Approvals when you need them
Some documents need a sign-off before anyone signs: Finance checks the purchase order, Legal reads the contract. In many e-signature tools that part happens in email threads before the document is sent, or it needs a higher plan.
In Refrendo it is the same request. Add an approval step for Finance, a signing step for the supplier and a countersignature for your Director. Each person is emailed only when it is their turn. Approvers can approve, reject or ask for changes; if they ask for changes, you revise the document (or resend it as it is) and the request starts again on the new version. Anything approved on the old version stays on the record against the old version and does not carry over.
One price for the workspace
DocuSign sells a licence per user, each with its own sending allowance. A Refrendo plan is one monthly price for the workspace, with a number of senders included and a monthly allowance of requests they all share. Approvers and signers are never charged, whether they are colleagues or outsiders.
When you reach your allowance, nothing already sent is affected. Everyone can still approve and sign. New requests wait for the next period unless you add a pack of extra requests or change plan. There are no overage charges. Work out what your workload would cost.
Evidence you can hand to a lawyer
Every request keeps SHA-256 fingerprints of the original and the signed PDF, an audit trail where each event is chained to the one before (so an edit after the fact is detectable), and a completion certificate listing who approved and signed, when and how they were identified. The exact consent wording each person saw is kept in the audit trail.
Who Refrendo suits
Any team that sends documents for signature, and especially one where several people send now and then: Finance sending purchase orders, a manager sending supplier agreements, HR sending employment contracts. Everyone who sends shares one allowance, approval steps are on every plan, and the same request carries the document from the first approval to the last signature.
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