DocuSign vs. Icertis

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
DocuSign
Score 8.4 out of 10
N/A
DocuSign supports transactions with document sharing and electronic signature, as well as automated and guided data collection and entry, record updating across disparate systems and payment collection upon agreement, as well as analytics and reporting.
$15
per month
Icertis
Score 9.7 out of 10
Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
Icertis supports contract lifecycle management (CLM). The analyst-validated Icertis Contract Intelligence (ICI) platform aims to turn contracts from static documents into strategic advantage by structuring and connecting the critical contract information that defines how an organization runs. Icertis boasts users among iconic brands and disruptive innovators who use Icertis to fully realize the intent of their combined 7.5 million+ contracts worth more than $1 trillion, in 40+ languages and 90+…N/A
Pricing
DocuSignIcertis
Editions & Modules
Personal
$15
per month
Real Starter
$15
per month
DocuSign for Realtors
$35
per month
Standard
$40
per month
Business Pro
$60
per month
Advanced Solutions
Custom Pricing
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
DocuSignIcertis
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeRequired
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
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Features
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Contract Authoring
Comparison of Contract Authoring features of Product A and Product B
DocuSign
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Ratings
Icertis
7.5
Ratings
6% below category average
Contract creation00 Ratings7.80 Ratings
Contract templates00 Ratings8.50 Ratings
Clause library/saved fields00 Ratings8.20 Ratings
Guided logic00 Ratings5.40 Ratings
Contract Collaboration
Comparison of Contract Collaboration features of Product A and Product B
DocuSign
-
Ratings
Icertis
5.5
Ratings
40% below category average
Contract sharing00 Ratings4.10 Ratings
Contract editing00 Ratings6.90 Ratings
Collaborating on contracts00 Ratings5.80 Ratings
MS Word plug-in00 Ratings6.40 Ratings
Approval process00 Ratings3.90 Ratings
Interdepartmental workflows00 Ratings5.70 Ratings
Contract Monitoring
Comparison of Contract Monitoring features of Product A and Product B
DocuSign
-
Ratings
Icertis
6.2
Ratings
29% below category average
Contract database00 Ratings6.70 Ratings
Contract search00 Ratings6.50 Ratings
Contract milestone reminders & alerts00 Ratings5.80 Ratings
Custom contract reports00 Ratings5.00 Ratings
Tracking contract status00 Ratings6.20 Ratings
Compliance check00 Ratings6.90 Ratings
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DocuSignIcertis
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Medium-sized Companies
MSB Docs
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Jotform
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Score 8.5 out of 10
Enterprises
Box
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Score 8.8 out of 10
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User Ratings
DocuSignIcertis
Likelihood to Recommend
4.9
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6.3
(0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
7.0
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
4.2
(0 ratings)
8.2
(0 ratings)
Availability
10.0
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Performance
10.0
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
10.0
(0 ratings)
4.1
(0 ratings)
Online Training
10.0
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
10.0
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Ease of integration
-
(0 ratings)
2.7
(0 ratings)
Product Scalability
10.0
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
DocuSignIcertis
Likelihood to Recommend
I am going to speak of a personal experience- on multiple occasions: I need my husband to sign documents during the day and I don't need him here- physically. He sometimes works in different parts of the state as well at his own company. There is no problem at all, as long as he has access to his cell phone, email, and cell phone service- he can sign the documents I need him to. It is AMAZING- I can't speak highly enough of Docusign.
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Icertis is a great partner in managing contractual obligations and commitments ! The benefit really comes from the real-time integrations the ICI platform is able to partner with . We are able to save the company time, money, and resources by just knowing what credits are owed in real-time! Before we had the Obligation Management app, the process for tracking SLAs was really clunky and details were often missed. Now, it's a breeze!
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Pros
  • Ease of sending the same document out to multiple recipients, at multiple locations, for multiple signatures
  • Quick turnaround - once the recipient signs the document, we receive notification and the document back immediately
  • Can resend, alter, change, and/or add to the email and/or document that is sent out very easily
  • The recipient can save the document after signing, so they too have their own electronic copy for their records
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  • Contract Creation and Management: Icertis excels at streamlining the contract creation process. It allows users to easily create and manage contracts using pre-approved templates, which can be customized as needed. The platform also includes built-in e-signature capabilities, making it easy for all parties to sign and execute contracts electronically. This has greatly reduced the time and resources needed for contract management, and has enabled our organization to be more efficient in the contract creation process.
  • Contract Compliance: Icertis helps organizations stay compliant with regulatory requirements by providing real-time tracking and alerts for contract expiration dates, renewal dates, and other important dates. This feature has been particularly useful for our organization, allowing us to avoid costly contract renewals and stay compliant with legal requirements.
  • Analytics and Reporting: Icertis provides powerful analytics and reporting capabilities that allow organizations to gain valuable insights into their contract portfolio. These analytics and reports can be used to identify trends, track performance, and make more informed business decisions. This has been particularly beneficial for our organization, allowing us to better understand the performance of our contracts and make more strategic decisions.
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Cons
  • You have to purchase a subscription and unless you really need to originate a lot of documents, it's not cost-effective to maintain the subscription. It would be better to have a subscription that allows you to purchase a bundle of say, ten documents and then use them as needed for the occasional user.
  • You'll be hard-pressed to find anything negative from users other than the price.
