FormAssembly vs. Dropbox Sign

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
FormAssembly
Score 9.1 out of 10
N/A
FormAssembly is an enterprise data collection and automation platform designed to enable organizations to capture clean, compliant data from the start. With the latest edition of the platform, FormAssembly Atlas, and its built-in AI assistant, Fai, forms and workflows build themselves, connect to Salesforce and other systems in just a few clicks, and ensure every record is structured, secure, and ready for automation or AI. In short, FormAssembly is designed to…N/A
Dropbox Sign
Score 9.1 out of 10
N/A
HelloSign is an electronic signature software offering acquired by Dropbox in early 2019. It includes features such as customization for businesses of any size and bank-level security.
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Pricing
FormAssemblyDropbox Sign
Editions & Modules
Atlas Explorer
Contact Sales
per month
Atlas Team
Contact sales
Gov Cloud
Contact sales
Atlas Enterprise
Contact Sales
Free
$0
Essentials
$15
per month
Standard
$25
per month starting at two users, per user
Essentials API
$75
per month Starting at 50 signature requests / mo.
Standard API
$250
per month Starting at 100 signature requests / mo.
Premium
Custom
Custom
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
FormAssemblyDropbox Sign
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalOptional
Additional DetailsAdditional pricing available for HelloWorks and HelloFax
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Community Pulse
FormAssemblyDropbox Sign
Considered Both Products
FormAssembly
Chose FormAssembly
I have used typeform, Yupform and jotform before choosing FormAssembly. Compared to them, FormAssembly is better for business use and handles complex workflows more smoothky. It is Salesforce integrtion is more reliable and reduce manual work. While other are simpler or have …
Chose FormAssembly
FormAssembly's features were more expansive than SurveyMonkey, in my opinion. When doing a comparison, we really liked that we could set up formulas to calculate expenses for us and that they would be easy to update as needed for rates that change from year to year.
Chose FormAssembly
More options, better customization, and friendly to admins. All 3 of those products have their warts, but the biggest hurdle is that they just don't work as well as FormAssembly. FormStack is nice in SF, but the features are limited, and the styling options are way worse. Titan …
Chose FormAssembly
FormAssembly is by far the better program when it comes to security and ease of use. The ability to connect multiple forms and create pathways depending upon responses allows for ease of use by respondents.
Chose FormAssembly
Overall we were looking specifically for a Salesforce-connected form provider, and found FormAssembly offered the most dynamic and powerful suite of Salesforce integrations across the form vendors we evaluated. I would specifically highlight that the logic a user can create …
Chose FormAssembly
I still use Google for simple tasks, but FormAssembly really does it all.
Chose FormAssembly
I know there are other options in the market but realistically we went with the one that our developers were familiar with and recommended which was FormAssembly. Knowing that it would work well with Salesforce
Chose FormAssembly
Form Assembly allows for advanced data mapping, pre-filling forms with Salesforce data, and working with custom objects. FormAssembly excels in Salesforce Integration, as it is highly specialized and deeply integrated. Often considered the industry leader for Salesforce forms, …
Chose FormAssembly
FormAssembly has superior Salesforce configuration settings, but JotForm offers a much greater variety of systems integrations. We don't really use reports or workflows in FormAssembly, but the Jotform Report Builder is frustrating at best. Workflows feel comparable from my …
Chose FormAssembly
Jotform didn't have the two-way SF connectors we needed, if I remember correctly.
Chose FormAssembly
We use both, but SMA is nice because you have a portal you can log into. In all other ways, Formassembly is better in my opinion.
Chose FormAssembly
It is easier to design a form through Formassembly and integrate the results with Salesforce. When compared with docomotion, Formassembly is user-friendly. Additionally, the new feature in Formassembly that allows for designing signatures is beneficial.
Chose FormAssembly
Our website couldn’t handle self-hosting Formidable Forms as a plug-in on our website and would frequently crash. Titan Forms had poor communication and was difficult to schedule customer service. Formstack was self-hosted on our Salesforce, but was overpriced for our use case …
Chose FormAssembly
We decided on FA forms as they are easy to setup, great user experience and API enabled
Chose FormAssembly
The customer support as well as usability of FormAssembly has been vastly superior.
