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Picture this. The sun is shining, the sky is blue. You’re in your home office
waiting for that contract – you know, the one that you finally got the goahead on. Waiting and waiting for it to come through so you can sign it and
hey, ho, off you go on a great project. But that blue sky beckons, and wants
you to come out and play, and maybe have a cold beer down by the river. But
instead, you have to wait in for that contract to turn up so you can sign it,
scan it, email it back, and then finally you’ll be able to go out and enjoy the
sunshine. Life is too short for that scenario, which is why ApproveMe lets
you sign documents electronically, on the go.
Hey, Ho! Let’s Go!
The freedom to roam and sign is something we take seriously at ApproveMe. This
is because we are watching the way that we work change dramatically.
In a survey, 85% of millennials expressed a desire to work remotely 100% of the
time, with 39% wanting to be freelancers. At the same time, mobile device
access has reached a tipping point as it overtakes traditional desktop access as a
means to get online.
These two variables are aligning at the same time as people are starting to look at
ways of attaining a life/work balance that is real and achievable. Millennials, in
particular, are placing work/life balance at the top of the “I want” list in life. So
finding that golden chalice, which lets you have the freedom to live, whilst
letting you build your business on the go, is an important workplace aspiration.
The Golden Chalice: Sign Documents Electronically
So back to that contract and the sunshine. What’s the point in software if it
doesn’t work with your lifestyle? An e sign platform is one of those golden
chalice software applications that has the potential to let you have that work /
life balance. It does this by accommodating a number of features which build
automation and accessibility into your business processes.
One of the most important aspects of an e sign platform is that it can
encapsulate your document creation and signature workflow. This means you
shouldn’t have to download other software – like apps, for example, to use it.
That just adds extra steps and layers of complexity to the process, defeating the
point.
Also, you shouldn’t have to go off and create accounts with third party websites.
All that does is annoy you, and make you have to remember additional
passwords. A workable solution to allow you to sign documents electronically
means that the whole has to be under one umbrella – no extra pointless pieces of
software and accounts.
To sign documents, you want to have them under your control. Keeping them on
your website, creating workflows and signing events directly from your website,
not someone else’s. This means that the e sign platform has to be built to allow
you to:
Use your own website to do all of the electronic signing work, including:
•Create a document or contract (or better still use pre-existing templates),
•Sending out automated alerts to people involved in the signing of the
document – no need to do back and forth emails to get things to happen,
•Collect audit events so you can trace what’s going on and in the event of a worse
case scenario, refer back to them,
•Manage signatures from your own website – directly,
•See the status of your contracts from any device, anywhere,
•Finish the process and managing it all from your own site
•ApproveMe works via a simple plug-in to your WordPress website. Once you
have that plug-in installed, you are ready to create contracts, and automatically
send them to recipients to sign. It is this automation that gives us the freedom to
e sign documents on the move. The automation means you have only to set up
the people you want to sign the contract, then set the process away. And because
it’s all done from your site, it is accessible across mobile devices.
From phone to ipad
Using the ApproveMe WP Plug-in you can literally do the whole document
signing process from your mobile device if you want to. It works on Android,
iPhone, and iPad and you can synchronize everything with Dropbox if you want.
One of the other key features of a good e sign platform is its security and
compliance with standards. There is no point in automating everything and
making it accessible across mobile devices, if the electronically signed
document won’t stand up in court. So the e sign platform has to abide by laws
like ESIGN which enforce the legality of electronic signatures. And just to
make sure that your signed documents and contracts are water proof, it
should also have full auditability with tamper proofing built in.
So, back to working on the go. While you’re sitting there, in the sunshine,
drinking a cold beer and looking at your iPad, an alert comes in. That contract
you set up using ApproveMe, has been sent out and signed, all automatically
at the click of a button. You look at your alert letting you know the contract is
complete, sit back, and smile, as life is good on the go.
Article Resource: https://www.approveme.com/e-signature/best-ways-signdocuments-electronically-go/