The Rallye Aïcha des Gazelles is one of the most important motor sport events in France. It is the only rally that has gained the ISO 14001:2004 (Environmental Management Certification). Starting this week, the Maienga agency that’s behind the organization of the rally has adopted Signsquid as their electronic signature solution for signing the contracts of all their participants and providers across the world.

The electronic signature world there are many players and we’re often asked how we compare to those players, and why someone would use one service instead of another. This post is intended to compare Signsquid’s electronic signature with the one offered by Echosign. Although there are a lot of similarities, the current post is focused on highlighting the differences of the platforms. These differences are based on three factors: features, pricing and legality.

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In July 2012 by the Court of Quebec rendered a very interesting judgement on electronic signature. This case started by a refusal by a court clerk to accept a legal proceeding on the basis that the proceeding was signed electronically. The clerk interpreted the law saying that a legal proceeding has to be originally signed.

The two factor authentication just got better with SMS. In order to make the electronic signature easier without compromising the legality and the two factor authentication we’ve recently rolled out the ability to send the unique signatories’ codes by SMS.

Did you know that the Signsquid application was Mobile friendly? Since this week, we’ve adapted the application to allow our users to create, sign and view their document on the go. This will allow even faster signatures and fewer delays when it comes to sending the documents for an electronic signature.

Our team will be at at the International Startup Festival, happening in Montréal from the 11th to the 13th of July. We’re looking forward to meet everybody who will be there

For all the Chrome users out there, you can now install the Signsquid Chrome app and access your documents and contracts quickly from your new chrome tab.

On May 24th 2012, the Michigan Supreme Court (USA) approved a rule change that allows the use of electronic signatures for any document filed in the state court system, including any signature required by a law or court rule to be notarized or made under oath.

We’ve recently been interviewed by the great people from Doeswhat.com. In addition to the attention it brought to our team and our product, the experience was very comforting and positive. When going through a startup project like Signsquid, the team works hard and we often go through an intensive and compressed personal learning process. The Doeswhat interview, made us take a break, analyse and reflect on the path and evolution of the team, the product and especially on a personal level.

On May 11th to 13th 2012 will be held the biannual Avrio Advocati legal conference in Malta, a small island in the Mediteranean sea. At this conference, around 60 law firms from around the world will gather to discuss the latest topics interesting the legal community.

Your free month is almost over and you are ready to choose a plan to facilitate the way you get your clients to sign your documents? Did you know that by signing up annually, not only do you save money, but you get a flexibility you do not get when you sign up monthly?

Signsquid’s signature is applied to PDF documents and we often get questions regarding the conversion from a Word document into a PDF. The conversion is easy and does not require anything else than Word itself.

Having larger companies through our customers, we’ve been often asked for the ability to have sub-accounts. The account owners want to be able to add, activate and deactivate access to users and members, who can sign documents on behalf of the organisation that owns the main Signsquid account. The added account users can use the Signsquid electronic signature and have access to their own documents only.

Signsquid is the only solution that offers a two-factor authentication process: one by email and the other by phone. The goal, of course, being to ensure the legality of every document and contract signed by Signsquid.