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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    DocuSign

    Score8.7 out of 10
    N/ADocuSign supports transactions with document sharing and electronic signature, as well as automated and guided data collection and entry, record updating across disparate systems and payment collection upon agreement, as well as analytics and reporting.

    $15

    per month

    Nitro PDF Pro

    Score8.2 out of 10
    N/ANitro PDF Pro is a document management platform that supports PDF creation, modification, conversion, organization, review, and protection across Windows, Mac, and iOS environments. Key Capabilities Document Authoring & Modification: Native editing capabilities for PDF creation and content updates. Format Conversion: Conversion between PDF and standard office document formats. Document Organization & Management: File organization and management…

    $7.50

    Billed every 3 years. This is a subscription product with a 3-year fee of $270.00 per license. per seat

    Zoho Sign

    Score9.1 out of 10
    Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
    Zoho Sign is a digital signing service that lets you execute contracts quickly without the hassles of transporting paper documents while ensuring security and legality. It works completely on cloud and integrates readily with your everyday apps. According to the vendor, Zoho Sign is perfect for anyone who needs to sign business documents but widely used for HR, legal, finance, HR, and sales functions. Documents that can be signed include:…

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    Pricing
    DocuSignNitro PDF ProZoho Sign
    Editions & Modules
    Personal
    $15
    per month
    Real Starter
    $15
    per month
    DocuSign for Realtors
    $35
    per month
    Standard
    $40
    per month
    Business Pro
    $60
    per month
    Advanced Solutions
    Custom Pricing
    Nitro PDF Classic
    $7.5/month
    Billed every 3 years. This is a subscription product with a 3-year fee of $270.00 per license. per seat
    Nitro PDF Standard
    $15/month
    This is a subscription product with a yearly fee of $180.00 per license. per seat
    Nitro PDF Plus
    Contact Sales
    Free
    $0.00
    per user
    Standard
    $10.00
    per user/ month
    Professional
    $15.00
    per user/ month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    DocuSignNitro PDF ProZoho Sign
    Free Trial
    YesYesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee$10 per user
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    Community Pulse
    DocuSignNitro PDF ProZoho Sign
    Considered Multiple Products
    DocuSign
    Chose DocuSign
    I prefer DocuSign to Adobe Sign because of the workflow process. To me, DocuSign flows much easier and the interface is easier for me to locate the things I need. I also appreciate the templates that DocuSign allowed, especially because Egnyte had a direct integration with …
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    Chose DocuSign
    DocuSign is the system with the easiest way to add and remove fields. For most situations, you will have a template so you don't need to keep adding and removing fields. When those situations do come up, it's easy for DocuSign. For those other ones you need to go through a …
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    Nitro Inc
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    Zoho
    Chose Zoho Sign
    DocuSign seems to be more commonly used and often times clients will ask if we can use that as opposed to Zoho Sign.
    Incentivized
    Chose Zoho Sign
    I was a paid subscriber to Adobe prior to using Zoho, and found their solution expensive and inflexible. DocuSign may be the market leader, but Zoho fits better into our overall needs, especially since it integrates well with our other Zoho products.
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    Chose Zoho Sign
    Price is important but it has all the same features as some of the main brand names on the market which makes this package ideal for small businesses and larger ones looking at costs. The advantage we find is that we can edit forms with drop-down boxes and preset answers for …
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    Chose Zoho Sign
    Much more affordable!
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    85%
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    Delivers good value for the price
    84%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
    88%
    Happy with the feature set
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    89%
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    83%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
    87%
    Implementation went as expected
    67 Answers
    100%
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    User Ratings
    DocuSignNitro PDF ProZoho Sign
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (161 ratings)
    9.3
    (17 ratings)
    9.0
    (5 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    7.0
    (12 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    Usability
    8.5
    (19 ratings)
    9.0
    (4 ratings)
    -
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    Availability
    10.0
    (3 ratings)
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    Performance
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
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    Support Rating
    10.0
    (46 ratings)
    9.2
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Online Training
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    -
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    Implementation Rating
