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Dropbox DocSend

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What is Dropbox DocSend?

Dropbox DocSend helps business professionals to securely share and control content. Dropbox DocSend's link-based system is used to set security preferences for each stakeholder, receive notifications each time someone views a file, analyze content performance on a page-by-page basis, and create modern virtual deal rooms.

With DocSend, business can offload administrative burdens and securely share the most impactful proprietary information faster. DocSend’s Virtual Data Rooms manage sensitive documents securely and gets team real-time deal insights, simplying the entire deal process from initial pitch to final signature.

Categories & Use Cases

Media

Screenshot of the granular permissions that give control of what content visitors can access.
Screenshot of document analytics that provide insights on the links that have been forwarded to someone that hasn't been engaged with yet. Page-by-page analytics for each viewer of a document reveal any unique interests.
Screenshot of the dashboard to manage sensitive documents securely and get real-time deal insights on deals from start to finish with advanced data rooms.

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Screenshot of the granular permissions that give control of what content visitors can access.

Reviews

What users are saying about Dropbox DocSend.
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best file sharing platform in easy access

Incentivized
Luís Felipe Costa AraújoView profile
Designer gráfico in Marketing at www.felipelufa.com (1-10 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

It makes it easy to share documents between people and helps me keep track of just one document without having to worry about whether it's the right version. It also ensures that I can easily and intuitively share this document only with people who really care and need it in a totally secure way.

Pros

  • Share document links
  • Helps understand how my recipients behave with the document
  • Full platform control

Cons

  • UX
  • more editable functions
  • Larger number of users interacting

Most Important Features

  • interaction between accounts
  • platform that easily organizes files
  • sharing

Return on Investment

  • all in real time
  • files always available
  • jobs edited in minutes

Alternatives Considered

OneDrive, MS SharePoint / SQL and Adobe Creative Cloud Express (formerly Adobe Spark)

Other Software Used

monday.com, Microsoft Teams, Adobe Connect

Diversity is key

Incentivized
Zied Chaabane
COO (Chief Operating Officer) in Product Management at Ideaology (11-50 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Docsend is similar to other software but it is more reliable in terms of security. Wetransfer or any other third parties sometimes you hear about their data breaches Dropbox prices are high compared to the competition. This is why we rely on Google Drive in our company 70% of our staff is remote so file transfer is mandatory.

Pros

  • File Transfer.
  • Security.
  • Ease of use.

Cons

  • Prices.
  • More privacy.
  • Anonymous.

Most Important Features

  • Speed.
  • Ease of use.
  • Security.

Return on Investment

  • The buy now or upgrade.
  • The first reference for file transfer.
  • Expensive solution.

Alternatives Considered

WeTransfer and Google Drive

Other Software Used

Google Drive, Dropbox, WeTransfer

Great product and easy to use

Incentivized
Isha SinhaView profile
Cloud Ops Engineer in Information Technology at Accenture in India (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Docsend is simply a better way to share content with prospective clients, from documents to presentations to video clips to proposals. Prospective clients like the organized access to relevant content - it's quickly become a critical resource for us.

Pros

  • we can finally send e-signs with DocSend
  • The user interface is straightforward
  • it is simple to navigate and get what you need to be done

Cons

  • docsend doesn't have the emailing feature directly from the platform and it costs way too much.

Most Important Features

  • Easy share and tracking signature was useful

Return on Investment

  • I am able to easily send documents that need to be signed and mark the locations that need signing or filling out.

Effortless Document Sharing

Verified User
C-Level Executive in Engineering (1-10 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

DocSend allows you to upload documents and share them with a trackable link. We use DocSend for fundraising and share our pitch decks with prospective investors. With DocSend, you can track who is viewing the document, how are they engaging with it and track overall campaign performance. At any given point of time you can choose to disable or enable access to your documents.

Pros

  • Document management with access control
  • Unique shareable links
  • Access management
  • Gmail integration to insert links right from gmail
  • Dataroom creation

Cons

  • Doesn't support sharing videos. This would be a big plus

Most Important Features

  • Shareable documents with unique links
  • Document management and access control

Return on Investment

  • Fundraising becomes a breeze, knowing exactly who is interested and engaging with your pitch decks.
  • DocSend is a popular application in the startup ecosystem so there is zero learning curve for investors and founders alike

Alternatives Considered

Adobe Send & Track

Great for document sending, terrible for audio conferencing.

Incentivized
Lindsey StevensView profile
Enterprise Account Executive in Sales at DoubleDutch (51-200 employees employees)

Pros

  • Really good at tracking whenever someone views your presentation, including where they are opening the presentation.
  • They allow you to control whether a prospect is able to download the presentation or not.
  • I like the ability to skip around in my deck without the viewer seeing that.

Cons

  • I would like the ability to turn off tracking when I share a deck with someone. For example, I shared my deck with an internal team member and I don't want to receive an email alert every time they open it.
  • I would also like the flexibility to be able to clone presentations and add/remove slides in docsend instead of having to export the presentation, manipulate it in powerpoint, and then re-import it.
  • I wish they had their own native conference line instead of relying on the join.me integration which does not work well. 1/3 of the time when I try and switch my screen to my desktop (utilizing join.me) my prospects aren't able to see my screen. I realize this is an issue with join.me, but if Docsend had their own native screenshare capabilities we wouldn't have to mess around with integrations with other systems that aren't reliable.
  • Frequently people will click on the DocSend link thinking they can use the audio through their computer and it's very confusing for them. Wish they had their own conferencing information.

Return on Investment

  • As a sales person I think having some way to share documents with prospects and track their viewing activity is critical. DocSend has met my needs in this regard.
  • DocSend is not an all-in-one demo tool. They lack the audio conferencing and screen share capabilities so they must rely on their partner join.me to provide this. This integration does not work well and has caused a lot of pain on demo calls. For this reason we will be switching back to ClearSlide when our contract is up with DocSend because while it's more expensive than DocSend, it actually works as an all-in-one solution.
  • DocSend has helped me identify when my deck is being passed around an organization and being opened up all over the world.

Alternatives Considered

ClearSlide

Other Software Used

Calendly, ClearSlide, Slack

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