Conga Composer vs. Formstack Documents

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Conga Composer
Score 9.6 out of 10
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Conga Composer is a document generation and automation tool designed to simplify and streamline the process of creating and distributing customized documents, presentations, and reports.N/A
Formstack Documents
Score 7.3 out of 10
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Formstack Documents (formerly WebMerge, acquired by Formstack April 2019) is an online service that automates the document creation process. It allows users to create customized PDF and Word documents for contracts, applications, government forms, and more.N/A
Pricing
Conga ComposerFormstack Documents
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Conga ComposerFormstack Documents
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
Conga ComposerFormstack Documents
Considered Both Products
Conga Composer
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I've used PandaDoc before; it is nowhere near as good as Conga Composer in terms of usability and end-user experience. Conga is much more valuable and business-oriented.
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Can have more control with Aspose by using more code to dynamically generate the document to your exact needs.
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Easily the best In the market. Still needs massive improvements in my opinion. Alot of use cases look legacy today!
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Conga Composer works well with Conga Grid.
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Better pricing and better functionality.
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IDK - I really don't have a comparison to give
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No other tools that are comparable.
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We used the out of the box salesforce functionality but realized when our order forms used multiple currencies and had some customization we realized we needed a tool like Conga Composer
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We did not try any other products with our Salesforce instance.
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Benchmarking is upcoming. Conga Composer was already implemented when I joined the company
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We used Microsoft Excel to manipulate all the data from different objects, now we can click a button and the report is generated, Excel provides a powerful tool, but Conga Composer is better than Excel to generate the data in the format that the customer wants, you don't need …
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Conga is better than the rest.
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S-docs allows for much more dynamic flexibility. Additionally, S-Docs template maintenance is substantially easier than Conga Composer. Conga requires about 6 steps to make an update to your template. S-Docs has a simple template builder that makes the process substantially …
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CPQ is more customizable and native to Salesforce, but it's extremely difficult to set up and maintain. The Conga Composer configuration is much simpler and quicker to implement.
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I just wish that Docusign and Conga Document Generation could work together after the quote is generated to send out for signature.
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Conga Composer is highly versatile as this can be easily integrated with Salesforce and other Conga products. Other products either lack integration or lack user experience but Conga Composer has provided both along with great integration which reduces manual tasks which was …
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Conga Composer was easier to use by far than PandaDoc and had more options than DocuSign for our particular org.
Chose Conga Composer
We have not used any other app however from the user's experience it seems Conga composer is best. And being a Conga partner and implementing the Conga solutions and supporting the existing customers and hearing their success stories it is clear that conga composer and other …
Formstack Documents
Chose Formstack Documents
Formstack Documents [(formerly WebMerge)] has better overall integration with third-party integrators at a very competitive cost. That allowed us to have a broader range of choices than something like SharePoint at a better cost point than something like DocuSign. It was simple …
Chose Formstack Documents
We originally used Google Documents in Google Drive to create the same formatted word documents that included all relevant info. However, that method required a LOT of manual copy and pasting and was proving to be a huge time waste for the team, let alone unsustainable as we …
Chose Formstack Documents
Formstack Documents integrates well with all of these other products, making workflow very streamlined and easy to manage.
Chose Formstack Documents
I use Zapier to integrate Formstack documents with Podio and Insuresign (now Formstack sign). All three applications work very well together, and I would recommend that anyone who is looking to use Formstack Documents also use Formstack Sign as well as Podio. Zapier is the …
Chose Formstack Documents
Each of the programs above answered a specific call to action. While each addressed a small portion of our need, they never quite fit the bill for what we needed. It was actually a representative from three of the ones above which selected WebMerge. They wanted to sell their …
Chose Formstack Documents
We have been trying to get information on DocuPanda and NiftyQuoter, however, these two tools are mostly oriented to create quotation and the setup is pretty complicated. If you are looking to create just quotation, you may try these two, but WebMerge has a better performance …
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User Ratings
Conga ComposerFormstack Documents
Likelihood to Recommend
9.7
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Likelihood to Renew
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Usability
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Availability
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Performance
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Implementation Rating
3.7
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Configurability
1.8
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Ease of integration
2.7
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Product Scalability
3.6
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Vendor post-sale
1.8
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User Testimonials
Conga ComposerFormstack Documents
Likelihood to Recommend
From my experience, Conga Composer is particularly well-suited for generating documents, such as quotes and contracts, directly from Salesforce. It saves us a great deal of time, which is remarkably beneficial for companies with sales teams. Not suitable for companies lacking significant Salesforce expertise or administrative support.
