Echosign

As a virtual worker I typically never meet my clients, even at the conception of our relationship, so the process of getting contracts signed when we do start working together usually requires that I sign the contract, scan it and email to my clients, who sign it and send it back. The other option to this is to use fax. Not too long of a process, but often requires printing, scanning and emailing. A 3-step process on both sides.

Echosign is a way to make this process much easier, faster, and for those of us wishing to be as green as possible, greener by deleting the printing process.

With Echosign, you can use;

• e-signatures to keep the entire process online (you can use various sign-in methods as your e-signature as well as Facebook and LinkedIn).
• Do it the old fashioned way with printing, signing and faxing.
• Track all signed contracts in your account.
• Integrate in your Google Apps account (see my blog post about this last month).
• Integrate with other tools like Salesforce, and there is an API which allows you to modify in other systems.

You can try Echosign with a free account. It has limitations but does give you a good idea of how it will work for you.