Power Forms

A Power Form is a template with a public door: one link anyone can open, fill in, and sign, as many times as needed. Waivers, policy acknowledgements, standard agreements, anything people should sign without you sending each copy.

Creating one

1. Build or pick the template. Fields placed, the signer role defined.
2. New Power Form. Name it, pick the template, set the options.
3. Docshark gives you a link. Publish it, embed it, QR it.

What the respondent sees

• The link opens the document with the fields they must fill. They act as the template's signer role.
• Placeholders that were marked respondent-provided become their fill-ins; the rest come from your defaults.
• The normal consent and signing flow applies. Every completion is a genuine signature under the same rules as a sent envelope.

What you get per completion

• A real envelope. Each respondent's completion creates its own envelope in your signatures list: its own sealed PDF, its own audit trail, its own certificate.
• The submitted data. Every field value lands in the envelope record.
• POWERFORM_ACTIVATED events to webhooks. Your systems can react the moment someone completes the form.

Managing the link

• Active / paused. Pause a Power Form to stop new completions without losing the link or its history.
• Options. Expiry, reminders for abandoned sessions, watermark, and message text behave like envelope options.
• Analytics, the Power Form's dashboard shows opens vs completions, how many reach the link and how many finish.

Power Forms vs share links

A share link shows your document to viewers. A Power Form produces their signed document. The direction is opposite: reading vs signing. Use share links to distribute; use Power Forms to collect signatures at scale.