# Inkly > Inkly is legally binding eSignature software for professionals and small businesses. Every plan, including Free, sends unlimited documents, with CC recipients and dropdown, checkbox, and radio button fields. Pro saves hours with reusable templates, bulk send, signing order, in-person signing, signer attachments, public signing links and QR codes, personal invitation notes, reminders, recipient-opened notifications, custom branding with your logo, API and webhooks, sending from Claude and ChatGPT through Inkly's MCP server, and unlimited retention. Teams brings unlimited team members into a shared workspace at one flat price. ## Product - [Inkly homepage](https://www.inkly.so/): Product overview, workflow, security, pricing, and frequently asked questions. - [Pricing](https://www.inkly.so/pricing): Unlimited sending on Free, Pro workflow automation, and flat-price Teams with unlimited members. - MCP server, https://www.inkly.so/mcp: lets Claude, ChatGPT, Claude Code, Codex, n8n, and other agents find templates, prepare drafts for the user to review, track signing, and on Pro send documents. Setup and tools: [AI agents (MCP)](https://www.inkly.so/docs/api/ai-agents). ## Company - [About Inkly](https://www.inkly.so/about): Company overview, key facts, pricing summary, and how to contact the team. - [Brand assets](https://www.inkly.so/brand): Logos, colors, fonts, press-kit copy, and social links for press, partners, and creators. ## Industries - [Human resources](https://www.inkly.so/industries/human-resources): Electronic signatures for offer letters, onboarding forms, and policy acknowledgments. - [Real estate](https://www.inkly.so/industries/real-estate): Electronic signatures for listing agreements, purchase offers, disclosures, and addenda. - [Legal](https://www.inkly.so/industries/legal): Electronic signatures for engagement letters, NDAs, settlement agreements, and other legal documents. - [Property management](https://www.inkly.so/industries/property-management): Electronic signatures for residential leases, renewals, addenda, and property management agreements. - [Accounting & bookkeeping](https://www.inkly.so/industries/accounting): Electronic signatures for engagement letters, fee agreements, client authorizations, and tax return disclosure consents. - [Insurance](https://www.inkly.so/industries/insurance): Electronic signatures for coverage applications, endorsement requests, broker of record letters, and claim forms. - [Consulting](https://www.inkly.so/industries/consulting): Electronic signatures for consulting agreements, statements of work, change requests, and client approvals. - [Agencies](https://www.inkly.so/industries/agencies): Electronic signatures for agency client agreements, change orders, creative approvals, releases, and freelancer contracts. - [Film & video production](https://www.inkly.so/industries/film-production): Electronic signatures for film and video production: talent and background releases, crew deal memos, location agreements, and minor consent forms. - [Construction & trades](https://www.inkly.so/industries/construction-trades): Electronic signatures for construction bids, contracts, change orders, work authorizations, and closeout documents. - [Nonprofits](https://www.inkly.so/industries/nonprofits): Electronic signatures for nonprofit volunteer agreements, waivers, grant documents, board consents, and program releases. - [Education](https://www.inkly.so/industries/education): Electronic signatures for schools, universities, and e-learning programs: enrollment agreements, student and parent permissions, and staff contracts. - [Healthcare](https://www.inkly.so/industries/healthcare): Electronic signatures for healthcare practices: patient forms and treatment plans, staff agreements, and vendor contracts. ## Resources and comparisons - [Google Drive integration](https://www.inkly.so/integrations/google-drive): Import PDFs from Google Drive on any plan; Pro and Teams automatically save the signed PDF and Certificate of Completion back to Drive. - [Sign a PDF](https://www.inkly.so/resources/sign-pdf): Upload a PDF and prepare it for electronic signature. - [Electronic signature audit trail](https://www.inkly.so/electronic-signature-audit-trail): How Inkly records signing events, signer evidence and completed-PDF integrity in a Certificate of Completion. - [Multiple signers](https://www.inkly.so/multiple-signers): Send one shared document to several people, assign fields to each signer, and track every response. - [Electronic signature templates](https://www.inkly.so/electronic-signature-templates): Save signer roles and fields as a reusable master, then send it to one person or bulk send it to many from a spreadsheet. - [Bulk send](https://www.inkly.so/bulk-send): Send one template from a spreadsheet to up to 500 signers at a time, with each row becoming its own personalized document, and track every batch (Pro and Teams). - [Public signing links](https://www.inkly.so/signing-links): Turn a template into one link, website button, or QR code that anyone can open to sign their own copy, for waivers, releases, intake forms, and sign-ups, with no per-signature fee (Pro and Teams). - [eSignature API](https://www.inkly.so/e-signature-api): Send