ProTip: Make Your Signature Fields Required

Digital Signatures: a dynamic, powerful tool

From consent forms to permission slips, electronic signatures are an incredibly useful tool. Electronic signatures significantly streamline authorizations and approvals, accelerating common business processes like billing, inspections, and more. When using digital and online forms to collect signatures, your eSign fields can be made Required, ensuring important authorizations are input prior to form completion – meaning your team no longer needs to waste time retracing their steps to collect forgotten signatures. 

Use case: digital consent forms
A fantastic use case for leveraging Required Signature fields are digital consent forms. Consent forms capture a client or patient’s understanding of and agreement to specific procedures, risks, media rights, and more. Making your digital consent form’s Signatures field(s) Required guarantees that the user completes their authorization before they can submit the form. 

How to make your electronic Signature fields Required

Making your electronic Signature field Required is easy! Simply: 

1. Log in to GoFormz from a computer. 

2. Upload your form Template or select an existing form Template to open in the Template Editor. 

3. Drag-and-drop a Signature field from the Template Fields section onto your Template. 

4. (Optional) Adjust the size of your Signature field (ProTip: make your electronic Signature field oversized to accommodate larger signatures). 

5. Locate Required property, within the Properties panel and select ‘Yes’. 

6. Save your changes. 

Your Signature field has now been made Required! To learn how to make the Required property dynamic (e.g. if a user selects a Checkbox, make the Signature field Required) check out this blog post. 

To learn more about adding business logic and data capture rules to your digital forms, check out this post discussing Conditional Logic and how it can improve your data capture.