# Getting started with dVellum

What dVellum does, how to open your company's workspace, and its email, branding and language settings.

dVellum sends documents for electronic signature. Signers need no account: they get a personal link by email,
agree to sign electronically, fill in their fields and sign. When everyone has signed, dVellum seals the PDF with a
digital seal and a trusted timestamp and adds a certificate of completion with the full history.

You can send documents [from your browser](https://docs.sapiensandmachines.com/en/dvellum/send-from-the-browser), from [EspoCRM](https://docs.sapiensandmachines.com/en/dvellum/espocrm-app), or from your own
software through the [API](https://docs.sapiensandmachines.com/en/dvellum/api-and-webhooks).

## Your workspace

Each S+M company has its own dVellum workspace: its documents, templates, contacts, settings and API keys are kept apart
from everyone else's.

1. Go to [app.dvellum.com/app](https://app.dvellum.com/app) and choose **Sign in with
   S+M**. It's the same account as [my.sapiensandmachines.com](https://my.sapiensandmachines.com).
2. Pick your company and create its workspace (name and signer language).
3. Choose a plan. The **Basic** plan is free and needs no card. Owners and billing contacts of the company can choose
   or change it; billing lives in your S+M account.
4. Invite the people who work with you from your S+M account. In the workspace each person has a role: **Owner**,
   **Admin** (settings, API keys, webhooks, people), **Sender** (sends and follows documents) or **Viewer** (sees and
   downloads them).

## Email sending

dVellum sends the invitations, reminders and signed copies **for you**: they come from
`no-reply@notify.dvellum.com` as "*Your company* via dVellum", and when a signer replies, the reply goes to the
person who sent the document. For documents sent by your CRM or the API, set the address that gets replies in
**Settings → Workspace → Email**.

> [!TIP]
> Want invitations to come from your own address, for example `contracts@example.com`? S+M can set your workspace to
> send through your own email server (SMTP). Ask us; setting this up yourself in Settings is on the way.

## Branding, language and signing options

In **Settings → Workspace**:

- **Logo**: PNG (a transparent background works best) or JPG, up to 2 MB, shown in emails and on the signing pages.
  You can hide the workspace name next to the logo if the logo already includes it.
- **Language for signers**: English or Spanish, for the signing pages and every email signers receive. Each document,
  and each signer, can still use another language.
- **Signing options**: how many days signers have, automatic reminders, and whether signers must confirm a code sent
  to their email before they open a document.

## Next steps

- [Send from the browser](https://docs.sapiensandmachines.com/en/dvellum/send-from-the-browser): upload, choose who signs, place fields and send.
- [Templates and markers](https://docs.sapiensandmachines.com/en/dvellum/templates-and-markers): documents you send often, ready in seconds.
- [The EspoCRM app](https://docs.sapiensandmachines.com/en/dvellum/espocrm-app): send for signature from your CRM.
- [What signers see](https://docs.sapiensandmachines.com/en/dvellum/signer-experience).