Getting Started with keysig

Who this is for

You just made a keysig account, or you are about to, and you want to know what it does and where things are.

What keysig is

keysig turns music-industry agreements into a guided form. You answer plain-language questions, keysig writes the agreement, everyone signs by email, and the signed copy stays in your account. Draft to sent takes about 3 minutes.

keysig is not a law firm and does not give legal advice. Its templates are a starting point. Have anything that matters reviewed by a lawyer before you sign it.

Creating an account

1. Go to keysig.co and choose Create account. If you would rather see it work first, draft a demo agreement: you fill in an agreement with no account, and create one when you want to save it.
2. Pick how you will sign in. Email me a sign-in link, the default, skips the password entirely; Use a password sets one. Both work the same afterwards, and you can add a password later. Check the box agreeing to the Terms of Service and Privacy Policy; the account can't be created without it.
3. Enter your full name and email. Your name goes onto agreements as Party 1, so use the name you sign with.
4. Finish account setup: two questions, one screen each. First, the legal name that goes on your agreements (add a stage name there if you go by another one). Then your roles: artist, producer, manager and so on; pick every one that applies. If you drafted a demo agreement first, keysig fills in what it already knows from it. Your label, publisher and manager start out as unsigned, self-published and no manager. If you write, produce or perform, your dashboard then asks whether you are registered to collect your royalties, and shows you how to register where you are not. Change any of it from the Legal Key on your dashboard. Those answers make up your Legal Key, and keysig fills them into every agreement so you type them once.

What happens next: keysig shows you the plans once, keysig Pro or continue on Free, and you choose; nothing is charged unless you start Pro. Then you land on your dashboard and keysig sends a welcome email. If you set a password, a separate email asks you to confirm your address; an emailed link already counts as confirmation. If you started from the demo, the agreement you drafted is saved to your account and opens in front of you instead.

Confirming your email

Confirming your email does exactly one thing: when someone sends an agreement to your address for signing, it opens inside your keysig account, read-only, under Shared with you. Everything else works without confirming: drafting, sending, signing, billing.

If you signed in with an emailed link, that already counts as confirmation. Otherwise tap the link in the confirmation email. You can send it again from the notice at the top of the app, or from Account under Email confirmation.

Your dashboard

The dashboard has three sections, one per status:

• Drafts. Agreements you are still working on. Nothing has been sent.
• Pending. Agreements out for signature. Each one shows who it is waiting on.
• Signed. Agreements everyone has signed. The signed PDF lives here, and downloading it is always free.

Under them is a preview of Tracks: your three newest tracks, each with its project and the people who worked on it, a small square beside each person for whether their agreement is signed, out for signature, drafted or not started. All tracks and projects opens the whole page. With no tracks yet, it invites you to run the catalog audit.

Until you have an agreement, the dashboard shows where to start instead. Your dashboard also carries your Legal Key strip: hover or tap an item to see the deal terms keysig fills in for you. If someone has sent you an agreement to sign, a card on the dashboard leads you to it.

Where everything lives

• Dashboard. Your agreements by status, at a glance.
• Templates. Start a new agreement. New agreement takes you here too.
• Agreements. Everything you have drafted, sent or signed, with filters, search and sort. Agreements other people sent you sit under Shared with you.
• Tracks. The recordings your agreements are about, one page each.
• Collaborators. Your address book. A saved collaborator fills their details into a form with one tap.
• The account menu, marked with your initials: Profile (your Legal Key), Glossary, Billing, Account (email, password, email confirmation, your label, exports and deletion), Help, Contact us, Getting started and Sign out.
• The bell is your notifications: signatures, reminders you set, signed agreements about to expire, referral rewards, and changes keysig support made to your account. Opening it marks everything it shows as read.

Where to go next

Creating an agreement walks through the guided form. If you are not sure which agreement you need, start with Which agreement do I need? What a credit is, and what your plan includes, is in Credits and plans.

If something goes wrong: see Troubleshooting, and Getting help for how to reach us.