DocsAutomator vs. SignWell
Say a row in your sheet reads Harbor Dental, annual plan, starts November 1, with three services listed on the Services tab. In SignWell, those values fill boxes you placed on a contract you uploaded, and the text around the boxes is the same for every client. In DocsAutomator, the row writes the contract, then sends it for signature.
- The wording stays as you uploaded it.
- Fields you placed ahead of time get the values: Harbor Dental, Annual, Nov 1, 2026.
- The services go into text fields you placed for them.
- A signature field for the Client placeholder.
- Harbor Dental and the start date go into the text.
- The annual terms section shows, because Plan is Annual.
- A table with the 3 services from the Services tab, and the total.
- Harbor Dental's contact signs, with the name and email taken from the row.
What a SignWell template is made of
- The file you upload: a PDF or Word file, or a Google Doc, which SignWell converts to a PDF copy. Later changes in Google Drive don't carry over.
- Placeholders for each signer role, such as Client. A document sent from the template needs a recipient for each one.
- Fields you place on the page: text, date, signature, initials and checkbox.
- Conditional rules, on the Business plan: up to 10 per document, showing, hiding or requiring fields based on what the signer does.
- Extra files, added after the template's own pages.
In DocsAutomator, your Google Doc or Word file is the template, and it stays there, where you already edit the wording. Placeholders sit right in the text. A section shows or hides based on the row's values, such as equals, contains or greater than. Line items come from another tab in Google Sheets, or from linked records in Airtable and Notion, nested up to 3 levels deep. Signature, date, text and checkbox fields are tags in the same file, and the signers' names and emails come from the row.
How a row gets to SignWell
- Typed in. Someone picks the template in SignWell's app and fills in the recipients and fields. Paid plans send unlimited documents this way.
- Bulk send. Upload a CSV of up to 500 recipients a batch. Its columns fill labeled text fields.
- Zapier or the API. SignWell names QuickBooks Online and Close as its native integrations and reaches other apps through Zapier. Its Zapier action Create Document From Template counts as an API document, billed on top of the plan after the first 25 a month.
We connect to Google Sheets, Notion and Airtable directly. In Google Sheets, we check for new rows every 5 minutes and make a contract for each one. The signed PDF lands back in the row or in Google Drive, and a webhook lets your other tools know. More on e-signatures.
100 contracts a month from Google Sheets
How much does SignWell cost?
Free
- 1 sender
- 1 template
- 3 documents a month
Light
- 1 sender, then $10 or $12 a month per extra sender
- 5 templates per sender
- Unlimited documents
Business
- 3 senders, then $12 or $15 a month per extra sender
- Unlimited templates
- Unlimited documents
Enterprise
- For teams of 50 or more
SignWell charges per sender, not per signer. API and Zapier documents are extra: with a card on file, 25 a month are free, then from $0.85 each, less at higher volume.
SignWell prices as of October 24, 2026, from its pricing page and API pricing page, in USD. More on DocsAutomator pricing.
Your SignWell template, rebuilt in DocsAutomator
Most of a SignWell template carries over. Here's where each part goes.
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What customers are saying about us
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Before I discovered Docsautomator, generating reports from Airtable was a time-consuming task that drained both my time and energy. However, Docsautomator changed everything and made the process feel effortless.
As a botanical garden operator staffed by volunteers, DocsAutomator has revolutionized our document generation process. This powerful tool seamlessly integrates with our Airtable databases, allowing us to effortlessly create a wide range of docs!
I had a complex process with Airtable and Fillout I was trying to work out and an Airtable consultant told me about DocsAutomator as a much better alternative to Airtable's Page Designer for external documents. She also said Rupert was very helpful.
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