Legalesign vs Docusign

What is the Difference Between Docusign and Legalesign?

Docusign and Legalesign are both esignature software with enterprise feature-sets, strong compliance and highly reliable infrastructure. Docusign is the market leader for esignature and is based in the US, while Legalesign is a UK based and UK-focused enterprise vendor.

Legalesign is usually shortlisted alongside Docusign because it has the most mature feature-set and strongest compliance among UK electronic signature software.

Since many softwares are called 'electronic signature software' and offer overtly similar functions, differences can appear mild at first sight. However, modern IT procurement practice takes into account the important 'hidden' factors such as data protection, data security, accessibility, long-term servicing, and other factors, and in this context, important differences between softwares are exposed.

The differences between Legalesign and Docusign include:

1. Legalesign has UK-based data centres.

2. Legalesign is a UK registered company. (This is important because it means we are regulated by ICO and subject to UK data protection law, which provides significant additional protections).

3. Legalesign has strong GDPR provisions within its terms of service and in its features - with a specialist GDPR area.

4. Legalesign is customer-centric - it delivers excellent support and service to customers - get your account tailored to your needs with 1-to-1 webinars and support sessions.

5. Legalesign is for business professionals - it does not heavily advertise and promote itself to its customer's customers.

6. Legalesign is agile and responds and adapts to customer requests.

7. Legalesign offers a low-risk, high-success implementation plan. Through monthly price plans and a teams-oriented system architecture, Legalesign customers pay only for what they need, and for success; you incrementally increase teams and investment based on real user adoption and results.

8. Legalesign has a UK focus on law and its signing is purposed for the UK legal system, although it also incorporates legal elements from around the world (e.g. the US Esign Act)

9. Legalesign has a unique eWitness feature for online witnessing, based on guidance from the Law Society.

10. Legalesign is often better value, its per-user pricing is based on productivity - only pay more if the features you gain deliver overall financial benefit to your business, otherwise downgrade.

11. Legalesign pricing is per-month with no lock-in. Although annual discounts are available upon request.

Customers who have switched from Docusign to Legalesign said:

Legalesign has an easy to use interface. You can customize a lot of the features, email design, copy, etc. It looks really professional when you take advantage of all they have to offer. The customer service is fantastic. Any questions I have, the team is on instantly. We switched over from Docusign after having our account executive change multiple times to try and save money. We have been very happy we made the jump!

A. Patzius

Great platform - super easy to use and the customer service has been really good. Much better than Docusign.

T. Freeman

Excellent customer service, sensible pricing and much easier to navigate than Docusign and Adobe. Pay as you go pricing is a stroke of genius, don't get duped into paying high subscription fees with the other providers.

T. Kirk

The main reason for signing up to Legalesign, was their excellent certification process for electronic signatures. In a post-pandemic world, legislation for electronic signatures and remote verification has been widely expanded, however it was disappointing to discover that the leading e-sign companies (Adobe, Docusign, etc.) did not cater for simple issues like adding a witness or forwarding signature responsibility. It was refreshing to see these options available on Legalesign, as well as an excellent support team to walk you through each feature.

John B.

In addition, Legalesign offers a depth in features that other providers lack.

For example, others platforms have simply renamed Signers as Witnesses, however Witnesses should not be able to see pages of the document where they do not fill out a form field, and they should not download the final document.

Ultimate Finance chose Legalesign for its UK-specific witnessing feature said:

We evaluated other electronic signing platforms and chose Legalesign as it provided the best functionality and interpretation of witnessing as per the legal definition.. 

You can try Legalesign now using the free trial or contact one of our experts now to discuss your requirements.