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Ask HN: ToS+Signature+Mail Solution

1 pointsby folknoralmost 5 years ago
My friend owns and operates a small local machine (diggers, lifts, other heavy machinery) rental service with one employee and his dad helping out. Whenever a customer gets delivery of a new machine, they need to be taught how to use it properly, and they need to sign off that they&#x27;ve received the training and that they&#x27;re satisfied. My friend has been doing this with pen and paper, but now he&#x27;s almost ran out of the initial print run of these forms, and asked me for a tech alternative.<p>I said sure, there&#x27;s plenty of ways of signing documents easily on a phone or tablet. Keep a PDF with a signature field, open that, have the customer sign it using a finger or stylus, save the PDF with a new name and mail it to yourself.<p>The problem is, this is just too many steps, especially for his dad who is almost 70 and can barely operate the SMS function on his phone.<p>What they need is an app that they can add on their home screen that: 1. Opens up and immediately shows the ToS&#x2F;EULA-text 2. Has a signature field &#x2F; drawing canvas below where the user can draw their signature 3. A text input below that where they enter their initials 4. A button that says &quot;I understand what I&#x27;m signing&quot;<p>(Someone would perhaps say this is not sufficient, but it is in our country, mostly because you&#x27;re physically there with them when they sign.)<p>Clicking the button would create a PDF with the text+signature and automatically email it to a preconfigured&#x2F;hardcoded address (and save it locally with a random name), and the app would be replaced by a large, friendly text that said &quot;OK&quot; in green. Even if the email failed. Clicking anywhere would then kill&#x2F;close the app.<p>Anyone know of something that would be close to as simple as this? Or know someone we could pay to make it?

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