Posted By : Mads Jakobsen 10.02.2026

GoatSign New Features — February 2026 Release

🐐 GoatSign New Features — February 2026 Release

Welcome to the GoatSign February 2026 Release — where contract management gets smarter, more flexible, and more powerful. This release introduces a range of improvements designed to help you stay in control of your contracts from start to finish, tighten up signing processes, support international recipients, and enhance security and audit clarity. GoatSign is a cloud-based electronic signature platform that streamlines contract creation, editing, tracking, and eSigning for users of all types, from small business owners to teams and legal professionals.

📁 Archive and Delete Contracts — Keep Your Workspace Tidy

We’ve added a new way to organize your document list: contract archiving. Now, from the documents page in a signature request menu, you can choose “Archive” to set aside contracts you’re done with. Archiving doesn’t immediately delete a contract — instead, it marks it as archived and gives you a 30-day window to recover it if needed. During that period, an information icon next to the status shows how many days remain until permanent deletion. This feature helps you keep your main workspace clear without losing anything important by accident.

The archiving action is tenant-specific — meaning if you and your recipients share a contract and you archive it, the document will only be hidden for you. Other parties who haven’t archived it will still see it as before. If all involved parties eventually archive the contract, only then is the contract permanently deleted from the system.

This makes it easier to keep your workspace clean without worrying about losing access to something important.

🔁 Change Signing Recipients — Fix Mistakes Without Starting Over

Mistakes happen — wrong email, wrong person, or a change in responsibility. With this release, you can now replace a recipient on a signature request as long as they haven’t signed yet.

Instead of cancelling the request and starting from scratch, you can simply replace the recipient, enter the new signer’s name and email, and provide a reason for the change. That reason — along with details of the replacement — is recorded in the contract’s audit trail.

This keeps the signing flow intact while maintaining transparency and compliance for anyone reviewing the document later.

🔄 Contract Lifecycle Management — From Start to Finish

Signing a contract is just one step. With Contract Lifecycle Management, GoatSign now helps you manage what happens before, during, and after signing.

Effective and End Dates

You can now define when a contract:

• Becomes effective (immediately upon signing or on a specific date)
• Ends (on a fixed date or after a defined period)

This helps align your digital contracts with real-world agreements and timelines.

Renewals and Reminders

You can optionally enable auto-renewals or set reminders ahead of expiration. GoatSign will notify you before a contract expires, helping you take action early and avoid unwanted lapses.

Clear Contract Statuses

Contracts now display smarter status labels such as:

• Signed – Not Yet Active
• Active
• Expired
• Not Signed in Time

Hovering over these statuses gives you quick context, making it easier to scan your contract list and prioritize follow-ups.

🔐 Flexible Recipient Authentication — Security on Your Terms

Different contracts require different levels of security. GoatSign now lets you choose authentication methods per recipient, including:

• Email one-time code (default)
• SMS one-time code
• Access code (a password you define)
• Identity verification using Stripe Identity
• No authentication

Each signer’s authentication method is recorded in the audit trail, so it’s always clear how a signature was verified.

For higher-security use cases, GoatSign integrates with Stripe Identity, a service that verifies government-issued IDs using document checks and biometric verification. Stripe handles the sensitive identity data securely, while GoatSign records the verification result for compliance and evidence purposes.

You can read more about Stripe Identity here:
https://docs.stripe.com/identity/verify-identity-documents

🌍 Multi-Language Signing Pages — A Better Experience for Global Signers

Signing pages and recipient emails can now be shown in a preferred language, making the signing experience easier for international recipients. This applies only to the signing flow — not the GoatSign admin or dashboard interface.

When adding recipients, you can select a language for each signer. If none is selected, GoatSign automatically falls back to the sender’s language or English.

This ensures signers clearly understand what they’re signing, helping improve completion rates and reducing friction across borders.

🚀 What This Means for You

With the February 2026 release, you can:

• Keep your workspace clean with safe contract archiving
• Correct recipient mistakes without restarting the signing process
• Track contracts from activation to expiration
• Choose the right security level for each signer
• Provide a localized signing experience for international recipients

All while maintaining a clear audit trail and a simple, user-friendly workflow.

✨ G.O.A.T. Hack: Stay Ahead with Lifecycle Statuses

Use the new lifecycle statuses to quickly spot contracts that are active, nearing expiration, or no longer valid. Combine this with regular use of the archive feature to keep your contract list focused on what actually matters right now.

🔎 Learn More

You can explore GoatSign’s features and get started here:
https://goatsign.io

If you want to dive deeper into security and identity verification, Stripe’s Identity documentation explains how ID-based verification works in detail:
https://docs.stripe.com/identity