EasySign: mobile document signing

Here’s an interesting bit of mobile innovation: EasySign.

It’s an iPhone app that lets you set up digital signatures and then apply them to documents (PDF, Word, Excel, JPG, etc) right on your phone, then send the signed doc wherever it needs to go. It eliminates the need to print the doc, sign a paper copy, scan the signed doc and then send. You can also insert dates and other custom text.

I like the EasySign concept a lot, but what I don’t like about the current model is that it requires server-side technology for inserting the signature into the document, which means it goes to their servers for processing and is then sent back to the user. Their FAQ states that they are looking into other ways of handling this. Ideally it would all be done locally within iOS and never leave your device until you send the finished product.

Posted: June 2nd, 2011
Filed under: Document Management, Handheld, Innovation, Mobile, Software Tags: | 2 Comments »

2 Comments on “EasySign: mobile document signing”

  1. 1 Sunil Patro said at 10:09 pm on July 16th, 2011:

    Hi Stacy,

    According to E-Sign laws in most countries, there should be an audit trail of the whole signing process such as the authentication of the person signing the document, the time and day of the event, the file name and other such info. EasySign needs to keep copies of all the original and signed documents on its secure servers unless you delete them explicitly through the App. That is why they require you to set up an account and the signature processing is done on the servers.

    Thanks
    Sunil Patro
    Co-Founder, http://easysignmobile.com

  2. 2 Stacy said at 8:02 am on July 17th, 2011:

    Thanks for the clarification Sunil.

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