SignDesk Forms & e-signatures
For schools & early learning · Aotearoa

Every form your school runs, made beautiful.

Enrolments, excursions, permissions and consents — assembled from smart fields, e-signatures and automations into flows finished in minutes, and the office receives as clean data with a signature that holds up.

Signed under the Contract and Commercial Law Act 2017 · every record kept, time-stamped, in New Zealand
Enrollment 9 / 9 sections
Child's legal name
Ella Grace Barnes
First Ella Middle Grace Last Barnes
Caregiver mobile
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Caregiver signature
Sarah Barnes 20 Aug 2026
2:14 pm NZST
Signed & recorded. Consent captured under the Contract and Commercial Law Act 2017. SD-4F9A2
E-signatures with legal weight Full audit trail on every record Privacy Act 2020, by construction Data hosted in New Zealand
One studio for the forms a school runs all year: Enrolments Excursion consent Medical & allergy plans Photo permissions Incident reports Policy sign-offs
The office runs on paper

Great schools are still held back by their forms.

Printed packs. PDFs that don't work on a phone. Signatures chased by email. Details typed twice — once by the parent, once by your office. It's a lot of careful work that no one enjoys, and it's where things slip.

Today

The paper and PDF way

  • Parents print, scan, or drop paper at the office
  • Half-finished forms, missing signatures, chased by email
  • Staff re-key every detail into the student system
  • Consent stored in a filing cabinet, hard to produce on request
  • Excursion risk assessments living in a shared drive
With SignDesk

Beautiful operations

  • Parents complete a guided flow on any device, in minutes
  • Required items guide themselves to done — nothing missed
  • Clean, structured data lands where your team works
  • Every consent signed, time-stamped, and searchable
  • Risk, ratios and approvals built into the same flow
E-signatures

Signatures that hold up.

A caregiver signs in seconds — draw it or type it, right on their phone. Every signature is captured with clear consent and kept beside the form as a time-stamped, referenced record.

  • Legally sound. Consent is captured under the Contract and Commercial Law Act 2017 — the same legal effect as a wet signature.
  • Recorded, not just collected. Who signed, what version, and exactly when — held with the form and produced on request.
  • Sign once, reuse everywhere. One adopted signature flows across every place a caregiver signs in the same flow.
Draw in the box, or switch to Type
Excursion consent — Caregiver signature Interactive
By signing, I confirm I've read the excursion details and consent to Ella Barnes attending the trip to Zealandia on 3 September 2026.
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Draw your signature here

Fields that do the thinking.

Names split themselves into parts. Typos get caught before they're submitted. Numbers format as they're typed. The parent glides through — and the office receives structured, validated data with nothing to re-key.

  • Guided, not interrogated. One question at a time, with hints, so families finish the first time.
  • Validated at the source. Required items turn green as they're satisfied; errors are caught in the moment.
  • Structured on arrival. The office sees tidy, typed fields — ready for the student system, no double entry.
Enrolment — Caregiver & contact details Interactive
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We'll text enrolment updates here — formatted for you as you type.
Structured record Validated
Given name
Middle name
Family name
Email
Mobile (E.164)
Fill the parent view and switch back here — the office record updates live, already typed and formatted for your student system.
Excursions & risk

Excursions, risk-assessed and signed off.

Build the hazard register, watch residual risk fall as controls go in, confirm staff-to-child ratios, and route the trip for approval — all in one place, ready for whānau consent.

  • A living risk matrix. Toggle controls on each hazard and see the register move from inherent to residual risk in real time.
  • Ratios that check themselves. Adjust adults and tamariki and the ratio badge confirms you're covered before you leave.
  • One-tap sign-off. When controls are in and ratios hold, route to the approver and stamp the record.
Flip the control switches below
Excursion — Zealandia · Risk assessment Interactive
Highest residual risk
Add controls to each hazard to bring inherent risk down to a managed, residual level.
UnlikelyPossibleLikely
Likelihood →
Low — proceed
Moderate — monitor
High — act first
1 : 5
Adults to tamariki on this trip
Adults
4
Tamariki
18
Meets 1 : 5 for offsite under-6s
Not ready to submit
Add controls to all hazards and confirm ratios to enable sign-off.
Approved for excursion

The work chases itself.

A form isn't finished when it's submitted — it's finished when the record is filed, the office is notified, and the stragglers are reminded. SignDesk runs that whole path so your team can oversee instead of chase.

01
Parent completes

A guided flow on any device. Validated as they go, so it arrives complete.

02
Signature captured

Consent recorded under the Contract and Commercial Law Act 2017, with a reference.

03
Record filed

Structured data and the signed record land where your team already works.

04
Office notified

Status flips to complete. Approvals route to the right person automatically.

05
Stragglers reminded

Gentle nudges go only to families who haven't finished — until everyone's done.

More than a text box.

Every SignDesk form is built from smart components that validate, format and guide as families go. A few of the pieces you'll drag into place:

One studio, every form

If it's on paper today, it belongs here.

The same beautiful, compliant, signed-and-recorded flow — across every form a school and early learning service runs through the year.

Enrolment & re-enrolment
Excursion consent

Trip details, risk assessment, ratios and caregiver consent — bundled and signed.

Medical & allergy plans

Conditions, medications and action plans captured clearly and flagged where it matters.

Photo & media permissions

Granular consent for newsletters, socials and the website — honoured everywhere.

Incident & injury reports

Consistent, time-stamped reporting with the right people notified straight away.

Policy acknowledgements

Send a policy, collect signed acknowledgements, and see who's outstanding at a glance.

Attendance & ratios

Roll and staffing captured together, so ratio compliance is visible in the moment.

Payment & donation authorities

Trip costs, contributions and authorities — captured with consent and a clear record.

…and anything else

Build your own from scratch, or hand us the PDF you use today and we'll rebuild it — beautifully.

Compliant by construction

The record keeps itself.

Compliance isn't a feature you switch on at the end — it's how every form is built. Signed, versioned, and defensible from the first field to the final approval.

E-signatures with legal weight

Signatures are captured with explicit consent under the Contract and Commercial Law Act 2017 — the same legal effect as signing by hand.

A complete audit trail

Who signed, which version, and exactly when — every record time-stamped and referenced, ready to produce whenever it's asked for.

Privacy Act 2020, by default

Only the information a form needs, held securely, visible to the right people, and easy to correct or export on request.

Hosted in New Zealand

Your community's data stays onshore, with the residency and protections New Zealand schools and services expect.

Role-based access

Office, leadership and educators each see exactly what they should — and every access is accountable.

Versioned records

Change a form and history is preserved — you can always show precisely what a family agreed to, and when.

Contract and Commercial Law Act 2017 Privacy Act 2020 Data residency in Aotearoa Encrypted in transit & at rest
Book a walkthrough

See your enrolment form, rebuilt.

Send us the pack your school or centre uses today. We'll rebuild it as a live SignDesk flow and walk you through it — the parent view, the office view, and the record it keeps.

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