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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Adobe Acrobat Sign

    Score8.2 out of 10
    Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
    Acrobat Sign is an e-signature solution that combines simple and secure e-signatures with Adobe Acrobat. With Acrobat Sign, the user can create, sign, send for signature, manage, and track documents from one Adobe platform. The user can create signing experiences for customers and teams by enabling them to sign documents on any device or browser – anytime, anywhere. No additional software download or accounts are needed. As Microsoft’s e-signature solution, Acrobat Sign…

    $14.99

    per month license

    Basecamp

    Score8.6 out of 10
    N/ABasecamp is a web-based project-management tool. Basecamp offers features standard to project management platforms, as well as mobile accessibility, unlimited users, and 3rd party integrations. Basecamp is priced by space requirements and concurrent projects.

    $15

    per month per user

    ONCE Campfire

    Score6 out of 10
    N/ACampfire is a group chat and team collaboration tool, that allows users to create a shared space where members can collaborate by group texting. Features similar to Campfire are included in Basecamp. Both are products by 37signals.

    $299

    one-time fee

    Pricing
    Adobe Acrobat SignBasecampONCE Campfire
    Editions & Modules
    Acrobat Standard DC for teams
    $14.99
    per month license
    Acrobat Pro DC with advanced e-sign
    $16.99
    per month license
    Acrobat Sign Solutions
    Call 800-685-4192 for pricing
    Basecamp Plus
    $15
    per month per user
    Basecamp Pro Unlimited
    $299
    per month (billed annually)
    Basecamp Free
    Free
    Limited Capabilities
    Pro
    $49.00
    per month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Adobe Acrobat SignBasecampONCE Campfire
    Free Trial
    YesYesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYesYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNoNo
    Entry-level Setup Fee$34.99 license per monthNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Adobe Acrobat SignBasecampONCE Campfire
    Considered Multiple Products
    Adobe
    Chose Adobe Acrobat Sign
    eSign was the first program I tried, and we've been happy with it for 3 years. I find it easy to use and very cost effective.
    Incentivized
    37signals
    Chose Basecamp
    Basecamp links all of the functionalities of a messenger feature (thanks to Pings) with task delegating and managing the project. Marketer's life became much easier with Basecamp.
    Incentivized
    Chose Basecamp
    Samepage and Slack are just a few steps ahead with its messenger and communication platforms and is leagues behind when it comes to integration with other systems. However, most systems can be redundant when attempting to accomplish something that caters to a non-technical …
    Incentivized
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    93%
    Would buy again
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    89%
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    Delivers good value for the price
    93%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
    92%
    Happy with the feature set
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    86%
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    93%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    92%
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    Implementation went as expected
    95%
    Implementation went as expected
    133 Answers
    95%
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    Features
    Adobe Acrobat SignBasecampONCE Campfire
    Project Management
    Comparison of Project Management features of Adobe Acrobat Sign and Basecamp and ONCE Campfire
    Feature
    Adobe Acrobat Sign
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    Ratings
    Basecamp
    8.9
    124 Ratings
    15% above category average
    ONCE Campfire
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    Ratings
    Task Management00 Ratings9.1123 Ratings00 Ratings
    Resource Management00 Ratings9.3103 Ratings00 Ratings
    Gantt Charts00 Ratings7.243 Ratings00 Ratings
    Scheduling00 Ratings8.899 Ratings00 Ratings
    Workflow Automation00 Ratings9.372 Ratings00 Ratings
    Team Collaboration00 Ratings9.6123 Ratings00 Ratings
    Support for Agile Methodology00 Ratings9.751 Ratings00 Ratings
    Support for Waterfall Methodology00 Ratings8.748 Ratings00 Ratings
    Document Management00 Ratings9.6115 Ratings00 Ratings
    Email integration00 Ratings8.2101 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile Access00 Ratings8.6100 Ratings00 Ratings
    Timesheet Tracking00 Ratings9.148 Ratings00 Ratings
    Change request and Case Management00 Ratings9.558 Ratings00 Ratings
    Budget and Expense Management00 Ratings8.442 Ratings00 Ratings
    Professional Services Automation
    Comparison of Professional Services Automation features of Adobe Acrobat Sign and Basecamp and ONCE Campfire
    Feature
    Adobe Acrobat Sign
    -
    Ratings
    Basecamp
    8.0
    42 Ratings
    4% above category average
    ONCE Campfire
    -
    Ratings
    Quotes/estimates00 Ratings10.030 Ratings00 Ratings
    Invoicing00 Ratings10.026 Ratings00 Ratings
    Project & financial reporting00 Ratings8.034 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integration with accounting software00 Ratings4.028 Ratings00 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    Adobe Acrobat SignBasecampONCE Campfire
    Small Businesses
    BoldSign, by Syncfusion
    Score10 out of 10
    Any.do
    Score8 out of 10
    Flock
    Score9.5 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    OneSpan Sign
    Score9.6 out of 10
    KanbanFlow
    Score7.3 out of 10
    Troop Messenger
    Score9.8 out of 10
    Enterprises
    DocuSign
    Score8.7 out of 10
    Microsoft To Do
    Score7.9 out of 10
    Cisco Business Edition 7000 (discontinued)
    Score9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Adobe Acrobat SignBasecampONCE Campfire
    Likelihood to Recommend
    2.9
    (228 ratings)
    9.9
    (150 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.0
    (30 ratings)
    10.0
    (26 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    1.8
