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Tuesday, November 24, 2015

How your business can make use of Aadhar E-Sign?


Can you imagine signing a service agreement or on-boarding a customer completely online in a matter of seconds without having to deal with photocopies and courier services? Aadhaar E-Sign enables any individual in India who have an Aadhaar number to digitally sign without procuring any additional software or pre-purchasing digital signature from a certifying agency. Any Aadhaar holder can sign a document in digital format using biometric or OTP authentication. The service is an easy and secure way to sign a digital document, anytime, anywhere.

A sample use case of a customer applying for a broadband connection is explained below.

  1. Salesman explains the product and convinces the customer.
  2. Customer/sales man fills the required fields like name, address and chooses a plan on the sales mans tablet pc
  3. The auto prefilled application form is shown to the customer for reading.
  4. The customer selects eSign and Aadhaar number is asked
  5. After submitting the Aadhaar number, the customer's biometric fingerprint is captured using the biometric scanner attached to the tablet.
  6. This data is submitted to the server for eSign along with the pdf format of application form
  7. A signed pdf file is returned and a copy of the same is shared to the customer and the other copy is kept with the business house.