Sign a consulting agreement electronically

Can a consulting agreement be signed electronically?

Yes. A consulting agreement is an ordinary contract with no form requirement, and the eIDAS regulation (910/2014) states in article 25.1 that an electronic signature may not be denied legal effect solely on the grounds that it is in electronic form.

Assignments often start before the paperwork does. The consultant is booked, the project is burning, and the contract can follow later. That works until someone leaves, the manager changes, or an invoice is questioned.

With a link, signing takes minutes instead of days, and the argument about which version applies never starts.

What should the consulting agreement settle before the work starts?

Scope, fee, payment terms, rights to the result and confidentiality. Those are the five points that otherwise turn into a dispute.

Write out what is included and what counts as additional work. State the fee per hour or per delivery, and who pays for travel and subcontractors.

Rights to what gets produced belong on paper, because the default position is rarely the one people assume. If the consultant will see source code, customer data or calculations, confidentiality belongs in an NDA signed first.

When does the consultant invoice fall due?

Between businesses, a claim for payment for goods or services falls due no later than thirty days after the creditor has demanded payment, under section 2 a of the Swedish Interest Act (1975:635). A longer payment term requires the creditor to expressly agree to it.

The rule exists so that small suppliers do not end up financing large buyers. For a one person consultancy the difference between 30 and 90 days is the whole cash position.

So write the payment term into the agreement, and sign the agreement before the first invoice goes out.

How do you send a consulting agreement for signing?

Upload the agreement, add the consultant and the client, place the signature fields and send. Both get a personal link and sign on any device.

1. Upload the agreement

   Framework agreement, statement of work or order, as a PDF.

2. Add the parties

   The consultant and whoever orders the assignment.

3. Place the fields

   Signature, date and fields for fee or start date if they are filled in at signing.

4. Send

   Personal links. The consultant needs no account.

5. Sealed

   The document is sealed when both have signed, with the event log and the fingerprint.

How large is the Swedish consulting market?

Production in consulting services for law, economics, science and technology was 4.9 percent higher in the first quarter of 2026 than a year earlier, and the same sector added 3,100 employees. Almega reported this in the service indicator published on 18 June 2026.

New company registrations point the same way. In the first quarter of 2026, 21,320 new companies were registered in Sweden, 15 percent more than a year earlier, and legal and financial consultancy was the second most common industry among them. The figure comes from Tillväxtanalys, the Swedish Agency for Growth Policy Analysis.

More consultants means more agreements between parties who never meet in person.

What does it cost to sign a consulting agreement electronically?

The first three contracts are free. After that Core is 90 EUR per year. Business costs 180 EUR per user per year.

Verification is free for both parties. See pricing or send your first consulting agreement.