On February 9, 2017 at approximately 4:20pm EST we discovered that our release on February 2nd introduced an issue when adding new Signers to a Signature Request. That issue caused new Signers to not be sent emails from PactSafe when a Signature Request was sent.
New Requests created after our February 2nd release where new Signers were added likely did not receive email notifications that they had Contracts to sign.
This issue happened because of the recent addition of support for SMS sending and accepting of Contracts. We added a permission in limited release that would allow you to enable or disable both email and SMS for folks you send contracts to. When SMS was not enabled in your account (almost all of our customers), there was a bug in how email sending was enabled/disabled and therefore caused emails not to send.
Backwards compatibility and regular releases and delivery of product is something we hold very near and dear to what makes PactSafe one of the leading innovators in the space. That being said, we absolutely cannot introduce new features without first ensuring every single part of the solution that you trust is working flawlessly and as expected.
We've added 3 additional steps for pre-release testing that will ensure we catch important pieces in the contract sending flow in the future. We're proud of the steps and process we've put in place to harden our release process and ensure the product we're releasing is great. We are taking the learnings of this issue on board to prevent it from happening again.