How To Create A Form With Digital Signature

Electronic signature

123 Form Builder gives you the ability to create electronic forms of any kind and add electronic signatures to them. Now you can close deals with your partners online, without having to arrange a meeting for this purpose only.

Use the Signature field to get an electronic equivalent of the handwritten signature from your form respondents.

To add the electronic signature field, go to your Form Editor → Specific fields and drag the Signature field onto your form.

Below you can find the major functionalities of the Signature field and how you can put them into use:

Signature complexity

Select the electronic signature complexity depending on the nature of your needs. From the field menu, head over to Signature complexity (Extra-low / Low / Medium / High). Use this option in order to avoid receiving overly simplified shapes instead of signatures, such as a bare line. High complexity requires at least one letter for most cases.

Clear

This option allows users to erase the signature and create another one before submitting the form.

Electronic signature and Email Templates

If you choose to receive an HTML email notification, you receive the digital signature as an embedded image. If you choose Plain text, you receive a YES/NO answer (meaning the form is signed or not signed).

Electronic signature and Submissions

In the Submissions table, the signature appears as YES/NO (meaning the form is signed or not signed).

Editing the Form Submissions

As a form owner, if you edit a submission containing a signature, the signature is cleared. We have implemented this security feature in order to protect the signatures provided by form users.

We are also compliant with the UETA and ESIGN Acts when it comes to using the Digital Signature field on your forms.

Important Note

We recommend checking with your legal counsel in order to ensure that the electronic signature will be accepted for your purposes.

Frequently Asked Questions

Here is a list of the most frequently asked questions. For more FAQs, please browse through the FAQs page.

Is this service free?

Yes, we offer a free form builder service. Just sign up to the Basic plan and you are all set. This plan is forever free, but you are limited with a few features only, such as 5 forms per account, 100 submissions per month and you have to keep the backlink to 123FormBuilder on your forms. Check out our features matrix for more information.

How many forms can I create?

It depends on the service plan you are on. Higher service plans enable more features, including more web forms for your account. If you need more forms, go to the My Account section of your account and click the upgrade button. To create an unlimited number of forms, either upgrade to the Platinum service plan or higher. Consult our features matrix for more information.

How can I publish my forms?

You can publish your forms in many ways, by using their direct URL or HTML link, embedding them with a JavaScript code, Inline HTML or iFrame, using the Facebook app or the WordPress plugin, using popups, the Blogger code snippet and many more. Once you have created and customized your form, go to the Publish section to complete your work. Read more in our documentation.

How do I change my form design?

You can change the design of your form in the Themes section, which is located in your form settings. We offer a set of more than 30 predefined form themes for your forms, but you can also create your own from scratch. You can customize the submit button, the logo and more. To apply your own stylesheets, all forms come with a custom CSS editor.

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