Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Adobe Acrobat Sign
Score 8.2 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
Dropbox Sign
Score 8.9 out of 10
N/A
HelloSign is an electronic signature software offering acquired by Dropbox in early 2019. It includes features such as customization for businesses of any size and bank-level security.
$0
per month
OneSpan Sign
Score 9.4 out of 10
Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
OneSpan Sign (formerly eSignLive) is an e-signature solution for secure document signing processes that enables organizations to digitize business processes and eliminate costly paper and inconvenient “wet” signatures.
$240
per year per user
Pricing
Adobe Acrobat SignDropbox SignOneSpan Sign
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
Free
$0
Essentials
$15
per month
Standard
$17.5
per month starting at two users, per user
Essentials API
$75
per month Starting at 50 signature requests / mo.
Standard API
$250
per month Starting at 100 signature requests / mo.
Premium
Custom
Custom
Free Trial
$0
Free for 30 Days
Professionnal
$20
Per User per Month
Enterprise
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Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup Fee$34.99 license per monthOptionalNo setup fee
Additional DetailsAdditional pricing available for HelloWorks and HelloFax
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Community Pulse
Adobe Acrobat SignDropbox SignOneSpan Sign
Considered Multiple Products
Adobe Acrobat Sign
Chose Adobe Acrobat Sign
DocuSign is a per-email pricing structure, which is extremely inconvenient for us as we send out thousands of emails a day - and also MUCH more technical in setup. Adobe Sign most certainly meets our needs and expectations. HelloSign is great for a Non-Profit type tool, but …
Chose Adobe Acrobat Sign
Other e-sign programs like DocuSign and HelloSign offer comparable services to Adobe Sign. Ultimately, we went with Adobe Sign because there was a sale price, and their package (# transactions/documents included for the price) had better value. HelloSign is a great option for …
Chose Adobe Acrobat Sign
HelloSign is a similar product to Adobe Sign; however, I found it lacking in some features that are present in Adobe Sign. Usability is similar, [but] I believe that Adobe Sign has a slight edge and I found it nicer to use [with a] better layout and design to be honest.
Chose Adobe Acrobat Sign
Even though we are happy with Adobe Sign, we gave HelloSign a try because their interface seems to have a fresher, more modern look, and we thought maybe it would have more features and a better mobile app than Adobe Sign. It turned out HelloSign had far less features than …
Chose Adobe Acrobat Sign
I have prior experience at a previous company with DocuSign, and while that platform may provide a smaller set of features & functionality, it is also more intuitive for first-time users.
Chose Adobe Acrobat Sign
We felt Adobe's branding and trustworthiness as a great fit for what we do, considering we deal with many sets of sensitive information. We also use other Adobe products, so it was a natural fit with the rest of our mix of tools. We also felt the advanced functionality would be …
Chose Adobe Acrobat Sign
Adobe Sign has the brand-name edge on the other products. It is towards the upper end of the price range, with features comparable to the others. It would be a stronger contender if it had support and if logging in wasn't such a challenge. Not my first choice, but not a bad …
Chose Adobe Acrobat Sign
In my testing, both products carry out the same functions and they do it well, but Adobe Sign's advantage is its integration with office 365 especially in terms [of] integration with Sharepoint which was seamless in comparison [to] using Microsoft Flow [(now called Power …
Chose Adobe Acrobat Sign
Our original idea was to edit our forms using Adobe Acrobat DC to make them fillable with text, but they (the clients) would still have to save, download, and email them back to us, and DocuSign had such an user-unfriendly layout and design, it was very slow and just overall …
Dropbox Sign
Chose Dropbox Sign
I selected Dropbox Sign because it was very easy to use, started with a free plan, and I knew that if I needed a professional plan, it would be reasonably priced. DocuSign was too expensive, and Adobe products are always hard to use and integrate with.
