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. eSign, e-sign, e-signature, and electronic signature all name the same thing — and it is legal in Saudi Arabia under Royal Decree M/18 (2007). SahlSign is an eSign platform built for the Kingdom: Arabic-first, with Royal Decree M/18 cited on every completion certificate.
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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