    (194 ratings)
    9.3
    (20 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Availability
    9.0
    (5 ratings)
    10.0
    (5 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    9.0
    (4 ratings)
    7.3
    (4 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.3
    (164 ratings)
    8.8
    (28 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Online Training
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    8.0
    (7 ratings)
    7.7
    (4 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Configurability
    9.0
    (3 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    5.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
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    -
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    Product Scalability
    8.0
    (3 ratings)
    -
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    -
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    Vendor post-sale
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
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    Vendor pre-sale
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
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    User Testimonials
    Adobe Acrobat SignBasecampONCE Campfire
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Adobe
    Acrobat Sign isn't quite as user friendly as other E-Sign platforms I have used. However, it offers a wide range of features that provide convenience and efficiency. For example, I can have multiple people receive the same document separately, or I can have multiple people receive and review the exact same document. I also like that I can choose to set a signing order or not, this is important for when I send Offer Letters and other things that require order of approvals.
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    37signals
    Basecamp is a wonderful tool for teams of varying degrees of technical knowledge, teams managing lots of different types of "agifall" and waterfall projects, and teams that are remotely distributed. It's probably less useful for more strictly agile-focused development teams, compared to other more flexible software applications like Jira and Asana.
    Incentivized
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    Pros
    Adobe
    • Adobe Acrobat Sign tracks whether or not a signer has viewed a document
    • Adobe Acrobat Sign tracks when a signer has signed, and the document has been sent to the next signer
    • Adobe Acrobat Sign sends you confirmation emails and progress update emails along the way
    • Adobe Acrobat Sign provides a "confirmation of signing" page at the end of the document package you put together, to prove the signatures are authentic
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    • Task management - It is very easy to add, organize and discuss tasks within Basecamp's interface.
    • The "Campfire" function is great for communicating when you just have a quick question for someone on the team.
    • Notifications - Basecamp lets you decide how often and about what you'd like to be notified. The ability to respond to messages in Basecamp directly via email saves a lot of time.
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    Cons
    Adobe
    • Builds on Adobe platform so it is easy to utilize, but many features require enterprise subscription.
    • Integrations available but your CRM integration is only available with enterprise license.
    • Lots of templates but there are additional templates with enterprise only and there was no drag and drop editor.
    • Adobe captures some analytical metrics but many of the analytics we required were not available - specifically metrics related to how the tool converts and reduces use time by our team and the impact on clients.
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    37signals
    • High Learning Curve. It's true that it can be easy to use, but to use well and effectively takes some time to learn. It's recommended to have an agreed-upon system in your team of what tools to use and when.
    • Notification Overload. If people aren't careful they could send a notification to everyone when only a couple people were meant to be prompted. And since emails are sent by default, you could have your mailbox overloaded with unnecessary updates. This is where it takes a bit of training in your team to have an agreed-upon system.
    • Lack of organization with Archived Projects. I will often need to reference an archived project to make a new one, but there is only a list of archived projects in alphabetical order, with no way to organize by archive date, or even search.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Adobe
    It is by far the easiest service we have used to obtain digital signatures from employees. In the past we had done it by hand (a process I would not recommend for 1500+ employees) and with another company that would not allow us to create our own forms and would charge us for each form.
    Incentivized
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    37signals
    When I bring new people onto a project, it's immediately obvious how to use Basecamp. I don't have to worry about teaching them the features or walking them through it, it's just incredibly user-friendly. For this reason, I'll continue to renew my subscription even as new people are brought onto production jobs or the client changes.
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    Usability
    Adobe
    I've had very little trouble with it in all my uses with it. I do wish the text boxes you add wouldn't cut off the text if you entered too many words and that it would adjust it's size to fit within the space you've provided. However, that just takes a little refining in the initial set up of the document before you send it out.
    Incentivized
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    37signals
    It is easy to use, even for clients who have no experience with the platform. It can only get a little cumbersome to ensure that a client can't see certain documents you might want to keep in the Docs & Files folders. And sometimes, getting a client to actually use an unfamiliar platform can be a challenge.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Adobe
