Conga CLM vs. PandaDoc

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
PandaDoc
Score 8.9 out of 10
N/A
PandaDoc headquartered in San Francisco offers their eponymous electronic signature platform for sales teams, containing sales proposal automation and CPQ (configure, price, quote) features, and integration with CRMs.
$35
per month per seat
Pricing
Conga CLMPandaDoc
Editions & Modules
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Starter
$35
per month per seat
Business
$65
per month per seat
Enterprise
Contact Sales
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Conga CLMPandaDoc
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesYes
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalOptional
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 TransparencyPandaDoc offers a free eSign plan and 3 paid packages for eSigning and document automation. All plans include unlimited documents and eSignatures. Evaluations start with a free 14-day trial. Up to a 46% discount for annual pricing.
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Community Pulse
Conga CLMPandaDoc
Features
Conga CLMPandaDoc
Contract Authoring
Comparison of Contract Authoring features of Product A and Product B
Conga CLM
8.5
86 Ratings
5% above category average
PandaDoc
-
Ratings
Contract creation9.084 Ratings00 Ratings
Contract templates8.780 Ratings00 Ratings
Clause library/saved fields8.677 Ratings00 Ratings
Guided logic7.770 Ratings00 Ratings
Contract Collaboration
Comparison of Contract Collaboration features of Product A and Product B
Conga CLM
8.1
81 Ratings
2% below category average
PandaDoc
-
Ratings
Contract sharing8.575 Ratings00 Ratings
Contract editing8.675 Ratings00 Ratings
Collaborating on contracts8.370 Ratings00 Ratings
MS Word plug-in7.772 Ratings00 Ratings
Approval process8.074 Ratings00 Ratings
Interdepartmental workflows7.870 Ratings00 Ratings
Contract Monitoring
Comparison of Contract Monitoring features of Product A and Product B
Conga CLM
8.7
80 Ratings
6% above category average
PandaDoc
-
Ratings
Contract database8.776 Ratings00 Ratings
Contract search8.576 Ratings00 Ratings
Contract milestone reminders & alerts8.473 Ratings00 Ratings
Custom contract reports8.474 Ratings00 Ratings
Tracking contract status8.676 Ratings00 Ratings
Compliance check8.562 Ratings00 Ratings
Contract Management
Comparison of Contract Management features of Product A and Product B
Conga CLM
8.3
53 Ratings
6% above category average
PandaDoc
-
Ratings
Contract Storage8.851 Ratings00 Ratings
Advanced Search and Filtering8.448 Ratings00 Ratings
Customizable Contract Templates8.348 Ratings00 Ratings
Workflow Acceleration7.845 Ratings00 Ratings
E-Signatures8.646 Ratings00 Ratings
Reminders and Alerts8.248 Ratings00 Ratings
Analytics and Reporting8.549 Ratings00 Ratings
Integration with other Systems8.045 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
Conga CLMPandaDoc
Likelihood to Recommend
8.6
(90 ratings)
8.9
(325 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
8.7
(3 ratings)
9.1
(18 ratings)
Usability
8.3
(5 ratings)
8.2
(23 ratings)
Availability
10.0
(1 ratings)
9.1
(4 ratings)
Performance
10.0
(1 ratings)
9.6
(21 ratings)
Support Rating
9.2
(4 ratings)
5.9
(23 ratings)
In-Person Training
10.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Online Training
9.0
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
9.2
(2 ratings)
6.3
(4 ratings)
Configurability
10.0
(1 ratings)
2.8
(3 ratings)
Ease of integration
10.0
(1 ratings)
9.0
(20 ratings)
Product Scalability
10.0
(1 ratings)
8.6
(4 ratings)
Professional Services
10.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
10.0
(1 ratings)
9.8
(20 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
10.0
(1 ratings)
6.7
(4 ratings)
User Testimonials
Conga CLMPandaDoc
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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PandaDoc
As an alternative to other electronic signature mechanisms, I can't recommend PandaDoc more highly. It works, plain and simple. It is less costly - by a lot - than most alternatives, stores signed documents online for easy access, is simple to use by both our staff and our clients, and makes our lives far easier.
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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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PandaDoc
  • PandaDoc allows our team to create and send detailed sales proposals and quotes with the use of their templates.
  • The use of collaborative editing is also beneficial because our team is able to have multiple users edit and comment on documents simultaneously.
  • Document tracking is useful because we are able to receive real-time notifications and updates on the proposal process.
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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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PandaDoc
  • The automatic snapping of added fields in templates could be toggleable to more easily place fields where they need to be
  • When fields are duplicated, the generated Field IDs can get long (e.g. Text_1, Text_1_1, Text_1_1_1, etc)
  • Loading screens are sometimes long
