Conga Composer vs. PaperTrail

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Conga Composer
Score 8.7 out of 10
N/A
Conga Composer is a document generation and automation tool designed to simplify and streamline the process of creating and distributing customized documents, presentations, and reports. Conga Composer integrates with any data source, including CRM systems like Salesforce, and allows users to dynamically merge data from these sources into templates to generate personalized documents.
$20
per month per user
PaperTrail
Score 8.0 out of 10
N/A
PaperTrail is a document management software offering from Egis Software. It includes features such as storage and retrieval find any document instantly and routing and workflow streamline processes with automated routing and a rule-based workflow.N/A
Pricing
Conga ComposerPaperTrail
Editions & Modules
No answers on this topic
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Conga ComposerPaperTrail
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesNo
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
Additional Details
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User Ratings
Conga ComposerPaperTrail
Likelihood to Recommend
8.6
(84 ratings)
8.5
(5 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.0
(13 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
9.0
(6 ratings)
9.0
(2 ratings)
Performance
9.0
(1 ratings)
7.0
(2 ratings)
Support Rating
8.4
(8 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
8.0
(4 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Ease of integration
9.0
(1 ratings)
9.0
(2 ratings)
User Testimonials
Conga ComposerPaperTrail
Likelihood to Recommend
Conga
We used to manually process information which are available in Salesforce to another system, right now we just click a button and these information is available in another system. This process eliminate human error and provide accurate information in our financial reporting. This process helps our accounting department provide efficiency and accuracy on providing data.
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Egis Software
It is very easy to use. We utilize it to save and show the logs for as many apps as we want. You can use it as an addon on Heroku.
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Pros
Conga
  • It is positive that Conga integrates with and is operated within SFDC
  • Conga allows users to tag any document with dynamic fields that map to SFDC and send it out for signature
  • Conga allows us to consistently produce quotes with the correct SKUs, Terms, & conditions at scale
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Egis Software
  • PaperTrail is less expensive than many of its competitors.
  • PaperTrail is very easy to set up; you can start collecting logs in no time.
  • It is easy to configure email alerts and Slack integrations with PaperTrail.
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Cons
Conga
  • It is challenging to go from solutions to templates and then to each account record to generate - is there a way to generate for all?
  • the search for reports is unwieldy - can there be a "recents" to cut down on what reports we are searching through? or a way to view folders.
  • i have tried saving time by having conga composer up on several records and you can't generate records. again, if there is a way to generate for all?
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Egis Software
  • Interface is aging and in need of a re-write. It's functional, but not all that nice to work with
  • While the logs are near-real-time, they could greatly improve the speed at which logs are available in the UI
  • Pricing plans are not all that competitive with newer offerings with other companies
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Likelihood to Renew
Conga
Though I love how easily Conga Composer ties into Salesforce and its given analytics, it takes a lot of data entry to get up and running. I don't love that sometimes queries can take a long time to pull. I like keeping our marketing templates consistent via templates in the system. Pulling multiple objects into one report is fantastic too.
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Egis Software
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Usability
Conga
It's a fairly simple tool to integrate into your current business structure. When we've had issues, we were able to resolve them extremely quickly. The users click a button and it can bring in all the quote lines, and our credit application seamlessly into our tool. I'd definitely recommend it to other colleagues
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Egis Software
PaperTrail has become a basic app for me to save and see app logs. It is very easy to use, very intuitive and easy to customize. The feature I like most is that we can use it with several apps at same time.
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Performance
Conga
This product appears to work well. It was not a fit for us this time, but we would consider in future
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Egis Software
PaperTrail's live-tailing performance is adequate and searches over the recent history load quickly. Searching over long periods of time can be extremely slow, however.
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Support Rating
Conga
It's been hit and miss depending on the issue. We use javascript to generate the urls which has confused many techs even though it generates a clean url - they are overwhelmed by the concept of code and can't understand that the url is all that matters.
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Egis Software
No answers on this topic
Implementation Rating
Conga
It was painful internally to build out all of the templates, but the actual implementation of the product was okay.
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Egis Software
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Alternatives Considered
Conga
I think Nintex is the primary competitor for Conga Composer, but I have not personally used it. I was not present for the decision to purchase Conga but I would recommend it in future document automation vendor selection processes because I have seen how well it works! We are especially fond of complementary features in Conga Composer, including Conga Email Templates and Conga Global Merge.
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Egis Software
I only used Logz.io for a very brief time. It seemed a bit more difficult to setup than Papertrail.
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Return on Investment
Conga
  • Without Conga Composer we wouldn't be able to auto generate documents in Salesforce, the extra customisation is needed.
  • The ROI is obvious when it comes to having customised documents
  • As long as the data is available in Salesforce, it's available in Conga, and so we have no issues with it's efficiency
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Egis Software
  • Free plan is sufficient for development and small services, and the paid plans are very cheap at low log volume. For us, the price is right with PaperTrail - though I can't speak to how their pricing compares at very high volumes.
  • Adding cloud-logging to your apps can really speed up development and debugging - the impact to engineering productivity cannot be understated.
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ScreenShots

Conga Composer Screenshots

Screenshot of how documents are created automatically, directly from SalesforceScreenshot of documents generated with any data, from any object - standard or customScreenshot of Conga Document GenerationScreenshot of popular document formats available, like Word, Excel, PowerPoint, HTML, and PDFScreenshot of how large documents are sent via a link - and they provide visibility into customer document engagementScreenshot of how multiple documents can be sent with one or no clicks