Stage 4 · Accept your award · SHSP · UASI · EMPG
Signing with DocuSign
Every screen of DocuSign, step by step: your funding agreement, the LETPA certification, and what your sheriff sees in DocuSign's email.
12 of 27 steps on your routeYour route: Our funding agreement
DocuSign is the online way to sign your funding agreement and, for SHSP and UASI, your LETPA certification. You don't need a DocuSign account and there's nothing to install: it works in an up-to-date browser on a computer, tablet or phone.
Signers with a GMPro login start from GMPro's signing page. Anyone without one, such as your sheriff on the LETPA certification, signs from DocuSign's email. Either way, GMPro files the signed copy and DocuSign's completion certificate for you.
Your route
What are you signing?
Showing the 12 steps for “Our funding agreement”.
- Our funding agreementYour Authorized Representative signs from GMPro.Your route · 12 steps
- Our LETPA certificationYour Authorized Representative or Point of Contact signs, then your sheriff.7 steps
- I'm the sheriffSigning from DocuSign's email. No GMPro account needed.8 steps
Who signs where
| Signer | Starts from | Needs a GMPro login |
|---|---|---|
| Your Authorized Representative (agreement and LETPA) | GMPro's signing page, or DocuSign's email | |
| Your Point of Contact (LETPA, when they're the one chosen) | GMPro's signing page, or DocuSign's email | |
| Your sheriff (LETPA only) | DocuSign's email |
Only your Authorized Representative signs your funding agreement; your LETPA certification may be signed by your Authorized Representative or a Point of Contact. If that person has changed, an owner updates it before you send anything for signature.
Words you'll see
- Signing page
- GMPro's page for one signing: who signs, in what order, where it stands, and the documents being signed. It updates on its own as people sign.
- Envelope
- DocuSign's word for a package being signed. Your funding agreement is one envelope; your LETPA certification is another.
- Adopt a signature
- The first time you sign, DocuSign asks how your signature should look. Check your name and initials and pick a style, or draw or upload your own.
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Your funding agreement
Part 1
Your funding agreement
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Send it to DocuSign
On your award, click “Choose how to sign”, choose “Sign online with DocuSign”, check your Authorized Representative's name and email, and click “Send for signatures”. Signing your award covers the steps before this one.
Anyone on your grant team can send it with DocuSign. DocuSign's email still goes only to your Authorized Representative.
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The signing page opens
GMPro opens the agreement's signing page. It lists each signer in order with a gold “Sign here” on whoever signs next, and the documents in the package. When it's your turn, “It's your turn to sign” holds the button you need.
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GMPro emails you a link to it
GMPro also emails the signer, with a “Review and sign” button back to this page, so you can sign later or from another computer. It lists anything on hold. For SHSP and UASI it says your funding agreement is ready for signature; for EMPG it reads “It's your turn to sign”. DocuSign sends its own email too; you can sign from either one.
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Click “Sign with DocuSign”
DocuSign opens in a new tab. Keep GMPro open in the first tab: it confirms your signature when you come back.
If GMPro says “Allow pop-ups for GMPro, then try again”, your browser blocked the new tab. Allow pop-ups for GMPro and click the button again.
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Agree to sign electronically
The first time you sign with DocuSign at your email address, it asks you to agree to use electronic records and signatures. Read the disclosure if you like, tick the box, and click “Continue”.
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Read the agreement
The agreement opens in DocuSign. Read it through; “Start” on the left takes you to the first place that needs you. If DocuSign offers to summarize the document, you can close that.
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Adopt your signature
Click the “Sign” tag. DocuSign asks you to adopt a signature: check your full name and initials, choose a style (or draw or upload one), and click “Adopt and Sign”. DocuSign uses it everywhere you sign in this envelope.
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Tick the three certifications
Your signature is placed. The three boxes under “Grant award certifications” are required: DocuSign's arrow on the left (“Select”) takes you to each one, and you can't finish until all three are ticked. They're the certifications described in Signing your award.
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Click “Finish”
With every box ticked, DocuSign says “Ready to Finish?”. Click “Finish”.
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GMPro confirms your signature
DocuSign brings you back to GMPro, which checks with DocuSign and records your signature. It takes a few seconds, and the page updates on its own.
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Signing complete
Once everyone has signed, the page says “Signing complete”. GMPro keeps the signed agreement and DocuSign's completion certificate with the documents in the package.
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GOHSEP reviews it
Your award shows the signed agreement waiting on GOHSEP's review. Nothing more is needed from you; GMPro emails you when your award is active.