You have just landed a project and need to get the contract signed before you start work. A monthly signing subscription costs more than the contract is worth for a single document. Free tools cap you at 3 documents or require your client to create an account.
Quill costs £1.99 per contract. Upload your freelance agreement as a PDF, add yourself and your client as signers, place signature fields, and send. Your client gets an email with a secure link. They sign in their browser without creating an account. You both get a signed PDF with a full audit trail.
Freelancers typically send 1-3 contracts per month. At that volume:
The maths only gets better in quieter months. If you take December off, a subscription still charges you. Quill charges nothing.
A signed contract protects both you and your client. It confirms the scope, timeline, payment terms, and intellectual property arrangements before any work starts. Getting that contract signed should not be harder than the conversation that agreed the terms.
Quill makes the signing step as fast as the handshake. Upload, place fields, send. Done before your coffee gets cold. If you also need a confidentiality agreement before sharing project details, you can sign an NDA online through Quill too.
Your client receives a professional email with a link to review and sign the document. They do not need to create an account, install an app, or pay anything. They open the link, review the contract, acknowledge consent, and sign. The completed PDF — with a full audit trail — is emailed to both of you. Signatures are legally binding under UK law and US law. Each contract costs just £1.99 to send.
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.