Signing a Contract in Google Drive Without Opening Another Tab

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Step one: set up the account before you touch the contract

Start with the sign-up, not the contract. Get the account in place first and the document is the next thing you touch rather than the thing you keep postponing.

DocHub is one of the automation products built by Airslate, a company whose stated purpose is to keep work moving, every day — from editing and signing documents to automating business processes and acquiring new customers. So at sign-up you are not joining a one-trick utility. You are stepping into a product family used by more than 430 million people worldwide, where 20 million documents are completed each month for work and life.

Do the sign-up with the contract already sitting in your Drive, so that the moment you are through there is something concrete waiting. The first signed document then comes out of the same sitting rather than a future one you have to schedule.

Step two: open the PDF where you already keep it

Here is the part that saves the tab-hopping. DocHub’s tools work right inside Google apps, so the contract in your Drive opens with editing and signing tools attached to it.

Find the PDF. Open it with DocHub. What you see on screen is the same contract your counterparty will see, with the tools you need sitting around it rather than in a separate application you have to go and learn.

This is usually the moment people notice how much of the old routine was overhead. Printing, scanning, hunting through an email thread for the latest attachment — none of that was the contract. It was logistics wrapped around the contract. Working on the document inside the apps you already use strips the logistics back and leaves the actual job, which is agreeing terms and putting a signature on them.

Step three: mark it up and sign it

With the contract open, you work directly on the page. DocHub gives you easy-to-use tools to edit, sign and share PDFs, so a wrong date, a stray figure or a misspelled company name gets fixed on the spot instead of in a reply email asking somebody else to fix it.

Then you add your own signature. Across Airslate’s products, 1.8 million business-changing deals are eSigned every month, which tells you this is ordinary high-volume business practice rather than an experiment you are running alone.

Give yourself a few quiet minutes here. Read the clauses, adjust what needs adjusting, sign. That first completed signature is the result worth chasing today, because everything after it is a repetition of a process you only have to work through once to understand.

Step four: send it to the other two signers

A contract with one signature is half a contract. From the same document, you share the PDF with the two people who still need to sign, and their signatures come back on the file you sent rather than on three separate copies nobody can reconcile.

Sharing is part of what DocHub does — edit, sign and share, with tools that work inside Google apps — so the other signers are being asked to sign a document, not to adopt your entire way of working.

If signing becomes a team habit rather than a personal one, Airslate also offers SignNow, which lets your entire team collect legally binding eSignatures with no user limits and no interruptions. That is the next door along, and it is in the same building.

Why the first result is worth starting on today

Run the walkthrough end to end and the appeal is plain. Account created. Contract opened from Drive inside the Google apps you already have open. Edits made, signature added, document sent to two people. The only thing outside your control is how quickly those two read their email.

That is the case for beginning now rather than filing this away as a sensible idea for later — the contract on your screen can be a signed contract in the same sitting.

Airslate’s products are built to be intuitive and fully customisable, connecting people, data and apps through the power of automation. The lineup also includes pdfFiller for creating, editing, eSigning and collaborating on PDFs, and altaFlow for building and integrating workflows, when you want more than signatures. For now, open the contract waiting in your Drive and get it signed.