BoldSign, by Syncfusion® vs. Dropbox Sign

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
BoldSign, by Syncfusion®
Score 8.6 out of 10
N/A
BoldSign is an e-signature solution that enables users to send documents out for legally binding signatures. Users can save frequently used contracts as custom-branded templates, track and follow up, and manage complex sequences. BoldSign also provides an API for integrating e-signatures into one's own applications.
$0
per month 1 sender
Dropbox Sign
Score 8.3 out of 10
N/A
HelloSign is an electronic signature software offering acquired by Dropbox in early 2019. It includes features such as customization for businesses of any size and bank-level security.
$0
Pricing
BoldSign, by Syncfusion®Dropbox Sign
Editions & Modules
Essentials
$0
per month 1 sender
Growth
$5
per-month, billed annually. Monthly billing option also available. 1 Sender. Price shown is the per-month cost when annual billing is selected.
Business
$15
per-month, billed annually. Monthly billing option also available. 1 Sender. Price indicated is the per-month cost when annual billing is selected.
Enterprise API
$30
per month. $0.75 per signature request (40 signature requests included in base plan)
Premium
$99
per-month, billed annually. Monthly billing option also available. Includes unlimited senders.
Custom Plan
Custom Pricing
Free
$0
Essentials
$15
per month
Standard
$17.5
per month starting at two users, per user
Essentials API
$75
per month Starting at 50 signature requests / mo.
Standard API
$250
per month Starting at 100 signature requests / mo.
Premium
Custom
Custom
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
BoldSign, by Syncfusion®Dropbox Sign
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
YesYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
Additional DetailsMonthly and annual options. In addition to BoldSign's web app options, API plans are also available. A free sandbox is available that allows you to integrate BoldSign into an application in a testing environment.Additional pricing available for HelloWorks and HelloFax
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Community Pulse
BoldSign, by Syncfusion®Dropbox Sign
Considered Both Products
BoldSign, by Syncfusion®
Chose BoldSign, by Syncfusion®
BoldSign is much less expensive than DocuSign with very similar features.
Chose BoldSign, by Syncfusion®
I'm not aware of any other products by Syncfusion.
Chose BoldSign, by Syncfusion®
They all have similar features, but BoldSign stands out for its simplicity and ease of use. Adobe has a business model where they are sending you ads while you are using the system and the truth is that it tends to be a bit annoying and distracting at times. I didn't like the …
Chose BoldSign, by Syncfusion®
Boldsign is less expensive and easier to implement with its easy to use interface
Chose BoldSign, by Syncfusion®
The price-performance ratio is better with BoldSign. If I want to scale up to the next level and then go back, I can do it easily with BoldSign, unlike Adobe, for example. If you want to try another application, that's fine. They all do the same thing. In my experience, the …
Chose BoldSign, by Syncfusion®
Docusing don't offer an iFrame.
Customsing documents for signature with DocuSign is a nightmare.
DocuSign customer service is terrible, as bad as Microsoft...
Chose BoldSign, by Syncfusion®
Our company uses BoldSign over its competitors because of its ease of use and functionality for the manner in which we employ it. We can quickly upload documents that need execution and get them circulated to all parties immediately to do so. This saves us tremendous amounts of …
Chose BoldSign, by Syncfusion®
It met all my needs at no cost. We only needed a basic service. BoldSign more than met our needs and did so securely and efficiently.
Chose BoldSign, by Syncfusion®
Much easier to work with and support is much better. In my experience, Docusign is just not an easy company to deal with. And, in my experience, whenever we tried to add a particular feature in our integration, Docusign would force us to upgrade to some higher level. I found …
Chose BoldSign, by Syncfusion®
These competitors provide mediocre and feature-bloated offerings that are simply a pain to use. For example, building templates in the aforementioned tools is like pulling teeth. The editor is finicky. BoldSign, by contrast is simple and generally intuitive, thereby making it …
Chose BoldSign, by Syncfusion®
It's more intuitive for using.
Chose BoldSign, by Syncfusion®
Pricing is great and the functionality is the same. I have not really used Docusign or Panda Doc that much so I can not really do a great comparison.
Chose BoldSign, by Syncfusion®
BoldSign keeps digital signing simple and easy. DocuSign is bloated and incredibly expensive and too complex for signing documents required by a small business like mine.
Chose BoldSign, by Syncfusion®
I think it is just as easy to use, but it is a lot more cost-effective. I also like BoldSign, by Syncfusion® has my company logo.
Dropbox Sign
Chose Dropbox Sign
I think all similar platforms can support smaller features, but Dropbox Sign might be easier to use, cost-effective, and friendly for new users and organizations that have no experience using it as an e-signature platform. Once I have a great experience, I would highly …
Chose Dropbox Sign
PandaDoc has an interface that isn't as simple but once you get used to it, it's really not bad. The biggest con is that I've had issues when using it where it glitches or just isn't loading. I think it's been issues on the back end that required ticketing. In the end, I didn't …
Chose Dropbox Sign
In my opinion, customer service is lacking. I believe they are unethical -- in my experience, they cancelled my membership despite asking them to only stop auto-billing. My account shows the membership was canceled but, I believe they still stole my $1630! Only reason I knew is …
Chose Dropbox Sign
Very similar program. I cannot say how different they are because I have not used DocuSign in some time.
Chose Dropbox Sign
Great software, however the integration of the Dropbox cloud in tandem with this is amazing and simpler than this great competitor for an all in one solution.
Chose Dropbox Sign
Dropbox seemed easier to use and cheaper than the others. It was just as functional.
