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Kill switch — emergency shutdown

The kill switch cuts the Yousign integration immediately and without deployment — the governance move to know before you need it.

When to use it

  • Security incident — suspected API key compromise, abnormal behavior.
  • Vendor incident — Yousign malfunction, cascading errors.
  • Business freeze — audit, closing period, migration.

How

In TrueSign Setup → eSignature → Settings, Governance section: the shutdown toggle cuts the integration for the whole org.

Effects

While disabledBehavior
New sends (manual, buttons, Flows, bulk)Blocked, with an explicit message to the user
Requests already sentKeep living at Yousign (signers can still sign)
Salesforce dataIntact — requests, templates and history preserved

Re-enabling restores the service as it was; a click on Refresh (or the webhook) re-synchronizes the statuses of requests that moved during the outage.

If a key is compromised

  1. Activate the kill switch.
  2. Revoke the key in the Yousign dashboard (Settings → API) and generate a new one.
  3. Enter the new key in Settings, Test Connection.
  4. Review the logs over the suspect period.
  5. Re-enable, then Refresh the ongoing requests.
Access

The Governance section is restricted to the TES_Admin permission set. The move is reversible and destroys nothing — in doubt, cut first, analyze second.