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A signature your lawyer will not send back.

For documents that matter, the i4p Signing Portal provides a signature level that is equivalent to a handwritten signature under Hungarian law; for everything else, something faster and cheaper. And you run it wherever your auditor allows: from shared cloud to your own data centre.

EMPLOYMENT CONTRACT

A. Kovacs, permanent contract

SIGNATURE

Biometric identification

OUR TECHNOLOGY PARTNERS AND RESELLERS

If you are reading this, you have probably tried already

Legal sent it back

IT rolled out DocuSign, and the company lawyer said it is worthless for employment contracts. And they are right: an email-link signature only proves that somebody opened a message. So paper it stayed.

Paper eats the budget

Printing, envelopes, couriers, two copies, scanning, filing. Several thousand forints each time, and nobody adds it up to see what it comes to by the end of the year. With several thousand employees, it becomes a budget line of its own.

HR spends its time on admin

Multiple sites, documents that go missing, signature rounds that drag on for weeks. Your team is not doing HR work, it is chasing paper.

All three problems lead to the same place: you have no system that holds up legally and also fits the way you work. That is exactly what the i4p signing portal provides.

Three steps to a signed document

It does not require a project or a months-long rollout. This is what it looks like in practice.

You prepare the document

You start an employment contract, an agreement or any other document from your existing templates. The system can prepare several hundred documents at once, so you do not have to deal with them one by one.

You send it out and track it

The employee opens and signs it from any device, including their phone. Meanwhile you see in real time where the process stands: sent, opened, signed.

A signature that holds up in court

The document receives an eIDAS-compliant signature and a qualified timestamp. Legally it means the same as a handwritten signature, only it takes minutes and no paper.

Two pyramids decide what your signature is worth

One question is where the system runs. The other is who it identifies. You choose the level freely in both; switch between the two.

You start from where you are today

Most competitors offer a single deployment model. DocuSign, for example, offers only the shared cloud, and does so as a US provider. i4p covers almost the entire pyramid, you choose the level, and your data stays in the EU throughout, with no dependency on the United States.

Physical Trident HSM in your own data centre

The Signing Portal is installed on a hardware device standing in your own data centre. Your keys are physically protected; there is no more secure arrangement. This is where QSCD certification comes in, as the option for the highest level.

On-premise software, without an HSM

The solution runs on your internal network. No data leaves the company, even without a hardware device.

Your own cloud, under your control

The system runs in a private cloud that you administer.

Dedicated SaaS

i4p runs it for you, but in an instance that is exclusively yours, isolated from everyone else, at a cloud provider you choose.

Shared, multi-tenant SaaS

Several companies in one system, with strictly segregated data. Quick to start, attractive pricing. It runs on a European, EuroStack-registered provider.

Your auditor will appreciate this too. If they require an on-premise solution or rule out shared cloud, with us you have somewhere to move. You do not have to change systems, only levels within the pyramid.

We are not tied to a single trust service provider

i4p is not tied to any single certification authority; we work with several. That is why we can mix commercial models and always put together the arrangement that works out best for your organisation.

Annual certificate

One common market model: roughly HUF 40,000 per certificate per year, with unlimited signatures. It pays off for anyone signing more than two hundred documents a year.

For executives and the HR team, who sign a lot

Per-transaction fee

The other model comes at a low price (as little as HUF 0): the certificate costs nothing and you pay per signature, roughly EUR 1.5. It pays off for anyone who signs rarely.

For the mass of employees who sign rarely

A company of 8,000 people is not really 8,000 identical signatories

In practice that means 1 executive, a 5-person HR team, around 100 office workers and 7,900 blue-collar employees. The executive and HR sign a lot, so the annual certificate suits them. The 7,900 workers, on the other hand, sign only a few times a year: when they receive their tax certificate, request leave or amend a contract.

Working out which arrangement pays off is not your job. Being independent, we mix the best combination for your organisation.

How much will you save in a year?

Enter your own figures. The full process cost of a paper-based signature is typically HUF 8,000 to 10,000 per document; the i4p Signing Portal costs a fraction of that.

Printing, envelopes, postage, filing, archiving and the working hours spent on it, combined.

The i4p unit price: ~1 EUR / signature (about HUF 400), with a HUF 0 base fee.

Indicative calculation; the exact price depends on the size of the organisation and the arrangement chosen.

