pdfFiller vs. SignRequest, now part of Box

pdfFiller

SignRequest, now part of Box

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
pdfFiller	Score 9.0 out of 10	N/A	pdfFiller is a cloud-based platform with a comprehensive digital toolkit used to handle PDFs, and to edit, sign, store, manage, and collaborate on documents. Documents are stored in the cloud and can be accessed anytime, anywhere, without worrying about losing data.	$8 per month (annual commitment) per user (minimum 20 users)
SignRequest, now part of Box	Score 9.7 out of 10	Small Businesses (1-50 employees)	SignRequest was an e-signature platform acquired by Box in 2021. The eSignature tool is the basis for Box Sign, a feature now included in Box's core offering.	$0 per user

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pdfFiller

SignRequest, now part of Box

Editions & Modules

Basic for Enterprise: $8
per month (annual commitment) per user (minimum 20 users)
Premium for Enterprise: $10
per month (annual commitment) per user (minimum 10 users)
Basic: $20
per month single user
Plus: $30
per month single user
Premium: $40
per month single user

Start: $0.00
per user
Professional: $8.00
per user
SME: minimal $16.00
$4.00 per user
Enterprise: Custom
per user
API: Custom
per installation

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
pdfFiller	SignRequest, now part of Box
Free Trial
Yes	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No	Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

Optional

No setup fee

Additional Details

Up to a 70% discount on individual plans for annual billing.

For text message verification and bank payment verification additional fees apply

