Transform Paper-Based Processes into Trusted Digital Workflows
Organizations across all industries continue to struggle with slow approval cycles, manual document handling, fragmented signing processes, and increasing compliance requirements. Whether onboarding customers, signing contracts, approving internal requests, or issuing official documents, traditional paper-based processes create unnecessary delays, costs, and operational risks.
Entrust Electronic & Digital Signature Solutions enable organizations to digitize document-centric workflows while maintaining trust, legal validity, and regulatory compliance. The platform combines electronic signatures, digital signatures, identity verification, timestamping, digital sealing, and workflow automation to support secure business transactions across multiple channels and jurisdictions.
From Signature Collection to Trusted Digital Transactions
Rather than simply replacing handwritten signatures, Entrust helps organizations establish verifiable, auditable, and legally enforceable digital processes that improve efficiency while reducing fraud and operational complexity.
| Business Challenge | How Entrust Helps |
|---|---|
| Slow contract approval cycles | Automates signing workflows and approval processes |
| Paper-based operations | Enables fully digital document execution |
| Identity fraud risks | Combines signing with identity verification |
| Regulatory requirements | Supports eIDAS, GDPR, auditability, and trusted evidence |
| Distributed workforce and customers | Enables remote signing from any location |
Support Every Level of Electronic Signature Assurance
Not every transaction requires the same level of trust and identity verification. Some workflows require simple confirmation of intent, while others demand strong identity proofing, cryptographic signatures, or qualified trust services.
Entrust supports multiple electronic signature assurance levels, including Simple Electronic Signatures (SES), Advanced Electronic Signatures (AES), and Qualified Electronic Signatures (QES). This allows organizations to align signing processes with business risk, regulatory obligations, and legal requirements without introducing unnecessary complexity.
Choose the Right Trust Level for Every Transaction
Organizations can apply different signature methods based on document sensitivity, transaction value, regulatory obligations, and jurisdictional requirements.
| Signature Type | Typical Use Cases |
|---|---|
| Simple Electronic Signature (SES) | Internal approvals, low-risk agreements |
| Advanced Electronic Signature (AES) | Customer onboarding, contracts, regulated processes |
| Qualified Electronic Signature (QES) | Government services, financial services, highly regulated transactions |
Strengthen Trust Through Identity Verification and Digital Evidence
The value of a digital signature depends on the ability to prove who signed a document, when it was signed, and whether it has been altered.
Entrust combines identity verification, authentication, timestamping, digital certificates, and digital sealing technologies to provide strong evidence supporting authenticity, integrity, and non-repudiation. These capabilities help organizations reduce fraud risks while creating trusted digital records that can withstand audits and legal scrutiny.
Protect Documents Beyond the Signature
Digital sealing and trusted timestamping help ensure documents remain verifiable long after signing, supporting long-term validation and compliance requirements.
Accelerate Digital Transformation Across Business Functions
Digital signing is no longer limited to contracts. Organizations increasingly use electronic and digital signatures to streamline onboarding, procurement, HR processes, financial approvals, partner management, and citizen services.
Entrust enables organizations to integrate signing workflows into existing applications, portals, and business processes through web interfaces, mobile experiences, and APIs. This helps eliminate manual bottlenecks while improving user experience and operational efficiency.
Seamless Integration Into Existing Processes
Organizations can embed digital signing capabilities into customer journeys and internal workflows without requiring major changes to existing business systems.
| Industry | Typical Digital Signing Use Cases |
|---|---|
| Financial Institutions | Loan agreements, account opening, customer onboarding |
| Telecommunications | Subscriber agreements, service activation |
| E-Commerce | Vendor agreements, partner onboarding |
| Retail | Supplier contracts, employee documentation |
| Wholesale & Distribution | B2B agreements, procurement approvals |
| Hospitality | B2B agreements, supplier approvals, HR onboarding |
| Manufacturing | Procurement, quality approvals, supplier management |
| Public Sector | Permits, citizen services, official document signing |
Simplify Compliance While Improving User Experience
Organizations often face a difficult balance between regulatory compliance and user convenience. Excessive controls create friction, while insufficient controls increase risk.
Entrust helps organizations implement trusted signing workflows that support regulatory frameworks such as eIDAS while maintaining a streamlined user experience. By combining identity assurance, digital signatures, and workflow automation, organizations can reduce compliance burdens while improving transaction efficiency.
Compliance Built Into Every Signature
Every signature event can be backed by identity evidence, audit logs, timestamps, and cryptographic protections that help organizations demonstrate trust and accountability.
- Digitize document workflows while maintaining legal validity
- Reduce approval times through automated signing processes
- Strengthen trust with identity verification and digital evidence
- Support eIDAS-compliant electronic and digital signatures
Key Advantages of Entrust Electronic & Digital Signature Solutions
Multi-Level Signature Assurance
Supports SES, AES, and QES signature levels to align security, legal, and compliance requirements.
Identity-Backed Signing
Combines identity verification and authentication to increase trust and reduce signing fraud
Automated Digital Workflows
Accelerates approvals, document execution, and business transactions across digital channels.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
Electronic signatures indicate a person's intent to sign a document, while digital signatures use cryptographic technology to verify identity, protect document integrity, and provide stronger legal evidence.
The appropriate signature level depends on business risk, legal requirements, and regulatory obligations. Entrust supports Simple Electronic Signatures (SES), Advanced Electronic Signatures (AES), and Qualified Electronic Signatures (QES) to match different use cases.
Entrust provides identity verification, trusted signing workflows, timestamping, audit trails, and support for qualified trust services that help organizations meet eIDAS requirements and demonstrate legal validity.
Yes. Entrust solutions can integrate with enterprise applications, customer portals, HR systems, document management platforms, and custom workflows through APIs and web-based services.
Digital signatures eliminate printing, scanning, mailing, and manual processing activities while reducing approval times and improving process efficiency across departments and locations.
