Electronic signature for small business.

Yes. A small business can run solo signing free forever - one user, unlimited documents, reusable templates, a full audit trail, and a certificate of completion on every signed file, with no credit card to begin. That is enough for an owner-operator or a freelancer to send service agreements, NDAs, and contractor paperwork without paying anything. As you add the rest of the team, paid plans layer on shared workspaces, custom branding, bulk send, and automatic cloud backup, but the core signing and the legal validity are identical on every plan, including Free. You are never pushed into a contract or an enterprise quote to send a document.

No. There is no envelope cap and no per-document fee on any plan, so you are never metered on how many contracts, quotes, or NDAs you send in a month. This is the difference that matters most for a small business: signing volume is unpredictable, and a tool that charges per send quietly punishes a busy month. With Document eSign you send as many documents as the work requires - five in a slow week, fifty when you are onboarding clients - and the price does not move. Plans are priced by the features and team size you need, not by the number of signatures you collect.

Yes. Add your logo and an accent color, and the signing page your clients see carries your branding instead of a generic vendor screen. You can also send signature requests from your own email domain, so the invitation lands as coming from your business rather than a third-party tool. For a small shop competing with bigger names, that polish matters - a branded signing experience makes a two-person company look established and reassures a client that they are dealing with you directly. Branding lives at the workspace level, so once you set it up every document your team sends inherits it automatically.

Yes. Templates belong to the workspace, not to the person who built them, so your team works from one shared library and everyone sends the same approved version of a contract. When you hire, a new teammate inherits the full template set on their first day - there is no copying files around or rebuilding agreements from scratch. If you need a one-off variant, duplicate a template and adjust the copy without touching the original. This keeps a small team consistent: the service agreement a new hire sends looks exactly like the one the founder sends, fields and all.

Yes. Bulk send takes one template and a list of recipients and creates a separate, personalized, individually tracked document for each one, so every client signs their own copy rather than a shared file. It is built for the moments a small business sends the same paperwork to many people at once - annual renewals, a price-change notice, updated terms, or a seasonal agreement going out to your whole client list. Each signed copy comes back with its own certificate of completion and audit trail, and you can see at a glance who has signed and who still needs a nudge. Bulk send is a paid-plan feature.

Every signed document stays in your workspace until you remove it - nothing is auto-deleted or expired, so an agreement you closed last year is still there when you need it. You can search and filter by status to find a specific contract in seconds. On paid plans, every completed PDF and its certificate of completion are also mirrored automatically to your own Google Drive, Dropbox, or OneDrive, into the folder structure you choose, so there is a second copy in the system your business already backs up. You can export any document or its audit trail at any time, and nothing is locked to the platform.

Yes. Documents signed electronically with Document eSign are legally binding under the U.S. ESIGN Act of 2000 and your state's UETA, and under eIDAS across the EU. These laws give an electronic signature the same standing as wet ink when the signer intended to sign, consented to sign electronically, the signature is attributed to them, and a record is retained. Document eSign captures all four on every document and seals the finished file with a PAdES-B signature, then issues a certificate of completion recording each signer's email, IP address, and timestamp. That certificate is the evidence you would bring if an agreement were ever disputed.

Yes. A client opens a secure link from their email and signs in the browser on any phone, tablet, or laptop - there is nothing to install and no account to create. They review the document, type or draw their signature, and finish in a couple of minutes, and you see it land in your workspace the moment they are done. This is what keeps a small business moving: a client travelling, on site, or simply away from their desk can sign from the device in their pocket, so a deal does not wait for someone to get back to a printer and scanner.