E-signature in Irys One
Signing as a recipient
Anyone can sign an agreement sent from Irys. The person signing does not need an Irys account, and nothing has to be installed. This page describes what they see, so you know what you are sending people into.
What arrives
The signer gets a Signature Request email carrying your note and the date the request expires. SIGN DOCUMENT opens the agreement; Decline to Sign sits at the bottom of the same email. Opening it brings up the agreement page, headed with the name of the request and a line saying who sent it, how many documents it holds, and that they are being asked to sign. A Secure signing badge sits at the top right, next to a Sign in button. Signing in is not required to read or sign.
Three steps run across the top of the page: Agree to sign online, Read and sign, and Finished. The confirmation below sits inside the signing step rather than adding a fourth.
The three steps
Agree to sign online
The Electronic Signature Disclosure is set out in full on the page, not behind a link. Under it is a checkbox, unchecked, and Continue to Sign, which stays disabled until the box is ticked. The page says plainly that agreeing here is not signing and that the signer sees everything first.
Read and sign
The signer picks one of their saved signatures, or clicks + to add one: upload an image of it, draw it on the trackpad, or type their name and choose from a set of styles. They pick the date, where Today is one click, then click each highlighted spot on the document to fill it. A counter tracks how many spots are filled, and a list of them lets the signer jump straight to any one. The document is paged, with Previous and Next and a page count.
Confirm
Clicking Sign does not finish it. Irys asks the signer to confirm that the signature is theirs and states what it records against the signing. Sign Document is the step that completes it.
Finished
The agreement is done from their side. Three downloads are offered: the signed document, the signing record, and the disclosure.
Saving and printing
Save this as a PDF and Print it sit under the disclosure, and stay available before and after signing. Nothing about the flow requires the signer to have an account to keep a copy of what they signed.
If something is off
Four options sit beside the document for the whole of the flow. None of them is buried, and only one of them is a refusal.
| Option | What it does |
|---|---|
| Ask a question | Goes to the sender as a message. It refuses nothing. |
| Suggest a change | Lets the signer edit the wording and send it back. |
| I'm not the right person | Passes it to a colleague, and the original contact stays copied in. |
| Decline to sign | Asks for a reason, which reaches the sender directly. |
Suggesting a change is not a decline. It sends the agreement back for another round, and it appears on your side as an agreement where the next move is yours.
What the signer is agreeing to
The disclosure covers the legal effect of signing electronically, the right to a paper copy, and the right to withdraw consent. See Electronic signature standards.