# When a signer declines

What happens when someone refuses to sign your document in Drime Sign, where to read their reason, and how to invite them again with Resubmit.

Updated: 2026-10-21  
Source: https://drime.cloud/support/sign/when-a-signer-declines

A signer can refuse to sign your document, with or without a reason. One refusal stops the request for everyone. You can then invite that signer again with **Resubmit**.

## What happens when a signer declines

- You receive an email telling you the signer declined.
- In **Tools** \> **Sign**, the signer shows **Declined** on the document. Their reason, if they wrote one, appears under their name, in quotes.
- The request is declined for everyone: the other signers can no longer sign it.
- The refusal is written to the audit trail, with its date.

![A document in Sign with one demo signer marked Declined, their reason in quotes and the Resubmit button](https://drime.cloud/media/01M5F1PSQNS3YB9QVK8SRM0CWV/17b265bde521-web-sign-signer-declined.png)

A signer who has already signed cannot decline afterwards. To see what the signer sees, read [Sign a document you received](https://drime.cloud/support/sign/sign-a-document-you-received#decline).

## Invite the signer again

If the signer changes their mind, or after you have fixed what they objected to:

1. In **Tools** \> **Sign**, open the declined document.

2. Under the signer, click **Resubmit**.

   **Invitation re-sent** confirms it.

![The Invitation re-sent confirmation after Resubmit on a demo signer](https://drime.cloud/media/01M5F1PFQS8D403PRAN82PA6HK/2ea1d051c987-web-sign-resubmit.png)

The signer then:

- receives a new invitation email, with a new link valid for 30 days. The previous link no longer works;
- starts from empty fields: what they had filled in before is cleared. Their email address and the fields assigned to them stay the same.

The request goes back to **Pending**, and the other signers can sign again.

> **Tip**
>
> If the document itself has to change, send a new request instead: **Resubmit** sends the same document again.

## If it doesn't work

| What you see | What to do |
| --- | --- |
| **Resubmit** is missing | Only the sender of the request sees it, and only for a signer who declined. |
| The signer did not receive the new invitation | Ask them to look in their spam folder. You can also copy their link and send it yourself: see [Share a signing link yourself](https://drime.cloud/support/sign/share-a-signing-link). |

## Next steps

- [Follow and download signed documents](https://drime.cloud/support/sign/track-and-download-signed-documents)
- [Set reminders and a deadline for a signature request](https://drime.cloud/support/sign/reminders-and-deadline)
- [Delete a signature request](https://drime.cloud/support/sign/delete-a-signature-request)