empower® suite vs. HotDocs by CARET

HotDocs by CARET

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
empower® suite	Score 2.0 out of 10	N/A	empower® suite is a suite of MS Office add-ins that elevate and streamline working with Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook. They help to create properly formatted presentations, documents, spreadsheets and emails quickly. Users can build documents based on templates and building-blocks – searchable in a centralized library, online and offline. The software can be hosted on-premise or in the cloud and used with Office 365, Office for Windows, Office for Mac, PowerPoint Online, and Microsoft…	N/A
HotDocs by CARET	Score 8.6 out of 10	N/A	HotDocs is a document automation and assembly software product, acquired and now supported by AbacusNext since 2017.	$25 per user/per month

Pricing

empower® suite

HotDocs by CARET

Editions & Modules

No answers on this topic

Basic: $25
per user/per month
Enterprise: Contact sales team

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
empower® suite	HotDocs by CARET
Free Trial
Yes	No
Free/Freemium Version
Yes	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Yes	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

Required

No setup fee

Additional Details

empower® offers an annual license model, which is based on the number of users (designed for larger license volume starting from 20 users) and the corresponding product edition. Maintenance, updates and 2nd level support are included in the license fee. For example, with empower® charts you can save up to 50% on yearly license cost compared to similar products.

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Community Pulse
	empower® suite	HotDocs by CARET
Top Pros	No answers on this topic	Pro Easy to use Pro Workflow process Pro Document assembly
Top Cons	No answers on this topic	Minus Set up Minus Not helpful Minus Phone calls

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User Ratings
	empower® suite	HotDocs by CARET
Likelihood to Recommend	- (0 ratings)	7.4 (9 ratings)
Usability	- (0 ratings)	5.0 (1 ratings)
Support Rating	- (0 ratings)	8.5 (2 ratings)
Implementation Rating	- (0 ratings)	4.0 (1 ratings)

User Testimonials
	empower® suite	HotDocs by CARET
Likelihood to Recommend	empower No answers on this topic	CARET (Abacus Data Systems, Inc. ) It is well suited in the organisations which deals with lots of paper work like legal, teaching, research, etc as they need similar kind of documents again and again. In a typical office set up it is of great use by human resource, marketing and legal department. Hot docs is not suitable if you have a proprietary or solo business as it do not caters to them. Incentivized Prakul Sharma AI Reporting Read full review
Pros	empower No answers on this topic	CARET (Abacus Data Systems, Inc. ) Personalized training. We were able to get an expert on a video call who walked us through solutions to each of our unique problems (i.e. all fifty states have different notary blocks, how can we auto-populate it when the state of the deal is selected?). Team access. Multiple people can work with the templates at once, thus allowing the members of our team who deal with financials to work on their documents while others focus on the organizational and legal documents. Once you have successfully drafted your templates, it runs incredibly smooth (barring any minor hiccups that happen with software updates) and efficiently. Incentivized GL Garrett Lemons Paralegal Read full review
Cons	empower No answers on this topic	CARET (Abacus Data Systems, Inc. ) Most HotDocs templates demand high-level code. This includes complicated Word codes Using HotDocs is incredibly user-friendly. Creating and maintaining templates is a programming task Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Usability	empower No answers on this topic	CARET (Abacus Data Systems, Inc. ) Could be more intuitive - could even "suggest" fill-ins with the option to take or not take the suggestion. Incentivized Riva Schwartz Office Manager Read full review
Support Rating	empower No answers on this topic	CARET (Abacus Data Systems, Inc. ) I haven't had to contact HotDocs very often for support. I suppose I rated them mid-level simply because I would like to see more online training options or white papers to view to assist with learning. I want to understand how to do something versus having it done for me. Incentivized Kandice McElroy Executive Administrator Read full review
Implementation Rating	empower No answers on this topic	CARET (Abacus Data Systems, Inc. ) If you use WordPerfect X9 - choose"no word-processing software." Incentivized Riva Schwartz Office Manager Read full review
Alternatives Considered	empower No answers on this topic	CARET (Abacus Data Systems, Inc. ) I haven't evaluated other products. We are so used to HotDocs that it would be difficult for us to switch to something else. We continue to use HotDocs because switching cost is high once you have already started. Be careful before beginning to use this program, as it is hard to breakaway. Incentivized Jason Shindler Director Of Technology Read full review
Return on Investment	empower No answers on this topic	CARET (Abacus Data Systems, Inc. ) Time savings by employees when generating documents mean better ROI efficiency for labor. Faster, more accurate turnaround for documents needing to be generated from templates. Large capital expenditure depending on the number of users and developers. Incentivized Derek Schroeder Service Manager Read full review
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