"Did they really sign?"
An emailed PDF with a signature image proves little on its own.
Sign · Audit trail
An e-signature audit trail and signing certificate.
Flaxxa Sign records each signer's consent and every step, from sent and opened to each field and the signature, with the time, IP address and browser. When everyone has signed, a signing certificate ties it together: who signed, when, from which IP address, how, and the hashes of the original document and signatures.
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Audit trail
CertificateEnvelope sent
10:00 · system
Opened by Asha
10:04 · 49.36.x.x
Signed by Asha
10:06 · 49.36.x.x
Signed by Ravi
11:20 · 103.5.x.x
SHA-256 of the original a1b2…e9f0
- Before anyone signs
- Consent
- With IP and time
- Every step
- On completion
- Certificate
- Original and signatures
- SHA-256
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Why does a signature need evidence behind it?
No record of consent
Without consent and a trail, a disputed signature is hard to stand behind.
Scattered records
Emails, attachments and notes in different places make it hard to show what happened.
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How does Flaxxa Sign build the record?
Consent, captured
Each signer agrees to sign electronically before they start, and that's recorded.
Every step logged
Sent, opened, each field, signed or declined, with the IP address, browser and time.
Fingerprints taken
The original document and each signature image are hashed with SHA-256.
A certificate
On completion, a certificate PDF brings it all together for you to download.
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What's on the record?
Signature type
A simple electronic signature, the kind the ESIGN Act, UETA and eIDAS recognise for most business agreements.
Audit trail
Every lifecycle event with an IP address and timestamp, readable in the app and through the API.
Signing certificate
A PDF of recipients, signing times, IP addresses, signature methods and the timeline.
Document hashes
SHA-256 of the original PDF and of each signature image.
Consent on file
Each signer's consent to sign electronically is kept.
Clear end states
Completed, declined, voided or expired, never ambiguous.
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What doesn't Flaxxa Sign provide?
Flaxxa Sign doesn't offer advanced or qualified electronic signatures under eIDAS, digital signature certificates or Aadhaar eSign, and it doesn't check a signer's identity beyond the emailed link. Where a law, regulator or counterparty requires one of those, use a provider that offers it.
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Tracking
Track every envelope: draft, sent, in progress, completed, declined, voided or expired. See who's still to sign, send a reminder or void it.
The signing page
Signers open an email link, agree to sign electronically and sign by drawing, typing or uploading, on phone or computer, with no account to create.
Send for signature
Send documents for e-signature: upload a PDF or write one, place fields per signer, choose sequential or parallel signing, countersign and send.
FAQ
Audit trail: common questions
A time-stamped log of everything that happened to a document: when it was sent, opened, consented to, filled in and signed, by whom and from which IP address. It is the main evidence behind a simple electronic signature.
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