PandaDoc vs. SignNow

PandaDocs would be well-suited for technical companies. As a creative agency, we do experience some design restraints but overall it functions well and is a great resource to effectively manage proposals and contracts. PandaDoc also integrates well with Quickbooks making the sales/onboarding process extremely efficient.

SignNow is well suited for any situation where you need to send a document to an individual or group of people for signatures. When sending documents to groups, you can send them to everyone all at once or dictate the signing order, making it easy to customize the signing process to your unique needs.

• Multiple users at once in one document.
• Clear communication within the document and ease of use to send to clients.
• Allowed for us to follow the paper trail as it was sent out for review or final signature.
• Look and feel of the product is outstanding.

• Ease of setting up documents that require eSignatures
• Ability to manage the order in which the document needs to be eSigned
• Tracking the status of who has signed and who hasn't
• Ability to 're-send' invites to team members who might have missed the original invite
• Ability to download the eSigned documents for internal record keeping

• That allows us to include the "subject" field within the "saved messages" template. Currently we have to manually edit the subject every time we submit a quote
• That we can use Spanish in "Recipient's display language" to show the prices of the products separating the thousands with a comma and the decimals with a point
• To be able to import the names and prices of products in the price table without having to delete the first row because it appears blank

• I was very confused at first between creating a document and creating a template.
• When I try to customize my message on a template I can't edit all the parts I want to on the sending message.
• Many of the users I've sent this don't see this right away. Often it goes into a spam folder.

The reason I gave it a rating of 7 is because it's probable, but not for sure. This is because there are a few little things we don't love about pandadoc. Mostly that there is not conditional logic such as: they must either fill this field out OR this one. Also it's a little pricey. But we'll probably stay because it's good enough and a pain to switch to something new

The features are too limited. The biggest issue though is the flexibility for editing existing forms without having to create a whole new form. The other issues are its payment partner options, lack of automation, and logic flow. We plan to quit this software and use other software in its place.

Once you get the hang of it, it's very easy to use. There can be a slightly steep learning curve to get fully in on the system. The new editor v2 has really improved usability and allows us to collaborate on documents simultaneously. Once the templates and library items are set up, a new document, whether it be a sales or HR document, takes very little time to complete.

In terms of core functionality - adding options for signatures, text, dates, check boxes, etc., as well as customising the body of the request, the title of the request, follow-ups / reminders for signature, etc., SignNow is great. It's really easy to navigate and use in this regard. SignNow loses points when it comes to the end-user who needs to sign. There's an option for them to either use the app (which is most prominent in the page that shows when they open the request) or to sign using their browser (which is much smaller). I had my assistant create this step by step guide for our clients, so they can complete the request the way we need them to:https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1FopYjlykHMFjIAQjgaNLtNIvSCQND_kb86-U9bA5M2A/edit?usp=sharing As far as I'm aware, you can't make it mandatory for them to draw their signature, and there's no option to remove the prompt for them to download the app when signing on their mobile device. I really wish these were options, but they don't take away from the fact it does what it is intended to do, and it does it well.

We haven't had any real issues regarding downtime as of yet.

SignNow is always available when I need it. It seems that most updates occur outside of business hours so I have full functionality when I need it most between the hours of 8am-6pm EST. There has only been I time when I experience application errors when I need to use the system but it did not last long and the issue was resolved within a few hours.

The documents load quickly for the most part but sometimes if there are larger documents with a high number of variables it could take a bit longer to get the document to show up. Most of the time the document comes on the screen relatively quickly allowing for quick access to documents to be edited and sent out.

Recently I could not upload a pdf to a contract - support was very responsive and easy to work with. They got back to me the next day with an apparent fix - however when I opened the document nothing had changed. I then could not respond to the rep who was helping me because it was a "no-reply address", the problem still has not been solved and we had to make alternate arrangements to get this to the client. Never had it happen before and was only with this one contract.

I only used SignNow support when setting up. I uploaded a bunch of documents in the wrong place and needed assistance in moving them. Unfortunately they were not able to move the documents and I needed to upload into a different place. This is where I feel the system itself could benefit from some flexibility for their customers.

It was nice to be shown the basics of the system and be able to see or understand the specific functions our company would need to use, such as the template creation, document grouping and document group templates. Being taught on how to use these functions, made learning them much easier.

Implementation was before the time I was here at Riafox, however, support has been great in assisting to merge spaces and upgrade to 2.0 Editor.

Make sure you know exactly what you need before implementation and be sure to ask how to use the most important functions of the system that you will be using.

We looked at several other products, most notably Adobe and DocuSign. We found PandaDoc to be easier to use and a better value. There might be a couple of additional features with Adobe or DocuSign, but PandaDoc has done everything we've needed for our amount of e-signing needs (mostly for partner contracts).

We looked at several different offerings such as HelloSign and DocuSign, but SignNow offered the same basic options for a lot less money. It was easy to implement and very user friendly. We didn't need a lot of bells and whistles which the other guys offered which honestly just complicated things.

It's scalable

• PandaDoc has significantly improved our close rate. Before we would lose clients because the signature process wasn't clean enough.
• As the Senior Account Manager, I have saved hours and hours troubleshooting the contract signature process since using PandaDoc.
• TwentyThree.Five's customer experience has improved significantly due to the ease of PandaDoc's use.

• SignNow is far more economical than any other signature program I have ever seen.
• SignNow performs all the tasks that the more expensive competition does.
• SignNow does not require my clients to set up an account with a user name and password.