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QR code signing

A sign on the counter, and everybody signs on their own phone.

The queue is eleven people long, you have one tablet, and the person at the front is filling in a form with a pen that does not work.

What this document is

A printed code that opens your document on the signer's own phone, so a counter becomes a queue of people signing in parallel rather than one at a time.

Also called: scan to sign · QR waiver · kiosk code · table tent signing · walk-up waiver

Where it goes wrong

Not a feature list. These are the three moments this exists for.

One tablet, eleven people

Whatever the tablet costs, it signs one person at a time, and the queue moves at the speed of the slowest typist in it.

Paper at a counter, in weather

Wind, rain, a cold hand and a pen on a string. Then somebody has to read it, and then somebody has to keep it.

An app nobody is going to install

The one thing a person in a queue will not do is go to a store, create an account and wait for a download so that they can sign a one-page form.

What happens instead

1

Print it once, use it all season

The code belongs to a saved way of sending, so the same sign keeps working when you change the document behind it.

2

Everybody signs at once

Eleven people, eleven phones, in parallel. The counter checks a list instead of watching a form being filled in.

3

The record says where it happened

Signed on the signer's own device, with the time, the network and the device on the certificate — which is a better record than a clipboard, not a worse one.

A phone in a queue still needs a signal

This is a web page, so it needs a connection to load and to submit. Where coverage is bad the answer is to send the link before people arrive, which is the better pattern anyway. We are not going to describe a printed code as an offline solution when it is not one.

Who sends this one

The same document, sent by businesses that have nothing else in common.

Every trade we have written for

Questions

Does the signer need an account or an app?

Neither. They scan, they read, they sign. The whole page is built to be small and plain so it opens on a bad connection.

Can one code serve several documents?

Yes — a saved way of sending can carry a set, so one scan produces the waiver and the acknowledgment and anything else that booking needs.

Can we tell which location or sign somebody scanned?

Yes, if you use a different code per location or per sign. That is a practical way to see where signing actually happens.

Is a QR signature weaker than one on your tablet?

No — it is stronger in one respect, because the signature came from the signer's own device rather than a shared one, and the certificate says so.

A hand holding a phone showing a document and a signature, outside a timber lakeside cabin, with two guests walking to the door with luggage.

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