Chose Dropbox Sign
Hellosign the easiest out of the class that we use. It is just super quick. We use eversign to get some extra templates, but it is pretty clunky for sending contracts.
Chose Dropbox Sign
It's useful that Dropbox Sign is connected with other apps (like fax), that's something the competitors I've used don't have.
Chose Dropbox Sign
So much better, specifically because of the lack of a limit. Focusing limits the total amount of docs you can sign per year and is more expensive. This product has similar if not slightly easier/Better functionality, and it’s for a much better price point. Would highly …
Chose Dropbox Sign
This is my first time using a tool like DropBox Sign and the reason I chose it is because the price was right for a small business with one user and I had a great customer service rep chatting with me that answered all of my questions very completely and efficiently.
Chose Dropbox Sign
Falls a little short but not too bad
Chose Dropbox Sign
Simpler to use and easier interface on your eyes
Chose Dropbox Sign
10 out of 10 times I will choose DocuSign moving forward over DropBox Sign. I hated how horrible their technical support was in solving my issue.
Chose Dropbox Sign
Docusign is fine, but Dropbox Sign provides far more flexibility and will scale with your business. Docusign seems to nickel and dime you every step of the way.
Chose Dropbox Sign
It stacks up pretty well, I do think some of the templates I've seen are a bit lacking with Dropbox sign.
Best Alternatives
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Small Businesses
Foxit eSign
Foxit eSign
Score 9.8 out of 10
Foxit eSign
Foxit eSign
Score 9.8 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
MSB Docs
MSB Docs
Score 9.4 out of 10
MSB Docs
MSB Docs
Score 9.4 out of 10
Enterprises
DocuSign
DocuSign
Score 8.4 out of 10
DocuSign
DocuSign
Score 8.4 out of 10
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User Ratings
BoldSign, by Syncfusion®Dropbox Sign
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
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8.9
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Likelihood to Renew
-
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8.4
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Usability
8.7
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9.8
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Availability
-
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9.1
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Performance
-
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9.1
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Support Rating
10.0
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1.7
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Implementation Rating
-
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9.0
(0 ratings)
Configurability
-
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8.3
(0 ratings)
Product Scalability
-
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9.1
(0 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
-
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9.1
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
BoldSign, by Syncfusion®Dropbox Sign
Likelihood to Recommend
BoldSign is perfect for the small business or startup that needs a legally-binding solution to digitally sign contracts/agreements between 2 parties or more. It's no frills and super easy to use, and requires no training to understand how to use. BoldSign is less appropriate for organisations that require complex integrations and automation capabilities for their digital signature solution.
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Cross functionally this product is great and the reminders/ email notifications are super helpful. Also signers who are not familiar with Dropbox sign have no problem using the tool. I find it super user friendly. I have found its a little harder to use when a signer has an agent (not a party signing the doc) and the agent wants to review prior to the person signing.
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Pros
  • BoldSign was incredibly easy to pickup and start using. The UX was very intuitive and required no training or guidance.
  • BoldSign's signed contracts repository is a very easy-to-access and navigate system to store and access all our signed documents.
  • BoldSign customer support has always been incredibly responsive and helpful.
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  • Allows customization for each client.
  • Gives us all the room we need to create a thorough contract.
  • Allows us to save each executed contract as a PDF.
  • Looks like a pricey, professionally drawn-up contract.
  • The ability to send a new customer a professional-looking contract like this makes us look "bigger" than we are.
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Cons
  • It would be great if BoldSign saved my signature in my account to use each time
  • It might be easier if you could select signature (or any heading for that matter) and click where you want it instead of dragging it to where you want it.
  • It would be nice if completed document’s automatically saved to a selected folder for safe keeping.
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  • It would be nice to be able to build a template for just the location of the signature boxes that would allow me to upload a document, and the boxes could be basically replaced. I have the exact same doc for each of my clients, but there are small changes here and there, and I have to fill in their personal info through another program, so it would be nice to be able to do a template this way instead of just tying a template to one document.
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Likelihood to Renew
Great product. Great price. Free for up to 25 signatures for one persons account. Having a group using it under one account is even a great price. Much cheaper than all the alternatives out there and does the same stuff the others do
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It's a great software and we will continue to use it. It's a great time and money saver when it comes to legal contracts and makes the process easy for both sides who need to sign or add information to a document or contract. We definitely need our contracts to be legally binding and HelloSign provides this for us
