Employees, students, participants and suppliers expect digital processes – paper-free and without media interruptions. SWITCHsign reduces the time you spend concluding contracts, approvals and other agreements from days to mere minutes, which in turn saves you effort and costs.
Universities are using SWITCHsign to eliminate the time-consuming handling of paper documents such as orders, enrolment confirmations, purchasing contracts, official documents and research agreements.
It accelerates these processes, ensuring maximum flexibility and control, and doing away with contract conclusion delays resulting from late signatures.
Is your institution still collecting signatures the old way? Switch to SWITCHsign today and sign documents with your electronic signature – it’s easy, quick and legally binding. The service runs on all modern browsers and devices with no additional software hardware or plug-ins required.
SWITCHsign is a software-as-a-service solution, so it’s easy to integrate into your organisation. The intuitive user experience works across all modern browsers and devices, with no additional software, hardware or plug-ins required. With the SWITCH edu-ID integrated, you don’t need special user accounts for users or admin.
Certifaction operates the technology behind SWITCHsign. Certifaction is a Swiss software start-up based in Zurich. Its e-signing solution completely safeguards its users’ privacy and is already being used in over ten countries.
The federal law on electronic signatures – ZertES – and the EU regulation eIDAS distinguish between different quality levels. These differ in terms of applications and validity.
SWITCHsign distinguishes between a simple electronic signature (SES) and qualified electronic signature (QES) as defined by ZertES and eIDAS. It also offers an additional option that is not regulated but has greater evidential value – the professional electronic signature (PES). Users are identified for this purpose via Auto-Ident, which is a key component of SWITCHsign.
A qualified electronic signature with SWITCHsign meets either the requirements of the federal law on electronic signatures – ZertES – or the EU regulation eIDAS.
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Simple electronic signature (SES) |
Professional electronic signature (PES) |
Qualified electronic signature (QES) |
Identification requirements |
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Documents where the written form is not required, with minimal liability risk |
Documents where the written form is not required, with low liability risk |
Documents where the written form is required or with high liability risk |
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The University of Tartu in Estonia has a student body of 18,000. When the university interacts with students, it relies entirely on electronic signatures rather than pen and paper. To great success – the uni’s administration department estimates that this saves them EUR 12,190 per month.
Admin |
Users |
Signatories |
They are the points of contact for SWITCH for anything related to SWITCHsign.
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They are responsible for managing documents, in particular for downloads and archiving signed documents.
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They are responsible for providing the signature and its significance in the context of the signed document.
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Our team is ready to advise and lend a hand in implementation, training and technical matters.