Zoho Practice - Zoho Sign Integration

Digital signatures have come to be a great alternative to conventional signatures with pen and paper–especially for online accounting practice management software like Zoho Practice.

Zoho Sign makes the process of digitally signing documents as simple as it can get. Here are some of the benefits of the integration:

Get digital signatures: In any typical correspondence between an accounting firm and their clients, confidential documents are exchanged. With the Zoho Sign integration, you can securely receive digital signatures on your documents. This can add a layer of authenticity as well as prevent unauthorized changes to them.
Save time and resources: Get your documents signed within minutes, instead of waiting days or hours for an in-person signature.

Setting up the integration

Go to Settings in the top-right corner of the page.
Select Zoho Apps under Integrations.
On the Zoho Apps page, click the Connect button next to Zoho Sign.

Click Connect Now on the next screen.

Insight: If you do not have an organization in Zoho Sign, the Connect Now button will be replaced with a link to create a Zoho Sign organization.

Now, the integration has been set up and you’re all set to digitally sign documents in Zoho Practice.

Receiving signatures from clients

You can now create sign requests to securely share and get digital signatures in documents from your clients.

Note: You will be able to create sign requests only if your organization is integrated with Zoho Sign.

Here’s how you can create a sign request:

Go to the Client Requests module from the navigation bar.
Click the New dropdown.
Select Sign Request.
Enter the required details in the popup that appears.
Click Save.

Field	Description
Client Request#	Enter the client request# to track the client requests. You can also set up auto-generation of client request numbers.
Client	Select the client for whom you are creating this client request.
Title & Description	Enter a title and description for the client request.
Document	Upload the document that you want your client to review and sign. You can upload a file with a size of 5MB.
Assign To	Select a user to whom you want to assign this client request. You can assign only one user for one client request.
Due Date	Set a date by when this client request has to be completed.
Priority	Select the priority level of the client request. This will help your users gauge the priority level of a client request before working on them.

You will now be directed to Zoho Sign’s page where you can add fields like signature, sign date, stamp to your document and select recipients. Here’s how you can do this:

Select the field you want to add to the file under Fields. You can do this by dragging the field and placing it in the required space in your document.
You can also include fields pre-filled by you and fields that must be filled by your customer.
Click Send once you’ve customized the file you’re sending to your client.
Click Confirm in the Confirm Details popup that appears.

Notes:

You can try the following customize your document even more:

Select Pre-fill by you under Recipients to include fields that will be pre-filled by you.
Select the client organization’s name to include fields that must be filled by your client.
Double-click the respective field to edit the field label or other formatting options.

Sending sign requests

Once you create the sign request, you can either send it directly from the document page in Zoho Sign or from the related sign request’s details page in Zoho Practice:

To send documents from Zoho Sign:

Click the Send button in the top pane of the document view.
Click Confirm in the Confirm Details popup that appears.

Sometimes, you might create sign requests but not need to immediately send it to your client, or you might be unable to send the sign request due to various reasons. In these cases, you can create the sign request and prepare the document by adding the required documents, but choose to send the request at any later time.

Here’s how you can send documents from the sign request details page:

Go to the respective sign request’s details page from the Client Requests module.
Click Send Document in the top pane.

Note: The Send Document button will be available only for client requests that are in the following statuses: Draft, Yet to be Pushed.

Viewing sign requests

The Accountant module in your linked applications lets your accountant view your business information in the respective organizations of your linked Zoho Finance applications. Through the My Accountant tab, you can securely share financial documents and confidential information with your accountant.

Here’s how you can access this tab:

Log in to the particular Zoho Finance application.
Go to My Accountant from the sidebar.

This tab serves as a portal which facilitates two-way communication between your organization and your accountant’s practice management software, Zoho Practice. In the My Accountant tab, you will find the requests from your accountant which range from digital sign requests for documents or additional information. You can then view details of the request and respond accordingly.

Deleting the integration

If you’d like to stop digitally signing documents in Zoho Practice:

Go to Settings on the top right corner of the page.
Select Zoho Apps under Integrations.
On the Zoho Apps page, click the View Details button next to Zoho Sign.
Click the Delete Integration button in the top right corner.
Click Delete.

Now, the integration with Zoho Sign will be deleted. However, your documents that were digitally signed will remain digitally signed even after deleting the integration.