SignNow vs Calisto Sign
SignNow is the low-price seat in the category, and it is still a seat: an annual rate, an invite allowance and a higher plan for bulk send. Calisto Sign has one rate and no plan.
Offers for leaving SignNow
Every offer below is live right now. Some are specific to this switch, some apply to everyone leaving another platform.
Credit
Your remaining contract becomes Calisto credit
Upload the contract you are still bound by. We read what is left on the term and credit that amount to your Calisto wallet once you have cancelled — every signature, every product, paid from it.
Import from SignNow.
Nothing is written until you have seen what will come across.
SignNow sells a seat. Calisto Sign sells an envelope.
A seat charges for the people who might send. An envelope charges for the ones that go out.
Feature by feature
Calisto Sign beside SignNow, feature by feature.
| Feature | Calisto Sign | SignNow |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing model | ||
| Priced per envelope, never per userSignNow sells seats per user per month. | ✓ | ✗ |
| No annual term or monthly planSignNow's published rates are annual-commitment rates; month to month costs more. | ✓ | ✗ |
| No envelope or transaction allowance to run out ofSignNow's plans carry 100 signature invites per user per year. | ✓ | ✗ |
| Anyone in the account can send without a licenceEvery SignNow sender is a seat; month-to-month billing roughly doubles the rate. | ✓ | ✗ |
| A month with nothing signed costs nothing | ✓ | ✗ |
| Sending | ||
| Reusable templates | ✓ | ✓ |
| Bulk send to many recipientsBulk send is a Business Premium feature on SignNow. | ✓ | ✓ |
| Automatic reminders on a schedule | ✓ | ✓ |
| Parallel or sequential signing order | ✓ | ✓ |
| Fields that fill themselves from the record the document was prepared againstCalisto Sign reads the linked contact or booking; no integration to buy. | ✓ | ✗ |
| Business forms that render, place their own fields and send | ✓ | ✗ |
| Signing | ||
| Draw, type or upload a signature | ✓ | ✓ |
| Sign in person on a tablet at the counter | ✓ | ✓ |
| Hand off to the signer's own phone by QR code | ✓ | ✗ |
| Decline with a reason | ✓ | ✓ |
| Signers never need an account | ✓ | ✓ |
| 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. | ✓ | ✓ |
| Compliance check that adds AML screening | ✓ | ✗ |
| Verify outside signers only; your own staff are already known | ✓ | ✗ |
| Records | ||
| Certificate of completion on every finished document | ✓ | ✓ |
| Certificate anyone can verify from a public link, no account | ✓ | ✗ |
| Audit trail of views, entries, signatures, downloads and reminders | ✓ | ✓ |
| Signed waiver writes coverage against the person, with an expiry warning | ✓ | ✗ |
| Where it stops | ||
| Qualified electronic signatures (eIDAS QES) | ✗ | ✓ |
| Radio and dropdown field typesCalisto Sign places signature, initials, date, text and checkbox fields. | ✗ | ✓ |
| Public API and developer plans | ✗ | ✓ |
| 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. | ✗ | ✓ |
| Contacts, documents, bookings and deals in the same system as the signature | ✓ | ✗ |
The seat is the start of the bill, not the end of it.
What SignNow prices separately, beside what a Calisto envelope already carries.
The seat, doubled monthly
SignNow's headline rate is the annual one; paid monthly it is roughly twice as much. A Calisto envelope has one rate whatever the month.
The 101st invite
Plans carry 100 signature invites per user per year. On Calisto there is no allowance; there is a rate.
Bulk send on the higher plan
Bulk sending and reminders sit on Business Premium. In Calisto, bulk send to 500 and scheduled reminders come with every account.
Calisto Sign is priced per envelope. Never per seat.
What SignNow publishes, beside what Calisto Sign charges. No figure is converted between currencies; a rate is shown only where it is published.
List prices as published on 2026-09-13; a figure is shown only in the currency the vendor publishes it in. Source
Leaving SignNow
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Bring your SignNow data with you.
Upload your current contract and we will read the cancellation terms and credit your wallet for what leaving costs you. Bring your records across with a CSV import. Setup costs nothing.