Google is working on support for digital signatures in Drive and Docs

Google is working on supporting digital signatures in Docs and Drive. The feature will be available via an open beta for Workspace Individual subscribers. It is not yet known when the function will become available to other users.

Google has been working on the feature since June last year, which was released in the alpha version on Wednesday. This allows users to request a digital signature or create one themselves. In that respect, the feature is similar to existing eSignature features, such as those from Dropbox and Adobe Acrobat. Google writes that the signature feature will “no longer require users to switch between apps to request or submit a signature.”

A screenshot shows that the feature allows users to request full signatures or initials. There is also a date field that is automatically filled in after the document is signed. Later this year, Google will expand the feature further, such as the ability to sign PDF documents stored in Drive and to ask people without a Gmail account for a signature.

Google Workspace Individual users will get access to the feature through an open beta in the coming weeks. Workspace Enterprise or Business users can sign up for a closed betawhich also tests the new custom layouts for emails.

Source: Google