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 drives 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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Table of Contents

• Reliable Identification of Parties
• Disclosure and Consent
• Electronic Signature Capture
• Electronic Transaction Secure From Tampering
• Transaction Document Retention
• Transaction Document Access
• Audit Trail for all Transaction Actions

Reliable Identification of Parties

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1. ESIGN Act of 2000
2. Uniform Law Commission on UTEA ActAct