Chose FormAssembly
I do not find much flexibility with advanced conditional/logic, customization, workflow, mapping, file, images, and doc upload.
Chose FormAssembly
The ease of use, integration with Salesforce, exportability of results, etc. Just basically has it hands down over the competition.
Chose FormAssembly
TargetX Forms is another option that I have. We decided to continue using FormAssembly due to the lack of features and flexibility available in TargetX Forms.
Chose FormAssembly
We have only used FormAssembly, once we were made aware of it by a consultant a few years ago. I checked the vendor recommendations against the Salesforce forums to see if it was recommended there and it was, plus I read the user-reviews on the AppExchange page. Once I got …
Chose FormAssembly
FormAsssembly is the leader in Salesforce integrated forms. It is the most powerful, dependable,and has the best Salesforce integration.
Chose FormAssembly
When we were researching options 2 years ago, FormAssembly beat other form tools hands down based on Salesforce integration features. The ability to declaratively set up prefill and post-submission data connectors supporting complex hierarchical data relationships was huge …
Dropbox Sign
Chose Dropbox Sign
I think all similar platforms can support smaller features, but Dropbox Sign might be easier to use, cost-effective, and friendly for new users and organizations that have no experience using it as an e-signature platform. Once I have a great experience, I would highly …
Chose Dropbox Sign
PandaDoc has an interface that isn't as simple but once you get used to it, it's really not bad. The biggest con is that I've had issues when using it where it glitches or just isn't loading. I think it's been issues on the back end that required ticketing. In the end, I didn't …
Chose Dropbox Sign
In my opinion, customer service is lacking. I believe they are unethical -- in my experience, they cancelled my membership despite asking them to only stop auto-billing. My account shows the membership was canceled but, I believe they still stole my $1630! Only reason I knew is …
Chose Dropbox Sign
Very similar program. I cannot say how different they are because I have not used DocuSign in some time.
Chose Dropbox Sign
Great software, however the integration of the Dropbox cloud in tandem with this is amazing and simpler than this great competitor for an all in one solution.
Chose Dropbox Sign
Dropbox seemed easier to use and cheaper than the others. It was just as functional.
Chose Dropbox Sign
Hellosign the easiest out of the class that we use. It is just super quick. We use eversign to get some extra templates, but it is pretty clunky for sending contracts.
Chose Dropbox Sign
It's useful that Dropbox Sign is connected with other apps (like fax), that's something the competitors I've used don't have.
Chose Dropbox Sign
So much better, specifically because of the lack of a limit. Focusing limits the total amount of docs you can sign per year and is more expensive. This product has similar if not slightly easier/Better functionality, and it’s for a much better price point. Would highly …
Chose Dropbox Sign
This is my first time using a tool like DropBox Sign and the reason I chose it is because the price was right for a small business with one user and I had a great customer service rep chatting with me that answered all of my questions very completely and efficiently.
Chose Dropbox Sign
Falls a little short but not too bad
Chose Dropbox Sign
Simpler to use and easier interface on your eyes
Chose Dropbox Sign
10 out of 10 times I will choose DocuSign moving forward over DropBox Sign. I hated how horrible their technical support was in solving my issue.
Chose Dropbox Sign
Docusign is fine, but Dropbox Sign provides far more flexibility and will scale with your business. Docusign seems to nickel and dime you every step of the way.
Chose Dropbox Sign
It stacks up pretty well, I do think some of the templates I've seen are a bit lacking with Dropbox sign.
