E-signature compliance

How Kliently e-signature works

When you send a contract for signature, Kliently presents the document to each signer in order, records their explicit consent, captures their signature, and seals the result into a tamper-evident PDF with a certificate of completion. The goal is a signature that is not just collected, but defensible — backed by evidence of who signed, when, and that they intended to.

What Kliently captures

• A drawn signature with the signer's typed legal name.
• An explicit “I have read and agree” consent checkbox — recording intent to sign and consent to do business electronically.
• A complete, append-only audit trail: every open, scroll milestone, signature, and decline — each with IP address, user agent, country, and timestamp.
• Ordered signing, so a multi-party agreement is signed in the sequence you define.
• A final PDF embedding all signatures plus a signature certificate page listing the full event history, which anyone can verify.

Where that lands legally

• United States (ESIGN Act / UETA): electronic signatures with demonstrated intent, consent, and attribution are generally enforceable and treated the same as handwritten signatures. Kliently's capture model is designed for this standard.
• European Union & UK (eIDAS): Kliently provides simple electronic signatures (SES). SES are admissible as evidence and widely used for commercial service agreements, but they are not “advanced” (AdES) or “qualified” (QES) signatures, which require additional identity verification.
• Bangladesh & India: most commercial service contracts can be executed electronically under the respective IT/evidence acts, but certain instruments (e.g. property transfers, negotiable instruments, some government filings) require specific signature regimes or registration.
• Elsewhere: most jurisdictions recognize electronic signatures for ordinary commercial contracts, with carve-outs for specific document types. The audit trail Kliently produces is the kind of evidence courts look for.

Getting the most enforceable signature

• Make sure the signer is the right person and has authority to sign.
• Keep the final certified PDF — it's your evidence. Kliently stores it, and you can download it any time.
• Use clear contract language and let the signer review the full document before signing (Kliently records that they did).
• For high-value or cross-border deals, confirm your counterparty's jurisdiction accepts SES for that document type.

When to use something else

If a contract requires a qualified electronic signature (some EU contexts), a notarized or wet-ink signature (certain property, family, or government documents in BD/IN and elsewhere), or identity-verified signing, use a qualified trust service provider or follow the local formality. For everyday freelance and agency service agreements, statements of work, NDAs, and proposals, Kliently's signature flow is built to hold up.