When you send an envelope, your recipient gets an email with a secure link. Clicking it takes them to CornerSpot's guided signing experience — no account required. This guide walks through exactly what they do, from the start to the finished, signed document, so you can confidently help a customer along the way.
How recipients sign and adopt a signature in CornerSpot
The whole flow happens in three short steps: review and consent, complete the fields, and finish. Here's what each looks like.
1. Review the document and accept the e-records consent
After clicking the link, the recipient sees a review and consent page showing who sent the document, how many pages and fields are involved, and the other signing parties. To continue, they accept the electronic records and signatures consent — required under the U.S. ESIGN Act and state UETA law. They click I agree, continue to document to proceed.
2. Work through the required fields
Inside the document, CornerSpot guides the recipient from one required field to the next so nothing is missed. A field counter at the top and an actions list on the left show progress. Each field they complete — text, dates, checkboxes, and signatures — is marked done.
3. Adopt a signature
When the recipient opens a signature field, the Adopt your signature panel appears with three ways to sign:
- Type — enter a full legal name, rendered in a signature font.
- Draw — draw the signature with a mouse, trackpad, or finger.
- Upload — upload an image of a handwritten signature (PNG, JPG, or SVG).
After choosing a method, the recipient clicks Adopt & sign. An adopted signature can be reused across other signature fields in the document — and on future documents — so they don't have to recreate it each time. The same panel handles initials, labeled Adopt your initials.
4. Finish and submit
All required fields must be completed before the document can be finished. Once they are, the Finish & Submit button becomes active. The recipient clicks it to finalize their signature.
5. Done — the signed copy
The recipient lands on a completion page confirming the document is signed, with a certificate summary and a button to download a signed copy (PDF). When the whole envelope is complete, a signed copy is emailed to every party automatically.
Good to know
- The signing experience is mobile-friendly — recipients can sign from a phone or tablet.
- No CornerSpot account is needed; the secure link is unique to each recipient.
- An adopted signature is reusable, so multiple signature fields take just one click after the first.
- A recipient can also decline to sign from this screen if something isn't right.