SignAndGoWhere e-signing is heading for New Zealand businesses.
A few years ago, e-signing meant putting a picture of a signature on a PDF. For a New Zealand business today it is closer to a workflow tool: it prepares the paperwork, guides each person through it, and hands the finished record to the systems you already run. These are the changes worth planning for when you choose a tool or review the one you have.
Signers arrive on their phones
A tenant in Hamilton, a contractor on a site in Queenstown, a new hire reading their offer on the bus: more and more people open a signing request on a phone before they ever see it on a desktop. The tools that keep up are the ones where nothing needs installing and every field is easy to tap.
SignAndGo sends each signer a secure link that opens in any browser, with each required field marked and the next one a tap away. When you assess any tool, open a request on your own phone first. It tells you more than a feature list does.
AI moves from novelty to everyday help
The useful AI features are modest and practical. A signer gets a plain-language overview of a long document before they commit. A sender gets a short summary of a contract's key terms, or a comparison of two drafts that shows what changed between rounds. Someone writing the covering note gets help with the wording.
SignAndGo offers each of these, plus an in-app assistant for how-to questions. The question to ask of any tool is when AI runs: in SignAndGo it runs only when you or a signer choose an AI feature.
Your AI assistant does the checking
A newer pattern is connecting the AI assistant you already use to your e-signing account, so you can ask which envelopes are still waiting, or have it send a document you have prepared. It saves opening another tab to answer a simple status question.
SignAndGo supports this connection. If it matters to your team, test it with a real envelope rather than a demo.
Signed documents flow into accounting
Many New Zealand businesses run their books in Xero, and the signed engagement letter, supplier agreement or quote acceptance belongs next to the client record. Tools are moving from 'download and file it yourself' to filing it for you.
SignAndGo can file completed documents into Xero automatically and add new signers as Xero contacts. Teams with their own systems can use the API and webhooks to do the same elsewhere.
Records anyone can check
Expect more questions from the other side of a deal about how a document was signed. A detailed audit trail, a completion certificate and a verification ID that anyone can check online answer those questions without a phone call. When comparing tools, look at a sample certificate and ask what each record captures: names, email addresses, times and IP addresses at a minimum.
Common questions
- Do signers need to download anything?
- No. With SignAndGo they open a link in their browser on a phone, tablet or computer.
- Is AI switched on for every document?
- No. It runs when you or a signer use an AI feature, such as a summary or help writing a message.
- Can signed documents go straight into Xero?
- Yes. Connect your Xero organisation and completed documents can be filed there automatically.