How to separate the audit trail in Dropbox Sign

The audit trail is an important part of how Dropbox Sign identifies that your signer is who they say they are, and it's part of what makes Dropbox Sign legal. For this reason, it can’t be turned off altogether.

However, if you’re on a Dropbox Sign team plan, you can configure your account so that the audit trail is not attached to the signed document, and is returned to you as a separate file instead. 

To separate the audit trail:

1. Log in to sign.dropbox.com.
2. Hover over your initials in the top-right corner.
3. Select Settings from the dropdown menu.
4. Click the Standard Features tab and scroll to the Preferences section.
5. Click the Enable checkbox next to Do not merge signed documents.
6. Click Save to save your changes.

When a document is returned to you and you download it from the documents page, the document itself and the audit trail will download as two separate PDFs.

How to separate the audit trail with the API

If you're using the Dropbox Sign API, you can download the document with the Get Files endpoint. You can specify the parameter file_type=zip and the documents are returned as a collection in a ZIP file.