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Ratifio vs Secured Signing

Secured Signing has digital certificates. Ratifio has a modern platform around them.

Secured Signing is a New Zealand-based e-signature platform that uses PKI digital certificates for document signing. It takes compliance seriously — digital certificates provide strong tamper evidence. But the platform itself feels dated, and the user experience reflects an era when compliance meant complexity.

Two different approaches

Ratifio

Modern compliance signing that's auditable without being painful

Secured Signing

Digital certificate-based e-signatures with strong legal validity

Feature-by-feature comparison

Feature
Ratifio
Secured Signing
Digital certificates
Available where required
Core to every signature
User experience
Modern, intuitive interface
Functional but dated
Signer experience
No account, no downloads needed
May require certificate installation
Audit trail
Forensic-grade, every action logged
Certificate-based verification
eIDAS compliance
Advanced Electronic Signatures
Qualified Electronic Signatures available
API quality
RESTful, modern documentation
API available
White-labelling
Full white-label
Branding options available
Pricing transparency
Published pricing
Published pricing

Pricing: Ratifio vs Secured Signing

Secured Signing pricing typically requires annual commitments and per-user fees. Here's what Ratifio offers instead.

Compliance

£149 /per month

For regulated teams getting started with e-signatures

  • 500 documents per month
  • Unlimited signers
  • Full audit trail with certificates
  • 7-year document retention

Enterprise

£399 /per month

For organisations with regulatory reporting obligations

  • Unlimited documents
  • Unlimited signers
  • Full audit trail with signed certificates
  • Configurable retention (1-10+ years)

Regulated

Custom

For financial services, healthcare, and government

  • Everything in Enterprise
  • Dedicated tenancy
  • Custom data residency (UK, EU, multi-region)
  • Extended retention (10+ years)

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Why teams switch from Secured Signing

Chain of custody, end to end

Every action is logged with IP address, user agent, ISO 8601 timestamp, and document hash. Consent text recorded verbatim. Not a summary — the actual evidence trail your regulator expects.

7-year retention, standard

Financial regulators expect 7 years. Healthcare expects 8-10. Ratifio stores documents and audit trails for the full retention period with immutable logs and automated retention management.

Tamper-proof by design

SHA-256 hash at upload, recorded before signing begins. Any modification to the document after upload is cryptographically detectable. This isn't a feature — it's the architecture.

Your infrastructure, your rules

REST API, webhooks, bulk operations, and white-label embedding. Ratifio fits into your existing compliance stack. Integrate with your GRC platform, case management system, or internal workflow.

The bottom line

Secured Signing deserves credit for taking digital certificates seriously — PKI-based signing provides genuine cryptographic tamper evidence. But compliance doesn't have to mean complexity. Ratifio delivers equivalent audit trail depth with a modern interface that signers actually want to use.

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