Nitro Productivity Suite vs. SignRequest, now part of Box

Nitro Productivity Suite

Nitro Productivity Suite

68 Reviews and Ratings

SignRequest, now part of Box

SignRequest, now part of Box

28 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Nitro Productivity Suite	Score 9.3 out of 10	N/A	Nitro Productivity Suite combines electronic signature and general PDF editing, from Nitro, Inc. It is built around capabilities such as getting approvals and esignatures in seconds and sharing and reviewing documents from anywhere.	$9.99 per month billed annually per user
SignRequest, now part of Box	Score 8.0 out of 10	Small Businesses (1-50 employees)	SignRequest was an e-signature platform acquired by Box in 2021. The eSignature tool is the basis for Box Sign, a feature now included in Box's core offering.	$0 per user

Pricing

Nitro Productivity Suite

SignRequest, now part of Box

Editions & Modules

Nitro Sign® Essentials: $9.99
per month billed annually per user
Nitro Sign® Advanced: $19.99
per month billed annually per user
Nitro Sign® Premium: Let's chat

Start: $0.00
per user
Professional: $8.00
per user
SME: minimal $16.00
$4.00 per user
Enterprise: Custom
per user
API: Custom
per installation

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Nitro Productivity Suite	SignRequest, now part of Box
Free Trial
No	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No	Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

