What is a Signing Ceremony?

Historically, a signing ceremony is when a bill passed by a governing body and signed into law. In the United States, it’s not uncommon to have those in Congress who helped craft the bill be present for the signing ceremony. In some cases, those who participate in a signing ceremony are given their own pen to use.

What Interlink has done is taken the foundation of what is a signing ceremony and applied it to the online space.

No more sifting through and organizing, verifying, storing and retrieving documents. These tasks are neither fun nor easy. It takes time and energy. Interlink’s IntegriSign Emcee removes the chaos from ceremonies.

So what’s an online/electronic Signing Ceremony?

First, a Signing Ceremony is more than applying your signature or clicking “I ACCEPT” in a document. A Signing Ceremony enables organizations of any size to design the signing process from beginning to end. This includes:

• Selecting the documents to be reviewed and signed
• Establishing the correct document presentation order
• Authenticating the signers
• Capturing intent
• Binding signers to documents
• Producing audit trail with validated time-stamps for each action

From a legal standpoint, a well executed Signing Ceremony is irrefutable – this protects the organization and eliminates any confusion of who signed what and when.

Plus, with IntegriSign Emcee, Signers select their own pen for the Signing Ceremony; either via Click-through, electronic signing pad or touch-screen smartphone. And, depending on what’s being signed, any given combination of pen/signing devices can be used on the same document.