Customer story

How Auping signs a century of craftsmanship digitally

The Royal Dutch bed manufacturer brings every supplier, dealer and service contract into ValidSign — closing faster, keeping a full audit trail and sleeping soundly on the legal side.

Deventer, Netherlands
Manufacturing · Retail
400+ employees
Since 1888
"Every mattress leaves our factory with a story — and now every contract behind it has one too. With ValidSign our agreements move as quickly as our production line."
Jan Joost Bosman
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Jan Joost BosmanCEO, Koninklijke Auping
About Auping

Founded in 1888 in Deventer, Koninklijke Auping is the oldest bed manufacturer in the Netherlands and holds a Royal Warrant. The company designs and produces circular mattresses and adjustable beds, supplying specialist retailers, hotel groups and healthcare institutions across Europe. Auping's ambition is to make the entire collection fully circular — and that ambition extends to the paperwork behind the scenes.

Paper was slowing down a fast factory

Auping's supply chain spans hundreds of retailers, material suppliers and service partners. Contracts travelled by post, were printed twice, scanned, mislaid and chased. For a company that can produce a custom bed in days, waiting weeks for a countersignature simply did not fit.

ValidSign as the single signing layer

Auping rolled out ValidSign across sales, procurement, HR and service — with eIDAS-qualified signatures, identity verification through iDIN and direct integration with the existing ERP. Templates for dealer agreements, purchase orders and service contracts are reusable, brand-consistent and always legally sound.

Faster close, full audit trail, zero paper

-82%Contract turnaround time
100%Digital, eIDAS-qualified
30+Templates standardised
0Printed contracts

Where Auping signs with ValidSign

Dealer and distributor agreements
Supplier and raw material contracts
Hotel and hospitality framework deals
HR documents and onboarding
Service and maintenance contracts
NDAs and R&D collaborations

"ValidSign fits the way we work: precise, durable and made to last. Our contracts now carry the same quality as the beds we ship."

— Jan Joost Bosman, CEO Auping

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