10 posts tagged with "developers"

Most products that embed signing have more than one flow that signs. A user accepts terms during onboarding, an account admin signs the first contract, a customer signs a mandate that moves money. When you move these flows off a seat or envelope tool, the signature level often came bundled with the plan: every flow got the same ceremony because the account had it. With IgniSign, the level is a choice you make per flow, and each signature bills at the level it used. The integrating developer's decision is which flow gets which level.

Your product has a new flow that ends with a signature: a mandate, an onboarding contract, a consent. Your backend listens to IgniSign webhooks, and a few weeks after launch an auditor asks for the signed file behind one of your records. That is when a small choice in your webhook handler starts to matter: which event did your code treat as "done"? The signature request completing and the proof being ready are two separate events, and they do two different jobs.

Your product already has users. The first time one of them signs inside your app, IgniSign needs a signer: a record with a name, an email and whatever else the signer profile asks for. The second time the same user signs, you face a small decision that shapes your integration: do you point the new signature request at the signer you already have, or describe the person again on the new request?

When you add a signature step inside your product, the first technical choice is not the UI mode. It is what you put in the signature request. Your app may already hold a PDF contract, an office file, a JSON or XML record, or a document you prefer not to upload. IgniSign accepts those shapes. The integrating developer’s decision is which payload matches the object your product already owns — and what proof you expect back.

You create an IgniSign application once, then you get three environments: development, staging and production, each with its own API keys. The integrating developer’s decision is which of those environments you use for which work, and what that choice costs when a signature request runs. The answer is not “everything is free until production.” It depends on the environment and on what the request does.

You have embedded signing in your product: the signer opens a page in your app, the IgniSign iframe loads inside it, and they sign without leaving. Then two things happen almost at once. The iframe tells your page that the signer is done, and IgniSign sends a webhook to your backend. Both say "signed". The decision for the integrating developer is which of the two signals your product acts on, and for what.

Your product has a new flow: a user signs a mandate inside your app, and the moment the signature is done your backend activates the account, releases the file or moves the deal forward. That moment arrives as a webhook. The decision every integrating developer faces is simple to state: does your handler act on any call that reaches the endpoint, or does it first confirm that the call really came from IgniSign?

Many product flows ask a signer for more than one document at once: an onboarding contract with its data-processing annex, a mandate with a consent form, a set of terms that changed together. With the IgniSign API you can put them all in one signature request. The decision left to the integrating developer is how the signer gets through them: one document at a time, which is now the default for requests with several documents, or every document with a single swipe. This post is about that choice and what it changes in your backend.

When a signature request completes, your product has a new thing to look after: the proof. One day an auditor, a customer or your own support team will ask for it, often months after the signer finished. So the integrating developer has to decide early how the backend treats that proof: copy it into your own storage as soon as the signature is done, or keep a reference and fetch it from IgniSign when someone asks. This post is about that choice.

When a new flow in your product needs a signature (an onboarding contract, a mandate, a consent), the first technical decision is not the signature level or the document format. It is where the signer will be when they sign. For documents, IgniSign gives you two answers: embedded, where the signing interface runs in an iframe inside your page, and BySide, where the signer opens an IgniSign-hosted signing page from a link. Both start from the same signature request. This post is about picking one.