You have found the right candidate and need to get the offer letter or employment contract signed before they accept another role. Posting a physical copy takes days. Setting up a subscription signing tool takes longer than the task itself.
Quill lets you send an employment contract for signature in under five minutes. Upload the PDF, add the new hire as a signer, place the signature field, and pay £1.99. They get an email with a secure link, sign in their browser on any device, and you both receive a completed PDF with a full audit trail.
Your new hire receives an email with a secure link. They can sign on their phone, tablet, or computer — no app to install, no account to create. Once everyone has signed, the completed PDF is emailed to all parties.
Most small businesses hire a few people a year. A monthly signing subscription makes no sense for 3-4 employment documents annually. At £1.99 per document, Quill costs under £8 per year for typical hiring volume. Read more about electronic signatures for small businesses.
Employment contracts signed through Quill are legally valid under UK law, EU eIDAS, and US law. Each signed document includes a full audit trail with timestamps, IP addresses, consent records, and a SHA-256 tamper-evidence hash. You may also need to sign an NDA as part of the onboarding process.
How it works
Drop in the contract, agreement, or document you need signed. Any standard PDF works.
Add your signers and click where each person needs to sign. Assign fields to the right people.
Pay and your signers receive an email with a secure link. They sign in their browser — no account needed.
Pricing
No subscription. No monthly fee. No account balance. You pay when you send, and only when you send.
Legal validity
Quill produces Simple Electronic Signatures (SES), recognised under the Electronic Communications Act 2000 (UK), EU eIDAS Regulation, and the US ESIGN Act. SES are legally valid for the vast majority of commercial contracts and agreements.
Audit trail
Every signed document includes a certificate page recording signer names, emails, timestamps, IP addresses, and consent records.
Tamper evidence
A SHA-256 hash of the completed PDF is computed and stored. Any modification to the document after signing is detectable.
6-year retention
Audit data and signed documents are retained for 6 years, then permanently deleted.
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Upload a PDF, add your signers, and send. Takes under five minutes.