Electronic signature for education, permission slips to enrollment.

Yes. A parent or guardian opens a secure link from their email and signs the permission slip directly in the browser, with no account to create and nothing to install, on a phone, tablet, or laptop. For a single child you send one slip; for a whole class or grade, bulk send takes your slip template and a roster CSV and creates a separate, personalized envelope for each family in one batch. Each family only sees their own child's slip. Every signed slip comes back with a certificate of completion and an audit trail recording who signed, when, and from what IP, so you have proof the right guardian agreed. Reminders go out automatically to families who have not signed yet, and you track the whole class from one screen.

Yes. Add each guardian as a separate recipient on the same envelope and choose sequential routing, where the second guardian is invited after the first signs, or parallel routing, where both can sign at the same time from wherever they are. Both signatures land on a single audit trail and a single certificate of completion tied to that student's record, so you do not end up chasing two separate documents. This is the common pattern for field trips, medical authorizations, and any form a school requires both guardians to approve. If only one guardian is needed, you simply add one recipient. Either way, neither guardian needs an account, and each is verified by the secure link sent to their own email address.

Yes. Bulk send is built for exactly this: upload your slip or form as a reusable template, attach a CSV of the class or grade with each family's name and email, and Document eSign creates a separate envelope for every family in one job - up to 5,000 envelopes per batch. Each family receives only their own child's form, automatic reminders chase anyone who has not signed, and any rows that fail (a bad email, for example) are exported so you can fix and resend just those. You watch the whole batch fill in from one dashboard - signed, viewed, reminder sent - rather than emailing slips one at a time. Bulk send is a paid-plan feature; qualifying schools and districts typically get an education discount on those plans.

Yes. Bundle enrollment, registration, financial-aid, and policy acknowledgment PDFs into a single envelope with one signing flow, so a family signs the entire packet in one sitting and you get back one certificate of completion covering all of it. You place the signature, date, and initial fields where they belong across every document in the bundle, and the family moves through them in order without juggling separate emails. You can pull the source documents in from Google Drive, Dropbox, or OneDrive rather than re-uploading them. For a whole incoming class, combine this with bulk send so each family receives their own personalized enrollment packet. Nothing in the bundle is auto-deleted; the signed packet stays in your account for the student's record until you remove it.

The electronic signatures themselves are valid under the US ESIGN Act and state UETA laws, the same as wet ink. FERPA is a separate question: it governs how a school handles and discloses education records, and the institution - not the signing tool - remains the FERPA-responsible party. Document eSign is FERPA-aware, meaning it gives you the controls that support FERPA compliance: access controls so only authorized staff see records, an audit trail on every document, signed files kept in your own account, and, on Enterprise, single sign-on and data-residency options. It is not a FERPA guarantee or certification. Treat signed slips and forms as education records, restrict who can open them, and confirm the specifics against your own district or institution's FERPA policy for each record type.

Under FERPA, rights over education records generally transfer from the parent to the student once the student turns 18 or enrolls in a postsecondary institution, at which point they become an eligible student. In practice that means you add the eligible student as the signer on the envelope instead of a guardian. Everything else works the same way: the student opens the secure link, signs in the browser with no account, and the signature lands on the same audit trail and certificate of completion. For students under 18, a parent or guardian signs on the student's behalf, since a minor generally cannot provide legally binding consent. If a form needs both the eligible student and a guardian, add both as recipients with your chosen routing order.

Yes. Signing runs entirely in the mobile browser, so a parent or guardian can review and sign a permission slip, medical form, or enrollment packet from a phone or tablet with nothing to download and no account to set up. They tap the secure link in their email, read the document, agree to your consent wording, and sign by typing or drawing - producing the same legally binding signature and the same audit trail they would get on a laptop. This matters for schools because most families respond from their phone: a field-trip slip that lands during a workday gets signed in the carpool line rather than sitting in a backpack for a week. You see each signature arrive in your dashboard, sealed, the moment the guardian finishes.

Yes. Higher-education teams use Document eSign for enrollment and registration forms, financial-aid agreements, housing contracts, and policy acknowledgments. Bulk send handles whole incoming cohorts from a single CSV, bundling lets a student sign a multi-document packet in one flow, and you keep every signed record in your account with a full audit trail. For staff, paid plans add team members and branding, and Enterprise adds single sign-on so your team signs in with existing institutional credentials. Because rights transfer to the student at 18 under FERPA, you typically add the eligible student as the signer for postsecondary forms rather than a guardian. As with any education record, the institution remains the FERPA-responsible party and should apply its own access and retention policies.

Yes. Qualifying schools, districts, and higher-education institutions typically get an education discount on paid plans, often around 50% off, which is where bulk send, multiple team members, custom branding, and cloud backup live. The way to set it up is to reach out through the sales page and tell us a little about your school or district; we confirm eligibility and apply the discount to your account. The free plan is genuinely free and needs no card, so a single teacher or a small office can start sending slips and forms today, then move to a discounted paid plan once you need to send to whole grades at once or add colleagues. The signing, the certificate, and the legal validity are identical on every tier.

Yes. The Free plan includes unlimited envelopes and two reusable templates with a full audit trail on every signed document, and it never expires or asks for a card - enough for a single teacher or a small front office to send permission slips, medical forms, and acknowledgments throughout the year. You can send one form to one family as many times as you like; what the Free plan does not include is bulk send, which is what you reach for when you need to send the same slip to a whole grade in one batch. Schools and districts move up to a paid plan, usually with an education discount, for bulk send, additional team members, custom branding, and cloud backup. Signing and legal validity are the same on Free as on any paid tier.