Electronic signature Form for Legal Myself

Electronic Signature Form for Legal Myself

Steve Dotto here. Thanks for spending time with me today. Our topic today is how to sign documents legally online on a paperless environment. There are a variety of different ways to do that. For years, I’ve used Adobe Acrobat for that particular service but there’s a great online service called HelloSign that also does it. I think it’s well worth examining because not everybody can afford to pay for a full version of Adobe Acrobat that’s needed for doing that sort of digital signature so HelloSign is a great web-based option. Now this is an outgrowth of this product called HelloFax. These folks have been around for a while and they have an online fax service that people use, a virtual fax service which eliminates the need for real paper fax and it’s kind of a logical step for them to move into the document signature area because so many people use faxes because of the signature capability of faxes. So this creates an electronic version of a document signing system and I quite like it. I think they’ve done quite a good job. To give you an idea of some of the industries that it works really well for, things like the real estate industry, things like insurance and my industry, speaking of business where we’ve got lots to different contracts to sign, works great in all of those different spaces. So let’s take a look at how it works. The first thing I’m going to do is I am actually going to sign in to my HelloSign account. So I’ve signed up—and signup is free—and it’ll allow you to try it out and to use about three contracts per month with a few other people in the free version. But for the most part, people are going to want to upgrade to the business version which is about $12 a month, I believe. So what they’ve got here is a nice, simple little web-based interface that allows you to manage your documents and it works for you creating documents for others to sign as well as for others to create documents for you to sign. You can use it on both spaces and depending on what other tools you work with online, there are some additional benefits. For example, if you’re using Google Drive and you’re a Gmail user, there’s some really nice additional functionality in that space, which I will talk about in a moment. But at its core, it allows you to create a contract, create a document for signature, send it to somebody and have them sign it, or accept one from somebody else for you to sign. It’s as simple as that, and it follows, I think, about ten or twelve years ago, they came up with a series of laws around digital signatures online so it’s all very legally binding and it follows all those different protocols for legal signatures. But the key features that I wanted to kind of showcase to...