What is Company Seal?

A company's official mark — historically embossed, now applied digitally — that signifies the organisation has formally executed a document.

A company seal (also called a corporate seal, common seal, or company chop) is the official emblem an organisation applies to contracts, certificates, and resolutions to show the document was executed in the company's name. While many jurisdictions no longer legally require a physical seal, a company seal remains expected business practice across Kenya, Nigeria, India, China, the UAE, and much of Asia and Africa. PDF Verified lets you create a digital company seal, apply it alongside the eSignature, and back each application with a serial number and public QR verification.

Is a company seal legally required?

In most common-law jurisdictions a contract is valid on signature alone, and the seal is evidentiary rather than mandatory. But in many markets a sealed contract signals authority and is expected by counterparties, banks, and registries. A digital company seal removes the friction of a physical stamp while preserving that signal.

Digital company seal vs physical chop

A physical chop can be lost, copied, or applied without authorisation and leaves no audit trail. A PDF Verified digital company seal is held in a controlled library, can be shared with specific teammates, records who applied it and when, and is independently verifiable at a public URL — so a recipient can confirm the seal is genuine and current, not revoked.

Creating a company seal online

In Settings → Stamps, choose the Company seal template, set your registered name and shape (circle/oval/rectangle), optionally turn on serialization for an auto-incrementing serial, and place it on any document like a signature field. Each use is logged on the document's audit certificate.