moving to the eSignLive Cloud solution, we don't see a mechanism to enable this same behavior. Is there something that I can do (we're using the Java SDK / REST APIs for integration) or is this behavior not possible in the current solution?

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fperrault | Posts: 4

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We understand this would be convenient in certain situations and have considered implementing the so called “spouse signing” feature in the past but decided against putting it on our roadmap so far given how easy it is now a days to create an email address and the security tradeoff involved. Although technically feasible, in its simplest form when no alternate authentication mechanism is used, this would weaken considerably the authentication process and could even raise questions about the validity of the whole e-signature process.

harishaidary | Posts: 1812

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Hey Serg, If I understand correctly, you would want two different signature tags at the same time during the signing ceremony. If that's what you mean, it's not currently possible for two different signers to sign a document at the same. I'm not sure if this is something that will be on our roadmap. I will have to ask. You could always post your request in the Enhancement Ideas forum. What I could suggest is to enable in-person signing when creating your package. This way, you could create a session and all the signers will be able to sign one after the other. Hope this helps!

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