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🅿️ How to initial a document

Learn how to automatically add initials to every page in Ugosign to confirm page-by-page review and strengthen document integrity during a B2B e-signature process.

🎯 Objective

Explain how to enable initialing in Ugosign in order to confirm the review and approval of each page of a document during an electronic signature process.

📝 Prerequisites

  • A PDF document ready to be sent for signature
  • A signature request currently being created in Ugosign
  • An active Ugosign account

📍 Steps

  1. Create a signature request
    When creating a new signature request, open the “Settings” section and enable the “Add initials” option.
    Initial a document with Ugosign
  2. Send the document
    Finalize your request and send the document to the signatories.
  3. Signature completion
    Once the signature is completed, Ugosign automatically adds initials to the bottom of each page of the document.

✅ Expected result

The signed document automatically contains initials on every page, strengthening document integrity and confirming that the entire content has been approved.

💡 Good to know

  • Initials usually correspond to the signer’s initials.
  • Initialing is especially recommended for contracts and legal documents.
  • Initialing is automatic: signers do not need to take any additional action.
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Last update : 30 January 2026

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