HotDocs by CARET vs. Templafy

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
HotDocs by CARET
Score 8.5 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
Templafy
Score 8.9 out of 10
N/A
Templafy is a document management solution from the company of the same name in Copenhagen, featuring templates with dynamic personalization, automated population of templates with brand content, email signature management, document assembly workflow, and other features.N/A
Pricing
HotDocs by CARETTemplafy
Editions & Modules
Basic
$25
per user/per month
Enterprise
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
HotDocs by CARETTemplafy
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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User Ratings
HotDocs by CARETTemplafy
Likelihood to Recommend
7.4
(9 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Usability
5.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
8.5
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
4.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
HotDocs by CARETTemplafy
Likelihood to Recommend
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.
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Templafy
Great use case for TEmplafy is when you have a lot of assets in a system, that you want to be able to slice and dice and export a custom report of what is meaningful to you. They are set up so you can make selections to only surface what you need and feel very well served. It is not ideal, at this time, if you want to look at many separate systems and merge them all. It requires a lot of work to customize and tailor to fit this more curated need
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Pros
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.
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Templafy
  • Simple user interface to make choices and see results
  • Puts the power of customization in the users hand
  • Quick set up and powerful
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Cons
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
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Templafy
  • Customized interface to fit more with a brand or style
  • Web interface and not being dependent on microsoft software
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Usability
CARET (Abacus Data Systems, Inc. )
Could be more intuitive - could even "suggest" fill-ins with the option to take or not take the suggestion.
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Templafy
No answers on this topic
Support Rating
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.
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Templafy
No answers on this topic
Implementation Rating
CARET (Abacus Data Systems, Inc. )
If you use WordPerfect X9 - choose"no word-processing software."
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Templafy
No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered
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.
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Templafy
We went went templafy for the ease of set up, still in our first year but looking to see how it stacks up once we want to integrate with Salesforce. We wanted the ability to customize and templafy offered more options than others
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Return on Investment
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.
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Templafy
  • Reduces search hours by half
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