What are the advantages of electronic signature over traditional signature and seal?

Reliable electronic signature has the same legal effect as traditional signature, but it is far superior to traditional signature in terms of security, convenience and controllability.

Advantages of electronic signature:

Advantage 1: Electronic signature improves enterprise efficiency.

After the enterprise uses electronic signature, the contract signing, financial reimbursement, OA approval and other links of the enterprise can be confirmed and signed online anytime and anywhere without geographical and time restrictions. Compared with the tedious process and lengthy signing cycle of traditional signature, such as looking for approval from leaders everywhere and sending mail by express mail with stamps in different places, the adoption of electronic signature has greatly improved the efficiency of collaborative work of enterprises.

Advantage 2: Electronic signature saves a lot of cost.

Traditional signatures need to print paper contracts, but after enterprises use electronic signatures, all contract signing and document approval can be paperless online. At the same time, documents can be stored and managed online after signing, which saves the trouble of classified management of offline paper contracts and saves a lot of printing costs, paper costs, warehousing costs, logistics costs and labor costs for enterprises.

Advantage 3: Electronic signature management is more convenient.

Online management of electronic signatures, whether it is making, authorizing, viewing or deleting electronic signatures, can be operated online, and the operator must be a person with real name authentication and authority. Compared with the traditional signature counter management, the application stamp is not returned on time, which easily leads to the loss and abuse of the signature. Electronic signature greatly optimizes the management process of enterprise signature.

Advantage 4: Electronic signature is safe and legal.

Electronic signature is based on digital signature technology, which can confirm the true identity of the signature subject of electronic documents, effectively prevent documents from being tampered with, meet the requirements of laws and regulations, and have extremely high legal effect. Compared with traditional signatures, which are easy to be stolen and forged, electronic signatures can better meet the needs of rapid development of enterprises in terms of security and legitimacy.

It can be seen that the benefits of electronic signature for enterprises are self-evident, and it is an essential tool for enterprises to realize efficient digital paperless office.