# PandaDoc

> Proposals, quotes and contracts with e-signatures and tracking

PandaDoc is a document builder for sales teams: proposals, quotes and contracts are assembled in a drag-and-drop editor, sent for e-signature and tracked as recipients open them. Paid plans add pricing tables, a quote builder, approval rules and CRM links, and documents can collect payment through Stripe, PayPal or Square. A free plan covers basic e-signatures for a handful of documents a month.

- **Category:** E-Signatures & Proposals
- **Made by:** PandaDoc
- **Website:** https://www.pandadoc.com
- **Runs on:** Web, iOS
- **Facts last checked:** Oct 17, 2026

## Pricing

PandaDoc has a free plan. Paid plans start at $19 per user / month, billed annually ($35 billed monthly).

- **Pricing model:** Free plan
- **Free plan:** Free eSign plan: 5 documents a month with up to 2 recipients each, 5 templates and basic fields, with no third-party integrations.
- **Free trial:** 14-day free trial on the Business plan: up to 50 documents with a business email.

| Plan | Price | What you get |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Free eSign | $0 | 5 documents a month, 2 recipients per document, 5 templates and basic fields; no integrations and only admin roles. |
| Starter | $19 per user / month, billed annually ($35 billed monthly) | Unlimited documents and e-signatures, the drag-and-drop editor, design themes, Word import, up to 5 templates and Stripe payments. |
| Business | $49 per user / month, billed annually ($65 billed monthly) | Unlimited templates, quote builder and pricing tables, approvals, document analytics, branding, auto reminders and CRM links. |
| Enterprise | Custom | Sold through sales: SSO, custom roles, redlining, conditional content for senders, webhooks and multiple workspaces. |

Read from https://support.pandadoc.com/en/articles/9715033-compare-subscription-plan-features on Oct 17, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with PandaDoc before buying.

## Ways to pay less

- **Lower price with annual billing** (Annual discount): PandaDoc's plan comparison lists Starter at $19 per user a month billed annually against $35 monthly, and Business at $49 against $65. Source: https://support.pandadoc.com/en/articles/9715033-compare-subscription-plan-features

## Key features

- **Drag-and-drop document editor:** Build proposals and contracts from blocks, import Word files and apply design themes; from Business, reuse sections from a content library.
- **Quotes and pricing tables:** Business adds a quote builder, pricing tables with optional items and a product catalog that can pull products in from a CRM.
- **Payments at signing:** Recipients can pay as they sign through Stripe on every paid plan, and through PayPal, Square, Authorize.net or QuickBooks Payments from Business.
- **Document analytics:** Business shows when a document was opened and how far it got, with an activity timeline, reporting and automatic reminders.
- **Approval workflows:** From Business, route a document to approvers, in order or as groups, before it goes out; conditional approvals cost extra on Business.
- **AI assistant:** An AI assistant can edit document text, and PandaDoc connects to ChatGPT and Claude through its own app and connector.

## Good for

- Sales teams that send proposals and quotes and want to see when they are read
- Agencies and service firms that take payment as the client signs
- Occasional senders: the free plan covers 5 documents a month

## Worth knowing

- Starter keeps the 5-template limit of the free plan; unlimited templates, pricing tables and analytics start at Business, $49 per user / month billed annually.
- The Salesforce integration, bulk send, forms and recipient verification are paid add-ons priced through sales.
- SSO, custom roles and webhooks need the Enterprise plan, which is priced through sales.
- The free plan has no third-party integrations and limits each document to 2 recipients.

## ToolGPA grades

**GPA: 2.0 out of 4**, graded Oct 17, 2026. PandaDoc is more document builder than signing app: proposals, quotes and contracts with pricing tables, payments and open tracking. The free plan covers 5 documents a month. The catch is that reminders, pricing tables and unlimited templates all sit on Business at $49 a head, so the cheap plan is quite bare.

- **Value for money: D.** $57 a month for three on Starter, billed yearly ($19 a head, $35 monthly), for unlimited documents but only 5 templates. What you'd pick PandaDoc for, pricing tables, auto reminders and analytics, needs Business: $147 a month for three, four times this category's middle.
- **Free plan and trial: C.** Free eSign covers 5 documents a month, 2 recipients each and 5 templates, with no integrations. Fine for a freelancer now and then; a team sending 20 a month is past it in the first week. The 14-day Business trial allows 50 documents.
- **Features: C.** The editor, Word import, Stripe payments and, on Business, quotes, pricing tables, approvals and analytics. That's a lot. But bulk send, forms and recipient verification are add-ons priced through sales, where plain signing apps include them.
- **Ease of use: C.** There's an iPhone app but no store rating on record. The editor does a lot, and there's real setting up before it pays off: templates, pricing tables and a content library to build.
- **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web and iPhone, with HubSpot, Pipedrive, Microsoft Dynamics, Stripe, QuickBooks, Slack and Canva, Salesforce as an add-on, an API and links to ChatGPT and Claude. No Android or desktop app is listed.

These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from PandaDoc'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

- PandaDoc's GPA of 2.0 is higher than 1 of the 13 other e-signature and proposal tools we grade, and level with 1.
- It stands best on platforms and integrations (B, above 0 of 13) and worst on value for money (D, above 0).
- Its paid plans start at $19 a month for each person, against a middle price of $11.50 for the category: 11 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?

**Keep it.** The plain part of PandaDoc you could make: documents and templates. What surrounds it you could not. The 4 things listed below take a company, not a weekend. That makes this kind of software worth paying for, not this one in particular: 11 of the 13 other e-signature and proposal tools grade higher. It costs $228 a year.

- You could make: Documents and templates: an app builder makes these well.
- You could not: A real app for iOS. Something home-made would be a web page.
- 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, Salesforce, HubSpot and Pipedrive among them, and has an API.
- You could not: AI features, unless you pay a model provider for each request yourself.

A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it.

## Works with

Salesforce, HubSpot, Pipedrive, Microsoft Dynamics, Stripe, QuickBooks, Slack, Canva

**Tags:** Documents, Templates, AI features, Public API

## Alternatives

- [Docusign](https://toolgpa.com/tools/docusign): E-signature service for sending, signing and tracking agreements. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/docusign-vs-pandadoc)
- [Better Proposals](https://toolgpa.com/tools/better-proposals): Proposal builder with e-signatures, payments and open 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/pandadoc-vs-prospero)
- [Dropbox Sign](https://toolgpa.com/tools/dropbox-sign): E-signature app from Dropbox with unlimited requests on paid plans. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/dropbox-sign-vs-pandadoc)
- [signNow](https://toolgpa.com/tools/signnow): E-signatures with unlimited users and a yearly invite allowance. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/pandadoc-vs-signnow)

## Sources

The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Oct 17, 2026:

- https://support.pandadoc.com/en/articles/9715033-compare-subscription-plan-features
- https://support.pandadoc.com/en/articles/11379752-pandadoc-s-free-esign-plan-vs-free-14-day-trial
- https://support.pandadoc.com/en/articles/9715030-pandadoc-free-plan-guide
- https://support.pandadoc.com/en/collections/10117650-integrations
- https://apps.apple.com/us/app/pandadoc-create-send-docs/id1210645479

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