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The below is a recent customer testimonial from a client that has integrate Sertifi’s Esign solution within their Salesforce.com account.
Sertifi’s seamless integration gives Salesforce.com clients the ability to send contract directly from their Salesforce.com account with a simple click of a button! Sending, signing, tracking, and storing contracts within Salesforce.com has never been easier.
“For over a year CAP has used Sertifi to get approvals for payment requests. The Sertifi functionality offered a great tool for sending items from Region to National Headquarters for payment, but also from National Headquarters to Region for approval.
The benefit of Sertifi over traditional email approvals is that Sertifi gives the administrator a quick view of the items still out for approval and which documents have been viewed. With traditional email approvals, the administrator must track return emails. This can be cumbersome when you have several items out for approval.
Another benefit is the finished document has all of the approvals – with time/date stamps – on one page. With traditional email approvals, one would have to print all of the emails and attach to the invoice. This could entail numerous sheets of paper attached to the invoice, which means your files are enormous.
Using Sertifi’s Electronic Signature Solution has made the process of getting payment requests filled out and returned a lot easier and much less time consuming.”
Sertifi was pleasantly informed this week that our Electronic Signature solution was highlighted in Steve Monas and Richard Hooker’s new book titled “Shoestring Venture – The Startup Bible.”
The book is an excellent toolbox for startups of all shapes and sizes. As the authors state, “Shoestring gives you the tools you need to start your new venture or take your current business several levels higher by exploiting the resources our interconnected world offers you.”
The recurring idea is that you, as a startup, should focus most of your attention on doing what you are good at and outsource available resources to take care of all the other aspects that play a part in your venture. “The more time you spend doing tasks related to what you do best, the more competitive your business will be and the more likely your venture will succeed…Big companies like to concentrate on doing the things that they can do better than anyone else. They find vendors or suppliers to do the rest”.
Sertifi’s Electronic Signature solution frees you from the burden of worrying and/or wasting time in regards to having your contracts, agreements, forms, etc. signed with the a paper based signing process. The signing process via Sertifi’s solution couldn’t be easier. Typically, one would have to wait for a contract to get come via the mail/courier service or sweat over a fax. But, with Sertifi’s paperless signing process, your forms and documents are signed and stored electronically giving you peace of mind and time/cost savings.
In closing, “Shoestring Venture – The Startup Bible” will serve as a excellent guide to anyone who owns a business – whether its a startup or established business – so long as the ultimate goal is to become more efficient and productive by focusing on what you do best by utilizing vendors to do all the legwork that could tie up your busy schedule.
For more information or to pre-order the book please click here
Did you know, Sertifi’s Electronic Signature Solution gives users the ability to easily add custom signing locations to documents? Moreover, our custom signing location feature supports legal sized documents in addition to letter/A4 sized documents!
This feature makes the process of signing legal documents electronically – frequently used by mortgage and auditing firms – a lot less complicated. Clients can simply login to their Sertifi account, upload the document to be signed, drag signing locations to the document (or apply a created template) and send!
To find out more about this feature email sales@sertifi.com
Effective June 25th, Sertifi will be conducting weekly LIVE webinars every Wednesday at 3:00 pm EDT!
During the 30 minute webinar, a member of our sales team will demonstrate the advantages of implementing Electronic Signatures in general. Furthermore, the webinar will clearly demonstrate how Sertifi’s Sales Acceleration solution can help get contracts signed faster, increase sales efficiencies, coordinate the closing process, and retrieve contracts/track progress better than any existing solution. At the conclusion of the webinar, there will be plenty of time saved for Q & A.
Click Here to sign up for Sertifi’s Weekly Webinar and you will be contacted within 24 hours with login information and details.
Sertifi’s latest testimonial comes from Ron, General Manager at National Credit Solutions.
“Sertifi has worked great for National Credit Solutions. It has definitely increased the percentage of completed contracts we receive back from clients while decreasing the amount of time the client takes to complete the paperwork and return it to us. Also, our clients seem to like Sertifi, as it’s very easy for them to use. They don’t have to log in to a site; all they have to do is open their email, sign the document and they’re done! Sertifi has been very easy for us to integrate into our business scheme.
I think one of the best things I can say about Sertifi is that, since the time NCS began using Sertifi, I’ve not had to make one phone call or send one email concerning a problem or even to ask a question! That speaks volumes to me.
