Your Petition. Your Data. Your Rules.

Create and sign online petitions in South Africa

Create a free online petition in South Africa in minutes. Unlike most platforms, you see all the information signatories provide, including emails. You decide what data is collected, how long it is stored, and whether your petition is public or private.

Start a Petition

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Keep supporters up to date

Publish announcements to keep signatories up to date on what has happened and what comes next. They are notified by email automatically.

Export signatures

Download all signatures in Excel, PDF or HTML.

Full control

See all information signatories provide, including email addresses and phone numbers if you choose to collect them.

Transparent consent choices

You define the purposes for collecting personal data. Signatories decide for each purpose individually whether they consent.

Public or private petitions

Choose if you want your petition to be listed publicly or kept out of petition lists, site search, and search engines.

Team collaboration

Grant others permission to manage your petition. Assign different levels of access to translators, moderators, and administrators.

Multilingual petitions

Translate your petition into multiple languages. Language versions are cross-linked automatically and share one signature list.

We provide 46 language versions and use 30 domain names for them. Some language versions share the petitions.com domain through language-specific subdomains. A domain name that matches the language version makes it easier to remember and promote the petition.

See all language versions.

Rich content editor

Add images, videos, links and formatted text. Make your petition stand out.

Online or on paper

Collect signatures digitally and on paper, then combine them in a single petition.

Embed on your website

Add the signature form to your own website with a simple embed code, no coding needed.

Custom petition URL

Choose a short, memorable web address for your petition — for example, Petitions.com/your-cause. Easy to share on flyers, posters, and in conversation.

Every petition gets its own automatically generated privacy policy based on your choices during petition creation. Alternatively, you can provide the URL of your own privacy policy.

Set retention periods

Decide how long personal data of the signatories is stored. Your choice is shown automatically in the petition's privacy policy, unless you provide the URL of your own privacy policy.

What we do differently

No blind one-click signing

We don't let people sign based on a headline alone. Signatories always see the petition and the author of it before submitting the signature. One of the largest petition platforms offers one-click signing, but we believe signers should know what they are signing and who created the petition.

We don't use your petition to grow our mailing list.

We only ask signatories for consents for purposes chosen by the petition creator.

Many of the biggest platforms bundle their own marketing consents into the signature form of the petitions they are hosting. You can't opt in to petition updates without also agreeing to their emails.

No automatic user accounts

Some petition platforms automatically create user accounts for signatories. Petitions.com lets people sign petitions without automatically creating an account for them.

Language-specific domains

For the most popular languages on our service, we use language-specific domain names instead of putting every language version under one brand domain. A domain name that matches the language version makes the petition easier to remember and promote.