    10.0
    (5 ratings)
    -
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    Ease of integration
    -
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    5.0
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    Product Scalability
    10.0
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    User Testimonials
    DocuSignNitro PDF ProZoho Sign
    Likelihood to Recommend
    DocuSign
    This product is well suited in the use case that I provided before: when it comes to onboarding employees and providing a clear channel for decision making for human resources, this is an excellent tool to accomplish that. I would say the weak points is when you have back and forth communication with users that it might seem a little redundant to have that back and forth communication in that scenario.
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    Nitro Inc
    I run a professional services business from home. I need to edit documents quickly and easily and with minimal subscriptions to minimize overheads. I love that Nitro is a one-off payment to get a license to the software, and you can simply upgrade to the latest version if that's what you want, but you're not obligated to. I've been using the same version of Nitro for 7-8 years now. Despite the fact the upgraded versions have a lot of great, nice-to-have features, the version I'm on still does the job.
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    Zoho
    great for sending out duplicate forms to clients that require a signature, this is fine when you do not have to keep changing details on the form. What is limited is if we need to change elements that need to be signed or remove elements as the original form is loaded up as a Word document or PDF. There are a variety of selection options to ensure that the data fields can be customized to font color and size number of characters etc.
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    Pros
    DocuSign
    • Ease of sending the same document out to multiple recipients, at multiple locations, for multiple signatures
    • Quick turnaround - once the recipient signs the document, we receive notification and the document back immediately
    • Can resend, alter, change, and/or add to the email and/or document that is sent out very easily
    • The recipient can save the document after signing, so they too have their own electronic copy for their records
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    Nitro Inc
    • Ability to combine files SEAMLESSLY and order them around as necessary (so underrated)
    • Signing not only for yourself but for others. Helpful for those who have been granted the authority to sign for VPs and directors
    • Much easier to use than some other PDF viewing services
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    Zoho
    • Easy use.
    • Drag and drop for text-boxes.
    • Quick upload of documents.
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    Cons
    DocuSign
    • Tracking, particularly when collecting signatures through connected applications, such as an ATS, is not always clean or easily traceable.
    • Formatting documents to handle electronic signature types (signatures, initials, etc.) is not always easy, and highly dependent on the partner's technology.
    • It is not convenient to have to use DocuSign as a stand alone product if the signatures are required for 3rd party applications. It definitely excels on its own, but the scope of that usage, at least for us, is slim.
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    Nitro Inc
    • Converting from PDF to Microsoft Word can be complicated at times. Some parts of a document such as tables are not converted properly.
    • Sometimes it appears to be easier to save MS Word documents to PDF rather than using NPS to convert. It can be a bit slow to convert at times.
    • In my view, it wasn't user friendly at the beginning.
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    Zoho
    • Page and element spacing can sometimes be different than expected.
    • There should be more standardized fields for inserting into documents.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    DocuSign
    I can't imagine doing business without DocuSign now. I would never want to go back to the way we used to do things. The "new way" is "the way" is "the right way." We can honestly be proud of a "one right way" process and not have to suffer through "5 ways for 5 days."
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    Nitro Inc
    We will definitely be renewing the Nitro Productivity Suite. Saves the company a lot of money for something we use everyday
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    Zoho
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    Usability
    DocuSign
    Generally user-friendly once you have command of the basics, but also has a lot of nuances that can make it difficult to train others on. DocuSign University is a helpful tool, but understandably a lot of content to get through to become a well-versed user. A lot of different functionalities but only a few I use on a weekly basis.
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    Nitro Inc
    For the most part, the entire software is extremely easy to navigate and use. You won't need to follow tutorials or anything for the bulk of the core features, as it's all pretty seamlessly designed.
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    Zoho
    No answers on this topic
    Reliability and Availability
    DocuSign
    It does not go down. I have had zero issues with DocuSign, approaching 4 years.
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    Zoho
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    Performance
