Friday, 9th January
E-Signature Integration for Contract Lifecycle Management
Workday enhances the e-signature experience to create a more robust and advanced connection between Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM) and third-party e-signature providers (DocuSign, Adobe Sign).
Business Benefits
This enhancement provides several benefits for signing coordinators:
- Data integrity: You no longer need to leave CLM to check signer data and envelope status. This ensures a single source of truth, making the e-signature process highly reliable for audit trails.
- Increased productivity and faster execution: We provide a seamless, intuitive, and highly stable e-signature experience, leading to streamlined workflows and quicker executed contracts.
- Improved error resolution: We introduce clear error handling, enabling you to self-serve and resolve integration issues quickly, minimizing operational downtime.
Changes
Envelope access and voidance:
- We add aView on E-sign Platformbutton on the Ticket details page. This option appears after the envelope is created and allows you to directly view the envelope information in the e-signature platform.
- We rename theCollect Signaturesbutton toSend to E-signaturefor clarity when initiating an e-signature request.
- Ticket deletion in CLM will now automatically void the corresponding e-signature envelope if it hasn’t been signed yet.
Recipient management:
- Signing coordinators can now directly add, remove, update, reorder signers, and customize envelope details, such as email subject, body, and CCs, within the e-signature platform.
- We remove theEdit CCandAdd CCbuttons from CLM since they are no longer needed.
Status:
- The Ticket details page now displays the e-signature provider'sSignerandEnvelope statusfor all recipients, including those added externally. As part of this change, we remove theCheck Signature Statusbutton.
Audit trail:
- We add the signer’s audit trail directly to CLM, eliminating the need to navigate to the external e-sign platform to track progress. Authorized users can navigate to theActivity Logsto view the complete audit trail. This includes detailed actions by the signers, such as who viewed the document and the exact time the document was signed.
Notifications:
- We introduce a new notification to inform the signing coordinator when any signer declines to sign the document.
- We remove theYou were assigned a Signere-mail notification that was sent out to internal signers from CLM, as they now receive a notification from the e-signature provider
Connection status:
- TheIntegrations pagenow clearly shows the connection status for each e-signature provider, along with a validation error and detailed error message if a connection fails.
- If the connection fails, Workday also shows a banner on theWorkflow,Ticketstab and on theTicket details pageto alert users before they attempt to initiate e-signature. We also send an email on the impacted tickets and the recommended action to take.
What Do I Need to Do?
These changes are automatically available. You may need to update training materials and internal documentation.