title: Is it possible to sign a document as part of sending in DocuSign?
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  <p>At my company, some of the documents that get sent out for signature require the sender's signature as well as the customer's signature.  The default DocuSign flow for this situation seems to be that the sender adds themselves as a recipient in Send view, then sends the document and immediately opens it in Recipient view, where they add their signatures.</p>
  
  <p>Senders would prefer not have to re-open the document in Recipient view.  It would make our process much more efficient if either:</p>
  
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  <li><p>the sender could add their signature as part of the sending process (e.g. a custom tag that is an image of their signature) or</p></li>
  <li><p>we could use the DocuSign Rest API to sign on behalf of our employees</p></li>
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  <p>I haven't found a way to implement either approach.  Option #1 doesn't seem possible because all of the custom tags prompt for user input or display information about the user.</p>
  
  <p>Does anyone know of a way to do either of these options?  </p>