PDF forms & e-signature

Upload the form. We'll ask the questions.

Drop in any fillable PDF your clients have to complete — a loan application, an engagement letter, an intake packet. ClientCollect reads the fields, turns them into a plain-language questionnaire, fills the original document from the answers, and routes it for signature.

Loan applications Engagement letters Client intake packets Consent & authorization Tax & identity declarations
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Start from a PDF form
Review the mapping
29 client questions · 6 stages 4 need review
01Borrower & householdSection 1
short answer Full legal name 2 fields · p1 High
date Date of birth 1 field · p1 High
short answer Social Security number 1 field · p1 Low
dropdown Marital status 1 field · p1 High
dropdown Do you own or rent? 1 field · p1 Medium
02Employment & incomeSection 2
Page 1 Page 2 Mapped Unmapped
Residential Loan Application FORM RL-1
1. Borrower information
Borrower legal name
Date of birth
SSN / ITIN
2. Employment and income
Employer name
Start date
The problem with sending a PDF

Nobody fills in a form correctly on the first try.

Emailing a blank PDF means hoping your client owns a printer, understands what "net profit from self-employment" means, and doesn't skip page three. Then you retype it all anyway.

Fillable on a phone, finally

Clients answer one clear question at a time instead of pinching and zooming around a PDF viewer. No printing, no scanning, no "I'll do it at my computer."

Ask it in human language

Edit every parsed question before you send. "Gross monthly income, before tax" reads better than the form's label — and the answer still lands in the right box.

Only the relevant questions

Conditional follow-ups mean a client with no gift funds never sees the gift-letter questions — the form's branching logic, applied for them.

No retyping on your side

Answers flow back into the original PDF, positioned exactly where they belong. You get the completed document, not a transcript to copy from.

How it works

From blank PDF to signed document.

Four steps, and you only really work on one of them.

1

Upload

Drop in the PDF. We detect every field, checkbox and signature block across all pages.

Any fillable PDF
2

Auto-map

Each field becomes a question with a guessed type, grouped into stages that follow the form's own sections.

One question per field
3

Review

Reword, retype, reorder or merge. Confidence scores show which mappings deserve a look.

Side-by-side with the document
4

Fill & sign

The client answers, the PDF fills, and the signature block routes to an e-sign step at the end.

Completed PDF · audit trail
Mapping review

You approve every question before it ships.

The parse is a proposal, not a verdict. Review it against the live document — clicking a question highlights the field it fills, and clicking a field shows the question behind it.

  • Confidence on every mapping
    High-confidence fields are ready to send; ambiguous ones are flagged with the reason — "two money fields could feed this."
  • Unmapped fields are first-class
    Create a question from an unlabelled box, fill it in-house yourself, or flag it for a colleague — nothing quietly disappears.
  • Change the type, keep the link
    Turn a free-text box into a dropdown, add options, add help text — the link back to the PDF field survives every edit.
  • Stages you can reshape
    Keep the form's sections or drag questions into stages that match how your engagement actually runs.
app.clientcollect.com/import-form
Start from a PDF form
Review the mapping
29 client questions · 6 stages 4 need review
01Borrower & householdSection 1
short answer Full legal name 2 fields · p1 High
date Date of birth 1 field · p1 High
short answer Social Security number 1 field · p1 Low
dropdown Marital status 1 field · p1 High
dropdown Do you own or rent? 1 field · p1 Medium
02Employment & incomeSection 2
Page 1 Page 2 Mapped Unmapped
Residential Loan Application FORM RL-1
1. Borrower information
Borrower legal name
Date of birth
SSN / ITIN
2. Employment and income
Employer name
Start date
summitlending.clientcollect.com/sign
Summit Lending · Loan application
Review & sign
Check the completed form, then add your signature to finish.
Residential Loan Application FORM RL-1
Borrower legal name
Helena Marie Sørensen
Date of birth
04 / 18 / 1987
Current address
1140 SE Ash St, Portland, OR 97214
Employer
Northwest Cascade Health
Monthly base income
$ 8,450.00
Borrower signature
Helena Sørensen
Date
Aug 4, 2026
Draw Type
Helena Sørensen
I agree that this is my electronic signature, and that it is legally binding on the completed form.
Sign & send to Dana
Consent, timestamp & IP recorded with the signed PDF.
E-signature

The last step, not a separate tool.

Signature fields are detected with everything else, so signing happens where the client already is — after the questions, on the document their answers just filled in. No second link, no second vendor, no second invoice.

  • Draw, type or upload
    Signed with a fingertip on a phone or a trackpad on a laptop — whatever the client has to hand.
  • They see what they're signing
    The full filled document sits alongside the signature pad — reviewable, scrollable, no surprises.
  • Gated until the form is complete
    Signing unlocks only once every other field is answered, so the document is finished before it's signed.
  • Certificate of completion
    Consent, timestamp, IP address and a document hash are bound to the signed PDF — a defensible record for your file.
And the details that matter

Built by people who've filled in the form themselves.

Save the mapping as a template

Map your engagement letter once. Every future client gets the same questionnaire, on the same form, without touching the importer again.

Live fill preview

Watch answers land in the document as they come in, with a gap report showing which boxes are still empty and who owes them.

Internal fields stay internal

Loan numbers, preparer details and office-use boxes get assigned to your team — filled inline, never asked of the client.

Conditional follow-ups

A "yes" on gift funds opens the amount and the gift letter. A "no" skips them entirely — the same logic the form implies.

Attachments, alongside answers

Forms that reference supporting documents get file-upload questions too — the lease, the gift letter, the ID — in the same pass.

The original, unchanged

We fill your PDF — we don't rebuild it. What comes out is the same document your underwriter, registrar or regulator expects.

Security & trust

A signature is only as good as its record.

Encrypted end to end

Forms and signed copies are protected in transit and at rest.

E-sign consent captured

Recorded before signing and stored with the document.

Tamper-evident copy

The signed PDF carries a hash — later changes are detectable.

Completion record

Signer, timestamp and IP, bound to the signed document.

"We used to email the application and get back a photo of page one. Now the borrower answers twenty-nine questions on their phone and I get a completed, signed application."
Dana Whitfield · Senior Loan Officer, Summit Lending Group

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