How to sign a document without creating an account

Someone who needs your signature sent you an email with a secure link. Opening it does not create an account, ask for a password, or require an app. It opens a webpage showing the document, with the fields you need to complete highlighted — usually a signature, and sometimes your name, a date, initials, or a short answer.

On Signavos, that link is encrypted and stays valid for 30 days, but the sender's request itself expires after 7 days if nobody signs. Once you open it, you have 60 minutes to finish before the session needs to be reopened.

• Confirm the sender's name and email match who you expect — the invitation email shows both.
• Read the document before signing. The signing page displays the actual PDF, not a summary; scroll through it.
• If anything looks wrong — an unfamiliar sender, a document you weren't expecting, terms that don't match what was discussed — decline instead of signing, and contact the sender directly through a channel you trust, not by replying to the email.

To sign, you can draw your signature with a finger or mouse, type it (it renders in a handwriting-style font), or upload an image of your signature. Complete any other required fields, then submit.

If you don't want to sign, decline instead and give a reason. The sender is notified immediately, and the decline is recorded the same as a signature would be — there is no silent way to leave a request unresolved.

You can download your own copy of the signed document directly from the signing page once you finish. No completion email is sent by Signavos to the recipient, so save your copy before you close the tab — the sender receives the final document and certificate in their own account, but your access to the signing link is not permanent.

A recipient account would mean one more password to manage and one more place your data sits. Instead, the link itself — encrypted, single-use per session, time-limited — is the credential, and every action you take is written to a tamper-evident audit trail that neither side can quietly edit afterwards. See what is an electronic signature audit trail? for what that record actually contains.

That is how Signavos works: recipients sign without creating an account, and you pay per signature, not per month.