Is there any difference between the electronic seal signed by CITIC and the traditional seal?

On the surface, the traditional physical seal exists in physical form and is used for paper documents. Accordingly, the electronic seal can be directly stamped on the electronic document, which saves the tedious steps of printing and sending the document.

However, we might as well compare the differences between electronic seals and physical seals, and we can see that there are also differences in the efficiency, cost and risk control of seals:

The electronic seal takes the network environment as the medium, takes digital signature and information encryption as the core, realizes the traceability, electronization and mobilization of seal control, and enhances the company's seal control ability.

What's wrong with using traditional physical seals?

1. There are many kinds of seals, which are difficult to be uniformly monitored: company seals are generally divided into official seals, special seals for finance, special seals for contracts, seals for legal representatives and special seals for invoices. Due to the continuous expansion of molecular companies and subordinate departments, there are more and more seals, and it is more and more difficult to unify supervision.

2. High printing frequency and inaccurate ledger records: When a paper contract is stamped, it is generally necessary to fill in the ledger. However, it is easy to make mistakes, omissions and alterations, and the ledger has little effect on risk prevention and chapter supervision.

3. It is difficult to cooperate in different places, and the cost of sending it back and forth is high: the branch company needs to send the paper documents to the headquarters for stamping and then send them back. The operational autonomy of branches is reduced, and the use cost of seals is increased.

4. It is difficult to identify the authenticity, and the seal identification procedure is complicated: the appearance of the physical seal is easy to copy, and the authenticity identification procedure is cumbersome and lagging behind, leaving an opportunity for illegal acts such as seal forgery.

Compared with the insufficient use of physical seal, electronic seal can improve efficiency, risk control ability and reduce cost;

1, seal online, collaborative, safe and efficient: the use process of electronic seal is very important for enterprises operating across regions to improve the efficiency of cooperation and communication through online mode, eliminating the restrictions of region and time on seals.

2. Centralized management of seals and centralized management of seals at headquarters: unified control of seal usage rights can be achieved, and physical seals are managed centrally at headquarters. No matter whether it is stamped by internal departments or stamped by branches in different places, illegal acts such as embezzlement and seal theft can be avoided.

3. The process can be traced back, and electronic data should be kept: every record used in the electronic seal should be kept, and information such as printing time, printing identity, seal type and printing contract content can be audited in real time, providing effective evidence for the management of the company to supervise and audit and prevent risks.

4. Electronic filing and controlled access management: For the contract documents stored in data, the third-party electronic contract provider will jointly provide notarization services with the authoritative notary office. In case of contract disputes, the third-party electronic contract provider can provide authoritative notarization with one click to provide users with rights protection.