What is an electronic signature?

Electronic contract signing includes electronic contracts, not only electronic contract signing, but also a series of actions other than electronic contract signing, involving the whole life cycle of contracts such as intelligent approval, intelligent management, compliance management and authority management.

First of all, the signing of the contract must come from different civil subjects. In addition to the participation of Party A and Party B, there may be three signatures of Party C, not just two parties.

Secondly, the signing process is an online data process, because all contracts will eventually flow to the new system, forming data precipitation. Judging from the contents of previous contracts, we can only know the amount, terms and date of signing. Before, and compared with ordinary electronic contracts, electronic signing has one more message that can be transmitted, that is, signing information. Because in the past, the red seal could not be circulated online, the important innovation of electronic signature at this time is that it can make our signature content circulate online.

Finally, the relationship. Signing a contract is an action in the process of signing a contract, but the approval of the contract needs to be completed in the middle of signing a contract. Several people need to participate in the examination and approval, including the examination and approval authority, how to allocate the seal authority and the relationship between them, that is, other relationships except the signature subject are complicated. Shanghai E-sign is the first third-party E-sign manufacturer to emphasize that "E-sign is not equal to E-sign". It is not only the signing of electronic contracts, but also a series of actions beyond the signing of electronic contracts.