    I would have rated this a 9 or greater had they not had had such critical outages. They have taken steps to resolve this so I may come in and revise this
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    37signals
    I've never experienced downtime while using Basecamp, or been unable to access it when I needed it. That's not to say they've never had downtime, but I've been lucky enough not to encounter any, and I work odd hours, including late nights when maintenance is often undertaken.
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    Performance
    Adobe
    The Adobe Acrobat Sign's performance are excellent.
    When we send electronic document by email for signature all the customers receive it regularly, nobody has any issue to open it and the signature phase was very easy. The user-friendly aspect of this product reduce or reset the call for IT support
    Incentivized
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    Support Rating
    Adobe
    It is a great tool to get signatures from the client and has reduced a lot of overhead that was caused before resulting in very long delays. With the integration of Adobe Acrobat Sign, we have reduced this delay making the process much smoother and more efficient.
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    37signals
    For the many reasons I've given, Basecamp is a very strong program. There are a few features I can imagine that might make it even better, but I don't have a basis for comparison to be able to say that there is definitely a better one out there. I've noticed that Basecamp has evolved a bit from the time I started using it until now, so that makes me think that the producer of this program values it and believes in continuous improvement. If you could use the features offered by Basecamp, I would think you could use it with confidence.
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    Online Training
    Adobe
    The best types of training are well integrated into the product and Echosign does this well. As mentioned earlier in my review - there are some areas of functionality that can be difficult to understand ("only I sign") for the novice user. Other areas such as macro usage, bulk signature and so on were easily learned and understood via the online tools.
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    Implementation Rating
    Adobe
    We did not use it in the manner that most companies do, so I am pleased with how our company handled implementation. We will be pushing the full company over into Echosign for various processes which will incorporate more of an implementation effect.
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    37signals
    Decide the process before implementation - i.e. when it's due 8/9 does that mean 8am, noon, 5pm, 11:59pm? Check your to-do list frequently Set-up templates - just not with the dates (they can be funky)
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    Alternatives Considered
    Adobe
    They are just different. Adobe's number one feature that puts it above it's competitors is that your document, the signing process, all of it exists within Adobe. There is no need to go from Word, to Adobe, to DocuSign. It saves you time and makes life easy for you (and for your clients).
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    37signals
    Pretty good, but [Basecamp] has its drawbacks. Honestly I find the interface non-intuitive and sometimes have trouble figuring out how to change the status of a task. Perhaps it has something to do with the way it was originally set up by the admin, but I'm not sure. I liked Jira's drag and drop obvious functionality, but the project management side of the software was lacking. Smartsheet has excellent project management functionality, but the task management isn't as good.
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    Scalability
    Adobe
    At the beginning we assigned Adobe Acrobat Sign just to Purchase Office Department because at that moment we needed a tool that supported us to avoid manual signature and was compliance with remote working.
    Now we are using it also in other situation because it help us with time and we can also reduce cost
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    Return on Investment
    Adobe
    • Significantly reduced the time required for document signing processes reducing wasted time and effort
    • Cost savings since there is no longer any need to print and post/scan traditional signed paper-based documents
    • Faster decision-making since time-sensitive decisions and approvals can now be processed much more quickly by using e-signatures.
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    37signals
    • It has saved me time when having to get the same message out to multiple restaurants
    • It has helped us make smarter operational decisions because we can all collaborate on an answer in a shorter amount of time (instead of calling a meeting!!!)
    • The calendar function allows us to plot out our marketing agenda for the month and add/change it together as needed. The chef will post his recipe, the managers will cost it out, the social media manager will post pictures on it, and ultimately we will get that information out on an info sheet to the staff by printing the page.
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    ScreenShots

    Adobe Acrobat Sign Screenshots

    Screenshot of Send, sign, manage and archive documents with 100% legal e-signatures. Collecting e-signatures is as easy as swipe and tap with Adobe Sign. Sign from any device. Legally binding. Works with multiple apps. extremely cost-effective.Screenshot of Easily send e-signature requests to multiple recipients using Send in bulk feature.  Send a document to multiple people with one click, and every recipient gets their own personalized form ready to sign.Screenshot of Track and manage signatures with Adobe Acrobat Sign.  Get real-time visibility for every document out for signature, and receive notifications when documents have been signed.Screenshot of Create an online web form with Acrobat Sign.  It allows your recipients – whether they’re your employees or customers – to quickly access, complete, and sign critical documents without printing or mailing anything.  You will also get immediate access to the data and signatures.