You send the contract. The client replies, "Looks good, let's go." And that is usually where it ends.
Nobody prints it. Nobody signs it. Nobody scans it back (it is not 2009). You both just start working, and the signed contract stays a thing you meant to sort out later. Most of the time that is fine. The one time it is not, when a client disputes the scope or goes quiet before the final invoice, you go digging for the agreement and find an email that says "looks good."
I have been on the wrong end of that more than once. The awkward part was never writing the contract. It was asking a grown adult to actually sign it without sounding like I did not trust them. So most of the time I did not ask. I just hoped.
We built the version that skips the awkwardness.
You can now send any contract for signature straight from LoomLance. Your client gets a link. They open it, read the terms, type their name, draw their signature, and tick a box saying they agree. That is the whole thing. No printer, no scanner, no "can you send this through a separate signing tool" as its own little chore.
The moment they sign, a few things happen quietly in the background. The contract flips to active. You get a notification. And both of you can download a signed certificate: the terms, the signature, the date, the signer's IP address, and a verification fingerprint of exactly what was agreed to. If anyone ever asks "wait, what did we actually sign," the answer is a file, not a memory.
A few honest notes on where it stands today. Right now your client signs and you are the sender, so it is built around the common freelance case where you write the agreement and they accept it. Mutual, both-sides signing is on the list. The signature is a typed name plus a drawn mark plus explicit consent, which is a valid electronic signature for the kind of work most of us do. It is not a replacement for a lawyer on the rare contract where that genuinely matters.
The point is not to turn you into a legal department. It is to make the responsible thing take ten seconds instead of a week of gentle reminders. You already do the hard part, which is the actual work. Getting it in writing should not be the step that quietly slips.
Send your next contract for signature instead of hoping. Your future self, the one digging for proof six months from now, will thank you.
P.S. A small milestone worth sharing: LoomLance has been trending on PeerPush this week. If you found your way here from there, welcome. Have a look around, and if the thing you need is missing, tell us. This whole product gets built from exactly that kind of feedback.