Chose Dropbox Sign
It is less expensive and assists nonprofits. That was the biggest factor for us, especially when it came to the integration with Salesforce and SharePoint. Although we do not use it now, we plan on using it other applications were way out of our price range, and DocuSign was …
Chose Dropbox Sign
Great software, however the integration of the Dropbox cloud in tandem with this is amazing and simpler than this great competitor for an all in one solution.
Chose Dropbox Sign
Dropbox seemed easier to use and cheaper than the others. It was just as functional.
Chose Dropbox Sign
It stacks up pretty well, I do think some of the templates I've seen are a bit lacking with Dropbox sign.
Chose Dropbox Sign
Less features simpler to use though
Chose Dropbox Sign
Cost and interface were the main factors, as well as DocuSign has issue with IRS tax forms deleting all the prefilled fields upon upload.
Chose Dropbox Sign
Dropbox sign stacks up positively against other signature programs in ease of use and cost.
Chose Dropbox Sign
While the options above are viable, they don't seem to have the cost structures set up appropriately to capture the longtail of users that my company and I exist in. Even if they are cheaper, they entangle you in a mesh that basically leaves you stuck in their ecosystem. …
Chose Dropbox Sign
We've been using HelloSign for so long that we are sticking with Dropbox Sign. I find Adobe's proprietary nonsense to be frustrating and annoying; I'm happy with Dropbox as a company and don't want to learn a new tool.
Chose Dropbox Sign
Very similar to the others, except this is tightly integrated within the dropbox file/cloud storage, which our company already uses, so that makes it that much more convenient you don't have to go to another platform. You can access it directly within the dropbox ecosystem.
Chose Dropbox Sign
Dropbox Sign stacks up very comparably, but I think the mobile UE on DocuSign is better.
Chose Dropbox Sign
I used HelloSign because I read good reviews. I had no time to look for other competitors during the lockdown period. Now, we are evaluating other e-signature systems and I will spend more time to compare them with HelloSign. I don't know if other solutions are as focused as …
Chose Dropbox Sign
We trialed HelloSign, Adobe Sign, DocuSign, and Instanet. We chose HelloSign because it was the most user-friendly for us and for our signers. The customization was unmatched and met all of our needs fully. The other platforms felt bulky or not intuitive, where HelloSign was …
Chose Dropbox Sign
HelloSign and DocuSign offer similar features. I prefer to recommend HelloSign to freelancers and smaller businesses because they can get started on the free plan and only upgrade when they are ready. DocuSign doesn't offer a free plan. Adobe Sign isn't very intuitive so I'm …
Chose Dropbox Sign
We chose to use HelloSign due to ease and flexibility of their API as compared to competitive solutions in the market. Cost was a secondary factor, but our primary driver was the control that we had in integrating the e-sign step in our onboarding.
Chose Dropbox Sign
From a functional perspective, HelloSign is similar. However, I prefer HelloSign's pricing model.
OneSpan Sign
Chose OneSpan Sign
My experience with OneSpan in the customer service has been very positive. However, since my experience with OneSpan is much more recent, most of my technical experience with OneSpan includes technical areas that were not available in other products at the time I was working …
Chose OneSpan Sign
I was told that the other services may have a better API but for our needs, the cheaper the better and eSign Live's prices could not be beat. I believe that DocuSign's similar product was roughly four times as much as what we are currently spending on eSign Live.
Chose OneSpan Sign
e-SignLive provided us with more cost control options around implementing and using the service than competitors. e-SignLive seems to offer stronger legal and audit attention to details around electronic signature processing.
Chose OneSpan Sign
I dont have the feeling it's as secure or recognized as E-SignLive.
