If you wish to control the accessibility of your document past the due date, then you can use document expiry setting. When a valid expiration date is set for documents, then it is no longer accessible by the signees past this date. Here are the steps to enable it. 


Enabling Expiration Setting at Document Level

  1. Open the document in editor mode. 

  2. Click on the Settings (gear icon) option on the right side menu. 

  3. Click on the ‘Expiration Setting’ dropdown. 

  4. Toggle on the button ‘Document Expiration’. 

  5. Specify the expiry date for the document. 

  6. You may choose to warn the recipient one day prior to document expiration. 


An expired document will show the ‘Document Has Expired’ banner hiding the document content and the erstwhile ‘Sign Document’ button will be replaced with a ‘Request Access’ button. As soon as the signee clicks on the button a comment will be added to the Comments section. 



You may thereafter open the document and revise the expiry date from the banner at the top. 




Enabling Expiration Setting at Account Level

  1. Navigate to the Settings (gear icon) option on the left navigation menu. 

  2. Click on My Preferences.

  3. Under ‘Default Document Preference’ toggle on the button ‘Document Expiration’.

  4. You may choose to warn the recipient one day prior to document expiration. 

  5. Click on the ‘Save’ button at the bottom to save the changes. 



Note: Documents created prior to enabling the global setting will not have any expiry dates set by default.