There's a lot of talk in the real estate industry right now about "going digital" and "embracing paperless workflows." For most platforms, that conversation is relatively recent — a response to the pandemic, changing client expectations, or competitive pressure. For Digital RE and Close IT Plus, it's simply how things have always been done.
These platforms have been operating as fully paperless closing solutions since the mid-1990s — long before cloud storage, smartphones, or e-signature legislation existed. That's not a marketing claim. It's three decades of refinement, real-world use, and deep institutional knowledge built into every feature.
What It Means to Have Been Paperless Since the Mid-90s
In the mid-1990s, the real estate closing industry was almost entirely paper-based. Documents were typed or printed, signed by hand, filed in physical folders, and stored in cabinets. Fax machines were cutting-edge technology. The concept of managing an entire closing transaction digitally — contacts, documents, fees, correspondence, and records — was essentially unheard of.
Digital RE and Close IT Plus were built during that era with a singular vision: that every piece of information related to a closing transaction should live in one place, be instantly accessible, and never require a printer to manage. That vision has driven every update, every feature, and every workflow decision in the thirty-plus years since.
The Benefits of a Truly Paperless Closing Platform
Everything in one place. Digital RE and Close IT Plus centralize all transaction data — buyer and seller information, lender details, legal descriptions, fee schedules, correspondence, and documents — in a single, organized deal file. Nothing gets lost in a stack of paper. Nothing needs to be re-entered between systems.
Instant retrieval. Need to pull up a closing file from three years ago? With a paper-based system, that means a trip to the filing room. With Digital RE or Close IT Plus, it's a search query. Every transaction is indexed and retrievable in seconds, regardless of how long ago it was completed.
Fewer errors. Paper-based workflows introduce errors at every handoff — transcription mistakes, illegible handwriting, misfiled documents. A digital platform eliminates these failure points. Data entered once flows through every document that references it, consistently and accurately.
Faster closings. When all transaction data is already in the system, preparing closing documents takes a fraction of the time. Fee calculations are automated, form fields are pre-populated, and documents are generated at the click of a button rather than assembled by hand.
Remote accessibility. A paper file can only be in one place at a time. A digital file is accessible to every authorized team member simultaneously, from any location. For closing offices with multiple staff members or remote workers, this is transformative.
Regulatory compliance and audit readiness. Maintaining accurate, complete records is a legal requirement in real estate. Digital RE and Close IT Plus create an automatic, timestamped record of every transaction — making audits, disputes, and regulatory inquiries far easier to navigate than a physical filing system ever could.
Where REMMIS eSign Completes the Picture
For three decades, Digital RE and Close IT Plus have managed every aspect of the closing transaction digitally — except the final step: getting documents signed. That typically meant printing, signing by hand, and scanning back into the system, breaking the paperless workflow right at the finish line.
REMMIS eSign closes that gap. Built as a native companion to Digital RE and Close IT Plus, REMMIS eSign pulls documents, contacts, and signature fields directly from the active deal file at the click of a button. Clients receive a professional signing link by email and can execute documents from any device — no printing, no scanning, no interruption to the digital workflow.
The result is a truly end-to-end paperless closing process: from deal intake to executed documents, everything stays digital, traceable, and stored.
Thirty Years of Experience You Can Feel
When you use a platform that has been refined through three decades of real-world closing transactions, the difference is tangible. The workflows make sense. The edge cases are handled. The terminology is correct. Digital RE and Close IT Plus weren't designed by software engineers guessing at how real estate closings work — they were built by people who understood the process from the inside.
That experience, combined with the modern e-signature capability of REMMIS eSign, creates a closing workflow that is faster, more accurate, and more professional than anything available from general-purpose platforms that entered the real estate space recently.
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