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Document
Exchange

Move a document between firm and client — and sign it without leaving.

Inside the internal tools, Document Exchange handled the flow of documents between Intuit’s agents and their clients, with an e-signature capability built on DocuSign for Salesforce folded directly in. The craft was in a signing flow that felt trustworthy at every step.

document exchange — e-sign flow
qbquickbooks▤ ⌕
E-SERVICES ENROLLMENT
Case: #123456
Due: 09/15/2018
2d overdue
Status: Open
▾ Documents (2)+ Add add documents
LPOA-FL
eSign or download, sign and upload
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Form 8655
Send 8655 for ABC Corporation
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▾ Comments
Aliza Smith Today, 1:34 PM
eSigning the document
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01The problem

Documents move between two parties who don’t share a screen.

An agent inside the platform and a client outside it need to pass documents back and forth — and, often, sign them. That’s two audiences at once: the expert agent who lives in the internal tool, and the client who touches it briefly and needs it to feel obvious and safe. The e-signature step is where trust is won or lost.

Agent side

Dense, efficient, part of the operations workflow.

Client side

Brief, clear, trustworthy — a customer-facing widget, not a platform.

02The e-sign flow

View the document. Affix the signature. Done.

Built on DocuSign for Salesforce, the signing experience kept the document front and center — read it, then place a signature on it in the same view, without a jarring hand-off to a separate tool.

view document — e-sign
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E-SERVICES ENROLLMENT
LPOA - FL
eSign  |  Download
POWER OF ATTORNEY AND DECLARATION
BETWEEN
▸ Document Tags
◷ Invoice Copy◷ Document Subtype
▾ Comments
Sally Martin (A) Today, 1:34 PM
Please upload a copy with legible customer sign
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STEPRead it in context

The document never leaves the frame.

The signer views the actual document in the flow — no download-print-scan detour — so the thing being signed is always the thing on screen.

STEPAffix the signature

A clear, deliberate act.

Placing the signature is its own explicit step — legible and confirmable, so signing feels intentional rather than incidental. That deliberateness is what makes an e-signature feel as trustworthy as a wet one.

affix signature — e-sign
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E-SERVICES ENROLLMENT
LPOA - FL
PURCHASE AND SALE AGREEMENT
BETWEEN
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03The customer side

For the client, dead simple was the whole point.

The other half of the exchange is the customer-facing portal — where a client who touches this briefly sees exactly what’s being asked of them and nothing else. A plain list of requested documents, a company selector, an upload, and an unambiguous confirmation.

customer portal — document upload requests
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Place to share documents securely
Document Upload Requests
Select the company
SIGTest XI Ops Test IOP ▾
Virginia_WH_MTN-180110-0002☆⤒
Federal_WH_MTN-171221-0014☆⤒
California_WH_MTN-171219-0168☆⤒
Virginia_WH_MTN-180123-0121☆⤒
Federal_WH_MTN-171026-0111☆⤒
California_WH_MTN-171024-0080☆⤒
Oregon_WH_MTN-180123-0120☆⤒
Federal_WH_MTN-171106-0138☆⤒
California_WH_MTN-171219-0169☆⤒
CLIENTJust what’s needed

A checklist, not a platform.

The client sees a scrollable list of exactly the documents requested, scoped to their company, each with a single upload action. No account to learn, no navigation to get lost in — the widget does one job and makes it obvious.

CLIENTUnambiguous done

Green check, no doubt.

An explicit “Upload Successful” confirmation and a completed row leave no question about whether the document went through — the reassurance a brief-visit user needs before they close the tab.

customer portal — upload successful
Log Out
Place to share documents securely
Document Upload Requests
Select the company
SIGTest XI Ops Test IOP ▾
✓Virginia_WH_MTN-180110-0002☆⤒
✓Federal_WH_MTN-171221-0014☆⤒
California_WH_MTN-171219-0168☆⤒
Virginia_WH_MTN-180123-0121☆⤒
Federal_WH_MTN-171026-0111☆⤒
California_WH_MTN-171024-0080☆⤒
Oregon_WH_MTN-180123-0120☆⤒
Federal_WH_MTN-171106-0138☆⤒
California_WH_MTN-171219-0169☆⤒
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✓
Upload Successful
Thank you for submitting the document requested. Your document was uploaded successfully.
★What it taught me

One feature, two audiences, native to the system.

Document Exchange had to serve the expert agent and the brief-visit client at once, on top of DocuSign for Salesforce, inside Intuit’s established design language. Make it feel native — designed in, not bolted on.