To popularize electronic signatures, YouSign is launching its first offer, completely free, for individuals. Practical for saving time in administrative tasks by avoiding travel and postal mail!
Whether it is to send the lease to our tenant, sign a promise of employment or an internship agreement, or even take care of the youngest child’s school paperwork, we are required to put our signature on many documents in our lives. daily. A time-consuming task that requires printing the document, signing it, scanning it, sending it by email, etc. Electronic signature has fortunately simplified the procedure, to the point of becoming a habit in companies for all their accounting or contractual documents. On the other hand, it is not yet that for the general public, given that reliable players in France focus on professional use.
However, there is no shortage of desire! According to a study by Ipsos Digital, 87% of French people have already used this authentication mechanism, whether they have personally sent a document to sign (27%) or signed a document that was sent to them (70%) . Among them, 42% did so as part of routine administrative procedures, and 40% for taking out insurance. This was more rarely linked to administrative procedures at work (21%), a loan (20%) and the rental/purchase of real estate (16%). Note that people aged 18 to 34 are significantly more likely to declare being the authors of these documents. Also, to popularize electronic signatures – and incidentally gain new customers – YouSign launched, on October 11, the first free e-signature offer intended for the general public. A way for the Caen company to participate in the digitalization of uses, while everyone is required to sign or have numerous documents signed on a daily basis.
YouSign: free electronic signature for individuals
YouSign does not take this decision lightly: 73% of French people are convinced that it is a good thing to go digital rather than paper. “The fact that an offer intended for individuals is accessible could change the situation and disrupt traditional and time-consuming uses (print, scan, send by mail, etc.)”, explains the company in a press release. To take advantage of the new YouSign offer, free and with unlimited signatures, simply create an account, download the document, sign it and send it to obtain a signature, then download the signed document directly on the app. Moreover, all signed documents are stored on the application. HAS For comparison, DocuSign, a heavyweight in the French sector, offers a paid offer for individuals, at €9 per month or €108 per year. Suffice to say that the YouSign initiative has something to appeal to!
More than half of French people want electronic signatures to be more widely used in France, whether in public administration (taxes, social security, etc.), but also in the banking and financial sector. On the other hand, they are more reserved with regard to the health sector (electronic consent, medical records, etc.) or rental or sales contracts, etc. in the real estate sector. However, if 43% of respondents say they have never used an electronic signature simply because they have not had the opportunity, certain fears remain, particularly regarding identity theft, storage of data and “fear of accepting something without knowing it”. As with contactless payment, it will take a little time before electronic signatures are fully adopted!