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Usability
Very straight forward to use and customers understand the service. No questions or need for me to explain. The free tier is amazing and has locked me in as a customer for when we're big enough to need the paid version.
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It works well for it's intended use, I feel like some of the features can improve a bit and it's recently received a bit of a face lift but over all it's been a really easy tool to utilize and implement and we've used it since we've opened.
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Reliability and Availability
No issues to date.
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I have not encountered this because it was so easy to use however just seeing how they created a community is great and shows that they are here for their users. I am going to say I am sure they are available and ready to assist when needed. The fact that we have not yet experienced an outage and issues says a lot though :)
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Performance
No issues with performance.
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Again I cannot say it is enough this app is simple. We are preparing to be able to integrate with Salesforce and Sharepoint at a very small cost per user (these are the platforms we use) and it is great that they have the option to integrate these apps. We love this app
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Support Rating
At the beginning I had a question so I emailed them. Response was super quick. Other then that I have not had to contact them for any help. System is easy to use
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Support is limited to email only (for our subscription level), which might be OK for a e-signing platform if support was relatively rapid. This is not the case with HelloSign. Since the issues first arose a week ago, we have made no discernible progress in solving the problem. No matter how quickly I respond to a follow-up email, we receive only 1 email a day from the support. The other issue, which is a true edge case situation, is their insistence on receiving email from the same email account as the HelloSign registration. We changed our organizational email recently, and I was still logging into HS using our old email address. This became a hard stop on further support, which doesn't make sense on a practical level. Why would someone write in for support with specific issues if they weren't a customer? And if they did, wouldn't that be a miniscule proportion of the support requests? So if you adopt a policy that stops providing support to anyone who isn't verified, regardless of the situation, isn't that using a blunt instrument to solve a very rare issue? Reflects the overall organizational values, in my opinion, which is not to value the small customer.
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Implementation Rating
Very easy...I was able to start using it immediately.
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I can not say it enough - this was the easiest implementation we have had with an application. I became an admin, I added the person who would be the back up admin, we moved forward with adding accounts and that was it. All the users we have were self sufficient enough to move forward with very little guidance and the guidance they received was in house.
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Alternatives Considered
The price-performance ratio is better with BoldSign. If I want to scale up to the next level and then go back, I can do it easily with BoldSign, unlike Adobe, for example. If you want to try another application, that's fine. They all do the same thing. In my experience, the ease of use, sourcing and functionality was perfect with BoldSign.
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PandaDoc has an interface that isn't as simple but once you get used to it, it's really not bad. The biggest con is that I've had issues when using it where it glitches or just isn't loading. I think it's been issues on the back end that required ticketing. In the end, I didn't find it as reliable. We've never had an issue with Dropbox Sign and we still use it daily.
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Scalability
Not sure as I don't have a need to scale.
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Between the easy to use app, the pricing, and the team at dropbox. This app is hands down great! Easy to use. Anyone can start using it and if not I am sure the team at dropbox will guide you to implement. The cost especially for us as a nonprofit is sustainable which is great.
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Return on Investment
  • So far I have only used the free version
  • I am sure that the paid version would be extremely beneficial if you did a bunch of contracts. I just started using the program, so not too many contracts yet. If I need to upgrade my subscription, the price will be well worth it.
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  • Faster time to contract signature-less overthinking because they sign with their finger on the phone with the sales rep.
  • Reduction of paper waste and organization.
  • Ease for sales reps to quickly choose and alter any agreement they need while on a call.
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ScreenShots

BoldSign, by Syncfusion® Screenshots

Screenshot of the bulk sending feature, that lets users send signature requests to multiple recipients in just a few clicks.Screenshot of the bulk sending feature, that lets users send signature requests to multiple recipients in just a few clicks.Screenshot of the bulk sending feature, that lets users send signature requests to multiple recipients in just a few clicks.

Dropbox Sign Screenshots

Screenshot of drag and drop fields for any document to create an e-signature documentScreenshot of signer settings that can be used to distribute agreementsScreenshot of Notifications of completed signaturesScreenshot of uploading a documentScreenshot of Admin homepageScreenshot of template creation