A public link turns one of your templates into a form anyone can sign without you sending it to them first. It’s available with Pro and Business. You can share the link or put the form inside your own web page.
Say a hypothetical contractor wants customers to sign a warranty form from his website. He makes a public link once, and every customer who signs gets their own envelope.
How do I create a public link?
Open a template, choose Public links, pick the signer role the person on your website fills in, and press Create public link. You get an address starting https://app.signwren.com/f/. Any other role the template needs on every envelope has to be the countersigner. Then decide:
- whether someone countersigns each submission (you or a named person in your account);
- the maximum number of uses, 100 unless you change it;
- an end date, if you want one;
- whether you’re emailed each time someone signs.
When you turn the link off, or it reaches its end date or use limit, visitors see “This form isn’t accepting signatures any more” with your business name.
What does the signer go through?
They enter their name and email, and we email them a 6-digit code. Nothing in the document is shown until they enter it. That code is how SignWren knows the person controls that email address. After that it’s the usual flow: the notice about signing electronically, their fields, and Finish and sign.
Their certificate shows “Public link, email verified by code”. If you set a countersigner, that person is emailed afterwards and the envelope completes only when they’ve signed too. If the same email starts again within 10 minutes, they pick up their unfinished envelope rather than starting a second one.
How do I put the form on my website?
Under the link, list the sites allowed to show it, one per line: up to 5, each starting https://. Once you save them, you get a short iframe snippet to paste into your page. Any other site that tries to show the form gets a page that refuses to load inside a frame.
Some browsers block what a framed page needs to keep the signer’s session. If that happens, the signer sees a button to open the same form in a new tab and carries on there.
The notice signers read is shown in full inside the frame, at a readable size. If the frame is narrower than 320 pixels, the form shows “Open in a new tab” instead, so nobody signs something they couldn’t read.
How do public links count on my plan?
Each submission creates one envelope, and it counts toward your plan the same way as a document you send. There are also limits on how often codes can be requested from one link and one connection, to stop automated abuse, and an email domain that bounces is blocked on that link for a day.
If your plan changes to Free, your links stop accepting new signatures and nothing is deleted. Anyone who has already confirmed their code can still finish signing.