Businesses are quickly replacing existing paper forms and manual workflows with fully automated e-forms and electronic workflows for many reasons such as increased productivity, less error prone and much easier to track/audit. All of these reasons help drive down business costs. Often existing paper forms require one or more signatures. frevvo workflow enables easily routing your e-forms thru a simple approval process to collect all the required signatures. When making the transition from paper to electronic signatures our customers often ask "Are these electronic signatures as legally binding as their paper counterparts?".
The Uniform Electronic Transaction Act (UETA Act) and Electronic Signatures and National Commerce ACT (ESIGN Act) establish the basic framework for a legally binding system based on electronic signatures. has all the features you need to deploy web forms and workflows with legally binding signature. This white paper discusses the supporting technologies and features in context of the legally binding electronic signature framework described in both the UETA and ESIGN Acts.
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- offers multiple options for identification and authentication including an out-of-the box option as well as several options for integrating with external systems such as LDAP.
- offers flexible access control configuration of forms and flows workflows to allow configurable sets of authenticated users runtime access to forms and flows workflows as well as the resulting submissions/transaction documents.
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provides the designer several options for designing a form/flow workflow for capturing a party’s handwritten signature. These options include:
Requiring the signature to be entered each time (using a stylus or finger on a touch screen or a mouse)
A one-time entry of a handwritten signature on a per-user basis. In this situation, each user’s signature is unique and stored securely. The entered signature is then used automatically by the system to affix a handwritten signature under user direction.
Handwritten signatures are captured as images in . These signature images are stored along with the data that represents the electronic transaction (or sent to a third-party system if that option is chosen).
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