SWITCH FROM ADOBE ACROBAT SIGN
Adobe Acrobat Sign vs Calisto Sign
Adobe sells signing inside Acrobat, its PDF suite. Calisto Sign keeps the signature in the same account as your contacts, documents, bookings and deals.
Feature by feature
Calisto Sign beside Adobe Acrobat Sign
- 8 Only in Calisto Sign
- 11 In both
- 4 Only in Adobe Acrobat Sign
| 23 features | Calisto Sign | Adobe Acrobat Sign |
|---|---|---|
| Sending | ||
| Reusable templates | Yes | Yes |
| Bulk send to many recipientsBulk send (Send in Bulk) is available on Adobe's business plans. | 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 opensGovernment ID verification is an add-on on Adobe; Calisto's identity check is its own product. | 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 CRMsAdobe connects natively to Microsoft 365, Salesforce and others; 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 Adobe Acrobat Sign
Your data is read in your own browser and sent to your Calisto account. Calisto never sees your login for the old system.
Pulled live from your browser
Paste a key you create in Adobe Acrobat Sign. Your browser reads your records and sends them to Calisto; the key never leaves your browser.
Signers
Everyone who received an agreement
Templates
Library templates
Honest answers
Leaving Adobe Acrobat Sign
Do my signed documents move across?
Completed envelopes generally stay with Adobe Acrobat Sign, 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 Adobe Acrobat Sign. 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 Adobe Acrobat Sign 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.
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Everything Calisto does here
The pages behind this comparison: the sector, the apps and the guides.