Trust your agreements to the leader
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.
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.
Join 1 million customers and 1 billion users who trust Docusign with their agreements.
Features Docusign has that the competitors don’t
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Sending features Delayed routing, scheduled sending and advanced recipient routing |
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AI features AI-assisted agreement summarization, document highlighting |
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Security features |
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Integrations 900+ pre-built integrations to all of the tools you already use | 900+ | ~100 or fewer |
Notary Remote online notarization so you can notarize agreements online |
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Create, commit to, and manage your agreements all in one place |
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Think beyond e-signatures alone. Docusign has been innovating since 2003 to support your entire contract lifecycle.
"Docusign is sophisticated and user-friendly. The features and security it offers are worth the investment."
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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.
You may have heard that Docusign can be more expensive. However, you get what you pay for. Our customers see significant productivity and hard cost savings by using Docusign solutions.
Data from our customers shows:
• 78% of all successful eSignature transactions on our platform were completed in less than 24 hours and 43% within 15 minutes
• Average contract turnaround time is reduced from 24 to 4 working hours with Docusign CLM, which equates to an 83% reduction in contract processing time
Learn more about the business value of eSignature.
We also offer the value of end-to-end agreement workflows, which alternatives to Docusign typically do not. You can generate agreements, verify identity, review and negotiate contracts, send and sign agreements, automate your agreement workflows and store and manage contracts all with Docusign solutions.
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 98 out of 100 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 arduous implementation efforts 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 any device, including smartphones and tablets.
Yes. 1 billion users and 1 million users 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 and unlocking valuable data for everyone. 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.
• Thermo Fisher gets 75% of envelopes completed in less than seven days, compared to weeks before they implemented Docusign solutions. The average cycle time for SOP documents was reduced from six weeks to two, and initiating change controls now takes less than 10 days, compared to five weeks.
• KORE Wireless has a >95% faster turnaround time on agreements from using Docusign eSignature and Docusign CLM.
• KARIMI.legal, a commercial law firm with headquarters in Berlin, saves 30 minutes per case with Docusign eSignature and Docusign ID Verification.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 that lives 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.