---
title: "Send documents for signing"
url: "https://docs.signnow.com/docs/send-documents-for-signing"
type: "page"
section: "Integrations"
slug: "send-documents-for-signing"
---

# Send documents for signing

## Send documents for signing

To send your documents, shared documents, templates or shared templates out for signing, select them and click **Invite to Sign** (a document in the example).

![](https://marketing-static.signnow.com/446/images/docs-signnow/microsoft-teams/MS.send.documents.for.signing.png)

Enter a signer’s email and CC (optional). Then, click **Send Invite**.

When you start entering a user’s name or email, you’ll see the list of all matching contacts from Microsoft Teams.

![](https://marketing-static.signnow.com/446/images/docs-signnow/microsoft-teams/MS.send.invite.png)

To adjust additional settings for your signing request, click the gear icon next to a signer.

The window with additional settings will open, allowing you to:

- password-protect the signing invite:

Password protected documents will be displayed at the top of the document list. Users are supposed to click **Unlock** next to a document.

![](https://marketing-static.signnow.com/446/images/docs-signnow/microsoft-teams/MS.unlock.document.png)

Then, enter a password and click **Unlock**.

![](https://marketing-static.signnow.com/446/images/docs-signnow/microsoft-teams/MS.enter.password.png)

- set an expiration date for your signing invite
- set a reminder for your signing invite

You can adjust settings for each signer separately or apply your settings to all signers in your signing invite by selecting the _Apply settings to all roles_ checkbox.

Once finished, click **Save**.

![](https://marketing-static.signnow.com/446/images/docs-signnow/microsoft-teams/MS.send.document.settings.png)

You can also save copies of signed documents in a separate folder by applying advanced settings.

To do so, click **Advanced settings** and select the option you need (None or Microsoft Teams).

For Microsoft Teams, click **Select Folder** to choose the location of the signed document.

![](https://marketing-static.signnow.com/446/images/docs-signnow/microsoft-teams/MS.advanced.settings.invite.png)

Once the document has been sent, you’ll be able to track the status of the document.

![](https://marketing-static.signnow.com/446/images/docs-signnow/microsoft-teams/MS.waiting.for.others.png)

The SignNow Bot will notify Microsoft Teams users about your signature request. Users who are not using Microsoft Teams will receive an email notification.

Users are expected to click **Sign** to open your document for signing in the editor.

![](https://marketing-static.signnow.com/446/images/docs-signnow/microsoft-teams/MS.signature.request.png)

The SignNow Bot will notify you each time a recipient opens your signing request.

![](https://marketing-static.signnow.com/446/images/docs-signnow/microsoft-teams/MS.bot.notification.open.png)

Once users sign your documents and / or signed documents are placed in the selected storage, the notification will appear as follows.

You can open a document in the SignNow app editor by clicking **Open**.

Selecting **Open in SharePoint folder** will open a document in the Sharepoint folder it was saved to.

![](https://marketing-static.signnow.com/446/images/docs-signnow/microsoft-teams/MS.bot.notification.storage.png)

The status of the document will be automatically changed from _Waiting for Others_ to _Signed_.

![](https://marketing-static.signnow.com/446/images/docs-signnow/microsoft-teams/MS.signed.png)

Download documents directly from the SignNow app. To do so, select the document you need and click **Download** in the sidebar panel.

![](https://marketing-static.signnow.com/446/images/docs-signnow/microsoft-teams/MS.download.signed.document.png)

In the _Download_ pop-up, select a download method:

- selecting _None_ will simply download the document
- selecting _History_ will download the document along with the document’s detailed history.

![](https://marketing-static.signnow.com/446/images/docs-signnow/microsoft-teams/MS.download.none.history.png)


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*Full page: https://docs.signnow.com/docs/send-documents-for-signing*