by Warren
October 29th, 2009
One of the hassles facing just about every small business manager is the onboarding paperwork headache. This takes you away from spending time on what matters most to you - running your business.
ContractPal offers a cool internet-based method for taking away the hassle of getting employees to fill, sign and submit important documents such as I9s, W4s, employee handbooks and confidentiality agreements to name a few. You don’t have to spend hardly anytime at all – your employees are given a homework assignment to go home and complete all the paperwork, including signing the documents. When they show up for work, you only need to add two forms of ID to the I9 and you’re done in literally a minute or two.
Not only is it legal, but it is extremely beneficial by protecting you from heavy penalties (up to $1,100 per violation) that can be levied against your business, if you are found in violation of the law. Not only does this offering save you time, protect you from penalties, but it provides a great experience for all users.
Do your employees need to update their forms periodically?
Do you send out new employee handbooks and need them re-signed?
Do you transfer employees to different business locations?
Do you and your employees need easy access to all these documents at any time?
Do you need to upload letters to an employee file?
Are you tired of faxing documents to the corporate office?
Having problems finding old documents in your paper filing system?
Enjoy onBoardingexpress benefits today and board an employee for less than the price of a hamburger per employee! Once you’ve tried it, you will never go back to paper.
Check out what some users have said about this product.
“As a manager of a fast food restaurant this has made my life so easy. Now I don’t need to spend time chasing or storing all the documents that come with new employees. It is all done electronically in minutes! I save so much time and can focus on running the business. I am not a computer whiz so I was worried about the learning curve. It took me 5 minutes to learn how to use it. I love it!!” Kelly, Store Manager.
“As an employee I don’t like filling out paperwork. It is very confusing. Using onBoardingexpress I was surprised at how easy it was to enter my information and sign my documents with a few clicks. I can access them anywhere I have an internet connection. It rocks!” Maddie, New Employee
“I didn’t have access to the internet at home so I ran over to the library and was able to sign my documents with ease. It was kinda fun!” Maria P, Employee
“I loved that I didn’t have to sign my documents on the spot and I could read through them before signing. I signed at midnight. Where else can you do that?” Eric, Employee
“When HR requests, we send out an updated version of our Employee Handbook. I click one button and send it to all my employees. I have a manager dashboard that tells me who has signed and who has not. It is so easy and saves me time from hunting these documents down. I will never go back to paper chasing again!!” Manager
Check out this website for more information: onBoardingexpress
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Tags: auto deposit, confidentiality, Electronic Signatures, employee, esignature, handbook, hiring, HR, I9, onboarding, payroll, W4
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by Brad
July 20th, 2009
PMP Worldwide published a great interview with ContractPal customer Natalie Vandersluis, CEO of Tryxo Entertainment. Natalies is one of the most innovative players in the entertainment industry. If you haven’t discovered Tryxo you need to. They are like iTunes for independent artists/music.
In the interview Natalie highlights how Tryxo uses ContractPal to get contracts signed using electronic signatures all over the world…
“The process of signing up and uploading songs is simple and fast (based on your Internet connection) and we provide a simple online contract signing procedure which allows us to work with artists from all over the world.”
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by Brad
June 24th, 2009
Document magazine has a very informative article on the risks of using electronic signatures. The article is written by Gregory T. Casamento and Patrick J. Hatfield from Lcoke Lord Bissell & Liddel LLP.
I like the article because it does a good job of addressing a common mistake that businesses or organizations make when considering or creating an electronic signature solution. That mistake is to view the requirements for an electronic signature solution solely as technical, to be solved by the IT department. Ignoring the other requirements, or risks as identified in the article may result in a electronic signatures that are not enforceable.
Companies like American Express and Dillards have learned the hard way that their internally built systems did not stand up in court, although technically they did have electronic signatures.
The six risks identified are Authentication, Repudiation, Compliance, Admissibility, Adoption and Relative. Check back in the coming days as we go into how to mitigate each of these risks.
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by Brad
June 17th, 2009
Orem, UT (PRWEB) June 17th, 2009 — ContractPal, a leading provider of on demand electronic signature solutions, today announced that its ESIGN compliant, software-as-a-service platform now integrates with Google Apps. This latest platform release allows Google Apps customers to leverage the powerful ContractPal platform for legally enforceable electronic signatures and business process rules. Google Apps customers can now utilize secure ContractPal web applications to complete, sign and process documents online or over the phone.
“Google Apps makes it very easy to create and share documents online, but when those documents needed to be signed they dropped to paper - outside of Google Apps. Now ContractPal makes it easy to get those documents signed and processed either online or over the phone without having to drop to paper,” says Rob Hicks, CEO, ContractPal. ”Our customers have been able to cut the time and cost of getting a document signed and processed by over 50%. We are excited to provide these cost and time savings to the Google Apps community.”
This latest release builds on top of 7+ years of electronic signature experience in an online on demand platform. This platform provides much more than just electronic signatures. The ContractPal platform includes over 1,000 APIs, wizards, web services, single-sign-on, voice signatures, payment processing, data validation, XML connectors and much more. It is all you need to get a document completed, signed and processed.
About ContractPal
ContractPal is an online, on demand, Software as a Service (SaaS) platform built specifically for completing, signing and processing documents online. Our SaaS platform delivers fully customized electronic signature enabled web applications for a fraction of the time and cost of building a web application from scratch. ContractPal allows you to quickly integrate your documents, your user roles and your business processes into a custom web application that is secure and guaranteed ESIGN compliant. For more information, visit www.contractpal.com.