In closing, we conducted a fair amount of research before deciding to go with Sertifi. We found that choosing Sertifi over the other two services that we researched would save our company money and, at the same time, make it easier on our clients. So, for us, choosing Sertifi was a no-brainer.”
Arik Hesseldahl at BusinessWeek wrote an interesting article this week which references corporate America’s efforts to eliminate paper and the subsequent progress over the last 30+ years. The following are a few highlights from the article:
“Thirty-three years ago this month the phrase “paperless office” entered the business lexicon in a BusinessWeek article titled “The Office of the Future.” In the article, George Pake, the legendary head of the Xerox (XRX) Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), foresaw technology that by 1995 would let computer users summon on-screen documents “by pressing a button,” eliminating the need for much if not all the printed paper cluttering workspaces…But the dream of a workplace where all that technology would eliminate the need for printed documents remains just that—a dream…
Three decades on, the financial and environmental imperative to reduce paper use is all the more real. Last year, U.S. companies printed 1.5 trillion pages, according to research firm IDC. That’s a 95,000-mile-high stack of paper, or the equivalent of 15 million to 20 million trees. RISI analyst John Maine esimates that companies will spend about $8 billion this year on paper alone; that doesn’t include costs for ink, toner, or running copiers, printers, and fax machines. In the typical office, for every dollar spent on printing documents, companies incur another six dollars in handling and distribution, according to Xerox…
Anyone who’s even come close to buying a house can attest to the mountains of paper amassed by the mortgage industry. Peabody (Mass.)-based 1-800 East West Mortage cut its annual paper use by two-thirds, in part by using a Xerox product that replaces paper with Web-based forms, digital disclosure documents, and electronic signatures, says Gary Roche-Bernard, the company’s director of information technology. Funding turnaround times went from an average of 15 days to 4, storage costs dropped by 75%, and the number of leased copiers went from 12 to 6. “There have been studies that put the paper costs of mortgages at $250 to $300,” says Judson Phillips, a Xerox vice-president. “We can get those costs down in the low teens on a typical mortgage.” (Read more)
Companies of all size and industry are now having a greater understanding regarding the ease and convenience of using Sertifi’s Electronic Signature solution. By having contracts, agreements, etc. signed electronically, clients are able to close deals faster, keep better track of forms/documents, and significantly decrease their fixed costs by limiting paper usage.
The mortgage industry - for example - is one of many industries that benefits from implementing Sertifi’s Electronic Signature solution into their process since the agreements are multi-paged and require numerous paper based copies of each agreement.
It’s worth noting, Sertifi’s solution can be implemented in various procedures of business operations outside of just sales. Our clients use electronic signatures to manage and track contracts, employee time sheets, even company expenses!
Find out how electronic signatures how can help your business close deals faster and go paperless today!
Along with our currently existing advanced routing capabilities such as second signers, carbon copies, etc. – Sertifi’s latest release is a “Megasend” plug-in which enables users to send multiple documents to multiple signers. By utilizing this feature, users can send out signature requests for one or more documents to multiple signers in a single action. The “Megasend” plug-in not only saves time, but, also gives users the ability to easily track the requests for signature sent.
In layman’s terms, say you want to send out 5 documents to 20 signers. With the “Megasend” plug-in, you simply enter the signer’s email addresses, upload the documents, and send! To view the status of the files sent, select “View My Files” within your administrative page, and you will see a “room” created for all 20 signers entered. Each “room” contains the files sent (in this case 5 documents) as well as a “bird’s eye” overview of the entire signing status.
For more information on the “Megasend” plugin, contact Sertifi Sales.
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B2Blog – an informative blog created by Dave Jung – focuses on B2B solutions and industrial marketing. We are honored that Dave identified the value of replacing hand written signatures with legally binding electronic signatures through Sertifi’s Sales Acceleration solution.
Check out the blog posting….
http://www.b2blog.com/2008/05/closing-20-how-do-you-get-signature.htm
Late last week, John Foley of Information Week wrote an article on Electronic Signatures and the increasing demand for such a solution as more companies are looking for ways to switch over to an eco-friendly/paperless environment. Sertifi was mentioned in the article as one of the leading Esign vendors!
If you think about it, can you imagine a sales organization that isn’t looking to drive revenue and/or increase sales efficiencies by coordinating the signing process and decreasing the time to close? We can’t!
