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Sign contracts without leaving Squire™

Send a contract for signature, collect signatures in order, and get a sealed copy back on the record - no third-party e-signature account, and the document never leaves your region.

The last step of a contract used to happen somewhere else: export the PDF, upload it to a signing service, chase people by email, then bring the signed copy back and file it. Squire™ now does that step itself. Open a contract's Documents tab, choose Send for signature, and the whole thing - the request, the signing, the signed copy, the audit trail - stays on the record at /contracts.

There is no DocuSign account to buy and no per-envelope fee. It also means your contract is never handed to a third-party processor in another jurisdiction - the document stays in your region, which is the same reason the rest of Squire™ is built the way it is.

Sending takes about a minute

  1. 1

    Pick the document

    Any PDF already attached to the contract. Signing works on the document that is on the record - it never introduces a new one.

  2. 2

    Add the signers

    Name, email, and the order they should sign in. People with the same number are asked at the same time; everyone else waits their turn. Add anyone who should just receive a copy at the end.

  3. 3

    Place the fields

    Click the page to drop a signature, initials, date, or text box, and drag to position it. Each signer gets their own colour. Skip this and Squire™ adds a signature block for each of them.

Your counterparty needs no account

They get a link

No sign-up, no password, no app. They open the link, confirm a one-time code sent to their inbox, agree to sign electronically, read the document in the browser, and sign by typing or drawing their name.

You stay in control

See who has opened, who has signed, and who you're waiting on. Nudge a signer, re-send a link, or withdraw the whole request - and if someone declines, everyone stops and you're told why.

What lands back on the contract

When the last person signs, Squire™ seals the document cryptographically and files two things against the contract - then moves it to executed with the signing date and signatories already filled in.

  • The signed copy

    Signatures burned into the page and the whole file sealed, so any later change to it is detectable by anyone who checks.

  • A completion certificate

    The document a court would actually read: who signed, how each person was identified, the exact wording they consented to, the fingerprint of the document they were shown, and a tamper-evident log of every step with timestamps and IP addresses.

What this is, exactly

Electronic-signature law generally recognises tiers, and Squire™ produces the base one - a simple electronic signature (also called basic or ordinary). It is recognised under the electronic-transactions law of the jurisdictions Squire™ operates in - ESIGN and UETA in the United States, eIDAS in the EU, ECTA in South Africa, and their equivalents elsewhere - and is sufficient for most commercial contracts. What makes it stand up is the evidence trail rather than the cryptography.

Squire™ does not produce an advanced or qualified electronic signature (the eIDAS terms; an accredited advanced signature in South Africa). Those are regulatory accreditations held by licensed providers, not product features, and Squire™ says so plainly rather than blurring the line.

Every jurisdiction also carves out documents that cannot be signed this way. Wills and testamentary documents are excluded almost everywhere; depending on where you are, so are land and property transactions, certain guarantees and negotiable instruments, and some family-law or court documents. The specific list is a matter of local law - before anything goes out, Squire™ shows you the exclusions that apply to your deployment and asks you to confirm your document is not one of them. Where a statute requires a particular form of signature, use an accredited provider.

Anyone can check a signed document

A counterparty who wants to satisfy themselves that a signed PDF is genuine can do it at /verify - no account, nothing to install. The file is fingerprinted in their own browser and never uploaded, and Squire™ confirms whether it is byte-for-byte the document that was sealed.

Screenshot coming soon - open /contracts and pick a contract's Documents tab to try it.
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