What’s new

A new button on the signing page lets them say what needs to change. The quote pauses instead of dying, that version closes so nobody signs it by mistake, and you get their words by email straight away.

Edit it, then send the next revision to the same quote — no duplicating, no second quote number. Every version you have already sent stays frozen exactly as it was signed or seen.

The deals waiting on you, kept apart from the ones waiting on them. Each version on a quote now shows what was asked for that round.

Set it under Settings, or let it be picked up from your browser when you sign up. A contract signed at 10pm Pacific now says the 23rd rather than the 24th — and the date on one already signed never moves again.

If you belong to more than one company, they are listed in the account menu. Pick one and everything — quotes, clients, contracts — is that company's.

Pick what kind of answer a text box takes when you place it. Whoever signs gets the right keyboard on their phone, is told straight away if it looks wrong, and cannot finish until it is right.

The new client form now has a place for the person you deal with, so a client is ready to send to the moment you save it.

Duplicate an uploaded form and every field keeps its exact place, so a payment authorisation or a photo release is placed once and used forever. Put {{client.name}} in the name and each copy names itself.

The team page shows who has been invited and is yet to join, so an invitation that went to the wrong address is visible rather than silent.

Open, download, view the signed copy, fetch a certificate or send the same document to somebody else, without opening it first.

Documents sent and never signed were meant to email you once the link expired. The notice was being rejected before it was sent, so it never had. It sends now.

The quote now moves to Sent when its document goes out, whichever signing route it takes.

At certain widths a scrollbar appearing and disappearing made the page redraw itself forever, and buttons near it stopped responding.

If you have a workspace AND somebody sends you something to sign, your account menu now offers a way back to it. Before, it was only reachable by knowing the address.

Printed it, got it signed with a pen and scanned it back? Record the date it was signed and upload the copy, and it counts toward renewals and reports like any other. It is always shown as signed on paper, never mixed up with an electronic signature.

One click instead of a password, and your own sign-in security comes with it. An existing account with the same verified address is recognised rather than duplicated.

Three days after you send something, the signer gets one reminder. The day after the link expires, you are told it went cold — and whether they never opened it or read it and did not finish.

One file with your clients, your catalog and every signed agreement as a PDF. Under Settings, whenever you want it, without asking anybody.

If an account goes quiet for a year we email you, twice more after that, and pause sending before anything is ever deleted. Signed agreements stay downloadable throughout.

How to send agreements from your own domain, and how to sign through your own SigFetch account — what each one changes, and how to connect it.

How to set HootQuill up and use it, at hootquill.com/docs — your first quote, importing from a spreadsheet, how services and clauses fit together, and the whole QuickBooks connection.

Choose whether a term is paid as it runs or in full up front. It prints in the cost summary, so the document answers it rather than leaving it to memory.

Passwords must now be at least 10 characters and are checked against known breached passwords. Every connection is held to HTTPS, and changing a password requires the current one.

A security policy was blocking the page scripts on the marketing site and on the password-reset request form, so anything you clicked there did nothing. Both are fixed, and a check now runs before every release.

Headings, lists, bold and links from a toolbar, instead of remembering which character does what.

It leaves Renewals and stops counting toward recurring totals from the date you give. The signed document, its PDF and its audit trail are unchanged — this records that the agreement stopped.

Items, Services and Discounts under Catalog; Templates and Sections under Templates.

And change it, or sign out everywhere, under Settings → Security.

You are told when a client opens, signs, approves or declines something, and when a contract's renewal notice is approaching. Choose what reaches you, and whether it also comes by email, under Settings → Account.

The finished PDF is attached, so they keep it without needing a link.

Open a service to see the wording and the priced items that belong to it, rather than a count that led to a list of everything.

A quote that never became an agreement can be removed. Once an agreement has been issued from it, the quote stays — the agreement was built from its wording.

Most deals cost one, not two. The questions page now says so, and says exactly what adds another.

Problems that block sending are now separated from ones merely worth knowing, so an unfilled placeholder is caught while you can still fix it.

Fills the domain that hosting and web agreements print, and accepts a pasted address rather than insisting on a bare domain.

Sections per service, contacts and quotes per client, and several others reported nothing. They now report what is actually there.

Build a quote from your own catalogue, turn it into an agreement in your own wording, and have your client sign it online — with the executed copy, its audit trail and its renewal dates kept for you.