> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://staging.docs.flowsign.app/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Getting started

> Create a FlowSign account and send your first document for signature.

This guide takes you from a new account to a sent package.

<Steps>
  <Step title="Create your account">
    Choose a plan at [flowsign.app/pricing](https://flowsign.app/pricing). When you finish, you land in the app at [my.flowsign.app](https://my.flowsign.app). Returning users sign in at [my.flowsign.app/login](https://my.flowsign.app/login).
  </Step>

  <Step title="Start a package">
    Go to **Packages** and create a new package. The form has five sections:

    * **Package Details**: a title recipients will recognise, and an optional description.
    * **Documents**: upload the PDF files that need signing.
    * **Recipients**: the people who sign or receive the package, each with a name, an email address and an action (Signer, Viewer or CC). Turn on signing order if recipients must act one after another.
    * **Email**: the subject and message of the invitation email.
    * **Security**: an optional password recipients must enter before they can view the documents.

    <Tip>Recipients you have used before are offered from your contacts as you type.</Tip>
  </Step>

  <Step title="Place fields">
    Open the package and drag fields onto the pages. Assign each field to a recipient. Common field types are Signature, Initial, Date, Name, Email, Company, Title, Text, Number, Checkbox, Radio and Dropdown. Mark a field as required when the recipient must complete it before finishing.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Send">
    Send the package. Each Signer and Viewer receives an email with a private link to their session. Signers in a sequential package are emailed when it is their turn.

    <Warning>Once a recipient has opened a package it can no longer be edited. Void it and send a corrected copy instead.</Warning>
  </Step>

  <Step title="Track and download">
    The package page shows each recipient's session status (`WAITING`, `ACTIVE`, `COMPLETED`, `DECLINED` or `CANCELLED`) and the audit trail. When every recipient has finished, the package becomes `COMPLETED`, the finished documents and the certificate of completion are available from the package page, and CC recipients receive their copy.
  </Step>
</Steps>

## Next steps

<CardGroup cols={2}>
  <Card title="Build a template" icon="workflow" href="/guides/building-a-workflow">
    Reuse the same documents, roles and fields for every send.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Automate with the API" icon="code" href="/developers">
    Create packages and send them from your own systems.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>