# Better Proposals > Proposal builder with e-signatures, payments and open tracking Better Proposals is a proposal tool first: you build proposals, quotes and contracts from templates and a content library, send them as web pages and see when the client opens and reads them. Clients sign inside the document and can pay through Stripe, PayPal or GoCardless. Plans are priced per user and set a monthly send limit, from 10 documents on Starter to unlimited on Enterprise. - **Category:** E-Signatures & Proposals - **Made by:** Better Proposals - **Website:** https://betterproposals.io - **Runs on:** Web - **Facts last checked:** Oct 17, 2026 ## Pricing Better Proposals is a paid product with a free trial, starting at $13 per user / month, billed annually ($19 billed monthly). - **Pricing model:** Free trial - **Free plan:** None. - **Free trial:** 14-day free trial, no credit card required. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Starter | $13 per user / month, billed annually ($19 billed monthly) | One user and 10 documents a month, with e-signatures, interactive pricing tables, payments, the content library and analytics. | | Premium | $21 per user / month, billed annually ($29 billed monthly) | Unlimited users and 50 documents a month, plus a custom domain, CRM integrations, expiry dates, API, Zapier and onboarding forms. | | Enterprise | $42 per user / month, billed annually ($49 billed monthly) | Unlimited documents, plus content locking, simultaneous editing, inline comments, manager approvals and advanced permissions. | Read from https://betterproposals.io/pricing on Oct 17, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Better Proposals before buying. ## Ways to pay less - **Save up to 35% with annual billing** (Annual discount): Better Proposals lists Starter at $13 per user a month billed annually against $19 monthly, Premium at $21 against $29 and Enterprise at $42 against $49. Source: https://betterproposals.io/pricing ## Key features - **Templates and content library:** Unlimited templates and the content library of reusable sections come with every plan, along with merge tags and a Word importer. - **Interactive pricing tables:** Clients can pick options in a pricing table inside the proposal, and totals are recalculated as they choose. - **Open tracking and notifications:** See when a client received, opened and read a document, with live notifications on every plan. - **Signatures and payments:** Clients sign in the document with built-in digital signatures and can pay at once through Stripe, GoCardless or PayPal. - **Branding:** Every plan allows full brand customization, and fonts can come from Google Fonts, Adobe Fonts or your own files; a custom domain starts at Premium. - **Team review:** Enterprise adds simultaneous editing, inline comments, manager approvals before sending and locked content sections. ## Good for - Agencies and freelancers who send designed proposals and want to know when they are read - Service businesses that take a deposit as the client signs - Sales teams that need manager approval before a proposal goes out ## Worth knowing - Starter allows one user and 10 documents a month; Premium raises it to 50, and only Enterprise removes the send limit. - CRM integrations, the API and Zapier start at Premium, $21 per user / month billed annually. - The Nudge follow-up tool is an add-on at $10 per user a month, and custom template design starts at $1,495. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.2 out of 4**, graded Oct 17, 2026. Better Proposals is a proposal tool first: good-looking proposals with pricing tables clients can play with, open tracking, and a signature and payment at the end. So we've graded it against its own rivals, like PandaDoc and Prospero. Three people on Premium pay $63 a month billed yearly, capped at 50 documents a month. - **Value for money: C.** $63 a month for three on Premium, billed yearly ($21 a head, $29 monthly), with 50 documents a month; Starter is one user and 10 documents. Against its own rivals that's mid-priced: dearer than Prospero at $12 a head, well under PandaDoc Business at $49. - **Free plan and trial: C.** No free plan, but a 14-day free trial with no card needed. That's long enough to build a proposal or two and send one to a real client. - **Features: C.** Templates, a content library, interactive pricing tables, open tracking, signing and payment by Stripe, PayPal or GoCardless, with approvals on Enterprise. It does the proposal job fully, but that's a smaller job than general signing, and follow-up nudges are a $10 add-on. - **Ease of use: C.** No store rating on record. It's a web app where the work is building proposals, templates and a content library, so there's some setting up before it pays off. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web only, with Stripe, PayPal, GoCardless, HubSpot, Salesforce and Zapier, and an API from Premium. No phone or desktop app. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Better Proposals's own pages on 17 October 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among e-signature and proposal tools - Better Proposals's GPA of 2.2 is higher than 3 of the 13 other e-signature and proposal tools we grade, and level with 2. - It stands best on platforms and integrations (B, above 0 of 13) and worst on features (C, above 0). - Its paid plans start at $13 a month for each person, against a middle price of $11.50 for the category: 8 of the 13 others that charge start lower. - On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.3 out of 4. 6 tools score higher and cost less. The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/e-signatures ## Keep it, or make your own? **Your call.** You could make the core of Better Proposals for yourself: documents, templates and forms. What you would give up is listed below. Whether that is worth the price is your call. It costs $156 a year. - You could make: Documents, templates and forms: an app builder makes these well. - You could make: It runs in a browser, which is where something home-made would run too. - You could not: It is priced for each person, which means accounts and billing for a team. - You could not: It plugs into other products, Stripe, PayPal and GoCardless among them, and has an API. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. ## Works with Stripe, PayPal, GoCardless, HubSpot, Salesforce, Zapier **Tags:** Documents, Templates, Forms, Public API ## Alternatives - [PandaDoc](https://toolgpa.com/tools/pandadoc): Proposals, quotes and contracts with e-signatures and tracking. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/better-proposals-vs-pandadoc) - [Prospero](https://toolgpa.com/tools/prospero): Proposal software with templates, tracking and built-in e-signatures. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/better-proposals-vs-prospero) - [Docusign](https://toolgpa.com/tools/docusign): E-signature service for sending, signing and tracking agreements. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/better-proposals-vs-docusign) - [SignWell](https://toolgpa.com/tools/signwell): E-signatures priced by sender, with unlimited documents on paid plans. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/better-proposals-vs-signwell) - [Dropbox Sign](https://toolgpa.com/tools/dropbox-sign): E-signature app from Dropbox with unlimited requests on paid plans. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/better-proposals-vs-dropbox-sign) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Oct 17, 2026: - https://betterproposals.io/pricing Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/better-proposals Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).