Features
FormAssemblyDropbox Sign
Survey Format & Appearance
Comparison of Survey Format & Appearance features of Product A and Product B
FormAssembly
8.5
Ratings
6% above category average
Dropbox Sign
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Ratings
Survey templates8.50 Ratings00 Ratings
Themes8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Custom logo/branding8.90 Ratings00 Ratings
Survey Content
Comparison of Survey Content features of Product A and Product B
FormAssembly
8.5
Ratings
0% below category average
Dropbox Sign
-
Ratings
Changes to live survey8.40 Ratings00 Ratings
Question design help8.30 Ratings00 Ratings
Multiple question types8.90 Ratings00 Ratings
Survey Logic
Comparison of Survey Logic features of Product A and Product B
FormAssembly
9.2
Ratings
10% above category average
Dropbox Sign
-
Ratings
Survey logic flexibility9.20 Ratings00 Ratings
Survey Reporting & Analytics
Comparison of Survey Reporting & Analytics features of Product A and Product B
FormAssembly
8.1
Ratings
0% below category average
Dropbox Sign
-
Ratings
Response tracking8.80 Ratings00 Ratings
Data export9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Standard reports8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Custom reports7.40 Ratings00 Ratings
Analytics7.50 Ratings00 Ratings
Survey Administration & Security
Comparison of Survey Administration & Security features of Product A and Product B
FormAssembly
8.6
Ratings
1% below category average
Dropbox Sign
-
Ratings
Access controls8.20 Ratings00 Ratings
Compliance8.90 Ratings00 Ratings
Survey Distribution
Comparison of Survey Distribution features of Product A and Product B
FormAssembly
7.0
Ratings
14% below category average
Dropbox Sign
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Ratings
Vendor-offered crowdsourcing6.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Respondent restrictions8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
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Medium-sized Companies
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Score 9.4 out of 10
Enterprises
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User Ratings
FormAssemblyDropbox Sign
Likelihood to Recommend
9.3
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9.7
(0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.0
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9.1
(0 ratings)
Usability
9.3
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10.0
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Availability
10.0
(0 ratings)
9.1
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Performance
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
5.8
(0 ratings)
1.7
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
9.1
(0 ratings)
9.0
(0 ratings)
Configurability
-
(0 ratings)
8.3
(0 ratings)
Ease of integration
8.3
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Product Scalability
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(0 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
-
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9.1
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
FormAssemblyDropbox Sign
Likelihood to Recommend
It's affordable, flexible, and does everything you need a form tool to do. It's not that hard to figure out, and an admin can start using it right away, without too much support. Their support documentation is very good, and we can find exactly what we need without much digging.
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Cross functionally this product is great and the reminders/ email notifications are super helpful. Also signers who are not familiar with Dropbox sign have no problem using the tool. I find it super user friendly. I have found its a little harder to use when a signer has an agent (not a party signing the doc) and the agent wants to review prior to the person signing.
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Pros
  • Salesforce prefill is a powerful way to prefill forms with records from Salesforce and prevent duplicate data entry.
  • Salesforce submission connector allows us to create some pretty complex and powerful logic to process form submissions into Salesforce data.
  • General form prefill options via query strings in the URL is a helpful feature.
  • The ability to use custom CSS and javascript on the page makes the forms very extensible and has been helpful to give us even more functionality.
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  • Allows customization for each client.
  • Gives us all the room we need to create a thorough contract.
  • Allows us to save each executed contract as a PDF.
  • Looks like a pricey, professionally drawn-up contract.
  • The ability to send a new customer a professional-looking contract like this makes us look "bigger" than we are.
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Cons
  • we could always use more styling options when it comes to the form builder
  • in our past use of the form builder when adding attachments to a form, there was an upload limit of 35MB. It would be great if this limit was increased.
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  • It would be nice to be able to build a template for just the location of the signature boxes that would allow me to upload a document, and the boxes could be basically replaced. I have the exact same doc for each of my clients, but there are small changes here and there, and I have to fill in their personal info through another program, so it would be nice to be able to do a template this way instead of just tying a template to one document.
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Likelihood to Renew
One major point for us is our migration to a completely Microsoft infrastructure. IN addition to that, the afore mentioned need to ingest external data resources means that we do have our eyes open toward the landscape so that we can fill these needs. This in no way indicates a move away from FormAssembly: their support is first rate, and so far the product has always stood up to the tests we've put it through.