One system that does everything you would previously have needed four products for

Signing, seals, bulk batching and a full audit trail. Not separate products, but a single interface.

From any device

Employees sign on their phone, on a tablet or in a browser, with no installation, using biometric identification.

Seals and stamps

Signing on behalf of the company, with seals and stamps, in the same system.

Bulk signing

Prepare and sign several hundred employment contracts or annual tax certificates in a single operation.

Full audit trail

Every step is recorded, with a qualified timestamp and photo and IP address evidence. Provable and traceable.

Why is this different from what you have tried so far?

	Paper-based	Simple e-signature (e.g. DocuSign)	RECOMMENDED i4p Signing Portal
Legal effect under Hungarian law	Full	Limited	Full, under eIDAS
Legal effect in the EU	On site	Varies	Uniform, under eIDAS
Deployment model	Office	Shared cloud only	From paper to your own data centre
Who does it identify?	Whoever is present	The reader of an email address	Corporate login and certificate
Machine interface (API)	·	Limited	Included in the package
Bulk signing	No	Limited	Yes
Stamp, biometrics, photo and IP	No	No	Yes, in one system

It fits your existing systems

A machine interface covering the full functionality of the Signing Portal is part of every package. Connecting your existing ERP and HR systems is done on their side by your own IT staff or by the vendor of that system. We stay alongside you throughout, and if you want, we will do it for you.

REST API

Included in the package

HR and ERP systems

Integrated on your side

PKCS#11

Industry-standard interface

Active Directory, SSO

Corporate identification

On-premise and SaaS

Flexible deployment

Document management systems

Document lifecycle

Legal, IT and HR are each looking for something different. All three find it here.

For HR directors

Thousands of employees, multiple sites, mountains of paper. The Signing Portal is available from any device, and employees can sign on their phone.

For IT leaders

You can choose between on-premise and SaaS deployment, the machine interface is part of the package, and we adapt the integration to your existing systems.

For corporate lawyers

Up to qualified, eIDAS-compliant signatures that hold up in a Hungarian court. No compromises on legal compliance.

Twenty years of cryptographic experience

The i4p team was founded by the former owners and specialists of Netlock, one of the first European qualified trust service providers. They brought with them the know-how they used to run these systems day after day.

trust service providers worldwide build on i4p systems. We are not their competitor; we provide the infrastructure underneath them.

deployment levels, from paper-based processes all the way to a solution standing in your own data centre.

European development and operation, with no data transfer to third countries.

compliant signatures, equivalent to a handwritten signature under both Hungarian and EU law.

Frequently asked questions

We add three real customer questions to this list every month.

Does Hungarian employment law accept a Signing Portal signature?

Yes. The Signing Portal produces qualified or otherwise eIDAS-compliant electronic signatures, which are equivalent to a handwritten signature under Hungarian and EU law, including the written form requirements of employment law.

Legally, what is an email-link, DocuSign-style signature worth?

That kind of approval essentially proves that somebody opened the email. It does not reliably identify the person: if someone opens a Gmail address under an arbitrary name, that in itself proves very little. The Signing Portal, by contrast, ties the signature to a corporate login or a certificate.

What is the difference between a qualified and an advanced electronic signature?

A qualified electronic signature has the strongest legal effect and is fully equivalent to a handwritten one. An advanced electronic signature based on a qualified certificate comes very close in legal effect but is simpler to operate, which makes it the practical choice for most corporate processes.

What happens if my auditor requires an on-premise solution?

That is no problem either. You simply move up the deployment pyramid: the same Signing Portal runs on your internal network or in your own data centre, without you having to change systems.

Does everyone in the company need their own certificate?

Not necessarily. Executives and the HR team, who sign a lot, are usually best served by an annual certificate, while the mass of employees who sign rarely are better off on the per-signature transaction model. Because we are independent, we mix the two to suit your organisation.

How much does it cost to integrate my existing systems?

The Signing Portal's machine interface is part of the package. Connecting your existing ERP or HR system is done on their side by your own IT staff or by the vendor of that system. We support you in this, and on request we will carry it out for you under a separate engagement.

How does an employee sign on their phone?

They receive a link, open the document in a browser and authenticate themselves with biometric identification.

Can the system handle stamps as well?

Yes. The Signing Portal handles signing on behalf of the company with a stamp, biometric signatures, and photo and IP address capture, all within one system.

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