PandaDoc vs. SpotDraft

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
PandaDoc
Score 9.0 out of 10
N/A
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
SpotDraft
Score 8.1 out of 10
N/A
SpotDraft is an end-to-end contract automation platform that helps organizations draft, review, and manage contracts, from drafting to execution and beyond. The SpotDraft engine has been built to understand the context behind every uploaded contract. When uploading legacy contracts in bulk, or create a new contract, the platform automatically analyses key details and highlights them for preview. It also sets…N/A
Pricing
PandaDocSpotDraft
Editions & Modules
Starter
$35
per month per seat
Business
$65
per month per seat
Enterprise
Contact Sales
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
PandaDocSpotDraft
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
Additional DetailsPandaDoc 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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Community Pulse
PandaDocSpotDraft
Features
PandaDocSpotDraft
Contract Authoring
Comparison of Contract Authoring features of Product A and Product B
PandaDoc
-
Ratings
SpotDraft
8.3
Ratings
4% above category average
Contract creation00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Contract templates00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Clause library/saved fields00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Contract Collaboration
Comparison of Contract Collaboration features of Product A and Product B
PandaDoc
-
Ratings
SpotDraft
9.6
Ratings
15% above category average
Contract sharing00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Contract editing00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Collaborating on contracts00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Approval process00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Interdepartmental workflows00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Contract Monitoring
Comparison of Contract Monitoring features of Product A and Product B
PandaDoc
-
Ratings
SpotDraft
8.9
Ratings
7% above category average
Contract database00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Contract search00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Contract milestone reminders & alerts00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Custom contract reports00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Tracking contract status00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Compliance check00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
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User Ratings
PandaDocSpotDraft
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
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8.0
(0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.1
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
8.3
(0 ratings)
10.0
(0 ratings)
Availability
9.1
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Performance
9.6
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
6.1
(0 ratings)
8.0
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
6.3
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Configurability
2.8
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Ease of integration
9.0
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Product Scalability
8.6
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
9.7
(0 ratings)
-
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Vendor pre-sale
6.7
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
PandaDocSpotDraft
Likelihood to Recommend
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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The best place to use SpotDraft is on contract negotiation. The entire life cycle of a contract negotiation is captured well on SpotDraft. Data is also crunched and displayed in dashboards. We get to prepare better first drafts of contracts when we know of areas which get heavily negotiated on.
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Pros
  • 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
  • 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
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
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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I don't know of any other tool that provides so much flexibility and delivers efficiency in CLM.
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Reliability and Availability
We haven't had any real issues regarding downtime as of yet.
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Performance
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
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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Support is decent, mostly the features are self explanatory.
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Implementation Rating
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
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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SpotDraft came in highly recommended. So we purchased it directly.
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Scalability
I agree. We have created folders for multiple departments and have been successful with the usage.
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Return on Investment
  • 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

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.

SpotDraft Screenshots

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