Glide apps E-Signatures
Get work signed from Glide apps
Work orders, job sign-offs and estimates go out from your Glide app for signature or one-click acceptance. The signed PDF link comes back to the job through your own Glide workflow.
Why field teams sign from Glide with DocsAutomator
From a tap in the app to a sealed PDF in your folder
Signed on site, on any phone
The customer signs from an email, with no account and nothing to install.
The signer comes from your app
The customer's email is one of the values your Glide action sends.
The signed PDF goes where you work
Webhook, Google Drive, Dropbox, the completion email and the Documents page.
How to get documents signed from a Glide app
Set it up once. Every tap on the button creates the document, sends it for signing and delivers the sealed PDF.
- 1
Add a signature tag to your template
Use a Google Docs or Word template for the work order. Type {{esign.signature_1}} where the customer signs and {{esign.date_1}} where the date goes.
- 2
Create the automation
In DocsAutomator, create an automation with Glide as the source. Copy its automation ID and your API key for the Glide action.
- 3
Choose who signs
Turn on Signing. Take the customer's email from a template placeholder that your app fills, such as {{customer_email}}, or set a fixed address.
- 4
Send the signed PDF back to Glide
Build a Glide workflow with a Webhook Trigger and paste its URL as the automation's webhook. Drive, Dropbox and the completion email can run as well.
- 5
Start it from your Glide app
Add the DocsAutomator action to a Glide workflow, for example on a Get sign-off button. Map the job's columns, the email and the row ID included.
- 6
The customer signs on the spot
The customer gets an email, opens it on a phone and signs without an account. The sealed PDF with its certificate goes where you chose.
Source: GlideStart automating & signing in minutes!
Some of the teams / institutions automating and signing their documents with DocsAutomator:
Example: a work order signed on site
A boiler service, signed by the customer when the job is done. All names and amounts are fictional.
1. The job in your Glide app
- Customer
- Dan Reyes
- Customer email
- dan.reyes@example.com
- Technician
- Maya Okafor
- Date
- 10/05/2026
- Work done
- Annual service, pressure valve replaced
- Parts
- Pressure relief valve
- Labour
- 1.5 hours
- Total
- $185.00
2. What your app sends
- {{customer_name}}
- Customer
- {{customer_email}}
- Customer email
- {{technician}}
- Technician
- {{work_done}}
- Work done
- {{parts}}
- Parts
- {{total}}
- Total
3. The signed work order
Estimates accepted with one click
For an estimate or a quote, a yes is enough.
Choose Acceptance instead of Signing. Your customer opens the estimate from the email and clicks Accept.
- Nothing to draw and no account to create
- They can type their name, or decline with a reason
- The sealed PDF arrives with a Certificate of Acceptance
Where the signed PDF goes
Back to the job through your Glide workflow, and to every other place you turn on.
Back on the record, through your own workflow
Your workflow in Glide- DocsAutomatorPosts signedPdfUrl, the signers and their values to your webhook URL.
- 1. Webhook TriggerA Glide workflow starts when the message arrives.
- 2. Query JSONReads signedPdfUrl and the row ID you sent with the request.
- 3. Set Column ValuesSaves the link in the job's Signed work order column.
DocsAutomator does not write into Glide itself. Webhook triggered workflows need a current paid Glide plan. Continue only when signedPdfUrl is present, because the webhook also receives the other signing events.
Webhook
The signed PDF link and the signer's values
Google Drive
A copy in the folder you choose
Dropbox
A copy in your Dropbox
Completion email
Sent to the signer and to your team
Documents page
Every signed PDF in DocsAutomator
Moving from another signing tool?
Whether you use DocuSign, PandaDoc or another tool: our founder moves your templates, signers and flows over with you personally, at no extra cost.
Book a call with our founderWhat to check in an e-signature tool for Glide apps
Seven questions to ask before you pick one.
- Signers from your app. The signer's email should be a value your app sends, not typed again for each job.
- Signing on a phone. Customers on site sign from an email on their own phone, with nothing to install.
- The signed PDF where you work. Each signed work order filed for the office automatically.
- Templates your team can edit. Google Docs, Word or PDF, so the people who own the wording keep editing it.
- Signing and acceptance. A contract needs a signature. A quote often needs only a yes.
- Price per person or per signature. Check whether each team member needs a paid seat, and whether signing costs extra on top of the plan.
- Proof on every PDF. A certificate and an audit trail that record who signed, when and from where.
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