Siggy vs Qwilr: proposals that get paid, or agreements that get paid?

Qwilr is a proposal tool, and a good one. You build a proposal as a web page, with sections, pricing tables, video and a quote the buyer can configure, send a link, and the buyer accepts by signing at the bottom and, if you have set it up, paying through Qwilr's Stripe-based checkout. E-sign is included on every plan (source 1). If what you send is a pitch that needs to persuade before it is signed, Qwilr is designed for exactly that moment.

Siggy starts from the other end. The document is already the agreement: an engagement letter, a service agreement, a contract, a deed. It is a PDF or a Word file, or a template you built once, with fields where people sign. Nobody needs persuading by the time it goes out; they need to prove who they are, sign, and pay. This article is about which of those two situations you are actually in, and what each costs.

What you send

Per user, or per practice

Qwilr's plans are priced per user, its Growth and Scale tiers carry minimum seat counts, and every plan has a monthly document allowance with a per-document fee beyond it (source 1). That is a sensible model for a sales team where every rep sends proposals. It is an expensive one for a practice where the partner, the two accountants and the admin all need to send the occasional engagement letter: four seats for what is, in volume, one person's worth of documents. Siggy's Professional plan is $15 a month for the whole practice up to 5 people, Business is $20 for up to 15, and we quote Qwilr's prices on their own page rather than here because they are in US dollars and change; our pricing page has ours.

Getting paid: at acceptance, or at signature

Both products put a payment where the yes happens, and both use Stripe underneath. The difference is what the yes is attached to. In Qwilr, the buyer accepts a proposal and pays for what the proposal priced; the proposal is the record. In Siggy, the signer signs an agreement that already has legal weight on its own, pays the amount you attached to it, and receives the sealed copy only when the money is in, with the payment written into the Certificate of Completion beside the signatures. If the agreement is the thing you will rely on later, the second shape is the one you want.

Qwilr charges its own small percentage on Starter and nothing on its higher tiers; Siggy charges a small percentage on every plan, capped on one-off payments. On an engagement fee or a deposit the cap means the fee is a few dollars; on a large recurring arrangement the percentage is the honest number to compare, and Qwilr's higher tiers win it on fee alone, at a per-seat price we would ask you to put beside it.

Which one is yours

• You sell with a document. Agencies pitching projects, SaaS teams sending quotes a buyer configures, anyone whose close rate depends on how the proposal looks. Qwilr, and it is not close.
• Your document is the agreement. Engagement letters, service agreements, contracts, deeds, declarations, with people who need to be verified and a fee or deposit that should arrive with the signature. Siggy.
• Both. Some practices pitch in Qwilr and paper the engagement in Siggy. Nothing stops that; the signed agreement and its certificate come out of Siggy regardless of where the pitch happened.