Some documents need to be signed, and signing electronically is far smoother than print-and-post. Odoo Sign handles electronic signatures. This piece is about it.
The edition note
State it plainly: Odoo Sign is part of Odoo Enterprise, not Community. A business that wants Odoo Sign for electronic signatures needs the Enterprise edition. This is worth knowing at the start.
The friction of signing on paper
A document that needs a signature, handled the traditional way, carries real friction: the document has to be printed, physically signed, and returned, posted or scanned and sent back. Each of those steps is effort and delay. For a business with documents that genuinely need signing, that friction, repeated, adds up, and the delay, particularly, can hold things up. Electronic signatures remove that friction.
What Odoo Sign does
Odoo Sign lets documents be signed electronically: a document that needs a signature can be signed by the signer electronically, without the print-physically-sign-return cycle. The document goes to the signer, the signer signs it electronically, and the signed document is the result. Odoo Sign turns signing from a print-and-post chore into a smooth electronic step.
Why electronic signing helps
Electronic signing helps by removing the friction and the delay of paper signing. The signer signs electronically, in the moment, without printing, physically signing, and returning. This is less effort, for the business and the signer, and it is faster, the delay of the document travelling physically is gone. For anything where the speed of getting a document signed matters, and often it does, a customer ready to sign should be able to, then and there, electronic signing removes the delay that could let the moment pass. Odoo Sign makes signing smooth and quick.
Electronic signing and the connected system
Because Odoo Sign is part of Odoo, electronic signing can be part of the connected system. A document arising from the business's dealings can be signed through Odoo Sign as part of how that dealing is handled in the system, rather than signing being a separate, disconnected chore. The signed document is connected to what it concerns. This is the connected-system value applied to signing: the signing of documents is part of how the business runs in the connected system, not a separate paper process beside it.
The takeaway
Electronic signatures with Odoo Sign let documents that need signing be signed electronically, rather than through the print-physically-sign-return cycle. Odoo Sign is an Odoo Enterprise application. Electronic signing helps by removing the friction and delay of paper signing, the signer signs in the moment, which is less effort and faster, and the speed matters where getting a document signed promptly matters. Because Odoo Sign is part of Odoo, electronic signing can be part of the connected system. For how we approach Odoo, see our ERP practice.