Best Electronic Signature Solution?

[tuqqer]

I'm helping a couple of manufacturers that I deal with get into the modern times (i.e., stopping them from faxing me their waivers), and they've asked me for suggestions for Electronic Signature solutions.

If any of you MacResourcers have any experience with your company's version of this, any recommendations, I'll pass them on to these companies (one of them is Ball Can, which is huge).

I passionately hate fax machines, so I'll do anything in my power to get these guys to stop asking me to sign and fax stuff back to them. (I currently use the awesome little freeware app FormulatePro to drop my signature into PDFs, but I know these mondo companies are looking for a pro solution).

[cbelt3]

What kind of documents ? Most corporations will add a signature to their electronic documents using print to PDF sort of solutions, with the sig embedded as a graphic in the standard form. Purchase Orders, Sales Orders, that sort of thing.

[tuqqer]

These are mainly PDF docs that need a waiver signature. For example, signing off on graphics.

EDIT: but to give you an example this morning, Ball sent me (no joke) a damn Word file to sign and fax back. I'm telling you, these billion-dollar companies are in the 1800s.

[cbelt3]

tugger, it has to do with departmental limits and legal limits. Most corporations esign only a few docs. Everything else gets typed up individually on Word or whatever. Fax and Sign, heck, Messenger and sign ... that stuff won't go away as long as there are lawyers.


Ed... So Shakespeare's solution is preferred in this case :biggrin:

[tuqqer]

cbelt3 wrote:
...that stuff won't go away as long as there are lawyers.

I fear you may be right.

[macphanatic]

Why not sign, scan to pdf and email? Not sure how that would be different than faxing. I realize that you'd still have to print the document out and it wastes paper. But, you've got to start with baby steps. So much of what is printed and signed probably doesn't have to be, but no one has the backbone to make the decision.

[doesun627]

If you are looking for a true professional solution, I would suggest eOriginal's SmartSign solution. I am the Director of Technical Sales for eOriginal and would be happy to discuss this further with you. Feel free to check out our website at www.eoriginal.com. We specialize in helping companies move towards a paperless process and we have also built our entire software application to be a completely legally compliant solution. If you want to discuss this further, feel free to send me a private message and I will send you my contact info.

[tuqqer]

Excellent, doesun. I'll PM you now.

[kj4btkljv]

You can click and drag in a pre-scanned signature using this application:

PDFPen
http://smilesoftware.com/PDFpen/

Would it be considered a pro app? Most likely not. I think a pro app would really be if their system that generated all these forms could add a signature based on who needs to actually sign off on it. So, the creator of the document has his/her signature captured already, and it's placed into the file by the computer. Of, whoever approves the final document, it grabs that signature.

Jeff

[tuqqer]

Good recommendation, Jeff. Thanks for this.