Contact Information
Brad Curtis
ContractPal
www.contractpal.com
801.494.1861 x115
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by Brad
May 4th, 2009
There is more than just one reason to leave paper behind for online documents and electronic signatures. Benefits of going online include fewer errors, faster processing times and lower costs. But in addition to improving your business, electronic signatures can also improve the environment. You get the benefit of making both your business AND the environment green. So instead of just going green you are going ”green squared”!
One of the questions I frequently get from customers is how to measure their “green” impact. One of the tools I use to calculate that impact is the Paper Calculator from the Environmental Defense Fund. The calculations are based on research that is peer-reviewed and updated regularly. You can find the Paper Calculator at http://www.edf.org/papercalculator/
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by Rob
April 6th, 2009
Recently, Dillards learned first hand why using an electronic contract automation Software as a Service like ContractPal is important (Kerr vs. Dillard Store Services).
On their Intranet, Dillards offers various employment related agreements including an arbitration agreement. An employee, Yolanda Kerr didn’t want to sign the agreement. Apparently a manager, who had the rights to manage Yolanda’s password reset it and somehow during the process, the arbitration agreement got signed.
The Kansas US District Court considering the matter held that the agreement was unenforceable because Dillards couldn’t meet their burden of proof to establish that Kerr had signed the agreement. Not only did the court hold that Dillards couldn’t prove the Kerr signed the agreement but also that Dillards couldn’t prove that she may have done so by accident or mistake.
Whether the arbitration agreement was enforceable wouldn’t have been an issue had Dillards used ContractPal. Employers who use ContractPal don’t have access to change user passwords. Only employees can reset their own passwords, and when dealing with personal agreements like employment related agreements, agreements can be associated with personal profiles to improve their enforceability. In addition, an agreement on ContractPal cannot be signed by accident or mistake. Agreements are directly presented to users in a fully enforceable signing ceremony.
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by Brad
April 2nd, 2009
I had the chance to watch the latest episode of 24 last night (thanks to hulu.com). In the episode one of the bad guys offers to show where a biological weapon is in exchange for immunity and the President agrees to the deal. Since they have no time to waste they decide to have the President sign the immunity order online!
You can imagine how interested I am to see how Hollywood, with all of its imagination and creativity, gets a document signed online. Drum roll please….
Hollywood’s answer to getting an important document signed is… to have a Webex session where they share the immunity order online and then have the President sign it ”digitally”. The President signs it using one of those signature pads that you sign at the grocery store. How disappointing.
Here is where Hollywood got it wrong.
1. Urgency - If you have someone on the phone and need to get an agreement signed quickly DON’T make them go find a computer with an internet connection for a Webex session. Use a voice signature with the person on the phone to get the document signed. It is faster and ESIGN compliant.
2. Digital vs. Electronic - The President signed the immunity agreement with an electronic signature, not a digital signature as they stated. We can get into the differences between the two another time.
3. ESIGN Compliance - One of the requirements to be ESIGN compliant is that all parties have to be provided with a copy of or have access to the signed agreement. It didn’t look like that was the case here.
I am sure Webex paid a lot of money for its product placement in the episode. Too bad that it was a 2nd rate solution.
If you need to get an agreement signed and you have your customer on the phone, use ContractPal’s voice signatures to save time and hassle.
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by Rob
March 27th, 2009
The other day I saw a guy driving a pickup so loaded with dirt that sparks flew from the back bumper every time he went through a small dip in the road. I followed him for a while until he was forced to pull over. His back axle broke.
Seeing this, I immediately saw the analog to our business, electronic contract processing. The guy in the pickup should have hired someone with dump truck to carry his load.
I see people attempting to build contract applications using the equivalent of a pickup when they need a dump truck.
Take I9 forms for example. I have heard of several employers building their own electronic systems. Hopefully, they won’t find out that they’re driving a pickup that breaks down. Successfully implementing an electronic I9 form requires compliance with 27 different, and frequently onerous governmental requirements, many dealing with auditing, electronic signatures and their application, system availability and workflow.
To those doing this, I can only shout–your pickup is likely to break. And when it does, you’re likely to get fined and could even end up in jail. Why do that when you can use ContractPal to deliver what you need in record time and for less money than you would have spent, and without the endless worries.
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by Warren
March 24th, 2009
I have a friend that works as an attorney for the Washington DC court system. He lives north of town near the beltway and works at an office near his home. Unfortunately, a significant amount of his work involves submitting paperwork at the courthouse in downtown DC. He ends up taking the documents himself because of signature requirements while at the court.
We were talking at dinner one night about what I do for a living and he became quite interested in how ContractPal’s service could eliminate the pain and frustration of driving to the court. He asked if ContractPal’s solution was legal and if it would stand up in a court of law? I answered yes. ContractPal’s platform was built with ESIGN and UETA in mind. Using the solution is green, it saves on time, it reduces travel frustration, it saves on cost and it is available to all parties of the transaction indefinitely.
I’m interested to see where this goes from here.
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Tags: Documents, Forms, Green, Headaches, Law, Legal
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by Warren
March 16th, 2009
ContractPal’s platform allows you to build, host and deploy applications for free. If you have built web applications before, know Javascript and can write HTML/CSS, you have the perfect skills to build applications on the ContractPal platform.
With this platform you can start a business with no up-front costs, build applications that solve business problems and then sell these applications to others or you can host and maintain the solutions and charge a usage (transaction) fee.
Be your own boss and build your own business!
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