Digital signatures are an excellent way to simplify your lease signing process, saving you time and paper.
Here at Innago, we partner with HelloSign to provide you a seamless and efficient experience. Digital signatures can be applied to a document by typing into it, taking a picture of your signature and uploading it, or using your finger on a touch device.
Because of the regulations around how digital signatures are recorded, they are easily enforced. Below are some excerpts from an article published on our blog titled 'Electronic Signatures Can Be More Secure'.
Electronic Signatures Are Fully Recognized by the US Government
The ESIGN Act was signed into law by President Bill Clinton on June 30th, 2000. It grants the same validity, effect, and enforceability to electronic signatures as their paper equivalents.
Signature Authentication
The electronic signature process is not the wild west. You can’t simply hop on your computer, draw your signature in Paint, and print it off. There are carefully defined rules and regulations that must be followed to validate the electronic signature process. First, the document must be encrypted and secure. Additionally, users given access must authenticate themselves and verify the email account by which they access the document.
Digital “Paper” Trail
When a user signs a lease electronically, we track the email account by which they accessed it, every time they opened it, when they signed, and the IP address (physical location) from which they signed.