# FP Sign — E-Signature

FP Sign by FP Digital Business Solutions GmbH holds a panel rating of 2.5/5 from 6 AI judges (category median 2.5/5), as of 2026-10-15. Provenance: EU-Made; sovereignty: not determined.

- Vendor: FP Digital Business Solutions GmbH (https://www.fp-sign.com)
- Category: [E-Signature](https://whats-best.ai/software/e-signature.md)
- Provenance (editorial classification): EU-Made
- Canonical page: https://whats-best.ai/software/e-signature/fp-sign
- Alternatives: https://whats-best.ai/software/e-signature/fp-sign/alternatives ([markdown](https://whats-best.ai/software/e-signature/fp-sign/alternatives.md))
- Data as of: 2026-10-20 · evaluated 2026-10-15 · oldest source captured 2026-10-13

**AI-generated.** Every score, rationale and verdict here is written by a panel of AI judges from public evidence — an analysis, not a hands-on test. Every fact quotes the vendor page it was read from. No score can be bought. How scores are made: https://whats-best.ai/methodology

## At a glance

- Vendor: FP Digital Business Solutions GmbH
- Headquarters: Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 13 Oct 2026
- Data hosting: Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 13 Oct 2026
- Free plan: Yes, per the vendor’s own page [S2]

## The panel's verdict

FP Sign, from FP Digital Business Solutions GmbH of the listed Francotyp-Postalia group, covers the three eIDAS levels EES, FES and QES, with qualified infrastructure and identification through the trust service providers D-Trust and Swisscom, identification stated to happen once, and QES tied to German written-form documents such as fixed-term employment contracts. Scores peak at 5 to 6 on signature levels, identity verification and signing workflow, backed by a drag-and-drop editor, recipients signing without an account, mobile signing and a workflow report showing who signed when. It is weakest on pricing transparency, at 2: we found no public information on plan prices, document limits, the per-signature cost of a qualified signature or add-on prices, and a proof of concept at 'ab 5.000€' is the only euro figure shown. Sovereignty scores cluster at 3 — we found no public information on where documents, audit trails and identification data are stored — evidence and retention sits at 4 and integration and API at 3 to 4, and the judges' scores show no genuine split on any criterion.

**Speaks for it:**
- All three eIDAS levels — EES, FES and QES — are labelled in the product and configurable per document and recipient.
- Qualified signatures and identification run through the named trust service providers D-Trust and Swisscom.
- Identification for the qualified level is performed once and carried over to later signatures.
- Recipients sign without an account from browser or mobile app, with a workflow report showing who signed when.
- Countersigners of a signature request incur no cost.

**Held against it:**
- We found no public information on plan prices, envelope or document limits, the per-signature cost of a qualified signature, identification fees or add-on prices.
- We found no public information on where documents, audit trails and identification data are stored and processed, or on a subprocessor list with locations.
- We found no public information on what the audit trail records — such as IP address and authentication method — on the timestamp provider, or on long-term validation and validation reports.
- API documentation is reachable only by submitting a contact form stating intended use cases, and API access is an add-on.
- Automated reminders and deadlines sit among the paid add-ons rather than the base product.

**Best for:**
- You send German documents with statutory written-form requirements, such as fixed-term employment contracts, that need the qualified level.
- Your recipients sign only occasionally and should not have to create accounts.
- You run HR, finance or legal workflows with signing order and approvals configured in one drag-and-drop editor.
- Your signers return for repeated qualified signatures, with identification performed once and carried over.

**Avoid if:**
- You need to compute the cost of your signing volume from public pages — the pricing page prices only a proof of concept at 'ab 5.000€'.
- Your procurement must document data residency and subprocessors before purchase — we found no public information on where documents, audit trails and identification data are stored and processed.
- Your developers must evaluate API documentation, a sandbox and rate limits before committing — the documentation sits behind a contact form and API access is an add-on.
- Your contracts may be disputed years later and need documented long-term validation and validation reports for the signed evidence.

