Paper waivers slow check-ins, create filing headaches, and leave businesses exposed when a form is misfiled or illegible. With DocuSeal, any organization — whether it’s a gym, adventure-tour company, summer camp, rental shop, or clinic — can turn a paper waiver into a secure, legally binding digital waiver in minutes.
Below you’ll learn why electronic waivers are valid, the three ways to deploy DocuSeal, how pricing works, and where to dive deeper for your specific industry.
| Pain Point | Paper forms | DocuSeal Digital waivers |
|---|---|---|
| Onboarding | Front-desk bottlenecks | Members/customer sign on phone before arrival |
| Storage & retrieval | Filing cabinets or scans | Searchable PDFs in one dashboard |
| Data accuracy | Illegible ink / missing fields | Required digital fields & validation |
| Compliance | Risk of lost forms | UETA (US) & eIDAS (EU) compliant e-Signatures |
| Audit trail | Manual | Tamper-proof log (IP, timestamp, digital seal etc) |
Yes. In the United States, the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act (UETA) and ESIGN Act place electronic signatures on the same legal footing as pen and ink. In the European Union, eIDAS provides a standardized legal framework for electronic signatures, ensuring their validity and recognition across all EU member states.
For a waiver to hold up in court the signer must:
DocuSeal satisfies all three automatically: the signer clicks an explicit “Sign” button, the platform locks the PDF with full time-stamped log (IP address, user agent, signature ID) and is stored alongside the document.
If you need a starting point, paste the text below into a Word doc or Google Doc, export as PDF, then upload it to DocuSeal and drag in Signature and Date fields:
Release of Liability
I acknowledge that the activity provided by [Company Name] involves inherent risks.
I assume all such risks and release [Company Name] from any liability arising from my participation.
Signature: ___________ Date:__________
Within minutes you have a waiver that clients can sign from any phone, tablet, or laptop.
Create a DocuSeal account, upload your PDF, drag-and-drop fields, and click Send. DocuSeal emails the waiver and generates a shareable link. Signed PDFs land back in your dashboard automatically. This approach is perfect when you want to go live today and you don’t have developer resources especially if you are a small business.
Learn more about this here: https://www.docuseal.com/resources/quick-start
If you already run a member portal or booking app, you can keep users on your site by embedding DocuSeal. Generate a signing session inside DocuSeal (from the dashboard or via API) and drop the returned URL straight into your page. The signer never knows they’ve left your domain, yet you inherit all of DocuSeal’s security, audit, and storage features.
Learn more about Embedding here: https://www.docuseal.com/guides/embed-document-signing-into-web-app-with-javascript
For platforms that onboard thousands of users a month, the API lets you create, pre-fill, send, and track waivers programmatically. A typical flow looks like this:
Learn more about API here: https://www.docuseal.com/docs/api
Because you pay only for signed documents, the API scales from a handful of waivers to millions without renegotiating a license.
| Scenario | Plan | Cost |
|---|---|---|
| Just need the web dashboard and email links | Cloud Pro | $20/month per Pro user |
| Need to embed signing in your app | Pay-as-you-go API | $0.20 per signed API doc + $20/month user cost |
| Know you’ll exceed 50k docs a year | Annual prepay | Discounts based on your expected volume |
All tiers include unlimited templates, test mode, unlimited data storage, and email support.