About
A small tool for a job that got complicated
DropTheDoc sends a document out, collects signatures, and keeps the proof. That is the whole product, and keeping it that way is a decision we make again every time somebody asks for something.
How it started
You agree the terms on a Tuesday. The document goes out, and then nothing happens. One person cannot open the attachment. Another prints it, signs it, photographs it at an angle in bad light, and emails back a JPEG. A week later somebody asks whether it was ever actually signed, and no one is sure.
The tools built to fix this are good, and they are built for large companies: per-seat pricing, an admin console, a training session, and their own vocabulary for an email attachment. That is the right product if you have a procurement process. It is a lot of ceremony for a lease that needs signing by Friday.
So we built the small one. Drop a document in, get it back signed, keep the proof. We would rather it did three things you never have to think about than thirty you have to learn.
Four things we will not trade away
Each of these costs us something. That is how you can tell we mean them.
- Fewer things, done properly
Every feature is one more thing to learn, so we only build what genuinely helps a document get signed.
What it costs: No bulk send, no workflow builder, no forms product.
- You should never have to wonder
Waiting on a signature with no idea what is happening is the worst part of the job. You can always see who has opened your document and who has not.
What it costs: We record more about each open than a lighter product would.
- The documents are yours
Contracts are private. Yours are encrypted before they are stored, so they cannot be read without the key.
What it costs: We cannot recover a document for you if the key is lost. Nobody can.
- Proof, not promises
Every signature carries a record of exactly what happened and when, kept so it cannot be quietly edited later.
What it costs: The record survives deletion, so we cannot fully erase it on request.
What exists today, and what does not
Everything on this site works right now. Nothing here is a roadmap item wearing a present tense. The second list is the one worth reading.
Built and working
- Sending, signing and tracking, on any device
- Signature, initials, date, text, checkbox, dropdown, stamp and file-upload fields
- Signing order, reminders, expiry and decline with a reason
- Templates, saved contacts and a searchable history
- A certificate of completion with every finished document
- Two-factor authentication, an API and webhooks
- Account lockout, and an email the moment a new device signs in
Not built yet
- Payments. Every plan is free while we are in early access
- Bulk send: one document to two hundred people at once
- Advanced or qualified electronic signatures under eIDAS. Ours are simple electronic signatures with a full audit trail, which the e-sign disclosure explains
- A mobile app. The site works on a phone, but there is nothing in an app store
- SAML single sign-on
Missing something you need? Tell us and at this size that genuinely decides what gets built next.
How we make money
Subscriptions. You pay a flat monthly price when you send more than the free plan allows, and that is the entire business model. There is no charge per signature, and no charge for the person signing.
We do not sell data, run advertising, take a cut of anything you sign, or use the contents of your documents to train a model. If we ever needed to change that, it would be a new privacy policy with notice, not a quiet edit.
Try it with something real
The fastest way to judge it is to send a document you actually need signed. Two minutes, no card.