Why Only completed envelopes can be archived to Drive is not a Drive soft-fail

Archive to Drive on a completed envelope retries the stamped PDF plus audit JSON. POST /api/documents/:id/drive-archive refuses any other status with Only completed envelopes can be archived to Drive. Draft, sent, voided, declined, and expired stay off that retry. That is drive-complete honesty: archive waits for a filed copy, Drive not configured is a different soft-fail on a completed id, and opening Billing will not “archive a draft to Drive.”

When credentials are missing the completed retry is when Drive archive soft-fails. What the filed copy includes is what a completed envelope includes. Why a filed copy hides void, correct, and resend is why completed envelopes cannot be changed. Desk help is Docs. This guide is why archive names an envelope that is not completed, and why that name is not the Drive-not-configured skip.

The FAQ and Google Drive archive on Features start from a completed envelope. Ask Inkpacket for why Only completed envelopes can be archived to Drive is not a Drive soft-fail to open this article. Ask how drive archive works to open help. Those phrases stay on the product screens. This article is the public version of Only completed envelopes can be archived to Drive — the string the archive route already uses next to a non-completed id.

What drive-complete covers

• Archive to Drive on a draft. Only completed envelopes can be archived to Drive.
• Archive on a sent, voided, declined, or expired envelope. The same 409. Status is not completed.
• Archive on a completed envelope without keys. Drive not configured. That is the soft-fail, not this 409.
• Archive with no folder saved. Turn on Drive archive and set a folder in Settings before uploading.

Reading Only completed envelopes can be archived to Drive is not a send. The original send already counted if the envelope ever left draft. Free allows 5 packets a month. A refused archive does not return HTTP 402 ENVELOPE_LIMIT. Drive not configured is a completed envelope whose credentials are missing. Drive was not archived names a Google reject after the upload was attempted. File storage is unavailable is the PDF store, not Drive. Those strings are other doors. A non-completed id is this door.

What this is not

• Not Drive not configured. That string is a completed retry without keys.
• Not Drive was not archived. That string is a Google reject after an attempt.
• Not Turn on Drive archive and set a folder in Settings before uploading. That string is a missing folder on a completed id.
• Not checkout. Billing is not open. Paying a listed price does not archive a draft.

Wait until every signer finishes. Then retry Archive to Drive. Reminders go out by email today. Text-message (SMS) is coming soon. Email still soft-fails on the earlier send, not on this 409. Text-message (SMS) is coming soon. Drive missing: Drive not configured — that flag appears after completed, not instead of this status gate. Stripe off: Payments not live. None of those flags turn a draft into a Drive upload or hide Only completed envelopes can be archived to Drive.

The click-path

1. Send the envelope. Wait until status is completed. Then use Archive to Drive.
2. If archive returns Only completed envelopes can be archived to Drive, stop. Do not open Billing for a draft export.
3. If the completed retry says Drive not configured, that is the credential skip, not this status gate.
4. If send returns HTTP 402 ENVELOPE_LIMIT, that is the monthly cap, not the archive 409.
5. On a phone, Settings is a drawer row. Drive lives there. Help is not a drawer row — it stays in the header.

The completed export is what a completed envelope includes. What the log stores is what the audit log records. Ask Inkpacket for why Only completed envelopes can be archived to Drive is not a Drive soft-fail to open this article. Ask how drive archive works to open help. Ask enable drive archive to open Settings → Drive.

Ask and the status gate

Ask Inkpacket for why Only completed envelopes can be archived to Drive is not a Drive soft-fail to open this article. Ask how drive archive works to open help. Marketing Ask stays site Q&A and deep links. It will not archive a draft, mint Drive credentials, or increment the monthly cap from this article. Completed first. Archive second. Soft-fail is the other door.

Caps and what is not open yet

Reading Only completed envelopes can be archived to Drive is not a send. Send of a draft that later completes is. Free allows 5 packets a month. Free at 5 packets a month is the live cap desk send, bulk rows, Web Form fills, and API send share. Hitting it returns HTTP 402 ENVELOPE_LIMIT. Starter is 20 envelopes — more than Free — plus 3 published Web Forms. Seat counts are planning numbers; invite does not refuse when a workspace is full.

Billing is published, not charging. Checkout is not open. Text-message (SMS) is coming soon. Drive missing: Drive not configured. Stripe off: Payments not live. Those flags do not archive a draft or hide the drive-complete string. The FAQ and FAQ use Only completed envelopes can be archived to Drive in the same words.

Wait for completed. Then retry. Open a workspace on Free — see published pricing — and hit Archive to Drive on a throwaway draft so drive-complete honesty is a named 409 you already read, not a checkout you opened to “export a draft” this pass does not ship.