Nitro Productivity Suite vs Scrive eSign

Likelihood to Recommend

Nitro is well suited for the common tasks we use like include viewing and editing. The redaction tool is very useful when sharing documents with sensitive information. The downfall is we still must use Adobe Acrobat on occasion. Some PDFs will not open, view, or print properly in Nitro.

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Jason Glazer

President

United SAR, Inc.Wholesale, 1-10 employees

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Scrive is really well suited to managing legal documents and contracts. There are many instances where it would work best, including international forms and signatures, such as point-of-sale forms for buying products. It also works for managing large amounts of forms and red tape, especially in larger groups where everyone needs access.

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Jared Hansen

Research Assistant

Brigham Young UniversityHigher Education, 501-1000 employees

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Pros

Ability to combine files SEAMLESSLY and order them around as necessary (so underrated)
Signing not only for yourself but for others. Helpful for those who have been granted the authority to sign for VPs and directors
Much easier to use than some other PDF viewing services

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Ariel Dunay

Associate, Project Operations

Palladium: Make It PossibleManagement Consulting, 1001-5000 employees

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Electronic signatures.
Verification.

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Jared Hansen

Research Assistant

Brigham Young UniversityHigher Education, 501-1000 employees

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Cons

The font choices could be better and more robust.
Sometimes converting PDF documents to MS Word has formatting problems, like with some tables.
Converting MS Word to PDF can be slow sometimes, meaning it is faster to save the MS Word document as a PDF than selecting the file for conversion using the Nitro PDF convert option.

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Austin Lin

IT Operations Lead

Providence Technology Group, Inc.Information Technology & Services, 11-50 employees

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Tracking changes.
Simpler interface.

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Jared Hansen

Research Assistant

Brigham Young UniversityHigher Education, 501-1000 employees

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

Yes

Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

Starting Price

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Nitro Productivity Suite Editions & Modules

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Additional Pricing Details

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General

Free Trial

Yes

Free/Freemium Version

—

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

—

Entry-level set up fee?

No

Starting Price

$30 per month

Scrive eSign Editions & Modules

Edition

One	$30¹
Team	$450¹
Company	$1,500¹

per month

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Usability

Nitro Productivity Suite 8.0

Based on 1 answer

It's quick and easy to use for all users.

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Verified User

Manager in Sales

Human Resources Company, 1-10 employees

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No score

No answers yet

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Performance

Nitro Productivity Suite 8.0

Based on 2 answers

It works as advertised.

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Verified User

Manager in Sales

Human Resources Company, 1-10 employees

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No score

No answers yet

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Support Rating

Nitro Productivity Suite 9.4

Based on 5 answers

Nitro checks all the boxes for what we need. It is fairly priced, it allows us to read and edit PDF documents, convert PDF to MS Word and convert MS Word to PDF. It allows us to combine multiple files and do all the post processing like adding page numbers and adding headers and footers

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Austin Lin

IT Operations Lead

Providence Technology Group, Inc.Information Technology & Services, 11-50 employees

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Scrive eSign 10.0

Based on 2 answers

Customer support was incredible, they helped when I had one question about a bug with the archiving function. They got it sorted out, helped me understand what I did wrong, and even released a patch months later to prevent future users from falling into the same trap. I don't think there even was a language barrier, despite Scrive being a Swedish company.

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Jared Hansen

Research Assistant

Brigham Young UniversityHigher Education, 501-1000 employees

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Alternatives Considered

Nitro Productivity Suite allows a user to accomplish all of the things you would want to do to a document that Adobe does not. Much easier to find the operation you are looking for in Nitro Productivity Suite compared to Adobe

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Matthew McGinnis

VP of Business Development

InTech AerospaceAirlines/Aviation, 51-200 employees

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Honestly, I don't know of any other products or services that work similarly to Scrive. My only other thought would be to manually track and manage forms through cloud storage, with perhaps Adobe's electronic signature service. However, that can be tricky to set up, and I don't think I even know how to include one on a PDF.

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Jared Hansen

Research Assistant

Brigham Young UniversityHigher Education, 501-1000 employees

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Return on Investment

ROI was very quick as the license costs were so low. We purchased 8 licenses versus the initial 2 we were planning on for Adobe.
More people were able to use the product than we initially thought due to low purchase costs.
We haven't had any further costs to own the product after the initial purchase. We would need to purchase new licenses if we wanted to upgrade.

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Verified User

Administrator in Information Technology

Financial Services Company, 51-200 employees

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Excellent archiving.
Digital signatures made data collection easy.

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Jared Hansen

Research Assistant

Brigham Young UniversityHigher Education, 501-1000 employees

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