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Low-Tech Contracts Cripple Business Growth

Does the persistence of paper-based contracts confuse you? It should.

In a world where IT has so much of sales, marketing, and operations flowing across the ‘Net and moving through networks, pulling out a piece of paper to finalize a contract sticks out like a sore thumb.

And, actually, just like a sore thumb limits the use of your hand, that paper-based contract is limiting your ability to grow, expand – and most importantly, keep up with competition.

The remedy is to implement an online, electronic contract execution system. The advantages to this kind of system are extensive… it will benefit your sales team, the customer, and your legal department. Because of this, the question of going paperless is not “if”, but rather, “when”.

Now comes the dilemma:

Should you dedicate your valuable IT resources to building a solution from scratch?

Or, should IT leverage an existing platform built for online contract signing and processing?

To answer that question, consider what it takes to build an electronic contract closure system. Too be truly effective and compliant it is going to require a lot more than just a simple “click here if you agree” button on a web site. Indeed, an electronic contract system must meet rigorous process demands from your sales team, ensure that IT is not overwhelmed with development and maintenance, and, of course, ensure that all legal requirements are met. Here is an overview of what is needed:

  1. Legal Requirements – There are specific features required to ensure that your agreements are not only enforceable but that your process does not violate regulatory mandates. These features include:
    1. Accurate user/signer authentication
    2. Fusion of signatures and documents into one document
    3. User levels that grant access while protecting sensitive data
    4. Tamper proof seals with comprehensive audit trails
    5. 100% compliant with ESIGN and UETA

  2. Sales & Marketing Requirements – An online signature alone is not going to be enough. To be effective your solution needs to capture the right information, assemble and populate the right documents, route and capture signatures from the right people and pass the data to the right systems. To do so, you need to provide these features:
    1. No new software, hardware, or installations to perform or learn
    2. Route and process the contract automatically according to your business rules and workflow requirements
    3. Data validation mechanism that ensures no required fields are missing
    4. Data integration tools that eliminate the time and error factors of manual transfers so that the contract process is seamless and fast

  3. IT Requirements – Your solution must be agile, adaptable, thin, and scalable to be consistent with the fast pace of technology. It must be:
    1. 100% scaleable to not only meet company growth rates, but also the high demands of evolving technologies
    2. Adaptable to future browsers, platforms, and coding requirements
    3. Nimble and powerful enough to instantly adjust to your company’s changing contract processes
    4. Be delivered on time, on budget, stable, bug-free, and exceed expectations

It’s a daunting list even before you put a price tag on it or build a schedule for it. While you could build a solution from scratch there is a better way.

Simply stated: ContractPal is the “better way.”

We have taken over six years of ESIGN development and experience and created an online, on-demand platform built for developing, deploying and executing online contracts. We have built the entire infrastructure needed to complete, sign and process your contracts online, freeing you up to focus on innovation and managing your other mission-critical IT projects.

We set out with the promise of meeting all your online contract needs – from keeping the sales and legal teams happy, to coming in the door on-time and on-budget.

Today we are delivering 100% on the promise…

  • ContractPal is Legally Compliant – In fact we’ve been complying with ESIGN regulations for over six years now. Not only that, ContractPal goes beyond ESIGN by enabling compliance with HIPAA, GLB and other mandates.


  • ContractPal is Fully Customizable – Customize… instantly and effortlessly, right online. And not just the words of the contract, but the work flow, communication pattern, recipients, permissions, and signature mode. ContractPal fits your business. You don’t have to change for ContractPal.


  • ContractPal is Online and Scalable – Deploy your solution with the confidence that it will scale with as your grow your business.


  • ContractPal is Built for the Future – Taking your contracts online today also means you have to be ready for tomorrow. With ContractPal you will be ready for new browser releases, changes to your internal systems, etc…


  • Contract Pal is On-Schedule and On-Budget – You can develop and deploy your online contract solutions in weeks, not months. Your contracts will be completed, signed and processed in a fraction of the time and cost of sending a FedEx package. Plus, being a hosted, online solution, there are no major initial budget impacts – a fact that keeps the bean counters happy.

The last aspect of ContractPal is one that only real IT professionals will appreciate: The backend. ContractPal was built with the IT team in mind. Consider these impressive aspects and benefits of ContractPal’s architecture:

  • Security
    • Hosted in a world class data center
    • SSL 3, AES 1024 bit keys,
    • PCI Certified
    • Tamper-proof seal
    • Full audit logging
    • User authentication

  • Scalability
    • Our clustered platform can handle millions of transactions per hour and will grow with you

  • Future Compatibility
    • You can easily modify your ContractPal applications as your business environment evolves
    • ContractPal’s platform takes care of new browsers so you don’t have to

  • XML Architecture allows you to easily
    • Add your existing documents, images
    • Create wizards and map workflow

  • System Level and Web Service Workflow
    • Enables full conversion of your paper contract process into an online, on demand application
    • Web services workflow connects to external system events

  • Rich Backend Services
    • Document export to pdf or tif
    • Connectors for data integration
    • Time based event triggers

  • Robust Communication Engine
    • Rich HTML based e-mails

  • Nimble online programming environment
    • Develop, test and deploy your application all online
    • No configuration nightmares

  • Signature Diversity
    • Click Sign
    • Voice Sign
    • Image Sign
    • Initial Sign (mutual and exclusive)

  • Secure Document Upload
    • Upload, documents, images and files into transactions

In today’s world, paper contracts are crippling businesses by slowing down growth, creating unnecessary costs, and creating logistical challenges for the sales team. Additionally, your competition either already has an electronic contract execution solution… or is getting one soon. Don’t be left behind.

And, really, there is no reason not to get started with ContractPal today. Within a matter of weeks – not months or years – ContractPal can move your entire contract process online with minimal costs and extremely low IT overhead.

Isn’t it time you moved to ContractPal?

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