Send, sign, and seal documents that hold up under Saudi law — in Arabic and English. Built for GCC business, with cryptographic evidence on every signature and the statute cited on every certificate.
The legal basis
Saudi Arabia’s Electronic Transactions Law (Royal Decree M/18 of 2007) gives an electronic signature the same legal effect as a handwritten one when it meets the law’s reliability requirements — Articles 9 and 14. That standard is nearly two decades old and battle-tested: Saudi courts routinely accept well-evidenced electronic signatures on commercial documents.
The Kingdom’s digital-government stack has grown around it: Nafath for national-identity authentication, the National Digital Certification Center (NCDC) for accredited certificates, NCA cybersecurity controls, and SAMA rules for the banking sector. For everyday B2B documents — contracts, offers, HR paperwork, procurement — a reliable e-signature with strong evidence is binding today.
SahlSign delivers that evidence on every envelope: OTP-verified signer identity, a tamper-evident hash-chained audit trail, a PAdES digital seal, an RFC 3161 trusted timestamp, and a bilingual completion certificate that cites Royal Decree M/18 for Saudi signers.
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Every completion certificate cites the electronic-transactions statute for the signer’s jurisdiction — evidence your legal team can hand to a court, not a generic checkmark.
True RTL signing ceremony, Arabic typed signatures rendered correctly, and bilingual Arabic/English certificates of completion.
PAdES digital seal, RFC 3161 trusted timestamp, OTP-verified signer identity, and a tamper-evident hash-chained audit trail — verifiable by anyone at our public verify page.
Send by email; signers verify with a one-time code and sign from any device — desktop or phone, Arabic or English.
Offer letters, contracts, and policy packs signed before day one — with bulk send for high-volume hiring waves.
Sequential approvals for POs and framework agreements, with signing order enforced server-side — not by trust.
Side agreements, handover forms, and management contracts signed remotely by all parties.
Close the same day: send, OTP-verify, sign — the sealed PDF and certificate arrive automatically.
Fast-moving giga-project supply chains need same-day contracting across borders — one envelope, every signer covered by their national law.
Counterparties in Qatar, the UAE, Bahrain, Kuwait, or Oman? Each certificate cites the right statute per signer.
Yes. The Electronic Transactions Law (Royal Decree M/18, 2007) gives electronic signatures the same legal effect as handwritten ones when reliability requirements are met (Articles 9 and 14). Saudi courts have accepted electronic signatures on commercial documents for years.
Not for most commercial documents. Nafath anchors government services and the highest-assurance signatures. For everyday B2B contracts, a reliable e-signature with verified identity and tamper-evident records — what SahlSign produces — satisfies M/18. Where a counterparty or regulator specifically requires an accredited-certificate signature, that is a separate tier.
M/18 excludes matters of personal status, notarised instruments, and certain documents requiring official registration. Regulated sectors add their own rules — SAMA governs banking documents. Ordinary commercial contracts, HR paperwork, and procurement documents are not excluded.
SahlSign produces the evidence package M/18’s reliability test looks for: OTP-verified signer identity, a hash-chained tamper-evident audit trail, a PAdES digital seal with RFC 3161 trusted timestamp, and a bilingual completion certificate citing Royal Decree M/18 — ready to hand to counsel if authenticity is ever challenged.
Arabic-first, not translated: a true RTL signing ceremony, Arabic typed signatures rendered correctly in the sealed PDF, and bilingual Arabic/English completion certificates.
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