New Delhi:- Electronic signatures have become a stake for companies engaged in document storage and management. So it's no surprise that Google today announced the open beta of a new email signature feature in Google Workspace. The new feature will be available exclusively for Google Docs and Google Drive for individual accounts and different groups.

New feature, in limited alpha so far, aimed at individual entrepreneurs and small businesses to easily collect and track digital signatures directly in documents without printing, signing, scanning and sending email-email for signature.

"To help streamline this workflow, we're integrating eSignature into Google Docs, allowing you to request and add signatures to formal contracts, directly within Google Docs," the company wrote in a statement. blog post announcing the new feature. It's really nothing out of the ordinary. It is simply a digital signature field that you can add to the document.

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Other features expected to be added later this year may include audit trail reporting for signature tracking in Google Docs documents, the ability to handle multiple signers and submissions to documents. people outside of Google Docs. The Google Workspace ecosystem and finally the ability to import a signature in the pdf of the document.

Box introduced a similar feature with Box Sign in 2021. Dropbox acquired HelloSign in 2019 but did not integrate the feature like Box and Google. Alan Pelz-Sharpe, founder and principal analyst at Deep Analysis, who has studied the document management space for years, sees the move as Google just catching up with the market and offering the service.

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This is free, giving customers the ability to make this part of their lives possible. working process. “It has been suggested for a long time that digital signatures will become an accompanying feature. Box offers it as standard, now Google. Over time, it's likely that Dropbox and Microsoft will do the same or at least provide an alternative to third-party options," he said.

The company will roll out the new feature for free to each Workspace user over the next 15 days. Multiple users in the group can join by asking their Workspace admin to sign up for the beta.

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Google has developed a new update and this is a beta version of the digital signature that is now available on Google Docs and on Google Drive. The update has been made in line with the new upgrade and will also make it possible to edit documents and send them efficiently.