Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Ignition
Score 8.5 out of 10
N/A
Ignition is a platform for professional services that automates and optimizes proposals, client agreements, billing and payment collection to put an end to late payments, unbilled work and mundane repetitive admin.
$49
per month
Responsive
Score 8.9 out of 10
N/A
Responsive (formerly RFPIO), headquartered in Beaverton, offers their proposal management and automation software, featuring import and export, proposal knowledgebase and answer library, evaluation intake forms, and project management tools (e.g. Gantt chart) associated to proposal tracking.N/A
Pricing
IgnitionResponsive
Editions & Modules
Solo
$49
per month
Core
$149
per month
Pro
$249
per month
Pro+
$499
per month
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
IgnitionResponsive
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsDiscount available for annual pricing.
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Community Pulse
IgnitionResponsive
Features
IgnitionResponsive
Proposal Creation & Organization
Comparison of Proposal Creation & Organization features of Product A and Product B
Ignition
9.0
2 Ratings
14% above category average
Responsive
-
Ratings
Proposal branding8.52 Ratings00 Ratings
Proposal templates8.52 Ratings00 Ratings
Proposal content library updates9.52 Ratings00 Ratings
Searchable proposal database9.52 Ratings00 Ratings
Proposal Collaboration & Workflow
Comparison of Proposal Collaboration & Workflow features of Product A and Product B
Ignition
8.5
2 Ratings
7% above category average
Responsive
-
Ratings
Proposal collaboration & approval9.02 Ratings00 Ratings
User permissions/proposal editing controls7.52 Ratings00 Ratings
Sales proposal workflow10.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Proposal automation user interface7.52 Ratings00 Ratings
Proposal Delivery
Comparison of Proposal Delivery features of Product A and Product B
Ignition
7.3
2 Ratings
8% below category average
Responsive
-
Ratings
Proposal distribution10.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Interactive proposals4.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Proposal content tracking8.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Best Alternatives
IgnitionResponsive
Small Businesses
QuoteWerks
QuoteWerks
Score 9.7 out of 10

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Medium-sized Companies
QuoteWerks
QuoteWerks
Score 9.7 out of 10

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Enterprises
Conga CLM
Conga CLM
Score 8.8 out of 10

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User Ratings
IgnitionResponsive
Likelihood to Recommend
10.0
(2 ratings)
9.3
(32 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
9.6
(26 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
9.8
(17 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(2 ratings)
User Testimonials
IgnitionResponsive
Likelihood to Recommend
Ignition
It can be used to invoice for anyone, so I will always recommend it.
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Responsive (formerly RFPIO)
Responsive is well suited for bid response teams and organizations that often respond to RFPs, but also for organizations looking to have access to information from their large library of documents, presentations, and images using AI and a chat bot that serves their internal organization to respond to clients faster and more accurately
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Pros
Ignition
  • Proposal process. PI makes it easy to create and send proposals to new and existing clients, collect their payment info, and get signature on the engagement letter.
  • Easily identify engagements that will be expiring, so we can begin to assemble a renewal.
  • Communication to and from the client during the proposal process, which keeps everything associated with the proposal together in one place.
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Responsive (formerly RFPIO)
  • Live collaboration - the ability for multiple experts to simultaneously work on the same RFP.
  • Artificial intelligence - the ability for the product to continually learn what the best answers are and serve them up to our teams.
  • Dynamic branding - the ability for custom brand different templates by vertical, line of business, local branding, etc. with seamless transition.
  • Content review & moderation - the ability for our national content team to bulk review, edit and share content with our teams in a methodical way.
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Cons
Ignition
  • I would love to see it really support other industries better, like Marketing. There are workarounds for invoicing and set up, but it could be easier.
  • I would love the option to be able to send the client a single proposal with different options and allow them to select which one they want to move forward with. Right now we have to send a proposal for each option.
  • I would love for there to be user permissions where certain users can log in to see the proposals they are associated with without seeing everything.
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Responsive (formerly RFPIO)
  • Reporting and Analytics is basic, you can purchase advanced analytics though
  • It would have been nice to have a set structure in mind or a example/case study to structure our responses in the most appropriate way, but we are working through that with their stellar support team
  • Really great new features, but expensive
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Likelihood to Renew
Ignition
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Responsive (formerly RFPIO)
We'd be sunk without Responsive. The sales motion would slow way down in several places, and that's just unacceptable. AND I love the product. It helps me do my job efficiently. The Responsive team is GREAT. Support is getting better. The Product and Customer Experience Team is so knowledgeable and willing to help with new features and troubleshoot what's going on. It's an all-around great experience. Not to mention starting over - I can't even get my head around that.
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Usability
Ignition
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Responsive (formerly RFPIO)
Very easy to navigate and use. Very intuitive user interface
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Support Rating
Ignition
No answers on this topic
Responsive (formerly RFPIO)
If I cannot solve a problem, then I reach out to Support and they are ON IT. They always solve the problem and get back to me immediately with an answer. Our customer support person who is assigned to us (we have had several) are responsive and helpful. We have asked them to sit in on meetings and help socialize the tool.
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Implementation Rating
Ignition
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Responsive (formerly RFPIO)
We were able to complete an RFP during our free trial. We were already leaning toward RFPIO but that pushed us over the edge.
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Alternatives Considered
Ignition
You aren't able to customize the design of the proposal, but it surpases everything we have ever tried. It's easy to use and quick to learn.
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Responsive (formerly RFPIO)
I was not involved in the process of selecting RFP360 for our firm, so I am largely unfamiliar with competitors. I am, however, quite pleased with RFP360 as a user, and am confident that my colleagues who were responsible for making the decision were thorough and discerning.
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Return on Investment
Ignition
  • We have reduced our A/R by 60% and expect to completely eliminate A/R by the end of this year.
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Responsive (formerly RFPIO)
  • Library Health Dashboard is helpful in reducing time to clean up content but could use additional improvement by showing more granular data instead of a global assessment like good, poor, moderate.
  • ROI is reduced for us because of additional cost for using AI
  • Overall, Responsive has significantly improved our proposal process.
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Responsive Screenshots

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