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In 2003 I began using my first e-signing technology: an ePad. You know, the device that has no screen, just a fake pen on a leash and a little square space that looks like a chalkboard to sign.Old School ePad                                                   

To me, e-signing was an obvious step in any paperwork process. However, to everyone I showed the ePad to, it was nothing close to obvious. 

Don’t get me wrong, it was cool to see your signature appear on a document, even if you couldn’t see it on the device you were using. What wasn’t cool was the cost to implement such a solution. Not only did you have to buy Adobe Acrobat, the ePad device and related software, you also had to know how to configure everything to work. It was like owning a car in 1910 – driving may have looked easy once you got the car started, but those cars were very challenging to own, maintain and use.

Fast forward to today. E-signing is nothing like the ePad complexity of years past. Today you can simply open up a Quik! form in any web browser, fill it out and digitally sign it with SIGNiX. The combination of two amazing technology platforms has made filling out and signing forms easier than it’s ever been.

Quik! is a forms automation service that takes your existing form/document (e.g. PDF, Word, etc.) and converts it to a fillable, interactive, secure and e-signable form. Every Quik! form is displayed in a common web browser so it works seamlessly on all devices. The forms are easily set up with required fields, field formats and other rules to ensure the forms get filled out properly.

Quik E-Sign Demo

 

Signing the form is as simple as clicking the “Sign” button, providing some basic information and clicking the “Send” button. Quik! and SIGNiX take care of all the heavy lifting – no software to install, no hardware to use and nothing technical for the user.

Quik E-Sign Pop-up

The SIGNiX e-signature solution is secure, compliant and built to endure for decades to come. When the form is sent by Quik! to be signed, SIGNiX takes over. The forms are dynamically uploaded to SIGNiX. Then SIGNiX sends invitations to signers, validates their identity and captures the necessary signatures.

Signix Authentication

 

 

 

 

 

Signix Signature Page

 

So not only is e-signing easier than ever, it’s more secure and efficient. What would it have taken to verify someone’s identity when signing paper? What about the cost to ship the document to all parties? What about the overall time it takes to get all of the signatures?

SIGNiX’s ability to improve the signing process with identity authentication, complete, defensible legal evidence of e-signatures, automatic routing and the ability for signers in multiple locations to sign at the same time is a massive improvement to the archaic days of the ePad and the ink-signed form.

 

Richard Walker is the president and co-founder of Efficient Technology, Inc., a provider of enterprise forms-based workflow automation solutions under the brand Quik!.

Quick!, a SIGNiX partner, converts virtually any paper document format into a Quik! Form that can be displayed as both HTML and PDF and can be filled out on any device.

 

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