HelloSign for Gmail: edit and sign documents without leaving Gmail
With a simple plugin, HelloSign now offers eSignatures that are legally binding right from within Gmail, where users can edit and sign documents without leaving their Gmail account. This tackles the massive pain point with eSignatures by eliminating the need to download a document and upload it to another site or service to edit or add signatures. According to the San Francisco startup, Gmail creator Paul Buchheit said, “HelloSign for Gmail is awesome!” That’s a pretty hefty endorsement.
By keeping the eSignature process in the email workflow, HelloSign estimates that most contracts can be signed in 30 seconds or less, which compared to the old school process (download, then print, then sign, then scan, then upload, then attach, then email or upload to another service) eliminates a massive amount of time, which is the name of today’s game.
HelloSign sought to reduce unnecessary friction
“We looked at the document-signing process and saw a lot of unnecessary friction,” said HelloSign CEO Joseph Walla. “So we scrapped everything and set out to make the process of responding to a signature request as easy as possible. Since virtually every signature request comes via email, we built the signature process into the email workflow and the result is the easiest way to sign a document.”
The HelloSign Gmail plugin is available in the Chrome Web Store, and works like so:
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Productivity booster, and legally binding
The company says the plugin offers three main benefits: staying focused on the tasks at hand, conducting business in no time flat, and all signatures are legally binding and backed up in your HelloSign account. They even offer reusable documents so you can simply zip over common documents with a request for signature. Additionally, users can create a template for easy completion and even create a unique, reusable link that can be hosted on your site or sent via email.
Not only is the plugin a productivity booster, it is simply a genius tool that streamlines the entire process, leaving many competitors looking archaic overnight.
JoeLoomer
January 16, 2013 at 1:01 pm
Cool find Marti!
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Nick Bastian
January 16, 2013 at 3:53 pm
Seriously? I gotta’ check this out… Thanks for sharing!
Stephanie Crawford @AgentSteph
January 17, 2013 at 10:08 am
Right on!
Mark J. Lehman
February 8, 2013 at 1:10 pm
Been using this for a month now and it is the easiest, coolest esign app yet. What’s great is even some of the technology “challenged” agents are able to do this with no problem (once I helped them upload their signatures). Buchheit is right – Awesome!
Michael M. Nash
October 26, 2015 at 8:26 am
In recent years, many countries worldwide have adopted legislation and regulations that recognize the legality of a digital signature and deem it a binding signature. Digital signatures are just as binding as traditional pen and ink signatures as long as they are executed through a process that clearly establishes intent to sign and ensures all legal elements of proof.