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DocuSign Workflow - Tedious and Overcomplicated?

  • March 22, 2022
  • 6 replies
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We are currently using the DocuSign integration, however, we find the workflow and click requirements to be extremely tedious and excessive. We are using it to send out rental contracts (through the Sales Order screen and form) to be signed by our customers. The form we send to be signed changes very little between customers, yet we still have to manually edit every form being sent through DocuSign to place the signature lines and initial lines on the document. There is apparently no way to create a template? It takes as long, or longer in some cases, to prepare the DocuSign document than it does to prepare the Sales Order. It should take almost no clicks or time to prepare the document for signature. It should be, at most, a toggle button to say “Send DocuSign” or “Require Signature” or something along those lines. 

A copy of the “signed” document does NOT get attached to the Sales Order automatically and there is no way to track the DocuSign envelope status from within Acumatica. 

It appears that Acumatica email templates are not used at all when sending a form through DocuSign. 

All of this adds duplicate work and data entry to the workflow instead of making it easier and faster. 

DocuSign has been very unhelpful. They claim to know nothing about how their product integrates with Acumatica’s workflows. 

Does anyone know how to integrate DocuSign with Acumatica better? it appears to be a bare minimum connection with very little true “integration” in my opinion. Or maybe I am missing something major? 

Does anyone know of a contact at Acumatica who knows the DocuSign integration inside and out?

6 replies

  • Freshman I
  • February 14, 2024

Hi Ross, 

 

I see on the header of your post that there are 7 replies, but I don’t see any of the actual replies…

We are in process of integrating Docu-Sign with Acumatica right now and are running into this same problem. Our thoughts were spelt out exactly in your post: “the workflow and click requirements (seem) to be extremely tedious and excessive”. 

 

Did you ever receive feedback as to how to combat this issue, or how to make the docu-sign integration more efficient?  

Thanks! 


Chris Hackett
Community Manager
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  • Acumatica Community Manager
  • February 14, 2024

Hi @amillerbernd - The number of replies you see are the number of replies the user has made not the number of replies to this post.

You will now see two replies


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  • Jr Varsity II
  • February 14, 2024

@amillerbernd - Unfortunately, I have not received any feedback on how to make the Docu-Sign integration more efficient. We have gotten used to it and are using it effectively. However, there is a LOT of room for improvement to make it more user friendly and efficient.  


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  • Freshman I
  • May 27, 2025

@amillerbernd - Unfortunately, I have not received any feedback on how to make the Docu-Sign integration more efficient. We have gotten used to it and are using it effectively. However, there is a LOT of room for improvement to make it more user friendly and efficient.  

Ross, have you gotten any closer or had any luck since last posting?  Our VAR convinced us to go with Docusign and made a lot of promises.  We’ve ended up with a contract and big expense for a software we’ve just abandoned.  Now that we’re more comfortable with the system, I’m looking for ways to see if we can make anything work with this thing that we’re still paying for, but posts like yours don’t give me a lot of confidence.

For any Customers that are looking into this in the future - make sure you get a full demo of your actual use case and that it all works for you.  Don’t leave anything to the imagination or take anyone’s word for it with the Docusign integration as you might end up with a software bill that doesn’t do anything to improve your process to begin with.


  • Freshman I
  • July 7, 2025

Our e-signature integration (SignNow provider) addresses a lot of the shortcomings of the existing solution.

 

You can find more info on our integration in our community post: SignNow Acumatica Plugin


Message me if you are interested in a demo and to discuss your use cases.

Thanks


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  • Captain I
  • September 29, 2025

Hi everyone,

I’m currently evaluating the eSign functionality in Acumatica. Before I invest time into setting it up, I’d like to clarify a few things:

  • Does this feature allow documents to be signed by external parties (contacts who are not Acumatica users)?
  • Or is it limited to internal users already configured in the system?

Thanks!