If you had to go to sign documents during the early pandemic, it was a very unpleasant experience. No one wanted to come face to face, but the work had to go on and the documents had to be signed. Thanks to a partnership with DocuSign, Zoom has announced an integration that allows documents to be signed as part of a Zoom meeting, TechCrunch explains.

Jerome Levadoux, eSignature Products Manager at DocuSign, said the pandemic is the perfect scenario for progress in the field of remote document signing. ‘The last couple of years we’ve seen increased demand for better productivity tools that will meet the demands of our customers,’ he said.

In addition to collaborating with Zoom, signing documents in separate applications is a thing of the past. While this is not something that will turn the business world upside down, it is an integration that will speed up a large number of business meetings.

The person signing the document will be able to view it within Zoom by simply adding DocuSign through Zoom's software store. DocuSign will integrate with the Zoom interface and enable the DocuSign button within the meeting to launch its interface and offer the user a choice of documents to sign. The control is then transferred to the first signatory.

If more people need to sign the document, the person signing signs switches the interface to the next one and so on. At the end of the meeting, all signatories will receive a signed PDF on the email associated with Zoom.