## Scores by judge and criterion

Scores out of 5, each judge scoring independently against the published rubric (v1). "n/r" = not rated: the vendor publishes no price.

| Criterion | The Legal Counsel | The HR Operations Lead | The Revenue Operations Lead | The Integration Engineer | The Data Protection Officer | The Skeptic |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| eIDAS levels & trust services | 3/5 | 2.5/5 | 2.5/5 | 3/5 | 2.5/5 | 3/5 |
| Signer identification | 3/5 | 3/5 | 3/5 | 2.5/5 | 3/5 | 3/5 |
| Signing workflow & signer experience | 3/5 | 3/5 | 3/5 | 3/5 | 3/5 | 2.5/5 |
| Evidence, validation & retention | 2/5 | 2/5 | 2/5 | 2/5 | 2/5 | 2/5 |
| Integrations & API | 1.5/5 | 2/5 | 2/5 | 2/5 | 1.5/5 | 2/5 |
| European sovereignty | 1.5/5 | 1.5/5 | 1.5/5 | 1.5/5 | 1.5/5 | 1.5/5 |
| Pricing transparency | 1/5 | 1/5 | 1/5 | 1/5 | 1/5 | 1/5 |
| **Weighted verdict** | **2.5/5** | **2.5/5** | **2.5/5** | **2.5/5** | **2/5** | **2/5** |

### The judges

- **The Legal Counsel** (v1.0): Decides which contracts may be signed electronically and at which level. Wants SES, AdES and QES named per plan and country, the qualified trust service provider linked to the EU Trust List, and an audit trail with timestamps that still validates when the contract is disputed in eight years.
- **The HR Operations Lead** (v1.0): Sends two hundred employment contracts a year, many of them fixed-term and so under written form. Wants QES that a new hire can complete on a phone in ten minutes, identification that accepts the IDs applicants actually hold, bulk sending from templates, and a price per qualified signature known before the contract is signed.
- **The Revenue Operations Lead** (v1.0): Measures how long a quote takes to come back signed and where it stalls. Wants signing from inside the CRM, templates sales cannot break, reminders and signing order that run themselves, and a signer experience that needs no account, no app and no explanation.
- **The Integration Engineer** (v1.0): Embeds signing into the company's own portal and archives the result in the DMS. Wants a versioned API with webhooks and a sandbox, every signature level reachable through the API rather than only in the web app, and signed documents exported with their evidence intact.
- **The Data Protection Officer** (v1.0): Knows every signer who holds an ID card up to a camera hands biometric and identity data to a provider they never chose. Asks who performs the identification, where documents and ID data are stored, how long the audit trail keeps IP addresses, and who the subprocessors in the trust service chain are.
- **The Skeptic** (v1.0): Knows "legally binding" usually means a simple signature. Reads for the level the default plan actually signs at, the QTSP the provider does not operate itself, the per-QES and ident fees on top of the plan, the envelope limit, and "eIDAS-compliant" from a provider that names no trust service at all.

## European sovereignty — proven facts

Built only from facts on the vendor's own pages; a dimension we could not prove is left open, never scored as zero. Headline: not determined.

| Dimension | Finding | Points | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Legal entity | Not determined | — | — |
| Ownership | Not determined | — | — |
| Data residency | Not determined | — | — |
| Subprocessors | Not determined | — | — |

## Key facts

Each fact is the vendor's own statement, cited to the source page it was read from ([S*n*] → Sources).

**Compliance**
- Audit trails: signature logs, timestamps, audit-proof audit trails, automated reports [S1]
- Audit trails: yes · yes · yes · yes [S7]
- Certifications: ISO 27001 · BSI C5 [S1]
- Certifications: ISO 27001 · BSI C5 [S6]
- Data residency: yes · yes · Germany [S1]
- Data residency: Germany · yes [S7]
- Data sovereignty: Germany · yes · yes [S6]
- Eidas: eIDAS-compliant electronic signatures [S2]
- Eidas and german hosting: yes · yes [S6]
- ISO 27001: ISO 27001 · BSI C5 [S7]
- No AI third countries: no · no [S1]
- Research allowance: received German federal Forschungszulage [S1]
- Ssl tls encryption: yes [S3]

