Signing 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.
Paper signing vs 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 |
| Wor kflow 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 |
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.
