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We’re changing the way businesses operate by providing them with an esignature solution!
Our customer base continues to grow and more businesses are seeing the advantages of electronic signatures, which recently prompted them to identify five major industries that have successfully adopted and benefit from using an electronic signature solution:
- Public school systems- Sertifi’s electronic signatures help maintain essential Time and Effort Certifications of the federal Title I program. Electronic signatures through Sertifi also eliminate hundreds of work hours and establish a system for document delivery history.
- Health care- Esignatures save valuable time otherwise spent obtaining doctors’ signatures and then printing and faxing important information. Sertifi’s electronic sign
ature software provides a quick return on investment and reduces overhead costs caused by the paperwork process. - National home builders- the esignature software enables subcontractors to sign documents such as lien waivers. Some builders have reported that the software does the work of two employees by streamlining time-consuming contract processes.
- Hospitality- electronic signatures substitute the costly paper process, allowing hotels to adhere to their ongoing efforts to “go green” by reducing the paper stream.
- Insurance- Electronic signatures are legally binding, assuring a signature on an online application is legitimate.
We offer an appropriate solution for various markets. “Working with clients who have such specific needs is what the company is all about,” said John Stojka, Sertifi’s co-founder.
Intrigued?
To find out about us and our esignature tools, call 1-866-983-8877 or visit our website: http://www.sertifi.com.
February 15th 2012
Electronic signature solutions are still in the “early market” being used by 3-5% of all organizations. However, we at Sertifi are experienced a 300% growth rate in 2011 which could bring esignature usage to 15% of all organizations by the end of 2012. If you are still interested in esignatures here are some of the benefits you will experience:
- Close Business Faster- Signing documents electronically saves time. Saved time means deals get closed more quickly. An electronic signature solution is a simple alternative to the old-fashioned procedure of printing, signing, scanning, and faxing or mailing, which can eat up valuable time that could be better spent on more productive activities.
- Security-Signing an electronic document requires signer authentication, which reduces the risk of forgery and assures the validity of electronically-signed documents.
- Reduced office overhead costs- Electronic signatures eliminate the need for paper and a hardcopy filing system, which significantly reduces office costs in terms of supplies and employee hours spent handling documents
January 26th 2012
We recently announced our partnership with Contractlogix, the leading contract management solution with customers including Pitney Bowes, Echelon, GoDaddy and many others. Using esignatures and electronic signatures combined with a contract management solution enables users to completely track, manage and store all of their agreement electronically. Here is a video describing our integration:
http://www.contractlogix.com/contract-management-lifecycle.html
Information about ContractLogix:
Contract Logix provides extensive features and tools to help automate your entire contract process. Whether you are looking to simply organize and track your contract documents and data, or trying to automate sophisticated workflow processes. Contract Logix systems are powerful, yet easy to use. Each Edition was built with the customer in mind, so driving user adoption or staging mission critical objectives, the system will keep you on track. Literally! And with the flexibility and options available you can have a contract management system which matches your every need.
January 19th 2012 – The development of electronic signature and esignature solutions is changing the way companies do business, but some companies are hesitant to adopt them because they question electronic signatures legality.
Following are tips from the leading electronic signature provider Sertifi, for electronic signature deployments:
- It must show the person had intent to sign the record. Intent incorporates the recording of actions taken by signers that show they knew and agreed that they were signing, and intended to be bound by their signature.
- It is an electronic sound, mark or symbol.
- It is logically associated with, or affixed to a record. This means the system managing the signing must be able to attach the signature to the document in a way that ensures the signature cannot be removed or modified.
- It must be attributable to a person. When the signer makes a mark in a distinctive manner or correctly answers a series of security questions, the writing becomes attributable to the signer.
Traditionally, documents were drafted on paper and the client authenticated them by signing in ink. Since its adoption in 1996 by the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws, 46 states in the U.S. have enacted the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act. These laws set legal requirements for electronic signatures.
An esignature has been as legally binding as a hard copy signature since the Federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act was signed in 2000.
Mobile is quickly becoming the fastest growing segment of IT as we as business users need to access, create and deliver content from anywhwere at anytime. The next step for Sertifi, truly eliminating the fax machine from all organizations. Here is a sneak peak from our upcoming release about the new Sertifi signer that is available on itunes starting January 1st 2012 :
“When it comes to electronic signatures and eSignatures, there’s an app for that, thanks to Sertifi, a leading electronic signature and web contracting solutions provider. The company released Sertifi Signer, a free iPad application, Jan. 1. It is available for download in the iTunes store.
The app is for those who need to sign documents, and it enables them to do so by using their finger to apply a. It eliminates the need for paper documents, fax machines and snail mail when handling contracts and other documents, said John Stojka, Sertifi’s co-founder.