templates or your own PDFs for signature from your software, with signed webhooks and the signed PDF, included with Pro (250 API documents a month) and Teams (1,000). - [Automate eSignature workflows in Claude](https://www.inkly.so/claude-e-signature): Connect Inkly's MCP server to Claude from its connector directory and run your entire eSignature workflow with AI, using natural language. - [eSignature MCP server](https://www.inkly.so/e-signature-mcp): Connect Inkly's MCP server to Claude, ChatGPT, Codex, or any AI agent and run your entire eSignature workflow with AI, using natural language. - [DocuSign alternative](https://www.inkly.so/docusign-alternative): Product and pricing comparison for small businesses. - [Free DocuSign alternatives](https://www.inkly.so/free-docusign-alternatives): Ranked comparison of free eSignature plans by how many documents each lets you send. - [Dropbox Sign alternative](https://www.inkly.so/dropbox-sign-alternative): Inkly compared with Dropbox Sign (formerly HelloSign) on free plans, templates, team pricing, and features. - [Best free eSignature software](https://www.inkly.so/best-free-e-signature-software): Free eSignature plans compared by sending limit, with a pick for each job and what each plan leaves out. - [Best eSignature software for small business](https://www.inkly.so/best-e-signature-software-small-business): Paid eSignature plans compared by yearly cost from 1 to 100 people, with API pricing, and when another tool is the better fit. ## API docs - [Introduction](https://www.inkly.so/docs/api): What the e-signature API does, common use cases, how a send works from request to signed PDF, and plan limits, with 250 API documents a month included on Pro and 1,000 on Teams. - [Quickstart](https://www.inkly.so/docs/api/quickstart): From an API key to a signed document: check the key, find a template, send it to your own email, read its status, and download the signed PDF. - [AI agents (MCP)](https://www.inkly.so/docs/api/ai-agents): Connecting an AI agent to Inkly's MCP server at https://www.inkly.so/mcp: setup for each client, the tools, access levels and plans, prepare-then-send, and safe retries. - [Send from a template](https://www.inkly.so/docs/api/send-from-template): Finding a template and its roles, filling each role with a recipient, prefilled values, and choosing email or your own signing link. - [Send a PDF](https://www.inkly.so/docs/api/send-a-pdf): The three-step PDF upload, and how to place signing fields by coordinates, including converting PDF points to page fractions. - [Send a PDF with markers](https://www.inkly.so/docs/api/field-markers): Placing signing fields from text markers inside a PDF: the syntax, hiding a marker, what cannot be read, and recovering from a refusal. - [Signing links](https://www.inkly.so/docs/api/signing-links): Sending signers from your own app instead of by email: delivery link, getting a link on a signer's turn, how long it works, its rate limit, and keeping it safe. - [Receive webhooks](https://www.inkly.so/docs/api/webhooks): Adding a webhook endpoint, verifying signatures with complete handlers, answering in time, skipping duplicates, and rolling a secret. - [API reference](https://www.inkly.so/docs/api/reference): An overview linking to a page for each endpoint, with examples in curl, JavaScript, Python, PHP, Ruby, Go, Java, and C#, and 250 API documents a month included on Pro and 1,000 on Teams. - [Authentication](https://www.inkly.so/docs/api/reference/authentication): Sending an API key, who can manage keys, and which scopes each kind of key has. - [Idempotency](https://www.inkly.so/docs/api/reference/idempotency): How the required Idempotency-Key header makes it safe to retry a send without creating a second document. - [Limits](https://www.inkly.so/docs/api/reference/limits): The monthly document allowance, rate limits, file and document size limits, and how to handle a 429. - [Errors](https://www.inkly.so/docs/api/reference/errors): The error body and every error code, grouped by HTTP status. - [Webhooks](https://www.inkly.so/docs/api/reference/webhooks): Webhook events and payloads, the signature format, the retry schedule, and delivery guarantees. - [OpenAPI document](https://www.inkly.so/api/v1/openapi.json): The same API as a machine-readable OpenAPI 3.1 document. ## Contracts - [Contract library](https://www.inkly.so/contracts): Contract templates to edit in Word and send for signature. - [Marketing agreement](https://www.inkly.so/contracts/marketing-agreement): For any marketing engagement, from agency retainers to freelance campaigns: scope, fees, ad spend, and ownership. - [Consulting agreement](https://www.inkly.so/contracts/consulting-agreement): For consultants and advisors starting an engagement: scope, fees, expenses, ownership, and confidentiality. - [Independent contractor agreement](https://www.inkly.so/contracts/independent-contractor-agreement): For contractors and freelancers starting a job: the work, price and deposit, changes, and ownership. - [Engagement letter](https://www.inkly.so/contracts/engagement-letter): For accountants, bookkeepers, and other firms taking on a client: services, client responsibilities, fees, and records. - [Offer