Half of all change orders can’t be signed on-site: the homeowner is at the office, the real decision-maker is a landlord three time zones away, or the job is an emergency call with nobody home. Waiting days for approval stalls the job; working without it risks the money. Your options:
Option 1: Email a PDF and hope
Email the change order and ask them to print, sign, scan, and return it. Almost nobody owns a printer anymore; response times are measured in days, and half the time what comes back is a reply saying “approved” — which is better than nothing, but it isn’t a signature on the document.
Option 2: A general e-signature service
DocuSign-style services solve the signature part, but they’re built for offices: you upload a document, place signature fields, manage envelopes — and pay a monthly plan or per-envelope fee. For a two-line change order priced from a crawl space, the overhead is out of proportion.
Option 3: A signing link built for change orders
This is what ScopeProof’s remote signing does. From the app, you tap Send for Signature and share a link by email, text, or any messenger. Your customer taps it and sees the change order in their browser — job details, line items, total, photos — and signs right there with a finger. No app to install, no account to create.
- You get notified the moment it’s viewed and the moment it’s signed — the status timeline (sent → viewed → signed) lives on the change order
- End-to-end encrypted: the document is encrypted on your phone and decrypted in their browser; the decryption key travels in the link itself and is never stored on a server
- Links expire after 7 days, so stale approvals can’t float around indefinitely
- The signed original returns to your phone automatically and locks, like any signed ScopeProof change order
Is a remote signature as good as an in-person one?
Legally, yes — e-signatures carry the same weight regardless of where the signer sits (see our guide on whether e-signatures are legally binding). Practically, a remote signature with a recorded view-and-sign timeline is often stronger evidence than a scribble on paper, because the who-saw-what-when is documented.
Send a link. Get notified when it’s signed.
ScopeProof Pro sends an end-to-end-encrypted signing link by email or text. Your customer opens it in any browser — no app, no account — reviews the line items, and signs. You get a push notification the moment it’s done.