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Community Pulse
	pdfFiller	SignRequest, now part of Box
Considered Both Products	pdfFiller Verified User Anonymous Chose pdfFiller I have not used other products - PDFfiller was the first one I tried and have kept my annual subscription active since it was so easy to use. Incentivized Helpful? Dave Mason - Realtor Real Estate Agent Chose pdfFiller Works great. Filling out pdfs used to be a pain in the rear. PDFfiller is a great app and defiantly makes my life a lot easier. Some of the other apps can be a real pain in the rear. It’s just east to use what can I say. I can imagin my phone without it. Incentivized Helpful? JEFF KAISER Actor Chose pdfFiller There are SO many options for this category. What I will say is that I am not always in control nor am I always able to suggest going PDF. People have their rhymes and reasons foro why they use what they do. My next most frequently used option is DocuSign, which by all means is … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose pdfFiller i have never looked for a similar product. i didnt even know similar products existed! Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose pdfFiller better price Incentivized Helpful? KM Karla Marchant Administrative Coordinator Chose pdfFiller I have never been sent a legal document via PDFfiller, only Docusign. We only use Docusign for legal and accounting matters because that is what our accountant, solicitor and real estate agent choose to use. It is my understanding that Docusign is more appropriate for contracts … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose pdfFiller This is my first time using a service like this. I chose this because it was what a previous coworker used to do the job i am doing now. I would not change services as PDFfiller is very easy to use and navigate. Incentivized Helpful? Lakia Wilson Owner Chose pdfFiller I have not used any other products listed to provide feedback. Incentivized Helpful? Dr. Laura Jaget Property Manager Chose pdfFiller This is the only product of this sort that I have used. No need to look for anything else. Incentivized Helpful? CJ Scarlet President Chose pdfFiller I've not had to try any others. I was fortunate to stumble on PDFfiller as my first choice and I've never had to use anything else. Incentivized Helpful? JS JONATHAN SINGER Attorney Chose pdfFiller They only other one I looked into (but didn't use) was the editor made by Adobe. The price was prohibitive for a small business like mine. Incentivized Helpful? BJ Brad Jay Senior Business Development Advisor Chose pdfFiller I find it much easier to use and more user friendly than Adobe Acrobat Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose pdfFiller easier to use. Incentivized Helpful? Laazar Arencibia Director Chose pdfFiller DocuSign and Smallpdf Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose pdfFiller I have not used many others but in my field there are real estate specific options like Glide or Homelight that offer pdf editing but I don't think they offer as much editing features I need and is not as smooth to operate. Incentivized Helpful? KM Katie McKinnon Office Manager Chose pdfFiller I googled filling a PDF over 5 years ago, this is the first software that came up. It has been so helpful, easy to use and reasonably priced, we have not looked elsewhere. Incentivized Helpful? SS Sherry Scott Office Support Manager Chose pdfFiller PDFfiller is more user friendly and doesn't need anything extra in order to use it. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose pdfFiller Easier for a small practice and more cost effective Incentivized Helpful? PP Philip Petrini Director of Strategic Accounts Chose pdfFiller Docusign is very limited in my opinion. The software itself is also very clunky and skips around too much for my brain to handle. The UI is also confusing and looks sort of pieced together. Incentivized Helpful? HD Holly Dalton Administrative Coordinator Chose pdfFiller PDFfiller is much less expensive than DocuSign and you will get more for your money. Docusign charges a ton of money for their product. PDFfiller can do basically the same thing. Incentivized Helpful? GT Gary Thandi CEO (Chief Executive Officer) Chose pdfFiller PDF Filler is more user friendly and does more. Incentivized Helpful? RV Robert Vidal Employee Benefits Advisor Chose pdfFiller I like this better than Adobe but not as much as DocuSign mainly b/c DocuSign is more readily accepted for electronic signature and also DocuSign has better name recognition. Incentivized Helpful? NF Nicole Fischer Director of Finance Chose pdfFiller Adobe isn't user-friendly in my opinion. I can't save a pdf easily when I want to only select certain pages. PDFfiller is much faster and does everything I need and the interface makes more sense to me. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose pdfFiller I have only sued PDFfiller as it met my needs at the time and the price was awesome! Incentivized Helpful? Mitchell Terpstra Copywriter + Marketing Strategist Chose pdfFiller Honestly, I'm not sure I could assert that PDFfiller is necessarily better than the competition. It's definitely adequate enough for the tasks I need it for that I quit looking for another service to use. Incentivized Helpful?	