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SignNow vs Calisto Sign
SignNow is e-signature software, with bulk send on a higher plan. Calisto Sign keeps the signature in the same account as your contacts, documents, bookings and deals.
Feature by feature
Calisto Sign beside SignNow
- 8 Only in Calisto Sign
- 11 In both
- 4 Only in SignNow
| 23 features | Calisto Sign | SignNow |
|---|---|---|
| Sending | ||
| Reusable templates | Yes | Yes |
| Bulk send to many recipientsBulk send is a Business Premium feature on SignNow. | Yes | Yes |
| Automatic reminders on a schedule | Yes | Yes |
| Parallel or sequential signing order | Yes | Yes |
| Fields that fill themselves from the record the document was prepared againstCalisto Sign reads the linked contact or booking; no integration to buy. | Yes | No |
| Business forms that render, place their own fields and send | Yes | No |
| Signing | ||
| Draw, type or upload a signature | Yes | Yes |
| Sign in person on a tablet at the counter | Yes | Yes |
| Hand off to the signer's own phone by QR code | Yes | No |
| Decline with a reason | Yes | Yes |
| Signers never need an account | Yes | Yes |
| Identity | ||
| Government ID and liveness check before the document opensSignNow offers signer authentication; government ID checks are not a published feature of the standard plans. | Yes | Yes |
| Compliance check that adds AML screening | Yes | No |
| Verify outside signers only; your own staff are already known | Yes | No |
| Records | ||
| Certificate of completion on every finished document | Yes | Yes |
| Certificate anyone can verify from a public link, no account | Yes | No |
| Audit trail of views, entries, signatures, downloads and reminders | Yes | Yes |
| Signed waiver writes coverage against the person, with an expiry warning | Yes | No |
| Where it stops | ||
| Qualified electronic signatures (eIDAS QES) | No | Yes |
| Radio and dropdown field typesCalisto Sign places signature, initials, date, text and checkbox fields. | No | Yes |
| Public API and developer plans | No | Yes |
| Native connectors to third-party CRMsSignNow connects natively to Salesforce and others on its upper plans; Calisto Sign works with Deals, and outside CRMs import through Contacts. | No | Yes |
| Contacts, documents, bookings and deals in the same system as the signature | Yes | No |
What moves
Bringing your data from SignNow
Your data is read in your own browser and sent to your Calisto account. Calisto never sees your login for the old system.
From an export file
Export your data from SignNow and drop the file in. It is read in your browser and mapped onto Calisto.
Contacts
Your signNow contacts
Templates
Document and document-group templates
Honest answers
Leaving SignNow
Do my signed documents move across?
Completed envelopes generally stay with SignNow, because their certificates are theirs. Download them before you close the account; anything you send from Calisto Sign carries its own certificate and audit trail.
Can I bring my templates?
Templates rebuild with drag-and-drop field placement on the PDF you already have. Field positions are in PDF points, so a template you place once is exact on every send.
I am mid-contract with SignNow. What happens to the rest of it?
Upload the contract from the offer above. We read the term, the fee and the notice period, and what leaving costs you is held as credit in your Calisto wallet, released once you show us it is cancelled.
What does an envelope cost?
The pricing section on this page reads the live catalogue and is the authority on the figure. One envelope holds every document and every signer the agreement needs, and is charged once, when it is sent; drafting and placing fields cost nothing.
What does SignNow do that Calisto Sign does not?
The table above says so plainly. Qualified electronic signatures, a developer API and native connectors to third-party CRMs are theirs; the record the signature belongs to is ours.
Learn more
Everything Calisto does here
The pages behind this comparison: the sector, the apps and the guides.