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Digital signatures for secure online contract signing
What is a contract?
A contract is a legally binding agreement that two or more parties enter in order to execute specific obligations and terms. Online contracts are a popular means of conducting negotiations due to their security, ease of collaboration, and efficiency.
What is a digital signature?
A digital signature is a paperless and secure alternative to physical signatures. Digital signatures use cryptographic techniques to prevent signature forgeries and tampering. With digital signatures, users have complete traceability of the signing process and the signer's identity.
Why should I digitally sign my online contracts?
It's impractical to print volumes of online contracts, physically sign them, scan them, and send them to recipients. This process not only adds to operating costs but also consumes work hours, delays contract execution, and leaves paperwork exposed to threats such as tampering, signature forging, data breaches, and more.
Digital signatures act as a quick, secure, and affordable fix to these challenges. They are easily adaptable and scalable no matter the company size, and fast-growing digital businesses can sign their contracts online via reliable digital signing platforms. Zoho Sign in particular provides hands-free signature workflow automation and integrations across multiple apps, offering a one-stop solution for all your signing needs.
How to quickly sign a contract online for free with Zoho Sign
- Sign in to Zoho Sign and create a free account.
- Create your profile and add your signature and initial.
- Upload or import your contract into Zoho Sign.
- Add the necessary fields and sign the document. You can also send the signed document out to recipients via email.
Benefits of signing contracts with Zoho Sign
Tamper-proof
Zoho Sign guarantees tamper-free signature workflows with 100% signature and signer traceability. With granular access controls, audit trails, signer identity verification, and recipient authentication, Zoho Sign's digital signatures are trusted by 40,000+ companies for its no compromise guarantee on document security.
Online security
Documents signed with Zoho Sign are protected with AES-256 encryption at rest and follow the TSL/SSL protocols when in transit. This leaves no room for risks such as tampering, data loss, or mishandling when signing contracts online.
Legal validity
Paperwork executed with Zoho Sign is court-admissible and legally valid in many countries and regions around the world. Zoho Sign abides by electronic signature laws such as the ESIGN Act (USA), eIDAS (EU), ECTA (South Africa), ITA 2000 (India), ETA (Singapore and Oceania), KICA (Kenya), ETL (Saudi Arabia), and many more. Learn more about Zoho Sign's legality in your region.
Faster document turnaround
oho Sign helps companies accelerate their paperwork process by more than 80%. Here's what Axel Baudach from Klosterwald has to say about the accelerated turnaround: "Before, we sent our lease agreements by traditional mail or as PDF via email, and it took on average 10 days to get them printed, signed, scanned, and sent back. Nearly 80% of the scanned documents were useless. It all changed with Zoho Sign! Now, 90% of our clients sign the document in a digital way. We reduced the contract closing time to 1.5 days."
Hear more success stories from companies that adopted Zoho Sign.
Automated workflow management
Save time, money, and effort on paperwork and signature workflow management. Zoho Sign automates your signature process and integrates with 100+ workplace apps, so you can customize and build workflows. From one-click signatures to document storage, automate each contract signing step with Zoho Sign.
Cost-effective
Companies save more than $30 per envelope by switching to Zoho Sign. Business of all sizes can find pricing options that work for them based on specific features and signing requirements. Zoho Sign also allows API integrations and white labeling so you can tailor the platform to your needs.
FAQs
What is an online contract?
An online contract is an electronic agreement between two or more parties. Online contracts are commonly used, as they are easier to share, store, and securely sign.
Where can I use Zoho Sign?
The use cases for Zoho Sign are endless. You can sign anything—including rental agreements, social media policies, loan agreements, scholarship affidavits, real estate documents, vendor agreements, invoices, legal paperwork, clinical trial forms, medical documents, and HR documents—for free with Zoho Sign. Learn how to sign contracts online for free.
Is Zoho Sign legal and safe?
Absolutely! Zoho Sign is legally admissible in many countries, as it abides by numerous electronic signature laws. Find out the legality of Zoho Sign's digital signatures in your country. Zoho Sign strictly complies with international regulations for data security and privacy, such as the GDPR, HIPAA, CCPA, and SOC 2 Type II. What's more, digital signatures from Zoho Sign are backed with AES-256 encryption at rest and follow the TSL/SSL protocol in transit, removing any chance of malicious activity.
What contract file formats does Zoho Sign support?
Zoho Sign supports the following contract formats: PDF, JPG, JPEG, DOC, DOCX, PNG, OFF, RTF, DOTS, TXT, and SAW.
Can I sign my PDF for free?
Yes, you can sign up to five contracts for free per month by subscribing to the free plan.