What does paper signing really cost you?
Enter your volumes and compare the cost of paper signing with WeVerify, per document, per year and over your retention period. Every default is visible, and you can change every one of them.
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Moving from DocuSign or Adobe Sign?
Generic e-signature tools do not check who is signing. WeVerify verifies identity and signing authority before every qualified signature it issues, under eIDAS 2.0.
- Qualified biometric signatures under eIDAS 2.0
- Signer identity verified with NFC and biometrics
- Signing authority checked before the signature
- Identity verification (KYC) and business verification (KYB) built in
- One platform, no separate identity provider
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Where the money goes
The hidden costs of paper signing.
Printing is the cheap part. Most of the cost is people handling paper.
Printing and routing
Every contract is printed, collated and passed from desk to desk. The paper is cheap. The time is not.
Waiting for signatures
Each extra signer adds days. A contract is not done until the last signature is in.
Scanning and filing
Once signed, the document is scanned, indexed and filed, so you end up with a digital copy anyway.
Archiving for years
Regulated organisations keep signed originals for years. Boxes, storage and destruction all cost money.
Retrieval
When an auditor or a dispute needs the original, someone has to find it and send it on.
Rework
A missing initial or a wrong page sends the document round again, and the clock restarts.
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How we calculate
Every number comes from your inputs.
No hidden factors. These are the formulas, in plain words.
- Paper, per document. Five costs added together. Printing: pages times print cost, plus the time to print and route. Signing: signers times minutes per signer. Scanning and filing: scan time plus the scanning cost per page. Archiving: box, storage over the retention period and destruction, shared across the pages in a box, plus physical retrievals. Rework: a share of printing, signing and scanning.
- WeVerify, per document. One qualified signature per signer and one e-seal, after any volume discount and converted at the exchange rate. Plus staff time in the app, and your own digital archive cost if you enter one.
- Staff time is valued at your loaded hourly cost. Turn on Hard costs only to leave it out.
- Per year. Cost per document times documents per year, plus any annual platform fee.
- One-off. Identity verification once per signer, plus any integration fee.
- Over the retention period. Annual saving times the number of years, minus the one-off costs.
- Break-even. The number of documents it takes for the saving per document to cover the first year's fixed costs.
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