A less bloated alternative to PandaDoc

Who is PandaDoc for?

At the core of it, PandaDoc is great for corporates. Lots of different options with signature rules, permissions and user roles. All things that companies with 100+ salespeople need. They’re great for that. But if you’re looking for software that can help you scale your business and take care of you as you grow, Better Proposals is the way to go.

In Better Proposals, setting up user permissions and workflow approvals is as simple as the editor. We don’t like complicating things, so you’ll be ready to go in just a few clicks. We’re designed for helping small businesses scale and automating sales workflows for the big ones.

Who are you trying to impress?

When you’re sending a proposal, who are you trying to impress? Your potential customer we should hope. The main fallback with PandaDoc is the fact that their document builder / proposal designer doesn’t actually allow you to create anything that looks very visually impressive. It’s a document signing service for big corporations. Fancy design isn’t something that is typically required.

...or Better Proposals

When sending a proposal to a potential client, you want to build trust and the quickest way to do that (all things being equal) is by sending through an amazing looking proposal. If you send something that looks like a legal document with an attempt to win the business, it’s always going to be an uphill struggle.

Speed of sending

There’s always going to be a compromise. If you had unlimited time, you could make something look good in PandaDoc but what you really want are fast, efficient, quality proposals sent in minutes. That’s exactly what Better Proposals will give you.

You set all your branding up in one place and simply alter the content for your client each time. We have an unofficial tagline here which is ‘Just Write’. That’s all you’ll need to do - just focus on your client and their problems and explaining how you’ll solve them. Let us worry about the rest.

Price

PandaDoc is not aimed at the freelancer / small business. That is evident and they brutally punish you in their pricing. You can read more about PandaDoc Pricing here but the upshot is they hook you in with crazy low pricing on a plan that isn't sustainable then force you to pay 5x just to continue using it as you were. It's not a scam but it is very clever on their part.

Try Better Proposals for 14-Days Free

You can use Better Proposals for 14 days with no restrictions and full support from our amazing team of proposal writing geniuses. If you’re looking for a corporate solution, we can help on the software side of things but we're not going to give you the "steak and strip club" style selling that others will.

Give us a spin.