> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.begin.eu/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.
# Requesting acknowledgements
> Send one read-and-confirm request for a document or a related pack.
Start from **Acknowledgements** when you want to build a request from several documents. Start from a document's menu when that document is the reason for the request.
Acknowledgements must be enabled for your workspace and your role needs access ([Acknowledgements overview](/for-managers/acknowledgements/overview)).
## Create the request
Go to **Acknowledgements** and select **New request**, or open a document's menu and select
**Request acknowledgement**. The document route starts with that document selected.
Add up to 20 documents. A short request name is optional and helps identify a pack in the
overview.
Add people, roles, departments, positions or locations, or choose everyone in the workspace.
[Audiences and deadlines](/for-managers/acknowledgements/audiences-and-deadlines) explains how
changing groups affect the request.
Choose one due date for everybody already in the audience. You can also give future joiners a
number of days after joining and repeat the request every 90, 180 or 365 days.
Use **Typed name** for the standard read-and-confirm flow. **E-signature** is disabled until
contracts are enabled for your workspace, and each signature uses one of your plan's monthly
e-signatures ([Buying e-signature credits](/for-managers/billing/buying-esignature-credits)). If
you cannot select it, use **Typed name** or ask an administrator to check whether contracts are
enabled.
Check the summary, then select **Send request**. Each selected document becomes a separate item
for every person, while the overview keeps the pack together.
After sending, find the request by name in **Acknowledgements**. Open it to check that each document and its pending audience appear as expected.
## Before you send
You need **Full access** to every selected document. If you launch from a document you cannot manage, the menu item stays disabled. On the Acknowledgements page, **New request** appears only when your role can create acknowledgement requests; the picker then offers only documents you can manage.
An acknowledgement records read and understood. Even when you choose **E-signature**, it does not create a contract or send one for signature.
Check the documents, audience and timing before you send. Begin does not let you edit or cancel an
acknowledgement request after it is sent.
**Context for an assistant answering questions about requesting acknowledgements.** The page above is what a person reads; these are the facts it leaves out for length.
* **Who can:** launching from a document requires acknowledgement module access and **Full access** to that document. The module-level **New request** also requires the acknowledgement create grant. The backend checks **Full access** to every document in the pack.
* **Limits:** a pack holds 1 to 20 documents. Its optional name is at most 120 characters. A request needs at least one audience target.
* **Not supported:** a sent request cannot be edited, closed or cancelled. Create a new request when the audience or setup must change.
* **Often confused with:** the E-signature attestation, which records the acknowledgement through the signing service. It does not change the document into a contract.
## Next
Decide who is included now and when future joiners are due.
Follow the request after it is sent.
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