Case Study: Pawnee Leasing Corporation achieves 24–48 hour faster funding and near‑elimination of signature errors with DocuSign

Pawnee Leasing gives the commercial equipment loans process a new lease on life

Pawnee Leasing, a national commercial equipment lessor handling transactions from $1,000 to $250,000 across industries, depended on paper-based contracts that arrived from brokers and customers in many formats. Manual review of scanned documents led to missing signatures, incorrect amounts and long back-and-forths that delayed funding—often turning a single transaction into a several-day or even week-long process and making contract tracking and operations inefficient.

In 2012 Pawnee implemented DocuSign eSignature and eOriginal’s eAsset Management platform to create enforceable digital originals, enforce completed fields, and add identity verification. The change nearly eliminated missing information, cut contract completion by 24–48 hours (reducing average funding from 3–5 days to 1–2 days), moved 55% of transactions to electronic completion, strengthened security and fraud protection, and improved broker and funder confidence as Pawnee moves toward a more paperless business.

Pawnee Leasing Corporation

Brian Schonfeld

Manager of Business Intelligence and Analytics