Interesting, I've been happy using Preview.app for signatures by just downloading/saving as pdf and signing it through there. It's not as seamless as doing it online through this, but at least it's secure and easy to do, and Apple's had it available for a couple years now. I guess it's not much of a pain point for me to find another solution. Also, the fact that you have to use your mouse to sign it ensures a pretty crappy signature every time.
Wait, so it's not a digital cryptographic signature...it's just like an image of your handwritten signature stamped on a document? Does that have some kind of magic legal force?
Interesting. I've been using EchoSign (<a href="http://www.echosign.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.echosign.com</a>) for years without complaints, but I don't think their UI has been updated much since being acquired by Adobe a while ago.
"This app would like to: ... Allow this application to run when you are not present ..."<p>No, thanks. It will also cost if I sign more than 3 documents per month.
I've been using HelloSign since the beginning, and don't really sign my documents any other way if I can avoid it. This may be more relevant in the legal space, where I've had to sign and fax things way too often, but just being able to do everything online in a simple, clean, interface is a major improvement. Looking forward to using this in Google Docs.
Is there a new API for Google Docs I haven't heard about?<p>It looks like Google Docs might finally be ready to go after Microsoft Office in the enterprise, now that they have an API to beat out Visual Basic for Applications.
Awesome! Anything to get rid of paper from my workflow. Not so much about the environment (though, that's good too). But dealing with paper is such a productivity killer.
It doesn't appear to be in Google Apps Marketplace for businesses yet. ETA? I have a few clients that would be interested in using this.<p><i>--Edit--</i><p>It is available for businesses. First verify the domain's Drive settings -> "Allow users to install Google Docs add-ons". Then "Manage Apps" in the individual Drive account.<p><a href="http://monosnap.com/image/M05IeqhZWU4HVEfZ96GXzvLKx3zXa3" rel="nofollow">http://monosnap.com/image/M05IeqhZWU4HVEfZ96GXzvLKx3zXa3</a>
I don't see this sort of product exlanding the market for Docs significantly.<p>A hundred bucks per user per year is not an unreasonable business proposition. Yet part of the attraction of Google Docs is that it's free as in hog pens and slop troughs and there seems to be an impedance mismatch which only grows as a user winds up with several third party tools of congruent utility and similar cost.
So I'd like to make it easy for clients to sign sales contracts. I see a lot of companies using DocuSign or EchoSign for this. Is the advantage of HelloSign the integration it has with various services like Google Docs? (Well, and it also appears to be cheaper.) Is that helpful even if clients don't want to install any plugins or apps?
Umm... since these signs are "legally binding" therefore these require atleast as much security as a user's passwords, no? So exactly what security measures are in place?<p>With a typical text password, you don't even store it in plain-text, for fear of a compromised DB. So how are you protecting these signatures against a compromised DB?
My only comment so far is that the sign-in button doesn't conform to the Google+ Branding Guidelines.<p><a href="https://developers.google.com/+/branding-guidelines" rel="nofollow">https://developers.google.com/+/branding-guidelines</a>
from <a href="http://www.hellosign.com/info/legal" rel="nofollow">http://www.hellosign.com/info/legal</a><p>"HelloSign authenticates document signers so you know who is signing your documents. Any person signing a document must either have login information for HelloSign, or have received in their email account a request for signature."<p>Do you verify the e-mail receiver as being the correct person? How does this work with the law?