When you sign up for SignatureAPI, you get a free test API key. Test API keys let you create test envelopes, great for trying out your workflows.

Test envelopes don’t send emails

Don’t be afraid of flooding your customer’s inboxes with test emails. Emails from test envelopes don’t get sent to recipients. But, you can inspect them in your Dashboard’s Email view.

Dashboard's Email View

Where you can see the email contents:

Email Detail

Test envelopes are not legally-binding

A notice watermark on documents in test envelopes makes them non-binding.

Test Watermark

Test envelopes are free

We don’t bill you for test envelopes.

Switch to live mode

When you are ready to start sending legally-binding envelopes, go to the API Key section of your Dashboard. Follow the instructions to make a live API key.

Live API keys generates live-mode envelopes:

  • They send emails to the recipients. You can still view these emails in the Email section of your dashboard.

  • They are legally-binding.

  • We include them in your billing.