# Signing an envelope

You will have received an email notification that your signature is required for document(s) within a specific envelope.

* Open the email and click on the envelope link or Navigate to the dashboard in the nChain Sign application.
* In the **Requires Your Attention** column, locate the envelope with the documents you are required to sign and click **Review.**
* Review the documents within the envelope in the preview screen.

**For each document within the envelope**, an Audit Trail section at the bottom of the document displays the email of the signer and timestamp of the document signing.

**For each document within the envelope**, you are required to:

* Create and confirm your visual signature
  * Visual signature can be **Typed, Drawn, Uploaded**
* Place your visual signature to required fields
* Fill in any other fields (date, initials)
* Sign (confirm) the signing request (Sign now) for the included document
* When the envelope contains more documents, you will be guided to the next document and repeat the process; once you have signed all the documents within the envelope, the signing process for that envelope is finalized, and you will be guided back to the dashboard
* if for whatever reason you don't wish to sign the document, decline the signature request (you will be required to provide a note as to why you are declining to sign)

An email notification is then sent to the requestor of the signatures. Signer also receives an e-mail confirmation.

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**Note:** If there are multiple documents in the signing request, you must add your visual signature to, and digitally sign, each document before the envelope is considered complete.
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**Note:** As part of the audit trail for a document, all parties to the Signature Request will be asked to digitally sign all the documents included in that Signature Request, whether or not they are affixing their electronic signature to a given document.
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