letter](https://www.inkly.so/contracts/offer-letter): For employers making a job offer: the role and start date, pay, benefits, conditions, and at-will employment. - [Talent release form](https://www.inkly.so/contracts/talent-release-form): For productions releasing footage of actors, extras, and crew: rights to use their likeness and voice, ownership of footage, credit, and minors. - [Non-disclosure agreement](https://www.inkly.so/contracts/nda): For businesses sharing confidential information with a partner, contractor, or supplier: purpose, exclusions, duration, and trade secrets. ## Help guides - [Help center](https://www.inkly.so/help): Step-by-step how-to guides, most with a short narrated video. - [Send a document for signature](https://www.inkly.so/help/send-a-document-for-signature): Upload a PDF, place each signer's fields, and send it for signature. (All plans) - [Get a document signed in person](https://www.inkly.so/help/get-a-document-signed-in-person): Let a signer sign on your device, or scan a QR code to sign on their phone, with no email. (Pro and Teams) - [Share a public signing link](https://www.inkly.so/help/share-a-public-signing-link): Let anyone sign their own copy of a template from a link, a QR code, or your website. (Pro and Teams) - [Request files from signers](https://www.inkly.so/help/request-files-from-signers): Ask signers for files while they sign, then download them from the document page. (Pro and Teams) - [Add a CC recipient](https://www.inkly.so/help/add-a-cc-recipient): Send someone the signed copy when everyone's finished, without asking them to sign. (All plans) - [Send documents in bulk](https://www.inkly.so/help/send-documents-in-bulk): Send one template to a whole list, each person with their own copy, from a CSV. (Pro and Teams) - [Create a reusable template](https://www.inkly.so/help/create-a-template): Save a document's fields and signer roles once, then reuse them on every send. (Pro and Teams) - [Add radio buttons](https://www.inkly.so/help/add-radio-buttons): Let a signer pick exactly one option, marked with a circle or their initials. (All plans) - [Add a checkbox group](https://www.inkly.so/help/add-a-checkbox-group): Let a signer tick every option that applies, from one list. (All plans) - [Add a dropdown](https://www.inkly.so/help/add-a-dropdown): Let a signer pick one answer from a menu, with only their choice on the signed PDF. (All plans) - [Add custom branding](https://www.inkly.so/help/add-custom-branding): Put your company logo and name on every signing email and signing page. (Pro and Teams) - [Invite your team](https://www.inkly.so/help/invite-your-team): Invite teammates by email to share documents, folders, templates, and branding in one workspace. (Teams) - [Connect other apps with the API and webhooks](https://www.inkly.so/help/connect-other-apps-with-the-api-and-webhooks): Send documents from your own software and get told as they are signed. (Pro and Teams) - [Use Inkly from Claude or ChatGPT](https://www.inkly.so/help/use-inkly-from-claude-or-chatgpt): Connect Claude or ChatGPT, then ask it to prepare documents and track who has signed. (All plans) ## Blog - [Blog](https://www.inkly.so/blog): Plain-language articles on electronic signatures for small businesses. - [How long should you keep signed contracts?](https://www.inkly.so/blog/how-long-to-keep-signed-contracts): How long to keep a signed contract: limitation periods by state, tax and employment rules, and whether an electronic copy counts. - [Do you need a written contract to hire a freelancer?](https://www.inkly.so/blog/do-you-need-a-written-contract-with-a-freelancer): The New York and Illinois laws that require a written freelance contract, who owns the work without one, and what a contract proves about contractor status. - [10 free alternatives to monopoly-priced giants in 2026](https://www.inkly.so/blog/free-alternatives-monopoly-priced-giants): Ten well-known challengers, from Inkly to Affinity to DeepSeek, offering free or near-free versions of what household-name giants charge heavily for. - [Are electronic signatures legally binding?](https://www.inkly.so/blog/are-electronic-signatures-legally-binding): What the ESIGN Act and UETA require, which documents still need ink, and how signatures are proven. - [Digital signature vs. electronic signature: what's the difference?](https://www.inkly.so/blog/electronic-signature-vs-digital-signature): Why an electronic signature is a legal concept and a digital signature is a cryptographic method, and when each matters. - [Do electronic signatures need a witness or a notary?](https://www.inkly.so/blog/do-electronic-signatures-need-a-witness-or-notary): Which documents need a witness or notary, and how electronic and remote online notarization fit with e-signatures. ## Legal and trust - [Terms of service](https://www.inkly.so/legal/terms) - [Compliance](https://www.inkly.so/compliance): How Inkly meets the ESIGN Act, UETA, Canada's UECA-based provincial acts, eIDAS, and GDPR. - [Privacy policy](https://www.inkly.so/legal/privacy) - [Refund policy](https://www.inkly.so/legal/refunds) - [Sub-processors](https://www.inkly.so/legal/subprocessors) - [Electronic signature disclosure](https://www.inkly.so/legal/electronic-signature-disclosure)