How to send a contract for online signing?

Short answer

1. 1Create an account on 4mycontracts.net and upload the contract.
2. 2Fill in the variable fields (parties, subject, deadlines).
3. 3Add the recipient as a signatory.
4. 4Send the contract — the recipient receives a signing link by email.
5. 5Both parties sign; the signed document stays in your account archive.

What the law says

• eIDAS Regulation (EU 910/2014) — qualified electronic signatures are legally equivalent to handwritten ones.
• Romanian Law 455/2001 on electronic signatures — national validity framework.
• Civil Code art. 1240 — consent can be expressed electronically.
• GDPR (EU 679/2016) — signatory data must be processed with data minimisation.
• Law 135/2007 on document archiving — signed electronic documents have legal archival value.

Practical examples

• IT services contract sent for signing to a client abroad in under 10 minutes.
• NDA signed by 5 remote collaborators before onboarding, with no printing.
• Freelancer agreement sent and signed the same day without physical paperwork.
• SaaS maintenance contract renewal — re-sent for signing through a link.

Common mistakes

• Sending the contract by email as an unsigned PDF, with no legal audit trail of consent.
• Failing to clearly identify the signatory — simple signature without identity verification.
• Manual archiving of the final version, risking loss or wrong version being kept.
• Ignoring signing order — one party signs before the other approves the final text.

How 4mycontracts helps

• Signing evidence: IP address, date and time of each signature, in the Certificate of signatures.
• Contract templates drafted on the basis of Romanian law, with fields to fill in.
• Reminders for recipients who have not signed yet.
• Archive in your account, with the SHA-256 fingerprint of the document recorded at signing.
• Several signatories on the same contract, each through their own link.