No setup fee

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Community Pulse
	Nitro Productivity Suite	SignRequest, now part of Box
Considered Both Products	Nitro Productivity Suite Grant Millar Financial Planner and Money Coach Chose Nitro Productivity Suite You need a subscription to use Adobe Acrobat. You can pay a one-off license fee to use Nitro. Incentivized Helpful? RR Rich Russo Network Engineer Chose Nitro Productivity Suite Nitro Productivity Suite is able to perform just as well as Adobe. It uses less resources on my machine than Adobe. I think it is much easier to use than Tungsten as well. Incentivized Helpful? SB Stephanie Betts Community Engagement Coordinator Chose Nitro Productivity Suite [I feel] Nitro doesn't have near the functionality of Adobe but it is significantly cheaper. I'm not sure the savings is worth the frustration. Incentivized Helpful? JG Jason Glazer President Chose Nitro Productivity Suite Every 1-2 years will do a check on current PDF options to include trialing the software. Have tried Foxit and several that seem to have failed in the marketplace. Over the last 4 years, I have always stuck with Nitro. Unfortunately, we still need to keep Adobe Acrobat (free … Incentivized Helpful? AL Austin Lin IT Operations Lead Chose Nitro Productivity Suite I think Adobe is probably the best PDF solution since they essentially developed and own the PDF format, but Nitro is a very good alternative and is more competitively priced. If our clients didn't use PDF documents or sent us everything in MS Word, then our Office 365 would be … Incentivized Helpful? Matthew McGinnis VP of Business Development Chose Nitro Productivity Suite Nitro Productivity Suite allows a user to accomplish all of the things you would want to do to a document that Adobe does not. Much easier to find the operation you are looking for in Nitro Productivity Suite compared to Adobe Incentivized Helpful? AS Alfred Simmons Internet Marketing Coordinator Chose Nitro Productivity Suite Adobe Acrobat DC Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Nitro Productivity Suite Nitro is a more specified app with simple pdf editing use and a low cost. Incentivized Helpful? Francis kimani Finance Specialist Chose Nitro Productivity Suite It has more functionalities compared to the other software Incentivized Helpful? Ariel Dunay Associate, Project Operations Chose Nitro Productivity Suite Nitro has probably 10x the features that Adobe does and just does it so much better. Ease of use is profoundly different. I won't ever go back!! Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Nitro Productivity Suite At the time, we evaluated Adobe Professional to help with some of the PDF modifications we were needing to accomplish. I didn't see any further options besides Nitro and Adobe that were worth evaluating. When looking at costs and feature comparisons it was a no-brainer. Incentivized Helpful? John Plecki Construction Logistics Coordinator Chose Nitro Productivity Suite Nitro was more simplistic than Adobe and a much better price Incentivized Helpful? Benjamin E. Jerew Senior Content Manager Chose Nitro Productivity Suite I downloaded the trial versions of both Acrobat DC and Nitro PDF, and found Nitro to be superior in price, while Acrobat was superior in software features and user-friendliness. I knew I would be using Nitro for basic publishing and editing of PDFs, which both programs do well, … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Nitro Productivity Suite Features are comparable. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Nitro Productivity Suite We selected Nitro PDF because the features that the organization needed were comparable and the annual cost for the on-premises version of the application was considerably less expensive at the time. When we selected, Adobe was not yet in the cloud. At that time, there were … Incentivized Helpful?	SignRequest, now part of Box CS Christine Sako Head of Internal Ops and BI Chose SignRequest, now part of Box SignRequest is far and away more afforable than its competitors. Their support is also very responsive and willing to make improvements whereas its competitors seem to be a bit more unapproachable as far as their support goes. I have been able to resolve billing and reporting … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose SignRequest, now part of Box Friendly interface, affordable costs, easy to understand and use, personalized language. You can manage users, templates and documents. Incentivized Helpful? Ben Caplan Risk Manager, and Insurance Agent Chose SignRequest, now part of Box I haven't used this in my role, but as a customer, I have used this program and it was nice. The pricing model, however, is far outside the reach for most small businesses. This is why I didn't consider Adobe Sign when trying to find a solution that meets our business needs. Incentivized Helpful? Matthew Veil Marketing Broker Chose SignRequest, now part of Box Less money and easier to set up than more well-branded e-signature platforms. Unlimited contracts on paid plans, which is a lot more than any other e-signature software I've used before. And under the free plan, you can get 15 contracts signed with limited features. For smaller … Incentivized Helpful? Carter Durham Chief Creative Officer and Head of Product Chose SignRequest, now part of Box When I started this company in 2017, I looked for alternative solutions to getting e-signatures on business documents but never found anything that met our needs well until I encountered SignRequest. At this point we've been using it so long that I honestly can't remember the … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose SignRequest, now part of Box We actually ended up switching to HelloSign after about three months. The main reason was the depth of the Salesforce integration that we needed to have. SignRequest is a really top-notch product for the market they play in. Small businesses especially will be able to use the … Incentivized Helpful? FS Fred Saunders Agent Chose SignRequest, now part of Box Annual rates with SignRequest were very affordable. Incentivized Helpful? Matthew Finneran Product Manager Chose SignRequest, now part of Box They have an unlimited free plan. In other words, you can sign as many documents as you want for free each month. The others (last I checked) limited your total number of signed docs on the freemium plan. That's certainly nice. SignRequest's upgrades come from more features … Incentivized Helpful? Robin Bull Dark Countess of Communication / CEO Chose SignRequest, now part of Box SignRequest is actually easier to use than SigningHub. It's much easier to just go to wherever you need a signature in the document and add the field. It's also got a cleaner interface, in my opinion, which makes it easier to figure out what's going on. I think that for someone … Incentivized Helpful? Matthew Mullane Integrative Medicine Fellow, St. Anthony North Health Campus Chose SignRequest, now part of Box SignRequest is easier and quicker to use, integrates into Google services, and really is a smooth process overall. I found the other e-sign product I've used to be less user-friendly, and perhaps more dated in its design. With the other product I tried, there were several … Incentivized Helpful? Darrell McTague Fitness Director Chose SignRequest, now part of Box I think SignRequest offers more and more powerful customization options thank competitors. I wasn't a fan of the user interface and usability when trying to customize documents on competitors' products, but SignRequest was easy. I also like SignRequest's template functionality … Incentivized Helpful? Carolyn Eckman Business Owner Chose SignRequest, now part of Box Unlike Adobe Acrobat DC, SignRequest is actually designed to request signatures and presents itself as such to my clients. DocuSign is not as user-friendly and approachable as SignRequest in my opinion. Even the free version of SignRequest offers more options and functionality … Incentivized Helpful? Becky Burgess Founder & CEO Chose SignRequest, now part of Box Adobe Acrobat left me frustrated and annoyed. I was wasting hours each week trying to upload contracts and agreements and customize them for each client. It never sent right and ended up being more frustrating for us and our clients in the end. So I tested some other tools … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose SignRequest, now part of Box Adobe Sign (formerly EchoSign), DocuSign and Zoho Sign Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose SignRequest, now part of Box DocuSign is used in other areas of our business (client contracts, MSAs, SOWs, etc.) because it integrates with Salesforce and because we are a partner. We don't use DocuSign for HR purposes because DocuSign automatically creates a copy of the document in Salesforce, which … Incentivized Helpful? Robine Talboom Marketing, communications, events & editor Chose SignRequest, now part of Box Unfortunately, I have no experience with alternatives. SignRequest seemed the most value for money at the time we made the decision to start e-signing. Incentivized Helpful?