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It's a great software and we will continue to use it. It's a great time and money saver when it comes to legal contracts and makes the process easy for both sides who need to sign or add information to a document or contract. We definitely need our contracts to be legally binding and HelloSign provides this for us
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Usability
My perspective is mainly from IT delivery and operations, rather than from the students who entering data. the system is user-friendly, easy to navigate, and has excellent integration with Salesforce. While error handling could be improved, the support channel has limited capacity to maintain a good service level and lacks the ability to handle complex cases via conference call or screensharing.
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It works well for it's intended use, I feel like some of the features can improve a bit and it's recently received a bit of a face lift but over all it's been a really easy tool to utilize and implement and we've used it since we've opened.
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Reliability and Availability
No answers on this topic
I have not encountered this because it was so easy to use however just seeing how they created a community is great and shows that they are here for their users. I am going to say I am sure they are available and ready to assist when needed. The fact that we have not yet experienced an outage and issues says a lot though :)
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Performance
No answers on this topic
Again I cannot say it is enough this app is simple. We are preparing to be able to integrate with Salesforce and Sharepoint at a very small cost per user (these are the platforms we use) and it is great that they have the option to integrate these apps. We love this app
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Support Rating
While it's not a true development package and misses some features like ingestion of external data for lists, etc... the product is fast, stable, easy to use, and will suit the needs of anyone needing online form functionality with SalesForce and other connectors available for your marketing needs.
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Support is limited to email only (for our subscription level), which might be OK for a e-signing platform if support was relatively rapid. This is not the case with HelloSign. Since the issues first arose a week ago, we have made no discernible progress in solving the problem. No matter how quickly I respond to a follow-up email, we receive only 1 email a day from the support. The other issue, which is a true edge case situation, is their insistence on receiving email from the same email account as the HelloSign registration. We changed our organizational email recently, and I was still logging into HS using our old email address. This became a hard stop on further support, which doesn't make sense on a practical level. Why would someone write in for support with specific issues if they weren't a customer? And if they did, wouldn't that be a miniscule proportion of the support requests? So if you adopt a policy that stops providing support to anyone who isn't verified, regardless of the situation, isn't that using a blunt instrument to solve a very rare issue? Reflects the overall organizational values, in my opinion, which is not to value the small customer.
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Implementation Rating
we had a successful implementation and great adoption
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I can not say it enough - this was the easiest implementation we have had with an application. I became an admin, I added the person who would be the back up admin, we moved forward with adding accounts and that was it. All the users we have were self sufficient enough to move forward with very little guidance and the guidance they received was in house.
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Alternatives Considered
FormAssembly's features were more expansive than SurveyMonkey, in my opinion. When doing a comparison, we really liked that we could set up formulas to calculate expenses for us and that they would be easy to update as needed for rates that change from year to year.
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PandaDoc has an interface that isn't as simple but once you get used to it, it's really not bad. The biggest con is that I've had issues when using it where it glitches or just isn't loading. I think it's been issues on the back end that required ticketing. In the end, I didn't find it as reliable. We've never had an issue with Dropbox Sign and we still use it daily.
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Scalability
No answers on this topic
Between the easy to use app, the pricing, and the team at dropbox. This app is hands down great! Easy to use. Anyone can start using it and if not I am sure the team at dropbox will guide you to implement. The cost especially for us as a nonprofit is sustainable which is great.
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Return on Investment
  • FormAssembly makes it easy to share registration forms with targeted groups of users
  • It makes it easy to track registration numbers and form errors and reach out to people who may need assistance
  • It's very easy to create registration forms quickly
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  • Faster time to contract signature-less overthinking because they sign with their finger on the phone with the sales rep.
  • Reduction of paper waste and organization.
  • Ease for sales reps to quickly choose and alter any agreement they need while on a call.
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ScreenShots

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Dropbox Sign Screenshots

Screenshot of drag and drop fields for any document to create an e-signature documentScreenshot of signer settings that can be used to distribute agreementsScreenshot of Notifications of completed signaturesScreenshot of uploading a documentScreenshot of Admin homepageScreenshot of template creation