Conga CLM vs. Ironclad

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Conga CLM
Score 8.7 out of 10
N/A
Conga CLM (formerly Conga Contracts, or Novatus) is a contract management software solution built around features such as contract creation, automated notifications, and approval and workflows.N/A
Ironclad
Score 8.0 out of 10
N/A
Ironclad, from the company of the same name in San Francisco, is designed to streamline every part of the contract process—so users can focus on legal work, not paperwork.N/A
Pricing
Conga CLMIronclad
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Conga CLMIronclad
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesNo
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
Additional DetailsPricing built for your business: Every business is unique—your budget, process, and tech are constantly evolving. That's why Conga crafts customized pricing, built to your needs. Our pricing prioritizes: Business needs Commitment to partnership Flexibility Budget alignment Competitive pricing Transparency
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Community Pulse
Conga CLMIronclad
Considered Both Products
Conga CLM
Chose Conga CLM
Conga CLM's integration with Salesforce platform makes it easy to use and extend based on company's needs
Chose Conga CLM
First user friendly & flexible with required business requirements customization.
Chose Conga CLM
These tools were great but didn't had very good support for Salesforce ecosystem. We heavily rely on Salesforce & wanted a custom application that can live inside Salesforce & deliver.
Ironclad

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Features
Conga CLMIronclad
Contract Authoring
Comparison of Contract Authoring features of Product A and Product B
Conga CLM
8.5
85 Ratings
6% above category average
Ironclad
5.3
4 Ratings
41% below category average
Contract creation9.083 Ratings9.03 Ratings
Contract templates8.779 Ratings10.04 Ratings
Clause library/saved fields8.676 Ratings1.03 Ratings
Guided logic7.769 Ratings1.02 Ratings
Contract Collaboration
Comparison of Contract Collaboration features of Product A and Product B
Conga CLM
8.1
80 Ratings
3% below category average
Ironclad
10.0
4 Ratings
18% above category average
Contract sharing8.574 Ratings10.04 Ratings
Contract editing8.674 Ratings10.04 Ratings
Collaborating on contracts8.369 Ratings10.04 Ratings
MS Word plug-in7.771 Ratings10.03 Ratings
Approval process8.073 Ratings10.04 Ratings
Interdepartmental workflows7.869 Ratings10.04 Ratings
Contract Monitoring
Comparison of Contract Monitoring features of Product A and Product B
Conga CLM
8.7
79 Ratings
5% above category average
Ironclad
4.6
4 Ratings
57% below category average
Contract database8.775 Ratings6.03 Ratings
Contract search8.575 Ratings7.04 Ratings
Contract milestone reminders & alerts8.472 Ratings1.03 Ratings
Custom contract reports8.473 Ratings5.03 Ratings
Tracking contract status8.775 Ratings5.03 Ratings
Compliance check8.561 Ratings1.02 Ratings
Contract Management
Comparison of Contract Management features of Product A and Product B
Conga CLM
8.3
52 Ratings
5% above category average
Ironclad
7.3
1 Ratings
8% below category average
Contract Storage8.850 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Advanced Search and Filtering8.447 Ratings7.01 Ratings
Customizable Contract Templates8.347 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Workflow Acceleration7.844 Ratings10.01 Ratings
E-Signatures8.645 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Reminders and Alerts8.247 Ratings4.01 Ratings
Analytics and Reporting8.548 Ratings4.01 Ratings
Integration with other Systems8.044 Ratings5.01 Ratings
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User Ratings
Conga CLMIronclad
Likelihood to Recommend
8.6
(88 ratings)
8.0
(4 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
8.7
(3 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
9.2
(4 ratings)
8.0
(4 ratings)
Availability
10.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Performance
10.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
9.2
(4 ratings)
9.0
(3 ratings)
In-Person Training
10.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Online Training
9.0
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
9.2
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Configurability
10.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Ease of integration
10.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Product Scalability
10.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Professional Services
10.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
10.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
10.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Conga CLMIronclad
Likelihood to Recommend
Conga
With having all of our contracting through the Salesforce system, the ability to allow our legal teams to do more with generating documents, have controls over redlines, etc is ideal. When sales needs to make additional revisions to the underlying data, however, it can be lacking in strong tools.
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Ironclad
IronClad works great for organizations that have to deal with a lot of legal agreements at the same time, it works great for having a legal team reviewing and modifying the same legal document in a single place, and the comments in the workflow, and the approval functionality allows keeping track of the changes and assign accountability.
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Pros
Conga
  • Unified Storage. All contracts are stored in a single, centralized repository, providing a comprehensive view of the entire contract lifecycle, including versions, negotiations, approval history, and metrics.
  • Easy Search. Advanced search capabilities, including natural language search, allow users to quickly find specific contracts or clauses.
  • Dynamic Approvals: Automate approval workflows to speed up the contract approval process and ensure compliance with company policies.
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Ironclad
  • Very flexible workflow design tool.
