What is digital confirmation

Last updated: 2024-01-04
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Digital or electronic confirmation is when you use your digital identity to confirm something digitally on a computer or mobile phone instead of manually signing.  It can be confirmation using a signature on the screen, by entering a PIN or confirmation under your user account.

Confirmations and various approvals are a natural and integral part of business processes. Digital confirmation eliminates paper work and significantly simplifies, speeds up and makes approval processes cheaper. You then have a confirmation of delivery or acceptance online, easily searchable anytime and anywhere. For example, you can use digital receipts to:

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You need to be logged in for digital confirmation

With digital proof, you have to prove your digital identity (that you are you), which means you have to be logged into Aptien as a user. By signing in, your digital identity is verified.

  • You log in using your username and password
  • Submitting requests, approvals or confirmations is associated with your Aptien user account

Benefits and advantages of digital confirmation app up against the signed confirmation

  • Remote confirmation, no need of physical presence 
  • Capture data directly on your mobile device, mobile phone
  • Form is pre-filled with data, no more handwritten or typing up 
  • Speed up and simplified confirmations and processes
  • Track and receive responses on line, immediately
  • Immediately generated proof of delivery
  • Collection and confirmation details
  • You can easily trace the digital confirmation back, so you can search for and find them anywhere, anytime
  • Automate and streamline the confirmation process
  • Real-time information and status tracking

Digital confirmation helps to avoid

  • Digging through heaps of papers or filing cabinets to find and review delivery confirmations
  • Spending time with scanning
  • Spending time with filing data entry
  • Lost, incomplete, incorrect, or illegible paper forms and documents