How can two people sign on one device?

"Our Parents and Athletes Signatures are required to sign waivers"- Google Docs Editors Community

Sports clubs that run waivers on Google Forms need two signatures on each one: the athlete's and a parent's. Google Forms has no signature question, a tick box isn't a signature, and printing, signing and scanning means chasing paper from every family. It's a common question: 608 people on Google's forum have asked how to add a signature to a Google Form. With Formesign, you add a signature field for each person, they sign one after the other on the same phone or tablet and the signed PDF shows both signatures.

Let's start. Create your form in Google Forms, then import it and follow the steps below.

1. Import your waiver

Publish your Google Form first or make one at form.new with an Athlete name question and click Publish. If the import page is not open yet, click Import Google Form. Paste its link (the form's address in your browser works) and click Add signature. Keep Simple signature, so both people draw straight away and click Next. Choose the question it goes after and click Next. On Your signing link is ready, click Edit form.
The screen to make a copy of a Google Form with a link pasted and the Add signature button marked

2. Add a second signature field

Click the E-Signature field, then the + button on the toolbar. Name the new question Parent signature, change its answer type to Signature and turn Required on.
E-Signature and a new question named Parent signature, with the add question button and the Signature answer type marked

3. Sign together

Click SHARE, copy the link and open the form on one phone or tablet. The athlete draws in their box and hands it over, the parent draws in theirs and one of them clicks SUBMIT.
The Athlete waiver form with a drawn signature in both the E-Signature and Parent signature boxes and the SUBMIT button marked

4. Both signatures are on the signed PDF

Open SIGNED PDF and click the card. The PDF shows both signatures.
The signed PDF of the Athlete waiver with E-Signature and Parent signature marked

Summary

When a form needs two people's signatures and both are in the same place, a tick box won't do and paper means chasing every copy. With Formesign, you add a signature field for each person, they sign on one device and you get one signed PDF with both. Create your form in Google Forms, then import it and complete the steps above.

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