  • Functions are fine-tuned but not too much.
  • Easily understandable product which user can handle.
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Cons
Conga
  • X-author for Word can be improved as it does not maintain a stable connection and the org gets disconnected frequently.
  • It does not support grandparent relationship for merge field population.
  • A separate package needs to be installed for the integration of CPQ and CLM tools from Conga.
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Ironclad
  • Once you add someone into a workflow there is no way to remove them. It would be nice to be able to get out of a workflow or remove someone.
  • The "assignment" function could be more clear for those individuals who don't regularly use Ironclad. Perhaps prompting them on how to upload a signed agreement if they are not the owner of the workflow.
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Likelihood to Renew
Conga
Simple and easy to use for the legal team to creates contracts in Salesforce and with the help of conga contract attaches the different clauses through the bundle and sends them for negotiation and for signature. This is the primary work they do from Conga contracts. We had solution which is build using conga contracts, conga composer and conga sign
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Ironclad
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Usability
Conga
Easy to use
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Ironclad
Still needs polishing, including improving AI capabilities and making coding documents easier to do. Family tree is useful, but not intuitive. Search function sometimes doesn't pick up all docs. Reporting, such as end of contract term, isn't useful
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Reliability and Availability
Conga
We never faced any issue till date
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Ironclad
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Performance
Conga
Everything is perfect
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Ironclad
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Support Rating
Conga
Very very difficult to get support. The support team is great for simple, general questions. If we ran into anything complex, we usually would figure it out before they could help us. We often were bounced around from rep to rep
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Ironclad
I haven't used the support services for IronClad, but I understand from our legal team, the support is very good, they have replied and provide solutions quickly and effectively. I have used the documentation and support pages which are very complete and which have been updated given the user interface updates.
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In-Person Training
Conga
Conga University is very well made. Loved it!
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Ironclad
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Online Training
Conga
Conga University is the best! loved it. The courses are very well designed which makes learning easy and great. I have taken courses for conga contracts, composer, conga sign, and conga batch. Courses are beneficial if you want to implement Conga products for your clients or for your organization. Highly recommended to sign up for Conga university and start learning
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Ironclad
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Implementation Rating
Conga
The process involved Salesforce object creation and fields with installing conga contracts and conga composer and setting up security for the users
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Ironclad
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Alternatives Considered
Conga
Conga CLM capabilities and speed is very good compared to other CLM solutions and also scalable and easy to configure and manage the enhancements. Conga CLm is also great for multiple verticals and users from various departments can easily adopt to the CLM applications or tool. The eas of use is also a factor
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Ironclad
Ironclad is a well-designed product, especially for a very configurable workflow designer and team collaboration feature. In addition, DocuSign has a critical issue, which is a multi-instance account issue. If you have multiple contracts with DocuSign including design and CLM and you use the same email address and password, you cannot tell which instance you log on to. Therefore, if we use the instance separately, we have to use a different password for the same email address. It's very confusing.
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Scalability
Conga
We are fully satisfied with the over all experience using conga contract
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Ironclad
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Return on Investment
Conga
  • Clients have reported a huge improvement in the time spent in processing contracts.
  • Better management of contract data.
  • Ease in forwarding for signatures.
  • Overall transparency in data.
  • Provides an opportunity for managers and supervisors to easily keep track of the work done by their teams.
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Ironclad
  • Positive - Increased efficiency, as all work into the legal department flows into Ironclad. We can see where resources are being spent and which internal business partners are utilizing the legal department the most.
  • Positing - Better internal business partner service. We are able to communicate directly with our internal partners as to the status of their request and keep them apprised where we are in the negotiation process, etc.
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ScreenShots

Conga CLM Screenshots

Screenshot of Conga CLM: Contract request wizardScreenshot of Conga CLM: Agreement detailScreenshot of Conga CLM: Parallel reviewScreenshot of Conga CLM: Importing an offline documentScreenshot of Conga CLM: Agreement hierarchy