Yousign offers several signature levels in compliance with the eIDAS requirements and the law in European countries, for all your documents.

Each signature level offers additional security and legal weight to ensure optimal risk management.

Signature levels available

Simple eSignature: online signatures for your daily work

With the Simple eSignature, you can send, sign and track your documents in just a few clicks through legally compliant, secure and intuitive solutions. It's available on any device.

Authentication

You can enhance the security of your Simple Signature Request by adding a One Time Password (OTP) verification.

Advanced eSignature: secure signatures for your sensitive documents

Advanced eSignature (AES) provides reinforced security and legal value to your signatures with additional verification of signers' identity, managed instantly in our application.

Authentication

With the Advanced eSignature, the Signer's Identity Document is verified and a One Time Password (OTP) verification is mandatory.

You can for example use the AES for sales agreements, employment contracts, exclusivity agreements or insurance contracts.

Activation

By default Advanced eSignature is disabled. Please contact our team to activate this level of signature or for any other questions regarding usage or pricing. You can find more information about this signature levels here.

Qualified eSignature: the legal equivalent of a handwritten signature

With the Qualified eSignature (QES) you can sign your documents with the highest level standard of eSignature, legally equivalent to a handwritten signature providing maximum security.

Authentication

With QES, the Signer's Identity Document is verified, a video recording the Signer's face and ID is required and then verified by a human. A One Time Password (OTP) verification is necessary.

Activation

By default Qualified eSignature is disabled. Please contact our team to activate this level of signature or for any other questions regarding usage or pricing. You can find more information about this signature levels here.

Signature levels characteristics overview

Signature level	Rules	Accepted authentication modes
Simple eSignature	- Signers can be ordered or not. - OTP authentication is not mandatory. - Signers in a Signature Request can have different signature levels. - Available in Sandbox.	`no_otp` `otp_email` `otp_sms`
Advanced eSignature	- Signers can be ordered or not. - OTP authentication is not mandatory. - There is an identity document authentication. - Signers in a Signature Request can have different signature levels. - Available in Sandbox once activated by our support.Consult our Advanced eSignature guide for more info.	`otp_sms`
Qualified eSignature	- Signers should be ordered. - Authentication is not managed by OTP. - There is an identity document and a video authentication. - Signers should all have the same signature levels. - Available in Sandbox once activated by our support.Consult our Qualified eSignature guide for more info.	`null`

How to set the signature level?

The signature level should be specified for each Signer, using the signature_level property. Here are the values it can have:

Signature level	`signature_level` value
Simple eSignature	`electronic_signature`
Advanced eSignature	`advanced_electronic_signature`
Qualified eSignature	`qualified_electronic_signature`

You will find below a Signer creation payload example for the Simple eSignature level :

{
  "info": {
    "first_name": "John",
    "last_name": "Doe",
    "email": "john.doe@example.com",
    "phone_number": "+33760047242",
    "locale": "en"
  },
  "signature_level": "electronic_signature",
  "signature_authentication_mode": "no_otp",
  "fields": [
    {
      "document_id": "{{documentId}}",
      "type": "signature",
      "page": 1,
      "width": 180,
      "x": 400,
      "y": 650
    }
  ]
}