Certifaction
E-signatures (SES, AES, QES) with local document processing and optional E2E encryption.
- Swiss CompanyThe operating company is headquartered and legally incorporated in Switzerland.
- Swiss DevelopedThe product is primarily developed by a team operating from Switzerland.
- Swiss Data OptionSwiss hosting is available as an option or for part of the service, but is not the default for everything.
certifaction.com
Overview
Certifaction is an electronic signature service for simple (SES), advanced (AES) and qualified electronic signatures (QES) and organisational seals. The company states that its signatures comply with the Swiss ZertES and EU eIDAS rules as well as the US ESIGN and UETA acts. Features include signing order, guest signatures without an account, bulk signing, PDF form filling, signing templates and team spaces, plus a “digital twin” that lets printed copies of signed documents be verified.
Its distinguishing approach, which it calls Zero Document Knowledge, is that documents are processed locally on the user’s device. When password protection is enabled in the web app, or when the API integration is used, documents are encrypted before upload so that Certifaction cannot read their content. Customers can choose document storage in Switzerland, the EU or on their own premises. Certifaction holds ISO 27001:2022 certification from TÜV SÜD.
Certifaction is also sold as a white-label product through partners, including HIN Sign for the Swiss healthcare sector, Switch Sign for Swiss universities and Deutsche Telekom Security’s Magenta Security Sign. Prices are available on request only.
Why it may be a Swiss alternative
Certifaction is operated by Certifaction AG, which is headquartered in Zürich. Swiss-headquartered company. Ownership is mixed or not fully verified, or development happens mainly abroad.
Swiss hosting is available for part of the service or as an option — check the hosting details below before relying on it.
May replace
Foreign products with overlapping functionality. An alternative is not necessarily a one-to-one replacement.
Swiss footprint
Five independent questions. A Swiss company is not automatically Swiss-hosted — and vice versa. How the footprint is assessed
Swiss company. Swiss-headquartered company. Ownership is mixed or not fully verified, or development happens mainly abroad.
- HeadquartersIs the operating company headquartered in Switzerland?
- Zürich, Zurich (ZH), SwitzerlandVerified[1]
- Legal jurisdiction
- OwnershipIs the company ultimately Swiss-owned?
- PartlyInferred[3]
Certifaction describes itself as owner-managed and backed by investors; the shareholder structure is not published. Its 2020 first round was led by the Swiss seed fund Wingman Ventures (now Founderful) with Seedcamp (London) and Angel Invest Ventures (Berlin); a 2022 seed round also lists HV Capital and Expa. Shareholders therefore include Swiss and foreign investors. No acquisition of Certifaction was found in reporting up to October 2026.
- DevelopmentIs the product developed in Switzerland?
- YesVendor claim[2]
Certifaction states that the solution is built in Switzerland with a local development and support team. The company also has a subsidiary in Munich.
- HostingIs customer data hosted in Switzerland?
- OptionalVendor claim[1]
Certifaction offers document storage in ISO 27001-certified data centres in Switzerland or the EU, or at the customer's premises. The default location and the data centre operators are not published. Its privacy policy states that personal data may be transferred to service providers in the EU/EEA and the USA.
- InfrastructureIs the hosting infrastructure operated by a Swiss-owned provider?
- Unknown / not verified
Features & platforms
- Platforms
- Deployment
- Made for
- Interface languages
Privacy & security
- End-to-end encryption
- Partly
- Encryption in transit
- Yes
- Multi-factor authentication
- Yes
- Public API
- Yes
- Not verified
- Encryption at rest, Single sign-on (SAML/OIDC), SCIM provisioning and Data export
- Certifications
Pricing
- Pricing model
- On request
- Free plan
- No
- Free trial
- Yes
- Enterprise plan
- Yes
- Billing in CHF
- Unknown / not verified
Prices checked 16 Oct 2026. Always confirm on the vendor’s site. Pricing page ↗
Open source
- Open source
- NoInferred
The signing platform is proprietary. Certifaction publishes some auxiliary components on GitHub, for example a verification tool and a PDF viewer under the MIT licence.
Company
Zurich-based provider of electronic signature software, founded in 2020, with a subsidiary in Munich, Germany.
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Sources & verification
Every claim on this page is marked as verified, vendor claim or inferred. Unknown means we could not confirm it — not that the answer is “no”.
- Verified Confirmed by an independent or official source such as the commercial register.
- Vendor claim Stated by the vendor in its own documentation, website or legal terms.
- Inferred Derived by the editors from indirect evidence — see the note.
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