Overview

Yousign's Qualified Electronic Signature (QES) offers the highest legal assurance for digital signatures across Europe, fully compliant with eIDAS regulations. It enables businesses to sign documents digitally with the same legal weight as handwritten signatures, ensuring trust, security, and authenticity. The process incorporates strong identity verification methods and secure cryptographic technology to guarantee the signer’s identity and document integrity. Yousign’s QES is designed for companies that require robust compliance in industries such as finance, legal, insurance, and real estate, facilitating seamless digital transformation and reducing paper-based workflows.

Features and Capabilities

• **Qualified Electronic Signature fully compliant with eIDAS regulations: **Provides the highest level of electronic signature under European law, ensuring signatures are legally recognized and enforceable across all EU member states, meeting stringent regulatory standards.
• **Strong identity verification using multi-factor authentication: **Employs robust identity checks including two-factor authentication (2FA), One-Time Passwords (OTP), and secure identity documents verification to guarantee the signer’s authenticity and prevent fraud.
• **Cryptographic security ensuring document integrity and non-repudiation: **Utilizes advanced cryptographic algorithms to protect the document from tampering and alteration, ensuring that the signed document remains unchanged and that the signer cannot deny their signature.
• **Legally binding across all EU member states: **Complies with the eIDAS framework so that signatures created are recognized as qualified electronic signatures with equivalent legal status to handwritten signatures throughout Europe.
• **User-friendly signing experience via web or mobile devices: **Offers an intuitive, responsive interface accessible from desktop browsers, smartphones, and tablets, allowing users to easily review and sign documents anywhere at any time.
• **Real-time signature status tracking and detailed audit trails: **Provides full transparency by tracking each step of the signing process, delivering notifications and comprehensive logs of signer actions to ensure compliance and traceability.
• **Integration capabilities via API for seamless workflow embedding: **Enables businesses to embed qualified signature workflows into their existing systems and applications through a flexible API, facilitating automation and efficient document management.
• **Secure storage of signed documents with timestamping: **Stores signed documents securely with trusted timestamps to prove the exact time of signing, supporting long-term validity and evidentiary requirements.
• **Supports signing of various document formats including contracts and agreements: **Compatible with multiple common file types such as PDFs, Word documents, and other legal and business forms to cover diverse document signing needs.
• **Compliance with strict industry regulations such as GDPR and financial services standards: **Ensures data protection and privacy in line with GDPR and meets additional regulatory requirements for sectors like finance and insurance, enhancing trustworthiness.
• **Enables remote signing without physical presence: **Facilitates fully remote electronic signing processes, eliminating the need for in-person meetings and paper handling, accelerating business operations.
• **Scalable for small businesses up to large enterprises needing certified signatures: **Designed to support organizations of any size with customizable options, from individual freelancers and SMBs to multinational corporations requiring certified, legally binding digital signatures.