SignRequest, now part of Box CS Christine Sako Head of Internal Ops and BI Chose SignRequest, now part of Box SignRequest is far and away more afforable than its competitors. Their support is also very responsive and willing to make improvements whereas its competitors seem to be a bit more unapproachable as far as their support goes. I have been able to resolve billing and reporting … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose SignRequest, now part of Box Friendly interface, affordable costs, easy to understand and use, personalized language. You can manage users, templates and documents. Incentivized Helpful? Ben Caplan Risk Manager, and Insurance Agent Chose SignRequest, now part of Box I haven't used this in my role, but as a customer, I have used this program and it was nice. The pricing model, however, is far outside the reach for most small businesses. This is why I didn't consider Adobe Sign when trying to find a solution that meets our business needs. Incentivized Helpful? Matthew Veil Marketing Broker Chose SignRequest, now part of Box Less money and easier to set up than more well-branded e-signature platforms. Unlimited contracts on paid plans, which is a lot more than any other e-signature software I've used before. And under the free plan, you can get 15 contracts signed with limited features. For smaller … Incentivized Helpful? Carter Durham Chief Creative Officer and Head of Product Chose SignRequest, now part of Box When I started this company in 2017, I looked for alternative solutions to getting e-signatures on business documents but never found anything that met our needs well until I encountered SignRequest. At this point we've been using it so long that I honestly can't remember the … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose SignRequest, now part of Box We actually ended up switching to HelloSign after about three months. The main reason was the depth of the Salesforce integration that we needed to have. SignRequest is a really top-notch product for the market they play in. Small businesses especially will be able to use the … Incentivized Helpful? FS Fred Saunders Agent Chose SignRequest, now part of Box Annual rates with SignRequest were very affordable. Incentivized Helpful? Matthew Finneran Product Manager Chose SignRequest, now part of Box They have an unlimited free plan. In other words, you can sign as many documents as you want for free each month. The others (last I checked) limited your total number of signed docs on the freemium plan. That's certainly nice. SignRequest's upgrades come from more features … Incentivized Helpful? Robin Bull Dark Countess of Communication / CEO Chose SignRequest, now part of Box SignRequest is actually easier to use than SigningHub. It's much easier to just go to wherever you need a signature in the document and add the field. It's also got a cleaner interface, in my opinion, which makes it easier to figure out what's going on. I think that for someone … Incentivized Helpful? Matthew Mullane Integrative Medicine Fellow, St. Anthony North Health Campus Chose SignRequest, now part of Box SignRequest is easier and quicker to use, integrates into Google services, and really is a smooth process overall. I found the other e-sign product I've used to be less user-friendly, and perhaps more dated in its design. With the other product I tried, there were several … Incentivized Helpful? Darrell McTague Fitness Director Chose SignRequest, now part of Box I think SignRequest offers more and more powerful customization options thank competitors. I wasn't a fan of the user interface and usability when trying to customize documents on competitors' products, but SignRequest was easy. I also like SignRequest's template functionality … Incentivized Helpful? Carolyn Eckman Business Owner Chose SignRequest, now part of Box Unlike Adobe Acrobat DC, SignRequest is actually designed to request signatures and presents itself as such to my clients. DocuSign is not as user-friendly and approachable as SignRequest in my opinion. Even the free version of SignRequest offers more options and functionality … Incentivized Helpful? Becky Burgess Founder & CEO Chose SignRequest, now part of Box Adobe Acrobat left me frustrated and annoyed. I was wasting hours each week trying to upload contracts and agreements and customize them for each client. It never sent right and ended up being more frustrating for us and our clients in the end. So I tested some other tools … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose SignRequest, now part of Box Adobe Sign (formerly EchoSign), DocuSign and Zoho Sign Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose SignRequest, now part of Box DocuSign is used in other areas of our business (client contracts, MSAs, SOWs, etc.) because it integrates with Salesforce and because we are a partner. We don't use DocuSign for HR purposes because DocuSign automatically creates a copy of the document in Salesforce, which … Incentivized Helpful? Robine Talboom Marketing, communications, events & editor Chose SignRequest, now part of Box Unfortunately, I have no experience with alternatives. SignRequest seemed the most value for money at the time we made the decision to start e-signing. 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User Ratings
	pdfFiller	SignRequest, now part of Box
Likelihood to Recommend	9.1 (0 ratings)	8.0 (0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	9.1 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Usability	9.1 (0 ratings)	10.0 (0 ratings)
Support Rating	9.1 (0 ratings)	8.8 (0 ratings)
Implementation Rating	9.1 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	pdfFiller	SignRequest, now part of Box
Likelihood to Recommend	Honestly, everyone should know about PDF filler. But then again, its my little secret, lol. I love the fact that I can make edits to PDF seamlessly and professionally. I also love the fact that the documents i need to fill out, sign and return look great. Not like i printed them and then tried to use a phone scanner to send them back. PDF filler is what allows me to travel without a printer Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	It's great for a law firm--especially ours which is paperless--and for any business that needs reviews and signatures constantly. I have recommended it to courts, my general contractor working on our house, and to other law firms that have a hard time getting us their clients' signatures. I think most businesses would benefit from SignRequest! Incentivized R. Melissa Masoom Senior Associate Attorney Read full review