“With technology being what it is today, there’s no reason why we can’t ax the fax for good,” Stojka said. “Being able to sign something via computer was a huge step toward progress, and putting that same on ability on a mobile tablet is the next logical step.”
Updated: read our release here: http://www.prweb.com/releases/2012/1/prweb9079197.htm
November was another record breaking month for Sertifi and our eSignature solution. Every metric that we track including doc
uments sent for signature, visitors to our website and time to close increased over 20% from October 2011 to November 2011. We would like to thank all of our new customers and partners in November including Chicago Public Schools ( CPS ), Orleans Home Builders ( one of the largest home builders in the United States ) and another group inside CBS who integrated our electronic signature solution with Salesforce.com.
We are proud to announce our platform partnership with the leading data exchange market place -Leadcube. Leadcube has integrated the Sertifi eSignature solution into their platform to enable their customer to provide a complete in session lead to close cycle. With Sertifi and Leadcube, customers are experiencing 20% increase close rate and drop off reduction of over 30%. From our release:
“Sertifi, the country’s leading esignatures and Web contracting provider, signed on LeadCube, an online intelligent lead management software company, as a reseller in September.
“LeadCube now offers our solution to their customers as part of their platform,” says John Stojka, Sertifi’s co-founder.
Leadcube’s clients require a method of capturing electronic signatures, says Adam Mateljan, vice president of operations, adding, “We researched a number of providers, and felt Sertifi offered the best product.”
As one of the leading providers of electronic signature solution, Sertifi has many customers in the Insurance market. An interesting case that Sertifi has been watching and advising our customers is Barwick Vs Geico. Excerpt below:
“On April 12, 2010, appellant moved for summary judgment, contending that Ms. Barwick’s electronic signature on the application did not qualify as a written rejection of coverage as required by section 23-89-203. GEICO responded with its own motion for summary judgment, in which it argued that Arkansas Code Annotated section 25-32-107 (Repl. 2002) gives legal effect to 
electronic records, signatures, and contracts and that Ms. Barwick’s electronic signature on the form satisfied the “in writing” requirement of section 23-89-203. In support of its motion, GEICO submitted excerpts from Ms. Barwick’s deposition, and the “Arkansas Information and Option Form,” completed by Ms. Barwick online. The form indicated that she rejected both medical benefits and medical-payments coverage, and it bore an electronic signature of her name. In her deposition, Ms. Barwick acknowledged that she completed the form on the website and that she did not select coverage for medical benefits. She also testified that she signed the application electronically. Ms. Barwick stated, however, that she had not physically signed any written document provided by GEICO rejecting medical-benefits coverage.”
As a result:
“After a hearing, and upon consideration of the parties’ briefs, the circuit court granted GEICO’s motion for summary judgment, ruling that the online rejection of coverage and electronic signature satisfied the statutory requirement for a rejection to be in writing under section 23-89-203. Appellant filed a timely appeal from the order of summary judgment entered on August 9, 2010.’
Further evidence that electronic signatures and eSignatures are legally binding.
November 9th 2011
As we have seen over the last few years, combining the power of Salesforce.com with electronic signatures ( eSignatures ) has provided powerful results to our customers such as the Washington Post, Cricket and Intercall. We are proud to partner with Libra On Demand who has built an application on top of the Force.com platform. From the Libra Website:
Libra OnDemand is a leading Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) provider of hospitality solutions natively built using cloud technologies, with a comprehensive suite of affordable, easy to use, web applications:
- CRM & Email Marketing: a complete 360° view of each customer
- Concierge Desk: customer service in a Single Guest Itinerary
- Sales, Groups & Events: comprehensive management and organization
- Loyalty & Rewards: flexible, innovative customer recognition
- Libra Customer Portal: custom designed, consumer-facing websites
- Libra HMS Portal: mobile device accessible, employee collaboration tools
We recently did a release with Libra in regards to our electronic signature solution. http://www.hospitalitynet.org/news/154000320/4053580.html
We are proud to announce another major platform which has integrated the Sertifi electronic signature solution ( eSignature ) – Home Care Software Solution. Home Care Software Solutions, Inc. provides agency management solutions to the home health, private duty, and hospice industry including comprehensive agency management software, billing and marketing solutions, custom 
programming, and industry leading customer service. From our release:
“The partnership- finalized in September- came about after observing that while much of the health care industry has gone digital, there is one task that remains primitive. To bill Medicare, home health providers must drop off documents to the referring doctor to sign, which wastes paper and time.”
We would like to welcome HCCS as a Sertifi partner.
