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supports two types of Digital Signatures. No special hardware is required. All you need is a smartphone or a computer with a browser that supports HTML5. 

  1. Signed Sections - Users authenticated to the  server, or in some cases by email, can digitally sign a section in a form/workflow, lock it down and prevent tampering with the data. Signed Sections can display a text rendering of the user's name (user credentials), a previously uploaded signature image, or a signature drawn with mouse/touchscreen.  A signed section creates a digital signature over the contents of the section, and if set to Wet Signature type, also captures a handwritten signature image. If legally binding signatures and/or authentication are required, Signed Sections should be used.

  2.  also offers a Signature  Signature Control-  also offers a Signature control that allows any user, including anonymous users, to sign electronically using either a track pad/mouse, stylus or a touch screen in use mode. Both authenticated and non-authenticated users may sign a form using a Signature control from the palette. The signature control only captures a handwritten signature image. It does not create a digital signature.

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Learn more about digital signatures in our blog article, "What Makes Electronic Signatures Legally Binding?" or view this video. 

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Which Signature Should I Use?

Use this chart to help select which type of signature to use based on factors that are commonly used to determine legally binding signatures:


Signature Control

Signed Section

(Wet or Text/Image)

Requires AuthenticationNo - can be used by anonymous usersYes - via frevvo User auth and for workflow steps assigned to email, by email
Secure from tamperingNoYes
Automatically disable section and set dateNo - but can be done with business rulesYes
Legally BindingMaybeYes

Digital Signatures

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This paragraph applies to Signed Sections. Signed Sections may be used by an authenticated  user, who will be required to login, or by an email user who will be required to supply the correct email as well as first and last name to authenticate the signature. 

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The Lock sign means that the next person in the workflow can not remove the signature and edit the signed data. A good use case is an employee performance review where the manager starts the form, and signs the review, and sends it to the employee. You would check Lock sign so the employee cannot unsign and edit the data entered by the manager.

The Must sign property makes the signature required. With Must sign, a form cannot be submitted or a workflow is not sent to the next person until the signature is added.Checking Must sign will disable the None Required option from the Signature dropdown and automatically selects Text/Signature Image. You can change the Signature dropdown to Wet Signature.  

Sections that are hidden/not hidden via a rule or the Visible property in the designer, behave as stated below with respect to Must Sign:

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