**Data**
- Affected person categories: Kundendaten · Kommunikationspartner · Lieferantendaten · Personaldaten [S3]
- Data recipients: Francotyp-Postalia Holding und Tochterunternehmen · Kreditinstitute · Versicherungen, Kreditschutzvereine [S3]
- Data subject rights: Auskunft · Berichtigung · Löschung · Einschränkung der Verarbeitung · Datenübertragbarkeit · Widerspruch [S3]
- Deletion after contract end: gelöscht nach Kündigung [S3]
- Geolocation: no [S5]
- Minor protection: 18 [S3]
- No auto deletion after trial: no [S5]
- Retention period general: 10 [S3]
- Server log retention days: 7 [S3]

**Integrations**
- API: API available as add-on [S2]
- API docs access: API documentation access requires submitting a contact form; vendor responds to you [S8]
- API required without browser: yes · yes [S5]
- API use case inquiry: Prospective API users must state which use cases they want to implement with the API [S8]
- De mail: info(at)mentana.de-mail.de · yes [S4]
- Developer center: Integrations and Developer Center pages exist [S7]
- Named: MS Dynamics 365 Business Central · ELO ECM Suite · DATEV [S1]
- Offerings: yes · yes [S8]
- Rest API: CRM · ERP · HR · DMS · yes [S1]

**Legal**
- Address: Berlin · Barbara-McClintock-Str. 11 · Germany · 12489 [S4]
- Arbitration: no [S5]
- Company history: digital signatures · >25 [S9]
- Company name: FP Digital Business Solutions GmbH [S9]
- Content responsible: Sonya Kapoor · Stephan Vanberg · Jonas Zweyrohn [S4]
- Entity: FP Digital Business Solutions GmbH [S1]
- Entity: FP Digital Business Solutions GmbH [S2]
- Entity: FP Digital Business Solutions GmbH [S6]
- Entity: FP Digital Business Solutions GmbH [S7]
- Entity: FP Digital Business Solutions GmbH [S8]
- Entity name: FP Digital Business Solutions GmbH [S4]
- Governing law: UN-Kaufrecht (CISG) · Bundesrepublik Deutschland [S5]
- Group: Ein Unternehmen der FP-Gruppe [S4]
- Imprint: Data protection · Imprint · GTC · Report Software Vulnerability · yes [S9]
- Privacy policy version: 1.0.0.1 · 2018-10-30 [S3]
- Provider: FP Digital Business Solutions GmbH [S5]
- Register court: Amtsgericht Charlottenburg · HRB 274895 [S4]
- Revocation period: Textform (De-Mail, Brief, E-Mail, Fax) · 14 [S4]
- Supervisory authority: Bonn · Bundesnetzagentur · § 2 Abs. 1 VDG, Art. 17 eIDAS-VO [S4]
- VAT id: DE 247 883 577 [S4]
- Warranty period consumer: 24 [S5]
- Withdrawal period: 14 [S5]

**Pricing**
- Business: 24.9 · yes [S2]
- Contract term: 12 [S5]
- Contract terms: 30 Tage, erlischt automatisch · 12 · 12 [S2]
- Enterprise light: 20 · 242 [S2]
- Enterprise premium: individual · 50000 [S2]
- Enterprise starter: 50 · 6900 · 5000 [S2]
- Free: 1 · 30 · 0 [S2]
- Free trial: 0 · jederzeit ohne Frist · 30 [S5]
- Free trial: yes [S7]
- Invoice payment deadline: 2 [S5]
- ISMS support hourly: 180 [S2]
- Paper invoice fee: yes · yes [S5]
- Payment terms: Lastschrift · yes [S5]
- Price adjustment: yes [S5]
- Qes extra cost: 1.5 [S2]
- Qes pay per use: QES billed only when used; Abrechnung pro QES [S6]
- Renewal: 12 [S5]
- Termination notice: 4 [S5]
- Trial: 30 · yes · no [S1]
- VAT: no [S2]
- VAT treatment: Geschäftskunden · yes [S5]

