01 What it’s for
Everyday business documents.
RME Sign is for the paperwork a business signs every week. Some documents have their own rules, so they’re not for e-signing here.
Good for
- Agreements and contracts
- Quotes and proposals
- Engagement letters
- Client and HR forms
- Consent and approval forms
Not for
- Wills
- Powers of attorney
- Land transfers
- Statutory declarations
- Anything that must be witnessed in person
02 How it works
Four steps, from your document to a signed copy.
Select document
Pick your agreement, quote or form (PDF) in the browser, or right-click it on your PC.
Send
Each signer gets a private link by email. No account needed.
Sign
On a phone or computer, in any order you choose.
Sealed and shared
A tamper-evident signed PDF with a full audit record goes to everyone.
Video demo coming soon
03 Australian law
How RME Sign lines up with Australian e-signing law.
Each rule on the left, and what RME Sign does about it on the right. A plain summary, not legal advice.
| Legal requirement | Where it comes from | RME Sign |
|---|---|---|
| Identifies the person signing | Electronic Transactions Act 1999 (Cth) s 10(1)(a); state Acts, e.g. NSW 2000 s 9 | Yes |
| Shows the person intends to sign | Electronic Transactions Act 1999 (Cth) s 10(1)(a) | Yes |
| Uses a method reliable enough for the document | Electronic Transactions Act 1999 (Cth) s 10(1)(b) | Yes |
| Signing electronically is agreed to | Electronic Transactions Act 1999 (Cth) s 10(1)(c) | Yes |
| Signed document is readable and kept for later | Electronic Transactions Act 1999 (Cth) ss 9 and 12 | Yes |
| Companies can sign electronically, with officers signing separately | Corporations Act 2001 (Cth) ss 110A and 127 | Yes |
General information, not legal advice. Not for wills, powers of attorney, land transfers or statutory declarations. More detail is in the compliance section of the documentation.
Other countries: based on published guidance (not a review of each country’s statutes), simple electronic signatures like RME Sign are generally recognised for ordinary business contracts in New Zealand, the United Kingdom, the United States (business-to-business; consumer agreements need extra disclosures), Canada, the European Union, Singapore, Hong Kong and South Africa, subject to local conditions such as recipient consent. Each has its own exclusions, which commonly include wills and some land documents, and some documents need a higher-level signature. Check local rules for your document.
04 Built for Microsoft 365
Fits the way your team already works.
RME Solutions Technology is a Microsoft partner, and we build in Microsoft 365 every day. Your team signs in with the Microsoft accounts they already use, and the desktop client puts RME Sign on the right-click menu. We switch both on for your organisation on request.
- Available now
Web app
Select, send, track and download in the browser. Signers open a private email link and sign. No account, nothing to install.
- On request
Microsoft sign-in for your team
Your team signs in with their own Microsoft work accounts (Entra ID single sign-on). We switch it on for your organisation when you ask. Signers still just use an email link.
- On request
Desktop client
Right-click a PDF, then “Sign with RME Sign”. The draft opens ready to send. Deployed to your PCs with Microsoft Intune, with no keys stored on the PC.
- Coming soon
Outlook add-in
Send a document for signing without leaving Outlook.
05 What’s behind it
Open source, run by us, in Australia East.
Built on Documenso, the open-source e-signing platform, and run by RME on our own server in Microsoft Azure Australia East.
Open-source engine. Documenso Community Edition, the open-source e-signing platform, licensed AGPL-3.0 and run unmodified.
Our own copy. Not a shared service. RME runs its own copy in Microsoft Azure Australia East (NSW), with a private database and no public internet address.
Sealed and recorded. Each signed PDF has a tamper-evident digital seal (PAdES) with a trusted timestamp, a signing certificate page (who, email, IP, device, times) and a full audit log.
Easy for signers. Signers need no account. They sign from an email link.
Sign-in. Senders sign in with Microsoft, behind Cloudflare Zero Trust.
Backups. Nightly encrypted backups, also copied off-site to Cloudflare R2 (Oceania region).
Where your documents go
- Live documents are kept in Microsoft Azure Australia East (NSW). Encrypted backup copies are kept in Cloudflare R2 (Oceania region).
- Invitation and notice emails go through Microsoft 365.
- Cloudflare’s global network sits in front of the service.
- We don’t sell your documents or use them for anything else.
06 Open source notice
Thank you, Documenso.
RME Sign is built on Documenso Community Edition, licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 (AGPL-3.0). We run it unmodified.
The source code is public: Documenso on GitHub. The version we run is Documenso v2.21.1.
Thank you to the Documenso team and contributors for building e-signing in the open. Find out more at documenso.com.
- Software
- Documenso Community Edition
- Version
- v2.21.1
- Licence
- AGPL-3.0
- Changes
- None. Run unmodified.
- Support
- From RME, not from Documenso
Enquire
Want to use RME Sign?
RME Sign is available now. Send us an email with what you need to sign and roughly how often, and we’ll get back to you.