Pros	Its user interface makes it a very easy-to-operate app. Without having adequate technical knowledge any user can operate it easily. It works very fine on adding text on any part of a PDF document and It also allows users to delete pre written text from a pdf file. It can also convert PDF files in other office formats with good quality. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	SignRequest is extremely user-friendly and its interface is smooth and straightforward. It takes the guesswork out of sending contracts and agreements online for review and signatures. SignRequest is easy to set up and customize. I truly like how well its setup is structured. I've had zero issues uploading documents and customizing them. SignRequest also allows you to save documents and use over and over. I really liked this feature as we send a lot of a similar contract out to our clients. We are able to change the amount and tweak the client information quickly and streamline the process. SignRequest sends a final signed document after reach party signs it. I like adding this final PDF to our invoices when we send it out so our clients can keep a digital record of our agreements. Incentivized Becky Burgess Founder & CEO Read full review
Cons	Manually resending the document was a feature that seems to have been taken away. Templates for Send To Sign letters. I basically have to type the same information over and over again each time. I was hoping that it would save it but it doesn't seem to have that function Signer cannot save the document once it has been signed. I have to make sure that there is a note within the email that states that I will send them a copy. Wish it had a way to send me a copy of the email I sent. Incentivized Joanne Grams Client Relations Manager Read full review	Clunky UI when filling in documents that require long-form responses. (Doesn't allow for entering of multiple lines at one time; lots of clicks required to complete a document with many fields) In the free version, can only send one document at a time Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Likelihood to Renew	I will always be a faithful PDFfiller customer. The product has saved me a lot of time over the years and I find a great deal of value in the platform. If I move on to another company someday, PDFfiller will be going with me wherever I go. Incentivized PP Philip Petrini Director of Strategic Accounts Read full review	No answers on this topic
Usability	I don't fully understand all the features and I could probably be using it better, especially the templates. The organisation of exisiting files could be better (ie similar to folders on a pc/laptop). I haven't really invested much time into exploring it further than filling out forms; There possibly is an organisation solution I haven't discovered yet Incentivized KM Karla Marchant Administrative Coordinator Read full review	I have found it easy to use and self-explanatory from day one. I love how clear and easy it is to use since I am not techy! Incentivized Meredith Brough Business Owner and Coach Read full review
Support Rating	If you need help, you can easily search for it and find online tutorials that walk you through how to do specific things step by step. You do not have to read a 20 page manual or sit for a 10 hour training session, it is refreshing that you can take it at your own pace and learn things as you need to Incentivized HD Holly Dalton Administrative Coordinator Read full review	Easy to understand supporting documents with a great search feature to easily find the information I need for legal purposes, API connections, how to connect Gmail or G Suite, along with the ability to send a message to them. They don't seem to have an online chat feature or a call option, but that's why it's so inexpensive. Since it's already easy to use, it takes less time to find out information. Incentivized Matthew Veil Marketing Broker Read full review
Implementation Rating	When I was hired on by my current company I was already a paying customer, so I just brought it with me. Once I showed our President/Founder how simple it was to use for our contracts, agreements, and NDAs, it has been a staple in our company ever since. That was almost 3 years ago. We've closed quicker because of the speed at which we can turn signed docs around. Incentivized PP Philip Petrini Director of Strategic Accounts Read full review	No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered	There are SO many options for this category. What I will say is that I am not always in control nor am I always able to suggest going PDF. People have their rhymes and reasons foro why they use what they do. My next most frequently used option is DocuSign, which by all means is a top performer as well. The ease and universal comfort of PDF Filler resonate on a higher level of subconscious use globally so it becomes second nature like using text messages to video conferencing Incentivized JEFF KAISER Actor Read full review	When I started this company in 2017, I looked for alternative solutions to getting e-signatures on business documents but never found anything that met our needs well until I encountered SignRequest. At this point we've been using it so long that I honestly can't remember the specific names of other products or vendors. Incentivized Carter Durham Chief Creative Officer and Head of Product Read full review
Return on Investment	Achieved significant ROI immediately, by freeing up our sales staff to actually sell (show properties, prospect new clients, list new houses), rather than spending time printing/scanning/manually completing forms, documents, and legal agreements. Huge quality of life improvement immediately felt by our entire team that uses the application Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	We ended up switching vendors after about 3 months due to CRM integration with Salesforce not meeting our needs. The cost was low enough where we did not feel it would be overly expensive with a growing sales team. It allowed us to quickly get set up, and get e-signed contracts out to customers. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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