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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

    Lob

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/ALob in San Francisco provides the building blocks for developers to automate offline correspondences. Enterprise companies use Lob’s suite of APIs to mail fully dynamic and personalized customer communications with print media. Lob also provides insight into deliverability with piece-by-piece tracing and a proprietary Print Delivery Network to streamline production across fully redundant nodes all over the country.

    $0

    per month (Up to 500 Mailings)

    PostGrid Print & Mail

    Score10 out of 10
    N/APostGrid is a direct mail automation platform that enables businesses to send letters, postcards, and checks as easily as email—at any scale. With REST API capabilities, PostGrid can be used to automate and streamline physical mail workflows, whether fpr one item or thousands on demand. Key Benefits: Eliminates manual mailing processes and saves hour of administrative work Real-time tracking and detailed analytics for every…N/A
    Pricing
    Adobe Acrobat SignLobPostGrid Print & Mail
    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
    Startup Plan
    $260
    per month 3 users & Up to 3,000 monthly mailings
    Growth Plan
    $550
    per month 5 users & Up to 6,000 monthly mailings
    Developer Plan
    Free
    1 user & Up to 500 monthly mailings
    Enterprise Plan
    Contact Sales
    No answers on this topic
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Adobe Acrobat SignLobPostGrid Print & Mail
    Free Trial
    YesYesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYesYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesYesNo
    Entry-level Setup Fee$34.99 license per monthOptionalNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Adobe Acrobat SignLobPostGrid Print & Mail
    Considered Multiple Products
    Adobe
    No answer on this topic
    Lob
    Chose Lob
    Root keeps Lob because it is already deeply integrated into our systems, and replacing it would require significant engineering effort with limited expected cost savings. As well as the unknowns that come with other options, switching vendors would likely require a significant …
    Incentivized
    Chose Lob
    lob has a more overall greater pricing and apis and their costumer service is very easy to deal with
    Incentivized
    PostGrid
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    93%
    Would buy again
    177 Answers
    100%
    Would buy again
    20 Answers
    100%
    Would buy again
    9 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    93%
    Delivers good value for the price
    150 Answers
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    16 Answers
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    9 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    92%
    Happy with the feature set
    175 Answers
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    20 Answers
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    9 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    93%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    111 Answers
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    13 Answers
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    9 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    95%
    Implementation went as expected
    133 Answers
    92%
    Implementation went as expected
    12 Answers
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    9 Answers
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    OneSpan Sign
    Score9.6 out of 10
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    Score9 out of 10
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    Score9 out of 10
    Enterprises
    DocuSign
    Score8.7 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Adobe Acrobat SignLobPostGrid Print & Mail
    Likelihood to Recommend
    3.0
    (228 ratings)
    8.4
    (21 ratings)
    10.0
    (9 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.0
    (30 ratings)
    6.8
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    1.8
    (194 ratings)
    6.6
    (18 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Availability
    9.0
    (5 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    9.0
    (4 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.3
    (164 ratings)
    7.3
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Online Training
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    8.0
    (7 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Configurability
    9.0
    (3 ratings)
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.4
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    5.0
    (2 ratings)
    8.1
    (13 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    8.0
    (3 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Professional Services
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.4
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Adobe Acrobat SignLobPostGrid Print & Mail
    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.
    Read full review
    Lob
    It is great for low-cost, high-volume mail campaigns for our agents. The price is very reasonable, and they can send out a lot. Once the design is approved and they send a list, we handle it, then Lob. When we have agents who want to handwrite the addresses, we choose someone else (a local print shop) to print and send them to our agents.
    Incentivized
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    PostGrid
    Perfect for companies that send mail at scale and want automation without infrastructure. Less ideal for very small teams doing infrequent sends.
    Read full review
    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
    Incentivized
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    Lob
    • Address Verification and NCOA Cleaning
    • Autocomplete for our forms that allow a user to SKIP typing
    • Printing and mailing documents automatically over API
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    PostGrid
    • Merge variables
    • Triggered campaign sends
