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by linsomniac 626 days ago
I'd agree with @idk1, the pricing comparison is, basically, unusable.

Goodsign compares to Docusign at $45/mo * 6 users for $3,240/year, compared to $1.50 for Goodsign. Hard to imagine a team of 6 that send one document per year.

If I go to Docusign, they list a $15/mo price (Monthly) per user for 5 documents. Or a price of $3/envelope, which compares favorably to Goodsign. The $45/mo price seems to be for unlimited documents, so that'd be a breakeven of 30 documents per user per month. BUT, Docusign offers significant discounts for paying yearly (hard to imagine a team of 6 that would use a service for just a month), which adjusts the pricing to $2/document for the 5 document plan and breakeven of 17 documents on the unlimited plan.

I went to the pricing page to try to get an idea of whether I should suggest my company look at switching to Goodsign, and the page didn't help at all. The pricing page suggests that we're spending around a quarter million dollars a month on Docusign, which I know isn't the case, but without knowing how many documents we send for signing, which I don't know even an order of magnitude off hand, I can't get any idea what sort of ballpark we'd be looking at.

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It's awesome to see so many people look at the pricing table. I can see $1.50 price is just not clear enough. I'll work on making this clearer.

>spending around a quarter million dollars a month on Docusign

That's also how I felt. I find big SaaS companies do so much to make sure you're fully locked in and they don't make it simple.

Informally - from the customers I've talked to, GoodSign is a huge saving on their Docusign bill.

I'll work on making a better pricing page.

It might be worth having a price estimate comparison calculator instead of just a table. E.g., enter the number of users, the number of docs per week/month to show estimated price.