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Small Businesses
Foxit eSign
Foxit eSign
Score 9.3 out of 10
Foxit eSign
Foxit eSign
Score 9.3 out of 10
Foxit eSign
Foxit eSign
Score 9.3 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
MSB Docs
MSB Docs
Score 9.4 out of 10
MSB Docs
MSB Docs
Score 9.4 out of 10
MSB Docs
MSB Docs
Score 9.4 out of 10
Enterprises
DocuSign
DocuSign
Score 8.7 out of 10
DocuSign
DocuSign
Score 8.7 out of 10
DocuSign
DocuSign
Score 8.7 out of 10
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User Ratings
Adobe Acrobat SignDropbox SignOneSpan Sign
Likelihood to Recommend
4.7
(228 ratings)
9.4
(178 ratings)
10.0
(38 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
8.0
(30 ratings)
9.1
(12 ratings)
8.0
(8 ratings)
Usability
3.7
(194 ratings)
9.9
(124 ratings)
10.0
(2 ratings)
Availability
9.0
(5 ratings)
9.1
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Performance
9.0
(4 ratings)
9.1
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
7.3
(164 ratings)
1.7
(18 ratings)
7.9
(3 ratings)
Online Training
8.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
Implementation Rating
8.0
(7 ratings)
9.0
(4 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Configurability
9.0
(3 ratings)
8.3
(120 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Ease of integration
5.0
(2 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
Product Scalability
8.0
(3 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
9.0
(2 ratings)
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Vendor pre-sale
9.0
(2 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
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User Testimonials
Adobe Acrobat SignDropbox SignOneSpan Sign
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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Dropbox
Someone who has never used Dropbox Sign before could quickly figure it out without needing a tutorial or guide. It is very useful in instantly collecting signatures and keeping others in the loop as well, even if they aren't signers. I love that there's an option to cc someone in basically and they'll be able to see the documents and when it's signed. It's also impossible to miss a document not being signed because it automatically sends reminders to signers if they do not sign and emails reminders daily, letting me know how many documents are pending signatures.
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OneSpan
OneSpan Sign is suited to many professional business situations. It is well used by the legal, security and compliance teams as well as many people within the financial functions. A lot of businesses have become very agile, and require a paperless environment to working. There are some companies and businesses who would prefer paper documents to be signed, which would not work as well as the paperless versions. I would use it in many different scenarios where I would prefer to have a paperless transaction
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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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Dropbox
  • Allows customization for each client.
  • Gives us all the room we need to create a thorough contract.
  • Allows us to save each executed contract as a PDF.
  • Looks like a pricey, professionally drawn-up contract.
  • The ability to send a new customer a professional-looking contract like this makes us look "bigger" than we are.
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OneSpan
  • One can set up a workflow in which one can specify the order in which signatures have to be done.
  • Customer service is great and always ready to go the extra mile.
  • Pricing is very transparent, and there are no hidden charges.
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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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Dropbox
  • It would be nice to be able to build a template for just the location of the signature boxes that would allow me to upload a document, and the boxes could be basically replaced. I have the exact same doc for each of my clients, but there are small changes here and there, and I have to fill in their personal info through another program, so it would be nice to be able to do a template this way instead of just tying a template to one document.
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OneSpan
  • Search capabilities can be improved by a great extent. We still can't search documents by name of the signatory
  • Pricing seems a bit high when compared with other players in the market
  • Data importing and exporting capabilities can be improved drastically
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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.
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Dropbox
Because this product has been affordable which is so important for a non profit however it is also of good quality so its not like you get a cheap version of this you get a quality product at an affordable price and that is so important for a non profit
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OneSpan
I don't see any reasons to change as their solution covers all my need for now. I could make even more integrations but that might be something that I will do down the road. I'm used to working with the interface and my data is all there as well.
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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.
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Dropbox
I found this to be super user-friendly and easy to teach other teammates how to use in 5 minutes. I use it frequently, and there was little to no learning curve with this product. I also find that document signers have no problem navigating the documents we need them to review.