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[Formstack Documents (formerly WebMerge) is] well suited for a mid-size organization that has multiple data inputs and needs to provide structure and professional document generation. As helpful as it is, the cost would prevent smaller businesses from realizing the cost savings that a larger one will.
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Pros
  • It allows us to generate multiple documents at once using batch generation. This simple automation saves a lot of time for our team.
  • Its very user friendly. Even a newbie can simply generate document by clicking a button once this is setup by the admin.
  • Integrate Conga Sign with Conga Composer and it will automatically sent for e- signature once generated saving lot of time. we previously had to wait a lot for the signature.
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  • It consumes PDF applications and prefills them from a database or form. If your file is not in PDF form it can work from applications such as Microsoft Word.
  • It has logic that enables you to bundle applications based on criteria. For example you could bundle state specific applications with a new business applications if a state criteria is met.
  • It has several integrations partners in the fields of E Signature and Forms.
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Cons
  • Not very intuitive. Once you know the system it's fine but there is a learning curve
  • I would like to see training opportunities on features that I am not using or aware of
  • I am sure I am only using about 3% of it's full potential
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  • If you don't know anything about these types of programs, it can be hard to learn it at first. There is a bit of a learning curve, especially when you get into the designer. It looks like MS Word, but not as expansive.
  • Lingo. There have been times I've delved into the more complicated pieces and the lingo used wasn't easy to understand. This hasn't occurred much.
  • I would like it to keep up with current upgrades for MS Office, but I also realize they can't be trying to match other companies while trying to maintain the innovation of their own.
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Likelihood to Renew
We most likely will renew conga because of it's strong salesforce integration and we're so engrained into it with all of our different brands and products/services. It would take a lot of time, money and resources to switch to something else.
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Ease of use, nice functionality that saves time
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Usability
It's a fairly simple tool to integrate into your current business structure. When we've had issues, we were able to resolve them extremely quickly. The users click a button and it can bring in all the quote lines, and our credit application seamlessly into our tool. I'd definitely recommend it to other colleagues
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Reliability and Availability
It was available, it just didn't always work depending on what glitches were happening within our app
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Performance
This product appears to work well. It was not a fit for us this time, but we would consider in future
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Support Rating
As a conga parter we have created more than 50+ cases with conga support and many times we have got the answers on the chat support itself. A very effective knowledge base and conga university give you all the study material to enhance your product knowledge. Conga support has been very effective and has always responded quickly to questions and issues
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Support was always readily available and happy to assist whenever I had a question or needed help. Great experience every time.
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Implementation Rating
It was painful internally to build out all of the templates, but the actual implementation of the product was okay.
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Alternatives Considered
We have not been able to find an offering that allowed for the level of customization or could handle the complexity of the solutions we've built using Conga's products. We selected Conga originally as it was recommended at the time (2012) and there weren't any better alternatives - but we have looked recently and still can't find anything better.
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Formstack Documents [(formerly WebMerge)] has better overall integration with third-party integrators at a very competitive cost. That allowed us to have a broader range of choices than something like SharePoint at a better cost point than something like DocuSign. It was simple to implement, flexible, and gave us what we needed without a lot of extra fuss.
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Scalability
We used it for something simple and it was still a pain to use
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Return on Investment
  • We have been able to standardize our branding in documents to give them a more professional appearance.
  • The number of manual errors is significantly reduced, thereby improving our turnaround time by 30%.
  • Our overall working efficiency has improved by over 70% with the introduction of Conga Composer.
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  • Formstack was an absolute necessity for us and during our busy season, it saves our client team approx. 15 hours a week. This is MASSIVE and allows us to take on more clients.
  • Formstack wasn't crazy intensive to set up timewise, but it took a team member a day to set up and a few days of testing. Once it was set, we have no reason to look back unless we want to add something on.
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ScreenShots

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Screenshot of how documents are created automatically, directly from SalesforceScreenshot of documents generated with any data, from any object - standard or customScreenshot of Conga Document GenerationScreenshot of popular document formats available, like Word, Excel, PowerPoint, HTML, and PDFScreenshot of how large documents are sent via a link - and they provide visibility into customer document engagementScreenshot of how multiple documents can be sent with one or no clicks