OpenSign - The free & Open Source Alternative to DocuSign
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The free and open source alternative to DocuSign
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The open-source document e-signing solution
Table of Contents
Introduction
Welcome to OpenSign, an open-source document e-signing solution designed to provide a secure, reliable, and free alternative to commercial platforms like DocuSign, PandaDoc, SignNow, Adobe Sign, Smartwaiver, SignRequest, HelloSign & Zoho sign. Developed under the OpenSignLabs organization, our mission is to democratize the e-signing process, making it accessible and straightforward for everyone.
Features
- Secure PDF E-Signing: With the help of Robust encryption algorithms, OpenSign
ensures maximum security, privacy & compatibility. - Annotate Documents: OpenSign allows you to annotate PDF documents with an advanced signing pad that comes with hand drawn signatures support as well as uploaded images & saved signatures for the simplest signing experience.
- User-Friendly Interface: OpenSign was built while keeping Intuitive design in mind for ease of use. Features like "Sign yourself", "One click signatures" and "OpenSign Drive" makes it stand out of the crowd and even makes it better than a lot of so-called industry leaders.
- Multi-signer Support: OpenSign's ability to invite multiple signers for signing along with the ability to invite witnesses & being able to enforce signing in a sequence makes it the only open source solution that is fully loaded and allows it to compete head-to-head with established players.
- Email Unique Code(OTP) verification support for guest signers: With OpenSign, your documents are fully secure even when being signed by guest users. Guest signers can only sign the document after entering a unique code sent to their email address.
- "Expiring Docs" & "Rejection": You can set documents to expire after certain number of days after which nobody will be able to sign it. Not just this, OpenSign also allows signers to reject signing a document.
- Beautiful email templates: All document signing invitations, completion notifications & reminders are formatted using great looking email templates.
- PDF Template Creation(coming soon): OpenSign allows you to create and store PDF document templates for repeated use thereby saving you a lot of time.
- OpenSign Drive: It is a centralised secure vault for your signed documents that makes storing, signing, organizing, sharing & achieving your docs a breeze.
- Audit Trails & completion certificate: Being a security focused solution, OpenSign makes it a top priority to save detailed logs for tracking document activities along with time-stamps, IP addresses, email IDs & phone numbers. A completion certificate is generated as soon as document is completed which contains all the document related logs for added safety.
- API Support(coming soon): OpenSign API allows seamless integration into existing systems and software. APIs will soon be available as a cloud hosted solution.
- Integrations: Seamless integrations with various Cloud storage systems, CRMs & enterprise platforms is coming soon.
Installation
Please refer to the Installation Guide for detailed instructions on how to install OpenSign on your system.
Usage
For comprehensive guidelines on how to use OpenSign, please consult our User Manual.
Contribution Guidelines
We welcome contributions from the open-source community. For more information on how to contribute, please read our Contribution Guidelines.
License
OpenSign is licensed under the AGPL License. For more details, see the LICENSE file.
- Secure PDF E-Signing: With the help of Robust encryption algorithms, OpenSign
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Wondering if this will be less restricted than DocuSeal – in that case, definitely would love it.
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@jordankrueger said in OpenSign - The free & Open Source Alternative to DocuSign:
less restricted than DocuSeal
are you able to elaborate on how DocuSeal is restricted? thanks!
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@jdaviescoates No automated reminders and also that it's just a single user instance.
... ADDING FOR CLARITY: Part of the whole benefit of self-hosting an app is that you don't have limitations like you do on a cloud-hosted version, right? Particularly that I don't have pay the absurdly high per-seat licenses of something like DocuSign (which quickly get out of hand if you need, say, 5 people using the app).
The tradeoff for self-hosting, in my opinion, is not having the most cutting edge features and all the edge-case features that I rarely use anyway.
I really start to question the value add of a self-hosting a DocuSign alternative when I only have one user to work with, though, considering that self-hosting an alternative does require some cost (server, and in this case, the Cloudron license). So to self-host I'm already paying more than two DocuSign licenses and I only have one user to work with. Why not just use DocuSign at that point, so I get all of its features and support?
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