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# Submit and sign a record

Every treatment record is saved either as a draft you can still change, or signed. Signing locks the record permanently, so it is worth knowing which button does what before you use them.

| 📍 **Where to find this:** Clients → open a client → create or open a treatment

## ✅ What you can do

* Save a record as a draft and come back to it
* Sign a record with a drawn signature or with BankID
* Correct a record that was signed by mistake

## ✍️ Submit Draft or Submit and Sign

When you finish writing a treatment you have two buttons:

* **Submit Draft** saves your work and leaves the record editable. Use this whenever the treatment is not finished, or you want a colleague to look at it first.
* **Submit and Sign** saves the record and then opens the signature step. Use this only when the record is final.

||| ⚠️ **Signing is permanent.** A signed record cannot be edited, deleted or unsigned by anyone, including a super-user. MERIDIQ does not ask you to confirm before signing, so check the record before you click **Submit and Sign**.

|| ℹ️ If you leave the page with unsaved changes, MERIDIQ asks **Save your draft?** and offers **Submit Draft** or **Discard**. Choosing **Discard** throws the changes away.

## 🖊️ Signing the record

After **Submit and Sign**, the **Practitioner signature** window opens.

1. Draw your signature in the box, then click **Submit**.
2. If your BankID is verified, there is no drawing box. You see **Since your BankID is verified, directly sign with BankID** and a **Sign** button instead.

The record then shows who signed it and when, and BankID signatures are marked as such.

|| ℹ️ You do not have to use BankID. Records can be signed with a drawn signature, which is how clinics outside Sweden work. See [Verify your identity with BankID](https://help.meridiq.com/en/article/verify-your-identity-with-bankid-lhicuu/) if you want BankID signing.

## 🔁 Correcting a signed record

You cannot change a signed record, so MERIDIQ lets you cancel it and explain why. The original stays in the journal, which is what a clinical record is supposed to do.

1. Find the signed treatment in the client's list.
2. Click the **Cancel** icon on that row.
3. In **Add Cancel Note**, type the reason under **Details**.
4. Click **Submit**.

The row turns red and is marked **Cancelled**, with a note icon that shows your explanation. If the treatment needs to be recorded properly, create a new one alongside it.

||| ⚠️ Trying to edit or delete a signed record returns **This procedure is locked.** That is not a fault, it is the record being protected.

| 💡 The same signing pattern is used for general notes, consents and prescriptions. See [Track procedures & treatments](https://help.meridiq.com/en/article/track-procedures-treatments-e26fug/) for the rest of the treatment workflow.