**Product**
- API request form: custom API access requested via contact form [S9]
- Audit trails: signature logs, timestamps, revision-safe audit trails via automated reports [S6]
- Autodeletion: Automatic deletion function as add-on [S2]
- Automated deadlines: Automated deadlines [S2]
- Autoreminders: Automated reminders as add-on [S2]
- Bundles: Bundle options available per use case [S7]
- Company count: 3500 [S7]
- Comparisons: Docusign · Adobe Sign · Skribble · Yousign · Sproof · Dropbox Sign · PandaDoc · eversign · Flixcheck [S1]
- Competitor positioning: Docusign · Adobe Sign · Skribble · Yousign · Sproof · Dropbox Sign · PandaDoc · eversign · Flixcheck [S3]
- Countersigner free: no [S5]
- Customer count: 3500 [S1]
- Customer count: 3500 [S6]
- Delivery channels: yes · yes · yes [S5]
- Developer center: yes [S8]
- Document formats: PDF, Word, HTML, RTF, TXT, images, presentations, spreadsheets [S1]
- Documentmap: Document folder feature [S2]
- Drag and drop editor: drag-and-drop editor to configure workflows, recipients and signature levels [S6]
- Drag drop: Drag & drop recipient and order configuration [S2]
- Drag drop editor: Drag-and-drop editor for placing signature fields and configuring multi-step workflows [S7]
- Eidas signature: eIDAS-compliant digital signatures, legally valid [S7]
- Free trial available: FAQ asks whether FP Sign can be tested free of charge; free trial CTA 'Kostenlos testen' in navigation [S6]
- HR use case: QES required e.g. for fixed-term employment contracts; HR use case covers contracts, amendments, terminations [S7]
- Ident methods: elektronischer Personalausweis (nPA) · Video-Ident [S6]
- Identification methods: Post Ident · Video Ident · amtlicher Lichtbildausweis · elektronischer Identitätsnachweis §18 PAuswG · qualifizierte elektronische Signatur [S5]
- Identification providers: D-Trust · Swisscom [S6]
- Industries: Finanzwesen · Gesundheitswesen · Steuerberatung · Immobilienwirtschaft · Personaldienstleistung · Logistik [S1]
- Mailserver: Mailserver integration; 5 domains included in Enterprise Premium [S2]
- Mobile: Browser and app usage [S2]
- No account recipients: yes [S2]
- Processing purpose: vertrauenswürdige und rechtsverbindliche elektronische Kommunikation für ein digitales Transaktionsmanagement [S3]
- Qes fes: FES and QES signatures supported [S2]
- Qes highest eidas level: QES is the highest eIDAS signature level [S6]
- Qes identification: QES identification performed once via supported identity verification methods [S7]
- Qes replaces handwritten: QES replaces handwritten signature for documents requiring written form [S7]
- Qes replaces written form: QES replaces the legally required written form for digital documents [S6]
- Qualified signature capability: yes [S4]
- Signature levels: Fortgeschrittene elektronische Signatur · Qualifizierte elektronische Signatur · eIDAS-konforme elektronische Signatur [S3]
- Signature levels: Fortgeschrittene elektronische Signatur · Qualifizierte elektronische Signatur · eIDAS-konforme elektronische Signatur · yes [S4]
- Signature levels: EES · FES · QES [S7]
- Signature types: yes · yes [S5]
- Signature types: yes · yes · yes [S8]
- Signing products: AutoSigner · OfficeSigner [S4]
- SSO: SSO available as add-on [S2]
- Target departments: HR & Personalabteilung · Finanzwesen · Rechtsabteilung & Compliance [S6]
- Trial no auto conversion: no [S5]
- Tsp partnership: QES infrastructure · identity verification (Video-Ident, elektronischer Personalausweis) · D-Trust · Swisscom [S6]
- Web and mobile app: Web app and mobile app [S2]
- Web app availability: yes · yes · no [S7]
- Webapp: Web-App offered as product [S1]
- Whitelabeling: Whitelabeling available [S2]
- Workflow features: Workflow supports recipients, ordering, approvals and signature levels [S7]
- Workflow report: yes [S5]