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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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PandaDoc
The reason I gave it a rating of 7 is because it's probable, but not for sure. This is because there are a few little things we don't love about pandadoc. Mostly that there is not conditional logic such as: they must either fill this field out OR this one. Also it's a little pricey. But we'll probably stay because it's good enough and a pain to switch to something new
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Usability
Conga
The current version is probably about a five. The new version, I have not used it a lot. I've only done some testing around in it, not a lot. I'd say it's probably a seven or eight.
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PandaDoc
Once you get the hang of it, it's very easy to use. There can be a slightly steep learning curve to get fully in on the system. The new editor v2 has really improved usability and allows us to collaborate on documents simultaneously. Once the templates and library items are set up, a new document, whether it be a sales or HR document, takes very little time to complete.
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Reliability and Availability
Conga
We never faced any issue till date
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PandaDoc
We haven't had any real issues regarding downtime as of yet.
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Performance
Conga
Everything is perfect
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PandaDoc
The documents load quickly for the most part but sometimes if there are larger documents with a high number of variables it could take a bit longer to get the document to show up. Most of the time the document comes on the screen relatively quickly allowing for quick access to documents to be edited and sent out.
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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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PandaDoc
Recently I could not upload a pdf to a contract - support was very responsive and easy to work with. They got back to me the next day with an apparent fix - however when I opened the document nothing had changed. I then could not respond to the rep who was helping me because it was a "no-reply address", the problem still has not been solved and we had to make alternate arrangements to get this to the client. Never had it happen before and was only with this one contract.
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In-Person Training
Conga
Conga University is very well made. Loved it!
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PandaDoc
No answers on this topic
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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PandaDoc
No answers on this topic
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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PandaDoc
Implementation was before the time I was here at Riafox, however, support has been great in assisting to merge spaces and upgrade to 2.0 Editor.
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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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PandaDoc
We used Dropbox back when it was still HelloSign. At the time, new templates were very hard to create. We had to upload a PDF and then add the fields from there. With PandaDoc, we are able to drag and drop the text, images, logos, and fields we need easily. This has saved our team an immense amount of time.
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Scalability
Conga
We are fully satisfied with the over all experience using conga contract
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PandaDoc
It's scalable
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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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PandaDoc
  • It has helped increase our sales productivity by allowing us to get contracts back more quickly.
  • Has helped with employee efficiency in contract writing.
  • It has helped our company find contract writing mistakes before they get to our clients and cause confusion.
  • The one negative would be the increase in costs associated with using this software, which seems to increase each year at renewal.
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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

PandaDoc Screenshots

Screenshot of some of the custom-designed themes, templates, embedded rich media, and interactivity to give every deal the opportunity to get noticed.Screenshot of automatic notifications, on-the-fly editing, CRM Integrations, and integrated eSignatures.Screenshot of reporting, with drill down to the deal level with proposals, to pick which deals to include (or exclude).Screenshot of legally binding eSignaturesScreenshot of centralized communications to streamline the negotiation process, and make revisions in real-time in a single location.Screenshot of document analytics that display what’s really happening after documents are sent with real-time reporting on engagement and activity on the documents. This enables teams to respond faster to prospects.