Acrobat Pro - need multiple people to sign document

Question

At work, we prepare Contracts that need to be esigned by multiple people, but not all at the same time. From my very limited experience with Acrobat Pro, once we have sent a Contract to the first person and it has been esigned, we cannot then send that same esigned document to another party to sign. Are we doing something wrong or is this a limitation of Acrobat Pro?

MikelKlink · Answer

What you describe sounds like the behaviour of Acrobat Sign.

The Acrobat Sign service is based on the use case that you create a form and forward it to the service; there you set all the recipients that shall fill-in and sign the form, and eventually you get back a PDF processed by all participants and locked by Adobe.

If you want to organize the signing workflow yourself, you had better use actual PDF forms (not Acrobat Sign forms) and use your own channels (e.g. e-mail) to send the PDF to the signers and back.

Adobe Acrobat allows you to create regular PDF forms, simply don't check the initial checkbox "This document requires signatures". You can also transform back and forth between Acrobat Sign forms and PDF forms in Acrobat Pro but some information is lost in the process.

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