empower® suite vs. PandaDoc

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
empower® suite
Score 2.0 out of 10
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empower® suite is a suite of MS Office add-ins that elevate and streamline working with Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook. They help to create properly formatted presentations, documents, spreadsheets and emails quickly. Users can build documents based on templates and building-blocks – searchable in a centralized library, online and offline. The software can be hosted on-premise or in the cloud and used with Office 365, Office for Windows, Office for Mac, PowerPoint Online, and Microsoft…N/A
PandaDoc
Score 9.0 out of 10
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PandaDoc headquartered in San Francisco offers their eponymous electronic signature platform for sales teams, containing sales proposal automation and CPQ (configure, price, quote) features, and integration with CRMs.
$35
per month per seat
Pricing
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Editions & Modules
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Starter
$35
per month per seat
Business
$65
per month per seat
Enterprise
Contact Sales
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
empower® suitePandaDoc
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeRequiredOptional
Additional Detailsempower® offers an annual license model, which is based on the number of users (designed for larger license volume starting from 20 users) and the corresponding product edition. Maintenance, updates and 2nd level support are included in the license fee. For example, with empower® charts you can save up to 50% on yearly license cost compared to similar products.PandaDoc offers a free eSign plan and 3 paid packages for eSigning and document automation. All plans include unlimited documents and eSignatures. Evaluations start with a free 14-day trial. Up to a 46% discount for annual pricing.
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User Ratings
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Likelihood to Recommend
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9.0
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Likelihood to Renew
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9.1
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Usability
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8.3
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Availability
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9.1
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Performance
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9.6
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Support Rating
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6.1
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Implementation Rating
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6.3
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Configurability
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2.8
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Ease of integration
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9.0
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Product Scalability
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8.6
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Vendor post-sale
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9.7
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Vendor pre-sale
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6.7
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User Testimonials
empower® suitePandaDoc
Likelihood to Recommend
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As an alternative to other electronic signature mechanisms, I can't recommend PandaDoc more highly. It works, plain and simple. It is less costly - by a lot - than most alternatives, stores signed documents online for easy access, is simple to use by both our staff and our clients, and makes our lives far easier.
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Pros
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  • PandaDoc allows our team to create and send detailed sales proposals and quotes with the use of their templates.
  • The use of collaborative editing is also beneficial because our team is able to have multiple users edit and comment on documents simultaneously.
  • Document tracking is useful because we are able to receive real-time notifications and updates on the proposal process.
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Cons
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  • I would like to see the ability to LOCK a field instead of locking an entire block or document.
  • I would like to see more standard features that need to be part of the service instead of add-ons.
  • Would like to see an option to allow different levels of users than just the two standard options.
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Likelihood to Renew
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We have been using it for a few years now and find it vital to getting our bids out quickly and accurately to our customers. We can get a request for information from a customer and once we have their basic parameters create a professional bid in minutes. It's actually usually harder to find out what the customer wants than to use PandaDoc and create a document with it
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Usability
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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.
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Reliability and Availability
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We haven't had any real issues regarding downtime as of yet.
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Performance
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As I mentioned earlier - performance is near perfect as I can create, send, adjust my documents. I love the tracking feature as well as I can tell when my documents have been seen and by whom. The only issue I have run into is with saving and formatting - occasionally the file document does not save with the newly assigned name or the content of the document does not stay formatted nicely.
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Support Rating
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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.
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Implementation Rating
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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.
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Alternatives Considered
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PandaDoc is a more polished, professional, and 'legitimate' software site than other solutions, since PandaDoc really specializes in creating professional proposals, quotes and invoices. The eSignature capacity and pricing table capacity embedded in the documents as well as fillable fields, pre-made, customizable and reusable templates also make PandaDoc stand out.
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Scalability
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I agree. We have created folders for multiple departments and have been successful with the usage.
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Return on Investment
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  • We have greatly increased the efficiency in which we can get signatures from individuals for documents and increase productivity.
  • We have been able to find older documents very easily.
  • W-9 have been very difficult due to Section 3, but this was addressed with conditional logic
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ScreenShots

empower® suite Screenshots

Screenshot of The empower® suite is the only all-in-one solution that empowers your productivity and brand across all Microsoft Office applications - PowerPoint, Word, Outlook, Excel.Screenshot of empower® slides makes PowerPoint easier, more efficient and brand compliant. Templates, slides, images, charts, and more are instantly searchable. All assets up-to-date and ready-to-use.  Available offline, right where you need it in the PowerPoint ribbon.Screenshot of empower® Asset & Template Library: Make all important content available to everyone in your company’s empower® library, make updates and distribute the latest version to all colleagues with one click.Screenshot of The empower® Design Check examines the template, fonts, colors, titles, numberings, margins and logo spacing to make sure everything conforms to your corporate design. It also auto-corrects any inconsistencies it finds in templates or production documents.Screenshot of Easily adapt PowerPoint presentations to a new template. Reformat external content to be on-brand with just a couple of clicks.Screenshot of With empower® you can have your slides or entire presentations translated automatically. empower® can integrate your DeepL package directly into PowerPoint.

PandaDoc Screenshots

Screenshot of some of the custom-designed themes, templates, embedded rich media, and interactivity to give every deal the opportunity to get noticed.Screenshot of automatic notifications, on-the-fly editing, CRM Integrations, and integrated eSignatures.Screenshot of reporting, with drill down to the deal level with proposals, to pick which deals to include (or exclude).Screenshot of legally binding eSignaturesScreenshot of centralized communications to streamline the negotiation process, and make revisions in real-time in a single location.Screenshot of document analytics that display what’s really happening after documents are sent with real-time reporting on engagement and activity on the documents. This enables teams to respond faster to prospects.