Self Service Notary
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Everyday work · 5 min

Collect signatures and verify identity

Send a document for signature, watch each signer's progress, and understand the identity check that locks onto their signature.

Send the request

Signature requests are created in the wizard's step 2 (see Notarize a document). Each signer receives their own link — never a shared one — and signs in their browser.

  1. In the wizard, press Add a signer and fill in their name and email.
  2. Pick the identity level: Email link only (they just sign), Government ID + selfie (default — a real identity check), or Two different IDs + selfie for the strictest jobs.
  3. Send. The wizard rail immediately shows progress, like “0 of 1 signed”.
Choosing how a signer proves who they are — Government ID + selfie is the default.
Choosing how a signer proves who they are — Government ID + selfie is the default.

What the signer sees

Your signer opens their link and sees the document with a signature box. When identity verification is on, they are asked to photograph a government ID and take a selfie before they can sign; the verified name is then locked onto their signature — a signature that cannot be claimed by anyone else.

Watch progress

The Signature requests page lists every job with its live status: who has signed, whose identity check is pending, whose link has gone stale. The same counts appear on the wizard's rail and on each Work row.

  1. Open Signature requests in the sidebar.
  2. Each row shows the document, the signers, and how many have signed.
  3. Open a row to see the individual signer's status and to act on it.
The Signature requests page: every request with its live per-signer status.
The Signature requests page: every request with its live per-signer status.

You seal the act yourself

Collecting signatures does not finish the job — when everyone has signed, you return to the document and seal it. The seal is the notary's step, not the signer's.