Digital Signature Software

Digital Signature Software are typically digital solutions that help enable professionals, partners, and customers to capture and attach an image of a signature made onto a document digitally. Such tools help do away with the need for pen and paper signatures, facilitating agreements between parties. Such software can ideally promptly verify the signer’s identity and authenticity, apply watermarks, provide certificates of completion, and acknowledge requests for signature disclosures in real-time. Digital signature solutions can be used by professionals across many industries, such as HR staff, legal professionals, artists, law enforcement officials, banking staff, and healthcare workers for documents like invoices, claims, wills, applications, diplomas, and loan approvals. They aim to secure the authenticity, validity, integrity, non-repudiation, and even document notarisation in line with global regulations on digital signatures, standard electronic signatures (SES), qualified electronic signatures (QES), and other protocols. Users can annotate or edit documents, choose templates or styles, and customise or brand their files. Electronic digital signature systems can help speed up and optimise the signature workflow, routing the document so that it may be signed in parallel, consecutively, or at the signees’ leisure. With real-time status notifications, users can be kept abreast of delays and complications, helping them close deals and iron out any issues effectively. Tools like watermarks, certificates, and signature disclosures can also ensure a document’s validity, potentially saving the company a number of resources down the line. Typical features of e-signature software include customisable templates and branding options, support for multi-party signing and other collection formats, and audit trails with real-time status updates. Digital signature tools are a type of Legal Document Management Software with features that often cross over to Workflow Management and File Sharing Software categories.