The Me (Fill Out Now) section lets you complete and sign documents yourself—no need to invite other signers. This is perfect for filling out personal forms, signing internal documents, stamping approvals, or preparing contracts before sharing them with others. It’s a fast, secure way to handle paperwork directly within SignNow.
Difference between Fillable and Fill Out Now Fields
In SignNow, fillable fields and Fill Out Now fields serve different purposes:
Fillable fields: These are assigned to other signers or recipients. You add them to a document so that invitees can enter their information, signatures, or initials during the signing process.
Fill Out Now fields: These are meant for you, the sender, to complete before sending the document. You can use them to add your own signature, text, initials, or stamps without inviting yourself as a signer.
Example:
A contract might have fillable fields for a client to sign and add their details.
The same contract could have Fill Out Now fields for you to sign or prefill company details before sending it out.
How to use Fill Out Now fields?
1. In the editing mode, click Me (Fill out Now) on the left-side panel to open up the fields that you can fill out on your own. Here, you can add different elements to your document: signature, initials, stamp, today's date, text, check, full name and email.
📝 My Full Name and My Email fields are dynamic and will be prefilled based on your account information and the email associated with your SignNow account.
2. Select a field from the side panel and click on the document where you want to place it. You can then drag the field itself to move it around the document. Adjust the font size, text color, alignment, and font style for Text, Today's Date, My Full Name and My Email using the formatting bar at the top. Drag the corners of the My Signature, My Initials, My Stamp and Check to resize the field's size.
You can also use the icons at the top of the field to reposition, duplicate, change/edit, save as custom field, or delete it.
📝 Fill Out Now fields can only be used before the document is signed. Once a document reaches “Signed” status, no further edits or adjustments can be made.
If CFR 21 Part 11 is enabled for your Workspace, you will not be able to add My Signature and My Initials fields.
Self-sign the document before sending
Sometimes you need to prefill a document with information that's specific to each signer. To do that, add yourself as a recipient and assign yourself the fillable fields you need to complete — then sign first, before the document reaches the other recipients.
1. Click the Manage Recipients.
2. Click Add Recipient, rename your signing role if needed, and click Save and Continue.
3. Add the fields you'll fill out: select your signing role on the left side of the screen, then place the fields on the document. If the fields are already placed, click a field — or left-click and drag to select several at once — and reassign them to your signing role.
4. On the Send Invite page, turn on Recipients receive document in order and position your signing role where it belongs in the signing sequence.
