What you will get
The contract coming out with the school's signature at the foot, without anyone printing and signing each one.
There are three things to fill in, and they do not live on the contract template — they live under Settings › Contracts.
The three pieces
| What it is | Where it goes in the contract |
|---|---|
| The signature image | %institution_signature% |
| The name of whoever signs | %institution_signer_name% |
| That person's role | %institution_signer_role% |
Fill all three under Settings › Contracts and use the variables at the foot of the template. The default template already has all three in place.
About the image
The system shrinks the image to fit the signature space — at most 220 pixels wide by 80 tall. Two practical consequences:
- A signature scanned on a white background becomes a white rectangle sitting on the contract. Prefer a PNG with a transparent background.
- A very large image gains you nothing. It will be shrunk either way.
The simplest route is to sign on white paper, photograph it, crop to the stroke alone and save as PNG.
When it is not configured
Nothing breaks. The three variables simply come out empty, and the contract is left with a blank signature space — ready to be signed by hand once printed.
That is a valid choice: a school that prints and signs physically does not need the image.
What this is not
The institution's signature is not a certified electronic signature. It is the image of the school's mark on the document, like a stamp.
What gives the contract legal weight is the student's signature — the electronic acceptance, with date, time and the origin of the access recorded, or the signed document sent back.
How you know it worked
Open the template's Preview: in place of
%institution_signature%the signature mark appears, with the name and role you registered beneath it. On a test enrolment, the image appears for real.
If something goes wrong
The image came out with a white rectangle around it. The file has a background. Save it as PNG with a transparent background.
The signature came out very small. The space is capped at 220 by 80 pixels. Crop the image tight to the stroke, with no margin left over.
The name shows but the image does not. Check that the file really was saved under Settings › Contracts — the three pieces are independent.
You want different signatures per course. You cannot: there is one signature per school, set in settings.
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