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Electronic signing solutions

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LAWtrust was the first accredited authentication service provider in South Africa, and remains the only private company accredited under the requirements of the Electronic Communications Act of 2002 to provide advanced electronic signature (AeSign) solutions.

In today’s rapidly developing digital environment, the paper-based approach of manually sending, printing, scanning or ink-signing physical documents has become cumbersome and expensive. LAWtrust's digital signing and approval solutions offer the perfect alternative.

These solutions also provide an effective means for dealing with sensitive corporate documentation, such as minutes of board meetings, committee findings and board resolutions. Our cloud-based system provides a totally secure out-of-band mechanism to transfer sensitive documents to recipients, with a full audit trail and proof of delivery.

LAWtrust’s digital signing solutions will drastically improve the speed of sending sensitive documents to corporate executives and shareholders, and ensure that your business is never held up by cumbersome paper processes.

View our signing solutions below.

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SigningHub

SigningHub Cloud provides a quick and user-friendly digital signing platform for sending, viewing and returning signed e-documents. This web-based system is in the cloud, offering a completely secure mechanism for sending and receiving sensitive documents, with a full audit trail and proof of delivery.

Bulk signing

A convenient way to sign off on large amounts of files is the "watched folder" approach, where output files are placed in a folder and picked up by an external application for processing. LAWtrust uses the SigningHub Enterprise Auto File Processor (AFP) to help your business handle large quantities of documents needing digital signature approval.

Signing solutions

With LAWtrust’s custom signature workflow system, you can process approval documents anywhere and at any time. It’s easy to use, and removes the headaches of handling control forms, leave applications, project documentation, financial approvals, expense claims and so much more.

Advanced electronic signatures

	with paper documents	using e-documents
Originality	Paper copy of the original is needed	Always available online, and more than one original can exist
Completeness	Pages can be missing, lost or damaged	Not possible to have missing, lost or damaged pages
Authenticity	Achieved using inked initials and hand signatures	Achieved using advanced digital signatures
Non-repudiation	Achieved using multi-witnessed/notarised copies	Achieved using ADS with optional notary
Confidentiality	Using sealed envelopes and couriers	Using encrypted SSL/TLS secure sessions
Time notarisation	May be unclear exactly when signed	Online timestamp authority provides secure and trusted time of signing action
Workflow management	Document whereabouts is unclear!	The document status and next user action is always available
Archiving	Difficult to find, and scanned back-ups are unsuitable for proof	Multiple copies can be kept at different sites in a secure digital archive format

Electronic signing solutions

Paper signing vs electronic signatures