    • Real-time analytics and tracking
    Read full review
    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.
    Incentivized
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    Lob
    • An automatically scheduled data export would be nice.
    • Functions such as adding or editing bank accounts, updating check details, and querying data require knowledge of the specific code and API infrastructure. It would be nice to do these things without being an engineer trained in their specific interface language.
    • They reduced their retention period on their interface to like 3 months, which is not ideal.
    Incentivized
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    PostGrid
    • Audience matching
    • audience enriching
    Read full review
    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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    Lob
    will continue to use for specific mailing requirements
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    PostGrid
    No answers on this topic
    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
    Read full review
    Lob
    Overall, Lob performs well for standard mailing needs and has helped streamline day-to-day processes. However, there are unique situations in the insurance industry that may require additional flexibility or capacity beyond their current model. Automation of certain state-required letters or follow-ups is something we wish we could perform.
    Incentivized
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    PostGrid
    1. Bulk mail processing and campaign automation.
    2. Real-time delivery tracking.
    3. Easy API integration with CRMs.
    Read full review
    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
    Read full review
    Lob
    i never witnessed a problem with lob
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    PostGrid
    No answers on this topic
    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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    Lob
    perfect except from a minor tracking options missed
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    PostGrid
    No answers on this topic
    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.
    Incentivized
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    Lob
    good support, not many examples I can think of
    Incentivized
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    PostGrid
    No answers on this topic
    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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    Lob
    No answers on this topic
    PostGrid
    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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    Lob
    didn't participate but as for my information it was smooth
    Incentivized
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    PostGrid
    No answers on this topic
    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).
    Incentivized
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    Lob
    Root keeps Lob because it is already deeply integrated into our systems, and replacing it would require significant engineering effort with limited expected cost savings. As well as the unknowns that come with other options, switching vendors would likely require a significant multi-quarter effort without clear cost savings or efficiency gains.
    Incentivized
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    PostGrid
    PostGrid is our main solution for managing and automating outbound mail. We use it to send both one-time letters and recurring transactional communications. The integration with our internal tools makes the entire process smooth from template creation to mail delivery tracking. It’s removed the delays, confusion, and manual errors we used to deal with regularly.
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    Adobe
    No answers on this topic
    Lob
    it can be better because the volume pricing method doesn't benefit the clients much but lob itself
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    PostGrid
    No answers on this topic
    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
    Incentivized
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    Lob
    it will scale very well if its for saas companies
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    PostGrid
    No answers on this topic
    Professional Services
    Adobe
    No answers on this topic
    Lob
    decent overall
    Incentivized
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    PostGrid
    No answers on this topic
    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.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Lob
    • The hard part is that the agents mostly see the returns over us, so I don't know the specific numbers.
    • Some agents have great responses; others not as much. Or they get 75% of their mailers returned, and we don't know why.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    PostGrid
    • Integrations
    • Saving on employee hours
    Read full review
    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.

    Lob Screenshots

    Screenshot of Lob's available integrations, that include CRM, CDP or marketing automation tools.Screenshot of Lob Analytics. These demonstrate the value of every send and find winning strategies with advanced analytics.Screenshot of Lob Template Gallery. This includes professionally designed templates optimized by a team of experts.Screenshot of Lob analytics dashboard shows trackable events from direct mail campaigns.

    PostGrid Print & Mail Screenshots

    Screenshot of the dashboard that provides visibility of the mail orders processed throughout one or more time frames. This tracks the number of letters (to be processed) to print and delivery-related details, with all related components.Screenshot of an example insight into the progress of direct mail over time.Screenshot of insight into the progress of postcard orders over time.Screenshot of an automation for the printing and mailing of accurate, secure, and branded checks/cheques using PostGrid's Print & Mail Dashboard or API.