Zoho Contracts vs. Zoho Sign

Contracts

Zoho Contracts is a comprehensive contract lifecycle management (CLM) software that streamlines the entire contract lifecycle, from authoring to execution (signature) to renewal or termination. It offers central storage space for all your contracts, mitigates business risks, and helps improve contract governance through advanced analytics.

Sign

Zoho Sign is a robust digital signature software platform. You can upload a document on Zoho Sign, drag and drop fields into it, sign, and collect signatures from signatories. Zoho Sign simplifies the paperless signing process of all your business documents.

Here’s a detailed comparison

Authoring and templatization
Collaboration and approval
Negotiation
Signature
Obligation management
Post-execution management
Analytics and reporting
Other features

Authoring and templatization

Features
Zoho Contracts
Zoho Sign
Import documents
Custom templates
Predefined templates
Clause library
Edit documents
Built-In
Via Zoho Writer
Advanced document assembly Quickly add or remove clauses or choose alternate clause language with a click while editing the contract document
Custom branding

Collaboration and approval

Features
Zoho Contracts
Zoho Sign
Real-time collaboration

Via Zoho Writer
Reminders
Approve or deny document

Via Zoho Writer
Sequential or parallel approval workflow
Audit trail

Negotiation

Zoho Contracts
Zoho Sign
Provide controlled access to your contract documents to counterparty contacts through password-protected links.
Contacts do not need a Zoho account or Zoho Contracts license to participate in negotiations.
Contacts can collaborate in real time, add comments, and compare changes between cycles.
Negotiation happens offline or through email with the document as attachment.
Accept or reject suggestions and reply to/resolve comments.
Track the entire negotiation history with review summaries for individual negotiation cycles.

Signature

Features
Zoho Contracts
Zoho Sign
Set signing order
Bulk send
Track signature status
USB signing

Obligation management

Zoho Contracts
Zoho Sign
Track and manage task and non-task obligations with our contextual obligation module at an individual contract level.
Differentiate task obligations further into one-time and recurring tasks.
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Remind obligation owners.
Admins get a high-level overview of obligation progress with obligation-based reports.

Post-execution management

Zoho Contracts
Zoho Sign
Zoho Contracts makes post-execution processes, such as amendments, renewals, and terminations, easy through auto-generated smart letter templates. These letter templates are customizable and auto-capture the changes made in the post-execution process, drastically minimizing human intervention.
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Analytics and reporting

Zoho Contracts
Zoho Sign
Zoho Contracts has 35+ standard reports, as well as a personalized dashboard that offers insights to help you revisit strategies and streamline processes.
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Other features

Features
Zoho Contracts
Zoho Sign
Audit logs

Document Level
Download logs
Data protection settings
Mobile app
APIs

We hope that this table helps you decide between the two. Both applications are powerful in their own ways. The broader benefits of choosing a company like Zoho with a long-term vision and end-to-end control over its technology stack, such as data privacy and integrity, apply to both applications.

If you have questions or would like to connect with our experts to see Zoho Contracts in action, we’d be happy to get in touch with you.

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Pricing

Zoho Contracts

/user/month billed annually Detailed pricing

Zoho Sign

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Note: Prices mentioned are for the top plans that cover all features in the respective products.

Zoho Contracts - A bundle

When you subscribe to a Zoho Contracts plan, you gain access to all the features in the comparable plan of Zoho Sign. For example, when you subscribe to the Professional plan in Zoho Contracts, you can enjoy all the features in Zoho Sign’s Professional plan on sign.zoho.com.

We’ve always been fans of Zoho, and I got really excited seeing the very first demo of Zoho Contracts. It is a powerful tool with advanced features while also being simple and easy to use. It is all thought through well.

Uma Jagadeesan

Chief Operating Office, SolveCube

We were able to quickly set up Zoho Contracts with just a little help from our account manager. The tool is refreshingly straightforward to use, and we've already imported our key contracts. Zoho Contracts helps us stay on top of our contracts throughout their lifecycle.

Tina Fidanza,

General Counsel, Loylogic

Zoho Contracts empowers us with better control over our contracts with its impressive automated workflows. We've been able to eliminate almost all human errors. Zoho's broad portfolio of products, their seamless integrations, and the team's prompt support have made us stay.

Mohammed Al Khalifa

Founder and Managing Director, Paraminds