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Docusign vs. alternatives

Use the best for your electronic signatures. Docusign competitors don’t offer the same level of trust and end-to-end agreement workflow support.

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Why choose Docusign eSignature over alternatives

  • Security you can count on

    With highly secure encryption standards, 99.9% platform availability and complete digital audit trails, Docusign eSignature gives you confidence in every transaction. Plus you can get near-real-time alerts and activity tracking to monitor signing activity.

  • Easy connectivity

    Docusign has 900+ integrations, including a robust Salesforce integration. Connect systems faster and easier with the award-winning Docusign API. In a study of the Docusign API, developers were significantly more likely to successfully complete test deployment tasks and took much less time to complete test tasks, compared to Docusign competitors.

  • All your workflows in one place

    Get one platform to prepare, send, sign, store, manage, analyze and automate your agreements. Docusign customers report time savings of 25-50%.

  • Part of an intelligent agreement management platform

    eSignature is part of Docusign IAM, which helps organizations automate the way they create, commit to and manage their agreements. Starting with Docusign eSignature sets you up to tap into the full power of IAM.

Docusign is built for European business

We’ve been operating in the region for over a decade and have data centres across three EU countries. On top of that, Docusign eSignature allows you to obtain signatures that meet the requirements of eIDAS.

There is a reason we have the highest global market share¹, as we take the time to understand our local customer needs.

  • 25/25
    Top Financial Companies in Europe use Docusign
  • 15/20
    Top Healthcare Companies in Europe use Docusign
  • 4/4
    of the Big Four Accounting Firms use Docusign²
  • 77/100
    FTSE 100 companies use Docusign

Join 1 million customers and 1 billion users who trust Docusign with their agreements.

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Think beyond e-signatures alone. Docusign has been innovating since 2003 to support your entire contract lifecycle.

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Resources to help you evaluate Docusign eSignature vs. Docusign alternatives

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  • Why Customers Choose Docusign eSignature Over Alternatives

    Get the guide to evaluate the critical features and benefits that top e-signature providers offer their customers.

  • Today’s Most Successful Teams Use Docusign eSignature

    Learn more about the quantifiable value that customers get from Docusign eSignature.

  • IDC MarketScape: Worldwide eSignature Software 2023 Vendor Assessment

    Learn about the strengths of e-signature vendors from an independent reviewer. Docusign was commended for leveraging generative AI and having features that facilitate signing across many use cases.

Docusign vs. Alternatives: FAQs

  • You can sign and send back documents electronically for free with Docusign eSignature. 

    You can also start a free trial of Docusign eSignature to try sending contracts out for signature for free for 30 days.

    If you want to send documents electronically for signature after your 30-day free trial, we have several plan options that accommodate the needs of individuals and sole proprietors, small to mid-sized teams and larger teams who need more advanced features. Explore eSignature plans and pricing.

  • None of the alternatives to Docusign offer the same focus on end-to-end agreement workflows. Agreements are what we do. With Docusign, you can take advantage of a full suite of products to make your agreement processes smarter, easier and more trusted.

    Docusign has products beyond simple e-signature to help you generate documents, verify signer identity, review and negotiate contracts, sign agreements, automate agreement workflows, store and manage agreements, and analyze agreements.

  • More than 1 billion users and 1 million customers use Docusign.

    With highly secure encryption standards, rigorous security certifications, and complete digital audit trails, Docusign gives you total confidence in every transaction. 

    Docusign eSignature is also the highest-ranked e-signature app in Salesforce AppExchange and is rated 9 out of 10 for ease of use, according to public reviews on G2.com.

    Docusign helps you make your agreements smarter and easier.

    Streamline complex contract workflows in a centralized platform—preparing, signing, managing, and analyzing—so that contracting is smarter and goes beyond just a signature. Achieve faster time to value and avoid implementation challenges by integrating quickly with APIs and more than 900 connectors.

    Make it easy for anyone to agree, from within the tools and systems they use every day, by delivering a consistent and seamless experience on practically any device, including smartphones and tablets. 

  • Yes. Over 1 billion users and 1 million customers trust Docusign. Your customers will know and trust your documents and contracts they receive from you via Docusign so you can keep your business moving forward.

    Docusign is the one innovative platform you can trust with all of your agreements. We remove the friction in the agreement process and help you build trust, by adding intelligence to the process. This makes it easier for people to negotiate, make decisions faster and understand the risks involved.

    Our customers often see significant time and cost savings by using Docusign products.

    Manufacturing giant GROHE has seen their average turnaround time for checking and signing contracts reduced by 60%, down to 2 days, thanks to Docusign CLM.
    Retail chain Specsavers has seen 33% of envelopes are signed in 0-4 hours, all down to efficiencies gained through Docusign eSignature.
    • KARIMI.legal, a commercial law firm with headquarters in Berlin, saves 30 minutes per case with Docusign eSignature and Docusign ID Verification.

    Read more customer stories.

    With Docusign, you can remove friction and realize savings across your entire agreement process—not just the electronic signature part of the process.

    Docusign can help with identity verification for signers, document generation, automated agreement workflows, agreement storage and more in addition to electronic signatures.

    Docusign can also help you unlock the data in your agreements. We help you extract the data from your contracts, search it and use it to make smarter business decisions. See when vendor contracts are coming up for renewal, easily find out how new legislation affects clauses of your existing agreements and more. Meanwhile, Docusign alternatives typically treat contracts like flat digital pieces of paper and don’t give you the opportunity to gain this valuable business intelligence.

84% of signers are more likely to continue doing business with a company that uses Docusign.

  • Docusign helps the environment by reducing paper usage. Read more.

  • Data as of March 2023.