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title: "Completing a Request, Certificates & Verification"
space: "Frappe Sign Documentation"
url: "https://eben.isambane.co.za/frappe-sign-docs/completing-a-request-certificates-verification"
updated: "2026-08-06"
---


# Completing a Request, Certificates & Verification

## What happens on completion

Once every required signer has signed, Frappe Sign automatically:

1. Sets the request's status to **Completed**.
2. Stores the final **signed PDF** and its hash.
3. Generates an **audit certificate** (and its hash).
4. If **Append Audit Certificate** is enabled, appends it to the signed PDF to produce a **final verification package**.
5. If **Enable Certificate Based PDF Signing** is enabled, cryptographically signs that final package.
6. Creates **Frappe Sign Certificate** evidence records for the audit certificate and (if produced) the final verification package.
7. Emails a completion notification to the creator and signers.
8. **Submits** the request itself.
9. If configured for the source DocType, attaches the signed PDF back to the source document and/or submits it - see **Configured Source DocTypes**.

![A Completed, submitted request: Signed PDF, Audit Certificate, and Certificate Signed PDF all populated, signer status "Signed"](/files/fsign-completed-request.png)

Once completed, the whole document locks - see the **Evidence Certificates** shortcut in the menu:

![The Frappe Sign menu on a Completed request, with Evidence Certificates and Verify Tamper Status](/files/fsign-completed-menu.png)

## Frappe Sign Certificate

Each certificate record is an **immutable evidence snapshot** - it doesn't own any files itself, just URL and hash references to files owned by the request. Two types exist: **Audit Certificate** and **Final Verification Package**.

![A Frappe Sign Certificate evidence record: source/signed PDF hashes, audit certificate, event chain hash, tamper status](/files/fsign-certificate-detail.png)

Because everything here is hash-based, you can independently confirm a signed PDF is genuine at any time - see **Validating Documents**.