Why Place at least one field before sending is not a published-form cap

Send on Documents → new, or POST /api/v1/packets/:id/send, needs at least one mark on the draft. Zero fields returns Place at least one field before sending. The envelope stays a draft. No invite goes out. That is send-needs-mark honesty: send waits for a signature, date, text, initials, checkbox, or select, fill of that same empty draft is a different 400, and opening Billing will not “grant a blank send.”

Why fill names the same missing layout is why This envelope has no fields to fill is not a published-form cap. Why a template with zero marks cannot publish is why a template with zero fields cannot publish. How marks land on a PDF is how to place signature fields on a PDF. Desk help is Docs. This guide is why send names a draft with zero marks, and why that name is not a published-form 402.

The FAQ and field placement on Features start from a PDF that already has a box. Ask Inkpacket for why Place at least one field before sending is not a published-form cap to open this article. Ask how fields work to open help. Those phrases stay on the product screens. This article is the public version of Place at least one field before sending — the string send already uses next to a blank draft.

What send-needs-mark covers

• Desk send on a draft with zero marks. Place at least one field before sending.
• POST /api/v1/packets/:id/send on that same empty draft. The same 400.
• POST fill on that same empty draft. This envelope has no fields to fill. That is the fill door, not this send door.
• A template with zero fields still cannot publish a Web Form or start a bulk job. Those strings name the template, not this draft send.

Reading Place at least one field before sending is not a send. The draft never left DRAFT. Free allows 5 packets a month. A refused blank send does not return HTTP 402 ENVELOPE_LIMIT. Free includes 1 published Web Form. Starter grants extra published forms and more monthly envelopes than Free. A blank draft does not burn a published-form slot. This envelope can no longer be sent is a closed status. Signer name and email are required is a draft that has marks but no recipient. Each recipient needs a unique email is a repeated address. Provide at least one field value is fill on an envelope that already has marks. Those strings are other doors. Zero marks on send is this door.

What this is not

• Not This envelope has no fields to fill. That string is POST fill. This article is send.
• Not Place at least one field on the template before publishing a Web Form. That string is publish.
• Not Place at least one field on the template before bulk send. That string is the job start.
• Not checkout. Billing is not open. Paying a listed price does not invent a mark for send.

Place a signature, date, text, initials, checkbox, or select, then send. Or start from a workspace template that already has marks. Reminders go out by email today. Text-message (SMS) is coming soon. Email still soft-fails on a legal send, not on this 400. Text-message (SMS) is coming soon. Drive archive waits for completed. Stripe off: Payments not live. None of those flags hide Place at least one field before sending or count a blank send toward the monthly cap.

The click-path

1. Upload a PDF on Documents → new. Place at least one field. Then send.
2. If send returns Place at least one field before sending, stop. Do not open Billing for a blank send.
3. If fill on that same draft returns This envelope has no fields to fill, you still have zero marks. Place one. Then fill or send.
4. If send then returns HTTP 402 ENVELOPE_LIMIT, that is the monthly cap, not the missing mark.
5. On a phone, Documents is a drawer row. The 400 copy is the same. Help is not a drawer row — it stays in the header.

Who each mark belongs to is assign fields to each signer on one envelope. Why Suggest starting layout ignores the printed line is why Suggest starting layout does not read the PDF. Ask Inkpacket for why Place at least one field before sending is not a published-form cap to open this article. Ask how fields work to open help. Ask place fields to open the send form.

Ask and the blank send

Ask Inkpacket for why Place at least one field before sending is not a published-form cap to open this article. Ask how fields work to open help. Marketing Ask stays site Q&A and deep links. It will not place a mark, send a blank draft, or increment the monthly cap from this article. Marks first. Send second. Fill is the other empty-layout 400.

Caps and what is not open yet

Reading Place at least one field before sending is not a send. Send of a draft that finally has marks 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 invent a mark or hide the send-needs-mark string. The FAQ and FAQ use Place at least one field before sending in the same words.

Place a mark. Then send. Open a workspace on Free — see published pricing — and hit Send on a throwaway empty draft so send-needs-mark honesty is a named 400 you already read, not a checkout you opened for “blank send” this pass does not ship.