WPsigner is for simple electronic signature (SES) workflows under eIDAS — everyday B2B contracts, NDAs, HR acknowledgments — with audit evidence on your WordPress server. It is not a qualified trust service provider and does not issue QES. AdES is not automatic from a plugin alone.
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Start with the required signature level—not the signing tool. This quick guide shows where a WPsigner SES workflow may fit and where it does not.
Does the transaction require QES, statutory written form, or another higher eIDAS assurance level?
WPsigner may fit
If eIDAS and the applicable national law treat the act as suitable for a simple electronic signature, WPsigner can support an SES workflow with intent, consent, document hashes, and audit evidence.
Common SES use cases
Use a higher-assurance route
WPsigner is not a QTSP and does not issue QES. KYC alone does not create AdES. When EU or national law requires a qualified signature or special form, use a qualified trust service provider or the required offline form.
Practical orientation only—not legal advice. The required signature level depends on the document, parties, and applicable law.
eIDAS defines three signature levels. Marketing that blurs SES, AdES, and QES creates legal and operational risk for German, Spanish, French, Italian, and pan-EU teams.
Simple electronic signatures are widely used for everyday contracts. Advanced signatures add assurance requirements. Qualified signatures require a qualified trust service provider and can replace handwritten form where the law demands it.
Regulation (EU) 2024/1183 amends eIDAS. Teams should track trust-service rules and national overlays — not assume a plugin alone equals QES.
Self-hosting helps keep signed PDFs on EU-hosted WordPress infrastructure you control, but GDPR compliance remains the controller’s responsibility.
Run SES workflows for commercial agreements when QES is not legally required.
Collect confidentiality and supplier paperwork with exportable audit trails.
Gather employee acknowledgments while keeping records on your WordPress host.
Start from the EU framework, then use our Germany, Spain, France, and Italy pages for local notes.
Keep signed files on your server — for example with EU hosts — instead of a default US SaaS vault.
WPsigner supports SES evidence workflows. KYC can support identity assurance for AdES implementations, but does not automatically create AdES or QES.
Flat annual licensing with unlimited signatures — useful for EU SMEs signing regularly.
Activate the license and configure your signing brand.
Use SES evidence for form-free commercial acts; engage a QTSP when the law requires QES.
Collect signatures via secure links and retain the PDF plus audit trail under your policy.
Compatible: simple electronic signature (SES) workflows under eIDAS for most private and commercial documents that do not require statutory written-form equivalence. Typical fits include cross-border B2B contracts, NDAs, vendor packs, and HR acknowledgments when SES is legally sufficient. WPsigner captures intent, consent, IP/device metadata, document hashes, and optional RFC 3161 timestamps in a tamper-evident audit trail. OTP or optional KYC can strengthen identification when risk warrants it.
Not compatible / not a substitute for: (1) Qualified Electronic Signatures (QES) — WPsigner is not a qualified trust service provider (QTSP) and does not issue qualified certificates; (2) statutory written-form requirements that only QES can satisfy; (3) Advanced Electronic Signatures (AdES) claimed automatically — KYC alone does not make a signature AdES; (4) wet-ink where national law still requires it for a specific act. For QES or written-form equivalence, use a qualified provider.
No. WPsigner is not a qualified trust service provider and does not issue qualified certificates or QES. For statutory written-form requirements, use a qualified provider.
No. KYC can support the identification element, but AdES also requires a unique link to the signer, signer control, and detectable changes to signed data. Assess the full implementation with counsel — do not market WPsigner as AdES by default.
Self-hosting helps with control and location, but GDPR compliance depends on your lawful basis, notices, processors, security, and retention. WPsigner does not guarantee GDPR compliance.
Dedicated pages for Germany, Spain, France, Italy, plus the United Kingdom, Australia and the United States, this EU overview, and the global legality map.
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