Best Alternatives
	Nitro Productivity Suite	SignRequest, now part of Box
Small Businesses	Foxit eSign Score 9.8 out of 10	Foxit eSign Score 9.8 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies	MSB Docs Score 9.4 out of 10	MSB Docs Score 9.4 out of 10
Enterprises	DocuSign Score 8.3 out of 10	DocuSign Score 8.3 out of 10
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User Ratings
	Nitro Productivity Suite	SignRequest, now part of Box
Likelihood to Recommend	9.3 (0 ratings)	8.0 (0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	10.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Usability	9.0 (0 ratings)	10.0 (0 ratings)
Performance	8.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Support Rating	9.2 (0 ratings)	8.8 (0 ratings)
Ease of integration	5.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Nitro Productivity Suite	SignRequest, now part of Box
Likelihood to Recommend	I run a professional services business from home. I need to edit documents quickly and easily and with minimal subscriptions to minimize overheads. I love that Nitro is a one-off payment to get a license to the software, and you can simply upgrade to the latest version if that's what you want, but you're not obligated to. I've been using the same version of Nitro for 7-8 years now. Despite the fact the upgraded versions have a lot of great, nice-to-have features, the version I'm on still does the job. Incentivized Grant Millar Financial Planner and Money Coach Read full review	It's great for a law firm--especially ours which is paperless--and for any business that needs reviews and signatures constantly. I have recommended it to courts, my general contractor working on our house, and to other law firms that have a hard time getting us their clients' signatures. I think most businesses would benefit from SignRequest! Incentivized R. Melissa Masoom Senior Associate Attorney Read full review
Pros	Ability to combine files SEAMLESSLY and order them around as necessary (so underrated) Signing not only for yourself but for others. Helpful for those who have been granted the authority to sign for VPs and directors Much easier to use than some other PDF viewing services Incentivized Ariel Dunay Associate, Project Operations Read full review	SignRequest is extremely user-friendly and its interface is smooth and straightforward. It takes the guesswork out of sending contracts and agreements online for review and signatures. SignRequest is easy to set up and customize. I truly like how well its setup is structured. I've had zero issues uploading documents and customizing them. SignRequest also allows you to save documents and use over and over. I really liked this feature as we send a lot of a similar contract out to our clients. We are able to change the amount and tweak the client information quickly and streamline the process. SignRequest sends a final signed document after reach party signs it. I like adding this final PDF to our invoices when we send it out so our clients can keep a digital record of our agreements. Incentivized Becky Burgess Founder & CEO Read full review
Cons	Converting from PDF to Microsoft Word can be complicated at times. Some parts of a document such as tables are not converted properly. Sometimes it appears to be easier to save MS Word documents to PDF rather than using NPS to convert. It can be a bit slow to convert at times. In my view, it wasn't user friendly at the beginning. Incentivized AB Andrew Barnes Finance Officer Read full review	Clunky UI when filling in documents that require long-form responses. (Doesn't allow for entering of multiple lines at one time; lots of clicks required to complete a document with many fields) In the free version, can only send one document at a time Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Likelihood to Renew	We will definitely be renewing the Nitro Productivity Suite. Saves the company a lot of money for something we use everyday Incentivized RR Rich Russo Network Engineer Read full review	No answers on this topic
Usability	For the most part, the entire software is extremely easy to navigate and use. You won't need to follow tutorials or anything for the bulk of the core features, as it's all pretty seamlessly designed. Incentivized Grant Millar Financial Planner and Money Coach Read full review	I have found it easy to use and self-explanatory from day one. I love how clear and easy it is to use since I am not techy! Incentivized Meredith Brough Business Owner and Coach Read full review
Performance	It works as advertised. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	No answers on this topic
Support Rating	Nitro checks all the boxes for what we need. It is fairly priced, it allows us to read and edit PDF documents, convert PDF to MS Word and convert MS Word to PDF. It allows us to combine multiple files and do all the post processing like adding page numbers and adding headers and footers Incentivized AL Austin Lin IT Operations Lead Read full review	Easy to understand supporting documents with a great search feature to easily find the information I need for legal purposes, API connections, how to connect Gmail or G Suite, along with the ability to send a message to them. They don't seem to have an online chat feature or a call option, but that's why it's so inexpensive. Since it's already easy to use, it takes less time to find out information. Incentivized Matthew Veil Marketing Broker Read full review
Alternatives Considered	Every 1-2 years will do a check on current PDF options to include trialing the software. Have tried Foxit and several that seem to have failed in the marketplace. Over the last 4 years, I have always stuck with Nitro. Unfortunately, we still need to keep Adobe Acrobat (free version) installed to view a small percentage of some PDFs we receive. Incentivized JG Jason Glazer President Read full review	When I started this company in 2017, I looked for alternative solutions to getting e-signatures on business documents but never found anything that met our needs well until I encountered SignRequest. At this point we've been using it so long that I honestly can't remember the specific names of other products or vendors. Incentivized Carter Durham Chief Creative Officer and Head of Product Read full review
Return on Investment	Positive - Cheaper than Adobe Positive - Allows us to modify PDF documents from our clients to submit our proposals. Positive - Allows us to convert PDF documents to MS Word to share with our consultants and others without a PDF editor who contributes to our proposals. Negative - Need to upgrade to get the latest features/versions unlike something like MS/Office 365 where we just get updates automatically and free for the monthly fee. Maybe they will or need to move to a subscription solution versus a product price. Incentivized AL Austin Lin IT Operations Lead Read full review	We ended up switching vendors after about 3 months due to CRM integration with Salesforce not meeting our needs. The cost was low enough where we did not feel it would be overly expensive with a growing sales team. It allowed us to quickly get set up, and get e-signed contracts out to customers. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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