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OneSpan
Easy to use design and tool
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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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Dropbox
I have not encountered this because it was so easy to use however just seeing how they created a community is great and shows that they are here for their users. I am going to say I am sure they are available and ready to assist when needed. The fact that we have not yet experienced an outage and issues says a lot though :)
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OneSpan
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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
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Dropbox
Again I cannot say it is enough this app is simple. We are preparing to be able to integrate with Salesforce and Sharepoint at a very small cost per user (these are the platforms we use) and it is great that they have the option to integrate these apps. We love this app
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OneSpan
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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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Dropbox
Support is limited to email only (for our subscription level), which might be OK for a e-signing platform if support was relatively rapid. This is not the case with HelloSign. Since the issues first arose a week ago, we have made no discernible progress in solving the problem. No matter how quickly I respond to a follow-up email, we receive only 1 email a day from the support. The other issue, which is a true edge case situation, is their insistence on receiving email from the same email account as the HelloSign registration. We changed our organizational email recently, and I was still logging into HS using our old email address. This became a hard stop on further support, which doesn't make sense on a practical level. Why would someone write in for support with specific issues if they weren't a customer? And if they did, wouldn't that be a miniscule proportion of the support requests? So if you adopt a policy that stops providing support to anyone who isn't verified, regardless of the situation, isn't that using a blunt instrument to solve a very rare issue? Reflects the overall organizational values, in my opinion, which is not to value the small customer.
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OneSpan
The product is so well designed and built that we rarely need to reach out to customer service. But we have reached out to them in case of downtime, and we have always gotten a satisfactory response. We never had to follow up, as customer service executives were very responsible.
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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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Dropbox
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OneSpan
No answers on this topic
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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Dropbox
I can not say it enough - this was the easiest implementation we have had with an application. I became an admin, I added the person who would be the back up admin, we moved forward with adding accounts and that was it. All the users we have were self sufficient enough to move forward with very little guidance and the guidance they received was in house.
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OneSpan
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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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Dropbox
Dropbox Sign seems a little more intuitive and user-friendly than DocuSign. DocuSign also has a limit to the number of documents that you can send for signature over a period of time. Dropbox Sign integrates with just as many applications and software as DocuSign does. I also think the amount of templates that they give you to use is more than adequate for most business applications and more than other services seem to give you.
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OneSpan
My experience with OneSpan in the customer service has been very positive. However, since my experience with OneSpan is much more recent, most of my technical experience with OneSpan includes technical areas that were not available in other products at the time I was working with other products.
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Contract Terms and Pricing Model
Adobe
No answers on this topic
Dropbox
The appropriate price for the system.
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OneSpan
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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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Dropbox
Between the easy to use app, the pricing, and the team at dropbox. This app is hands down great! Easy to use. Anyone can start using it and if not I am sure the team at dropbox will guide you to implement. The cost especially for us as a nonprofit is sustainable which is great.
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OneSpan
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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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Dropbox
  • Faster time to contract signature-less overthinking because they sign with their finger on the phone with the sales rep.
  • Reduction of paper waste and organization.
  • Ease for sales reps to quickly choose and alter any agreement they need while on a call.
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OneSpan
  • It has done what we got it for. It has made it much easier for our advisers to do business with clients in remote areas.
  • It has significantly reduced the time that it used to take to open a new account.
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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.

Dropbox Sign Screenshots

Screenshot of drag and drop fields for any document to create an e-signature documentScreenshot of signer settings that can be used to distribute agreementsScreenshot of Notifications of completed signaturesScreenshot of uploading a documentScreenshot of Admin homepageScreenshot of template creation

OneSpan Sign Screenshots

Screenshot of User initiates the e-signature process by clicking 'New Transaction'.Screenshot of The user adds the necessary documents and signers to the transaction. Additional options like signer authentication & identification, in-person signing, reminders & notifications, and more are available in OneSpan Sign.Screenshot of Add signature blocks to desired locations on your document for your recipients to sign. Simply drag-and-drop the signature blocks into the document. Click the ‘Send to Sign’ button to route your document for signing.Screenshot of The signer can click-to-sign to complete the signing of the account opening application.Screenshot of The signing process is intuitive and easy for your signers. OneSpan Sign offers an optimized signing experience so your signers can sign anywhere, anytime, and across multiple devices.