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  • Some features are unnecessarily limiting. For example, the inability to delete records or change fields later if it turns out there has been a mistake in how the contract was entered or the term was described. The Icertis form fields are NOT the contract record that is required to be kept. If someone makes an error, they should be able to fix it. The contract itself doesn't change, and that is the business record.
  • Too much is built on the assumption that the person requesting the contract is the one with the control or ownership of the contract. It would be better if the person to whom the contract is submitted for review was the owner in the system.
  • Not all requests will in fact end with a contract. Sometimes requests are started and the project is abandoned or put on hold for a period of time. More status fields that reflect the reality of contracting would be helpful.
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Likelihood to Renew
The product is a great tool for a remote workforce. As the company gets bigger, adding users to the account can be rather expensive. We considering providing read/sign only access for certain individuals and providing full access to other users as necessary to reduce costs.
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Usability
As an Administrator of the system, its ease of configuration and the guidance around doing it is second to none. The screens are broken down into manageable segments and easy to navigate to the area that needs to be looked at. Our Process Delivery teams, after initial training are using the system without any problems and find it easy to operation. We get minimal if any, requests for support.
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Some functionality could be achieved with less clicking, the change management could be done a bit a better for deployments
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Reliability and Availability
It does not go down. I have had zero issues with DocuSign, approaching 4 years.
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Performance
Everything loads quickly. Reports are generated in a reasonable time. No noticeable difference in integrated software processing speeds.
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Support Rating
I'd give them a 10, but there has been 1 or 2 small cases that seemed to fall to the wayside, but I was able to call them up and get them resolved. We were having a bad implementation night (after midnight) and we needed assistance from Docusign. They were able to get an engineer to help us in the early morning hours
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super dependent on how much money you want to pay. The general regular support can usually take around one to two weeks to get an answer and sometimes that issue is fixed but the underlying issue is not addressed even if you call out that it is a repeated issue. It appears that sometimes support is not really trained in how your instance is set up so there can be a bit of back and forth just to be able to get the appropriate support.
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Online Training
Docusign is super easy to use, and apart from a few administration details, there was really nothing to train on. Post implementation, there were issues with configuration of auto-filled documents with the integrating 3rd party. That training required some time, because the DocuSign expert took the time to walk me through the 3rd party's configuration (how often does that happen?) so I could see how DocuSign should be best used to overcome weaknesses in the 3rd party platform. 10/10 expert care.
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Implementation Rating
Until you get the hang of it, I recommend doing several internal tests before sending a document to a client. As I mentioned earlier, you have to go through a bit of trial and error at first to verify that the workflow works as expected.
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Alternatives Considered
Adobe Acrobat Sign is less user-friendly and more suited to small scopes, or one-off documents. It lacks the use of templates that DocuSign has, which is what ultimately streamlines and delivers the consistency and efficiencies for the business.
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In our organization, we chose Icertis over Ariba Contracts because of its comprehensive feature set and its advanced contract analytics capabilities. We found that Icertis provided us with more flexibility and customization options, which was important for our organization's specific needs. Additionally, the AI-driven contract insights provided by Icertis have been extremely helpful in helping us optimize business decisions and realize the full potential of our contracts.Another important factor is that Icertis is industry agnostic, while Ariba Contracts has a stronger presence in specific industries. Icertis is more suitable for a wider range of organizations and that's why in our fictional organization we selected it.Overall, both Icertis and Ariba Contracts are powerful contract management software solutions, but Icertis's advanced contract analytics and its flexibility and industry agnostic approach make it a better fit for our fictional organization.
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Scalability
In my years of using DocuSign, I have never had an outage. I haven't even encountered a bug.
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Return on Investment
  • Less paper use, faster signature times, less time standing at the printer/scanner to send documents to yourself
  • Security over your signature! Security over your company's signature and authorization to approve projects, cash flow etc
  • Love audit trails and the seamless tracking of the status of the document
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  • Since implementing the platform, we have seen a significant reduction in the time and resources spent on contract management. This has allowed us to reallocate these resources to other areas of the business, resulting in increased revenue.
  • Additionally, Icertis has helped us to improve our entitlement and obligations management, allowing us to better track and manage our contract expiration dates, renewals, and other important dates. This has helped us to avoid costly contract renewals and stay compliant with regulatory requirements, thereby protecting us against noncompliance and penalties.
  • The platform's built-in analytics and reporting capabilities have also been valuable in helping us to gain valuable insights into our contract portfolio, allowing us to make more informed business decisions. Additionally, the platform's contract intelligence has helped us to shorten our sales cycles, which has enabled us to close more deals in less time.
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Icertis Screenshots

Screenshot of Intelligent Contract Set-up: Intelligent Contract Setup: Personalized, role-based experience for any type of user with flexibility models for complex organizationsScreenshot of Contract Operations: Self-service contracting with intelligent contract negotiations and bulk processing for quick responsesScreenshot of Governance Risk & Compliance: Enables users to proactively identify, assess and manage all contract risks and ensure the fulfillment of contractual obligations based on proactive insights from ICI’s compliance tools.Screenshot of Reporting & Dashboards: Improves visibility to reduces contract cycle times improve negotiation outcomes with dashboards and reportsScreenshot of Analyze Obligations: Obligations and fulfilments can be viewed from customized reports- across users, contract types, and statusScreenshot of Obligation Dashboard: Provides a 360-degree view of compliances with micro-actionable insights to the level of individual agreements