Troubleshooting

Troubleshooting

Diagnose upload, preview, delivery, signing, webhook, authentication, and deployment problems.

All Signa users and operatorsAs needed

Before you begin

  • Access to the affected record and relevant server logs

What you will complete

  • A narrowed cause and a safe next action

Document preview is unavailable

  • Wait for processing to finish and reload the template once.
  • Confirm the source is not password protected, XFA-only, or corrupt.
  • Export a standard PDF and upload it again.
  • Check backend PDFium processing logs and storage read/write errors.
  • Verify the generated preview URL is reachable from the browser.

Email or SMS was not delivered

  • Confirm SMTP or Twilio is configured and the provider test succeeds.
  • Inspect submission activity for queued, delivered, rejected, or bounced events.
  • Verify the recipient address or international phone format.
  • Resend from the existing submission after correcting the cause.

API request fails

  • 401: send a valid key as X-Auth-Token and check whether it was rotated.
  • 403: add the required permission or use the correct team context.
  • 404: verify the account owns the resource and the ID is correct.
  • 422 or 400: compare the payload with the API reference and template schema.
  • 429: honor Retry-After and apply bounded exponential backoff.

Embedded signing does not load

  • Use a browser-reachable HTTPS host.
  • Check Content Security Policy, frame ancestors, mixed-content, and CORS errors.
  • Confirm the signing slug is valid and not completed or expired.
  • Pin a compatible SDK/script version.

Collect useful diagnostic information

  • Signa version and deployment method
  • Affected template, submission, or webhook ID
  • Timestamp and timezone
  • Browser and operating system
  • Sanitized request/response and relevant logs
  • Exact steps to reproduce without document contents or secrets

Never include API keys, passwords, private signing links, certificate private keys, or unredacted customer documents in support messages.

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