An e-signature cost calculator answers a question most Salesforce teams never sit down to work out: how much are per-envelope fees really costing us, and what would we save with native e-signature? This guide gives you a working calculator, then explains the DocuSign-vs-native trade-off behind the numbers.
Tools like DocuSign typically charge per seat and then per envelope, and often add setup costs on top. A native Salesforce e-signature tool such as Dochly includes signing in a flat per-user price with no per-envelope fees, and keeps signer data inside your org. Enter your current costs below and the calculator shows your monthly and annual saving, plus the security difference.
Enter what you pay for your current e-signature tool, pick a Dochly plan, and click Calculate for a full report showing your monthly and annual saving. The calculation runs entirely in your browser; nothing is stored or sent.
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Your current tool
What you pay today
Include seats, per-envelope fees, and one-off setup or integration costs.
Compare against
Dochly, 100% native
Native e-signature is included from Professional up, in a flat per-user price with no per-envelope fees.
Included in selected plan
Native document generation (PDF & HTML)
Conditional document logic
Native e-signature inside Salesforce
Batch processing
+$5/user/mo
Free · instant · nothing stored or sent
Enter your current seats and cost per user to calculate.
Your savings report
Here’s What You Could Save With Dochly
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Estimate based on the figures you entered and Dochly’s published plan pricing. Your actual cost depends on your final plan, user count and billing term. Generated in your browser. Nothing is stored or sent.
The calculator totals your current tool’s per-seat, per-envelope and setup costs, then compares that against the flat per-user price of the Dochly plan you choose. Because Dochly includes e-signature with no per-envelope fee, the usage line that grows your DocuSign bill drops to zero on the Dochly side.
Enter your seats and per-user cost, your monthly envelope volume and the fee per envelope, and any one-off setup or integration cost amortised over the first year. Pick the Dochly plan you want to compare (native e-signature is included from Professional up), switch between monthly and annual billing, and the report shows the difference as your saving, with an itemised breakdown you can download as a PDF.
Per-envelope fees are the line most teams underestimate, because they scale silently with volume. A team sending a few hundred envelopes a month can pay more in usage fees than in seat licenses. Compare the full picture in our DocuSign vs native guide.
DocuSign vs native e-signature: the cost and security trade-off
The core difference is that DocuSign and similar tools price per envelope and process signatures on external servers, while a native Salesforce tool includes signing in a flat price and keeps data inside your org. That affects both what you pay and where your data goes.
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DocuSign / third-party
Native (Dochly)
Per-envelope fees
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Cost as volume grows
Rises with usage
Flat per user
Signer data location
External servers
Inside Salesforce org
Setup / integration cost
Often added
None
Inherits Salesforce security
Partial
Yes
A cheaper seat price can hide a higher total. Once per-envelope fees and setup are added, a tool with a low headline seat cost can end up more expensive than flat native pricing, and it still sends signer data outside Salesforce. Model the whole cost, not the seat price alone.
Watch how Dochly generates documents and captures signatures entirely inside Salesforce, so you can judge the switch from DocuSign for yourself.
Dochly overview & document generation
Native e-signature inside Salesforce
Dochly walkthrough
Frequently asked questions about e-signature costs
Your saving depends on how many seats you have, how many envelopes you send, and which Dochly plan you choose. Many teams save because Dochly includes native e-signature in a flat per-user price with no per-envelope fees, while DocuSign and similar tools charge per seat plus per-envelope and often add setup costs. Enter your current seats, per-envelope fee and setup cost in the calculator and it shows your monthly and annual saving.
No. Dochly uses flat per-user pricing, so native e-signature is included in the plan with no per-envelope fees. This differs from DocuSign and many third-party tools, whose cost rises with envelope volume. In the calculator you can enter your current per-envelope fee to see how much of your spend those usage fees represent.
A native Salesforce e-signature tool captures signatures inside your org, so signer and document data never leaves the Salesforce trust boundary. A non-native tool sends that data to external servers, adding a data-exposure and compliance dimension. The calculator flags this security difference alongside the cost comparison, since a cheaper non-native tool can carry a hidden compliance cost.
Include everything you pay: the per-user or per-seat license, any per-envelope signature fee, and one-off setup, onboarding or integration charges. E-signature tools frequently add per-envelope and setup fees on top of the headline seat price, so counting only the seat cost understates what you really spend. The calculator lets you enter all of these so the comparison reflects your true total cost.
Native e-signature is included from the Starter plan up, alongside conditional logic and batch processing; the Free plan covers document generation for very low volume. Professional adds custom branding and higher limits for growing teams. In the calculator you can select any plan to compare it against your current e-signature cost, and switch between monthly and annual billing to see the lower annual rate.
The cost of e-signature is mostly per-envelope fees that scale quietly with volume, plus setup costs that a native tool avoids entirely. Model your real envelope volume against flat native pricing and the saving is usually clear, before you even count the security benefit of keeping signer data inside Salesforce.
Umer Balaj is an 11x Salesforce Certified Developer and Architect with 11,000+ hours of Salesforce delivery on Upwork (Top Rated Plus, 100% Job Success). He built Dochly as a 100% native Salesforce document generation and e-signature app. Umer specialises in Apex, LWC, Flows, and complex integrations across Health Cloud, Financial Services Cloud, Sales Cloud, and Service Cloud.
