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Accelerate operations, reduce costs, and clear bureaucratic bottlenecks with digital signatures for freight contracts, owner-operator driver agreements, equipment loans, and liability terms. Documents with legal validity, signed from anywhere, at any time.

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The operation's everyday documents

From closing the freight deal to the equipment's return: what carriers and logistics operators send for signature most.

Freight contracts

Rates, deadlines and cargo liability in writing. Brazil's electronic freight document (CTe) covers the fiscal side; the commercial agreement is this contract.

Owner-operator driver agreements

Formalizes the bond with the driver who runs their own truck: freight table, routes and each side's obligations, signed before the first load.

Equipment loan (comodato) agreements

Tracker, cargo box, pallet truck: the loan agreement records what the company handed to the partner and who answers for the equipment while it is on the road.

Liability terms

Whoever receives the cargo, the vehicle or warehouse access signs taking on the charge. If something is damaged, the conversation starts from a document.

Partner carrier agreements

Part of the routes goes to a third-party fleet? Legs, rates and insurance are set in the agreement with the partner, instead of in an arrangement over the phone.

Equipment return terms

When the bond with the owner-operator ends, the term documents the return of the tracker and the cargo box, with the condition each item came back in.

Logistics service level agreements

Delivery deadlines, pickup windows and the indicators promised to the shipper become a formal commitment, with each signature's date and time on record.

Warehousing agreements

The rules for storing a client's goods live in a single contract: what comes in, how it moves, how long it stays and in what condition it leaves.

An owner-operator hired in the yard, without leaving the phone

From registration to the certificate of completion: how hiring an owner-operator driver happens inside Signater.

  1. The contract starts from the template

    The model with typed fields takes the driver's name, tax ID, plate and freight table on a single-screen form, and the owner-operator's contract is generated on the spot.

  2. The link arrives by SMS

    The invitation lands on the driver's phone, right there in the yard. The document opens straight in the browser, with no app to install.

  3. They validate their identity and sign

    Before signing, the driver types the 6-digit code received by SMS on the same number. If the contract calls for it, the selfie with liveness detection comes in as an extra validation.

  4. The certificate of completion records the where

    Once the envelope is complete, the certificate of completion consolidates date, time, IP and the geolocation of each action, with coordinates when the browser allows it. The truck can load.

Identity validated in the yard and on the road

Factors configured per signer, on the driver's own phone, with no registration and no app. Every recorded validation becomes evidence in the envelope's certificate of completion.

Code by SMS

The 6-digit code goes out as a text message, with routing across multiple providers and domestic and international coverage. For the driver, the SIM already in the phone is enough.

Geolocation

The signer's IP is resolved into city, region and country and, when the browser allows it, the coordinates come in too, with reverse geocoding. The certificate of completion records where the driver signed from.

Selfie with liveness detection

The browser's camera captures the selfie with active liveness detection, with gestures like blinking and smiling verified on the device itself. The image is attached to the certificate of completion as visual evidence of the act.

The nine available factors are on the Identity validation page.

See the features up close

What sustains this flow, feature by feature: each card leads to the full page, with how it works in detail.

Frequently asked questions

My driver has no email and no fancy smartphone. Can they sign?

Yes. The invitation arrives as a link by SMS or WhatsApp and the document opens in the phone's browser, with no app to install. With the confirmation code going by SMS to the same number, the whole flow happens without depending on email.

How do I prove where the driver signed from?

Through the geolocation recorded as evidence: the signer's IP is resolved into city, region and country and, when the browser allows it, the coordinates come in too, with reverse geocoding. Each action also carries date, time, IP and device in the audit trail, and everything is consolidated in the certificate of completion at the end of the envelope.

How does the loan of equipment that later needs to come back work?

The signed loan agreement records the handover: what was lent, to whom and under what conditions, with the full trail in the certificate of completion. The return is documented as a new document, the return term, signed by the same parties in a new envelope. Handover and return each get their own signed record, with date and time.

Is an electronically signed freight contract legally valid? And the CTe?

Electronic signature laws such as the U.S. ESIGN Act and the EU's eIDAS regulation recognize electronic signatures; in Brazil, private contracts can be signed electronically under MP 2,200-2/2001, and Signater produces an advanced electronic signature based on a digital certificate, in the PAdES standard. The CTe, Brazil's electronic freight document, is a fiscal document with its own issuing flow, outside Signater: on the platform, you sign the freight contract and the operation's other commercial terms.

Can I require more than one factor from the same driver?

Yes. The combination is configurable per signer, per envelope: you can require a code by SMS and a selfie with liveness detection from the same person on a higher-value equipment loan. Every recorded validation enters the audit trail and the certificate of completion.

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