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title: Top 3 Signing Efficiency Hacks for Freelancers
description: Streamlining signing contracts and paperwork is crucial for freelancers looking to save time and focus on their business. Take a look at these 3 tips on how Documenso can help you.
title: How to Sign an NDA online (fast)
description: Signing an NDA with Documenso direct links is amazingly fast. Let’s look at how to make it even faster.
authorName: 'Timur Ercan'
authorImage: '/blog/blog-author-timur.jpeg'
authorRole: 'Co-Founder'
date: 2024-07-04
date: 2024-06-27
tags:
- Productivity
- Zapier
- NDA
- Direct Links
- Productivity
---
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<figcaption className="text-center">Documenso helps you reduce your cognitive load while running your business.</figcaption>
<figcaption className="text-center">A generic document saying "NDA" to underline this article is about NDAs.</figcaption>
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> TLDR; Set up notifications using Zapier, use a redirect to send users to the next step, and start working async with direct links.
> TLDR; Documenso makes sending NDAs faster, faster with templates, and even still faster using direct links.
Signing all the paperwork of a freelance business can be a headache. Besides adding to the daily workload, it can pull much focus from your core tasks. Let's take a look at how Documenso can help you keep the cognitive load of admin tasks to a minimum:
## What is an NDA?
An NDA, or non-disclosure agreement, is a legal contract that establishes a confidential relationship. The parties involved agree not to disclose information covered by the agreement. NDAs are often used to protect sensitive information or trade secrets and to ensure that such information isn't made public by the recipient without permission. They are commonly used in business settings, such as during negotiations or when new employees are hired who will have access to proprietary information.
## Tip 1: Set Up Notifications
> At Documenso, we pipe almost everything relevant into Discord. This helps us naturally keep track and start conversations.
## Do I need an NDA?
> Disclaimer: This is not legal advice, and the most important legal questions are often ultra-case-specific and should be discussed with a legal professional
Getting customers and partners to sign off on critical agreements is no easy feat. It's even harder when keeping track forces you to switch between channels (email, WhatsApp, Discord, Slack, Notion, etc.). Setting up custom notifications for read or signed documents can help you keep track naturally. Using the Documenso [Zapier Integration](https://documen.so/zapier) lets you funnel important document events to the place where your focus is. Pipe send, read, and sign notifications directly to your Telegram account. Keep up to date on the go. Sync document completion events to your CRM. Ideally, a signed document does not give you any "homework”. Besides, you are already busy getting started on the actual work.
## Tip 2: Use Redirects
Your client signed the deal? Your designer signed their statement of work? Great. Don't risk losing steam getting from one step to the next. Your customers and partners have just as much noise around them as you. Help them to stay on task by doing the next thing easily. Documenso lets you set up redirects to send signers to where they need to go next. Send your newest customer to a booking page for onboarding. Forward your designer to the next briefing you prepared. Keeping up flow is critical; sending everyone where they need to go while in focus mode helps get things done faster.
There is a solid amount of debate around the question of whether an NDA actually protects anyone and is worth the friction. Investors scoff at the idea of a startup requiring them to sign an NDA before disclosing their "billion dollar idea" as they see hundreds of them and are aware that without proper execution, there is nothing to protect.
## Tip 3: Go Async with Direct Links
> Try Direct Links by signing our [Supporters Pledge](https://documen.so/pledge)
In another classical example, a big company and a small company e.g. a startup, sign an NDA before going into detail for partnership talks. While this seems prudent, given the resource asymmetry, the startup probably won't be able to litigate against breach of contract successfully. If Microsoft (not saying they do) breaks your NDA, you will hardly sue them into a settlement.
Your customer wanting to approve an additional budget is great. It’s so great. In fact, you want to get on it as soon as possible and not have a calm moment until you send them something to sign. Even if you are fast, you are not mind-ready, though. So, what if your customers could do it whenever they like?
That being said, as with most contracts, NDAs can be useful if both parties keep the spirit of the agreement. In this case, detailing in writing what can and cannot be disclosed is good for managing expectations and building trust. NDAs are also common practice in merger and acquisition projects and are often part of hiring critical roles within a company.
Direct Links lets you set up proposal templates and contracts, which are ready to sign anytime. You can include them in your [initial proposal](https://documen.so/freelance-proposal) or on your [public profile](https://documen.so/profiles). This way, customers can get more of your offering whenever they want.
### Level 1: Basic Signing
If you need to sign an NDA, signing it with Documenso is incredibly fast already. Let's take a look at how to make it even faster. Simply uploading and sending is the most straightforward way to get this done. It works like this:
- Upload the NDA PDF template
- Add the recipients
- place the signature fields
- Hit send
- Sign the NDA while or after waiting for your counterpart to sign
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### Level 2: Using Templates
If you have to sign the same NDA multiple times with different people, you can create a template to save time. Creating a template is just as easy as creating a document, just skipping the sending step. After creating the template for your NDA, you can create a signable document with just 1 click. Simply fill in the recipient email, and you are done.
> Pro Tip: Check "Send Document" to immediately send it after filling out the recipient if you are familiar with the template.
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You can send out templates without even going through the full flow.
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### Level 3: Using a Direct Link
Using a pre-defined template is pretty fast, but can we make it even faster? Yes, we can! By adding a direct link to your NDA template and publishing it (internally or even externally). A [Direct Link](http://documenso.com/blog/announcing-direct-links) lets people sign your NDA without you lifting a finger. Everyone with access to the link can sign it at any time, making discussions of who sends what when a thing of the past. You can use Direct links with a pre-signed template for maximum convenience or with a second signer/ approver from your side to keep control over the process.
You can try it here and [sign a demo NDA](https://documen.so/demo-nda) with me.
> Pro Tip: Use [Zapier](https://documen.so/zapier) to get notified of that platform of your choice as soon as someone signs your link.
## Conclusion
Setting up notifications, redirects, and direct signing links using your favorite open source DocuSign alternative helps streamline your business and reduce the cognitive load of managing it. You can get everything mentioned here plus 5 free monthly signatures in the [Documenso Free Plan](https://documen.so/free).
Signing NDAs is not always effective, but it can be necessary, so be sure to use a tool to make it easy and fast. Documenso is a great DocuSign alternative that helps you get it done. If you need to get an NDA out today, you can use the [Documenso Free plan](https://documen.so/free), which gives you 5 signatures per month and 3 Direct Link templates.
As always, we want to hear from you on [Twitter / X](https://twitter.com/eltimuro) (DMs are open) or [Discord](https://documen.so/discord) if you have any questions, ideas, or comments.
Best from Hamburg\
Timur