**Support**
- Admin training: 2h (max 2) · 2h (max 5) · 2h (max 2) [S2]
- Complaint channels: beschwerdemanagement(at)fp-dbs.com · beschwerdemanagement(at)mentana.de-mail.de [S4]
- Consulting: Process Consulting available as add-on [S2]
- Faq topics: FAQ covering Nutzung, Funktionen, Identifizierung & QES, Registrierung & Lizenzierung, Add-Ons like FP Sign SECUREMAIL comcrypto, SMS TAN, 2FA [S1]
- Golive hypercare: 3 [S2]
- Onboarding: 2 · yes [S2]
- Poc: PoC before introduction; ab 5.000€ (kann bis zu 100% verrechnet werden) [S2]
- Pre purchase consulting: Process-oriented pre-purchase consulting from 5 licenses [S2]

## Questions

### Is FP Sign European?

Yes. whats-best.ai classifies FP Sign as EU-Made.

### Where does FP Sign store data?

Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 13 Oct 2026.

### Does FP Sign have a free plan?

Yes. FP Sign has a free plan, per [the vendor’s page captured 13 Oct 2026](https://whats-best.ai/evidence/6613).

### What are the best alternatives to FP Sign?

As of 15 Oct 2026, the panel rates [Penneo (2.5/5)](https://whats-best.ai/software/e-signature/penneo), [Youtrust (Yousign) (2.5/5)](https://whats-best.ai/software/e-signature/youtrust) and [MOXIS (2.5/5)](https://whats-best.ai/software/e-signature/moxis) highest among the other 14 E-Signature products evaluated. Ratings that look equal are rounded to half stars; the order uses the unrounded rating, then the name. The highest-rated European alternative is [Penneo](https://whats-best.ai/software/e-signature/penneo) (EU-Made). Ratings are the AI panel’s opinion, formed from public evidence: [how scores are made](https://whats-best.ai/methodology#ordering). The full list, with European products first: [FP Sign alternatives](https://whats-best.ai/software/e-signature/fp-sign/alternatives).

## What this page leaves out

- 12 subprocessors facts could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and were left out of this page and of the panel’s material.
- 10 product facts could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and were left out of this page and of the panel’s material.
- 6 legal facts could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and were left out of this page and of the panel’s material.
- 3 data facts could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and were left out of this page and of the panel’s material.
- 2 pricing facts could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and were left out of this page and of the panel’s material.
- 1 compliance fact could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and was left out of this page and of the panel’s material.
- 1 support fact could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and was left out of this page and of the panel’s material.
- 3 sovereignty dimensions could not be confirmed on the vendor’s own pages and are shown as unknown.
- 6 of the readings below were written against an earlier fact sheet — a fact has been corrected, added or pulled since. Until the panel next runs on this product you are reading the older judgement.

## Sources

- [S1] Vendor homepage: https://www.fp-sign.com/de/ (checked 2026-10-13)
- [S2] Pricing page: https://www.fp-sign.com/de/preise/ (checked 2026-10-13)
- [S3] Privacy policy: https://www.fp-sign.com/de/datenschutzerklaerung (checked 2026-10-13)
- [S4] Legal notice: https://www.fp-sign.com/de/impressum (checked 2026-10-13)
- [S5] Terms of service: https://www.fp-sign.com/de/agb (checked 2026-10-13)
- [S6] EIDAS levels & trust services — found from sitemap: https://www.fp-sign.com/loesung/qualifizierte-elektronische-signatur-software (checked 2026-10-13)
- [S7] EIDAS levels & trust services — found from sitemap: https://www.fp-sign.com/de/produkt/eidas-konforme-software-digitale-signatur (checked 2026-10-13)
- [S8] Integrations & API — found from sitemap: https://www.fp-sign.com/de/loesung/api (checked 2026-10-13)
- [S9] Integrations & API — found from sitemap: https://www.fp-sign.com/en/de/signaturloesung/api-dokumentation-0 (checked 2026-10-13)

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