Docusign vs. Annature
Started with Annature? Switch to Docusign
As a basic e-signature solution, Annature has its limits. If you’re looking for a robust, fully integrated, end-to-end platform for your business agreements, use Docusign.
Why choose Docusign e-signature over Annature?
- Security you can count on
With highly secure encryption standards, 99.9% platform availability and complete digital audit trails, Docusign eSignature gives you confidence in every transaction. Plus you can get near-real-time alerts and activity tracking to monitor signing activity.
- Integrations to help you save
Work faster with one platform to prepare, send, sign, store, manage, analyse and automate your agreements. Plus, get signing sorted in the tools your team use every day — like Microsoft Office, Salesforce, Zoom and Google Workspace.
- Full support as you grow
With a wealth of resources and live support, Docusign has your back. Whether you’re a developer or a business lead, we’re here to help you deliver a great signing experience, time and again.
Go beyond the basics. Join 1 million customers and 1 billion users who trust Docusign with their agreements.
Limitations of the Annature e-signature solution
It isn’t as mobile-friendly
Despite its claim to be ‘mobile first’, the Annature mobile signing experience is not responsive, nor does it have a mobile app.
It lacks scalability
Annature’s lack of features — including an inability to create signing groups, share envelopes, or conditionally route documents — makes it problematic for growing businesses.
It is less secure
Compared to the robust security and trust features of Docusign, Annature lacks transparency with respect to its security features and offers only limited identity solutions.
It has few integrations
With less than 10 integrations, it’s hard to make Annature work with the tools your teams already use.
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Features Docusign has that Annature doesn’t
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Sending features Delayed routing, scheduled sending and advanced recipient routing |
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AI features AI-assisted agreement summarization, document highlighting |
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Integrations 900+ pre-built integrations to all of the tools you already use | 400+ | <10 |
Think beyond e-signatures alone. Docusign has been innovating since 2003 to support your entire contract lifecycle.
“The level of security offered by Docusign is impressive, ensuring that all documents are protected throughout the signing and storage process.”
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Docusign vs. Annature FAQs
You can rely on Docusign for all your business agreements. We remove friction from the agreement process, helping you build trust, add intelligence, and unlock valuable data for everyone.
With Docusign, it’s easier for both your team and your customers to negotiate, make decisions, and understand the risks involved — it’s a seamless, fast and simple signing process. And, with our end-to-end platform for managing agreements, it’s not just the electronic signature part of the process that delivers benefits.
Docusign supports identify verification for signers, document generation, automated agreement workflows, agreement storage and more.
Docusign can also help you unlock the data that lives in your agreements, so you can use it to make smarter business decisions. For example, you can see when vendor contracts are coming up for renewal, easily find out how new legislation affects clauses of your existing agreements and more.
In comparison, Annature only supports basic eSignature functionality. This is fine for very simple contracts and agreements, but it doesn’t help you address the larger challenges around agreement workflows, nor does it deliver the tangible business benefits that Docusign does. Working only with PDFs, the data in Annature agreements is less searchable, making it harder to gain valuable business intelligence.
There are five compelling reasons to choose Docusign over Annature for your eSignature needs. Docusign delivers greater value in these areas:
- Trust, uptime and security
- Robust toolset for integrations
- Signer and sender experience
- Agreement process automation
- Customer success
It all combines to help you save time, reduce costs, and transform the customer experience.
Annature has been cited as saying that Docusign is costly, and locks customers in for a monthly or annual subscription fee. In fact, our fees are competitive, and the price includes a rich array of business-friendly features beyond just eSignature. Ultimately, Docusign helps save significant amounts of time and money in administering and managing agreements.
Absolutely! Since 2019 Docusign has been undertaking bi-annual IRAP assessments against the Government’s Information Security Manual (ISM). We are the only eSignature provider who is able to securely manage documents classified up to and including Protected.
And it doesn’t stop there. A key part of any Agency’s Cloud strategy is the ability to centrally monitor and respond to actions undertaken by your staff and external stakeholders. Again, we are the only eSignature provider who provides you full control with near-real time logging to your Security monitoring systems to alert you of activities that you might view as suspicious.
And when dealing with external signing parties, our automatic mobile-responsive rendering while maintaining WCAG compliance, ensures your Agency maintains a positive approach to access and equity.
These three key aspects provide government agencies and any other organisations that work alongside the government the peace of mind that Docusign can securely prepare, sign and manage agreements that contain sensitive information.
More than 1 billion users and 1 million customers trust Docusign with their agreements. In fact, over two-thirds of ASX listed companies in Australia are using Docusign eSignature.
With highly secure encryption standards, rigorous security certifications, and complete digital audit trails, Docusign gives you total confidence in every transaction.
Docusign eSignature is also the highest-ranked e-signature app in Salesforce AppExchange and is rated 98 out of 100 for ease of use, according to public reviews on G2.com.
More broadly, Docusign makes the agreement process smarter and easier.
From a centralised platform, you can prepare, sign, act on and manage complex agreements. Plus, achieve faster time to value and avoid arduous implementation efforts by integrating quickly with APIs and more than 900 connectors. It means everyone can agree, from the tools and systems they use every day.