Dropbox Sign vs. PDF Sign&Seal

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Dropbox Sign
Score 8.1 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.
$0
per month
PDF Sign&Seal
Score 8.1 out of 10
N/A
PDF Sign&Seal is a desktop application that is designed to make it easy to apply PDF digital signatures, time-stamps and strong PDF security to business documents. The vendor says it has been carefully designed for busy managers that have ease of use as a priority. The vendor’s value proposition is that by using PDF Sign&Seal anyone can easily create, sign or protect business documents. The vendor says the PDF Sign&Seal application makes PDF signing simple, efficient and easy to…N/A
Pricing
Dropbox SignPDF Sign&Seal
Editions & Modules
Free
$0
Essentials
$15
per month
Standard
$17.5
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
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Dropbox SignPDF Sign&Seal
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
YesYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoYes
Entry-level Setup FeeOptional$95 per user
Additional DetailsAdditional pricing available for HelloWorks and HelloFaxPDF Sign&Seal is registered on a per user basis with a node-locked license. We offer discounts for volume purchases of 5 or more seats.
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Community Pulse
Dropbox SignPDF Sign&Seal
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Dropbox SignPDF Sign&Seal
Small Businesses
PDFfiller
PDFfiller
Score 9.0 out of 10
PDFfiller
PDFfiller
Score 9.0 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
MSB Docs
MSB Docs
Score 9.7 out of 10
MSB Docs
MSB Docs
Score 9.7 out of 10
Enterprises
Box
Box
Score 8.5 out of 10
Box
Box
Score 8.5 out of 10
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User Ratings
Dropbox SignPDF Sign&Seal
Likelihood to Recommend
7.8
(175 ratings)
8.0
(2 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
8.1
(11 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
9.2
(121 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Availability
9.1
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Performance
9.1
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
3.8
(18 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
8.9
(4 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Configurability
8.6
(119 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model
9.1
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Product Scalability
9.1
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
9.1
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Dropbox SignPDF Sign&Seal
Likelihood to Recommend
Dropbox
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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Ascertia
PDF Sign&Seal is perfect if you have documents that need to be signed electronically. It may not be an excellent choice if you work off a mobile device or are on the road a majority of the time as there are better app alternatives that do a similar job signing docs electronically for you.
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Pros
Dropbox
  • 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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Ascertia
  • Provides integrity
  • one-click signing
  • deploying is easy
  • integrated with Microsoft
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Cons
Dropbox
  • 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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Ascertia
  • I'd like to see a stronger mobile interface or app
  • Collaboration type of sharing would be welcome
  • Integration with a Wacom bamboo type of tablet for signing
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Likelihood to Renew
Dropbox
Because this product has been affordable which is so important for a non profit however it is also of good quality so its not like you get a cheap version of this you get a quality product at an affordable price and that is so important for a non profit
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Ascertia
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Usability
Dropbox
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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Ascertia
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Reliability and Availability
Dropbox
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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Ascertia
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Performance
Dropbox
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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Ascertia
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Support Rating
Dropbox
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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Ascertia
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Implementation Rating
Dropbox
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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Ascertia
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Alternatives Considered
Dropbox
Dropbox Sign seems a little more intuitive and user-friendly than DocuSign. DocuSign also has a limit to the number of documents that you can send for signature over a period of time. Dropbox Sign integrates with just as many applications and software as DocuSign does. I also think the amount of templates that they give you to use is more than adequate for most business applications and more than other services seem to give you.
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Ascertia
PDF Sign&Seal is quicker than Adobe Acrobat DC. And, it is easier to merge multiple documents and even deploying large number of file is quite simple in PDF Sign & seal. ANd, last but not least, One-click operation is great in PDF Sign&Seal and it is legally complaint to many regulatory frameworks compared to Adobe ones
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Contract Terms and Pricing Model
Dropbox
The appropriate price for the system.
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Ascertia
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Scalability
Dropbox
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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Ascertia
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Return on Investment
Dropbox
  • 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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Ascertia
  • Saved time reducing extra work, scanning, and emailing
  • Reduces time needed to get signatures from other parties
  • Cost of software was recuperated in a short amount of time
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ScreenShots

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

PDF Sign&Seal Screenshots

Screenshot of Signature PaneScreenshot of Digitally Sign Multiple Signature FieldsScreenshot of Designing Signature AppearancesScreenshot of Language ConfigurationsScreenshot of Shell-Integrated