    DocuSign
    Everything loads quickly. Reports are generated in a reasonable time. No noticeable difference in integrated software processing speeds.
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    Nitro Inc
    It works as advertised.
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    Zoho
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    Support Rating
    DocuSign
    I'd give them a 10, but there has been 1 or 2 small cases that seemed to fall to the wayside, but I was able to call them up and get them resolved. We were having a bad implementation night (after midnight) and we needed assistance from Docusign. They were able to get an engineer to help us in the early morning hours
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    Nitro Inc
    Nitro checks all the boxes for what we need. It is fairly priced, it allows us to read and edit PDF documents, convert PDF to MS Word and convert MS Word to PDF. It allows us to combine multiple files and do all the post processing like adding page numbers and adding headers and footers
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    Zoho
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    Online Training
    DocuSign
    Docusign is super easy to use, and apart from a few administration details, there was really nothing to train on. Post implementation, there were issues with configuration of auto-filled documents with the integrating 3rd party. That training required some time, because the DocuSign expert took the time to walk me through the 3rd party's configuration (how often does that happen?) so I could see how DocuSign should be best used to overcome weaknesses in the 3rd party platform. 10/10 expert care.
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    Implementation Rating
    DocuSign
    Until you get the hang of it, I recommend doing several internal tests before sending a document to a client. As I mentioned earlier, you have to go through a bit of trial and error at first to verify that the workflow works as expected.
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    Alternatives Considered
    DocuSign
    There has never been anything that we could really compare to Docusign. We have tried sending documents in a PDF version, but that was not nearly as efficient. DocuSign saves your signature in the system and uses that as it goes through your documents.
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    Nitro Inc
    Every 1-2 years will do a check on current PDF options to include trialing the software. Have tried Foxit and several that seem to have failed in the marketplace. Over the last 4 years, I have always stuck with Nitro. Unfortunately, we still need to keep Adobe Acrobat (free version) installed to view a small percentage of some PDFs we receive.
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    Zoho
    DocuSign seems to be more commonly used and often times clients will ask if we can use that as opposed to Zoho Sign.
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    Scalability
    DocuSign
    In my years of using DocuSign, I have never had an outage. I haven't even encountered a bug.
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    Nitro Inc
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    Zoho
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    Return on Investment
    DocuSign
    • Less paper use, faster signature times, less time standing at the printer/scanner to send documents to yourself
    • Security over your signature! Security over your company's signature and authorization to approve projects, cash flow etc
    • Love audit trails and the seamless tracking of the status of the document
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    Nitro Inc
    • ROI was very quick as the license costs were so low. We purchased 8 licenses versus the initial 2 we were planning on for Adobe.
    • More people were able to use the product than we initially thought due to low purchase costs.
    • We haven't had any further costs to own the product after the initial purchase. We would need to purchase new licenses if we wanted to upgrade.
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    Zoho
    • Zoho Sign was far more affordable for the simple uses we need. It simplified our processes at a very affordable price.
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    Nitro PDF Pro Screenshots

    Screenshot of Version 26 (Nitro's latest version) introduces a new dedicated home for every AI-powered capability, giving you everything you need in one place to analyze content in any language, extract critical data, and protect sensitive information.Screenshot of Data-clearing capabilities like Redact and Remove Metadata now live together in one place, so the tool you need is where you'd expect it.Screenshot of Keep every document, and everything inside it, safe with advanced security features such as password protection, encryption, permission controls, and audit trails.Screenshot of Work together securely with Nitro's built-in collaboration tools. Gather and manage feedback across teams and devices with comments, highlights, and markup tools.Screenshot of Update, restructure, and optimize any PDF into exactly the document you want, organized the way you need, without switching back to the original file.Screenshot of Create and convert PDFs to and from popular formats like Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and image files while preserving layout and quality.

    Zoho Sign Screenshots

    Screenshot of Zoho Sign DashboardScreenshot of Sending documents for signatures using templatesScreenshot of All document sent using Zoho SignScreenshot of Rebranding email templates sent from Zoho Sign