Every factual claim on this page links to a primary source — DocuSign's own pricing pages, Adobe's own documentation. Where DocuSign is better, we say so, because you'll find out anyway.
Compiled 8 August 2026 · Updated 10 August 2026 after DocuSign changed its Canadian pricing. Competitors change their pricing and features; the sources are linked so you can check for yourself.
DocuSign sells a member plan through NAR in the United States and through CREA in Canada. They are not the same plan.
One hundred envelopes a year is about eight a month. A single deal — offer, counter, amendment, waiver, condition removal, addendum — can eat that in one transaction. As of 8 August 2026, the Canadian member page offered no unlimited tier.
When you hit the cap, sending stops. The error DocuSign returns is "The envelope allowance for the account has been exceeded."3 Extra envelopes are put at roughly US$3 each on a Standard plan by DocuSign's own staff, though no official rate card is published.4
Update, 10 August 2026: DocuSign now sells unlimited plans on its regular Canadian pricing page — Standard Unlimited at CA$40 per user / month and Business Pro Unlimited at CA$65 per user / month, billed annually (CA$480 and CA$780 a year; first-year discounts apply).12 Read their own footnotes before relying on the word "unlimited": it applies only to envelopes "sent through the web application", is "subject to Docusign's Reasonable Use Policy", and Web Forms, PowerForms, bulk send and API sends stay capped at 100 per user per year on both plans.12
WriteOffer is CA$20 a month, flat. Unlimited documents and signatures — no footnote on the word unlimited, no envelope counter, no overage, no annual lock-in, cancel yourself in two clicks. That's half the price of DocuSign's cheapest Canadian unlimited plan.
Upload a purchase contract and press one button. WriteOffer reads the document, finds every signature and initial line on every page, and — this is the part nothing else does — reads the parties' names out of the contract itself and assigns each field to the right person.
No template. No anchor text. No setup. It works on a contract it has never seen before, including amended and brokerage-specific forms.
Adobe Acrobat Sign does have genuine automatic field detection. But on assigning those fields to the right party, Adobe's own documentation is blunt:
"Acrobat Sign cannot determine which recipient a field belongs to. Make sure each field is assigned to the correct recipient before sending."
Adobe Acrobat Sign documentation — automatic field detection5DocuSign's strongest published wording for its new AI is "verifying recipient details"6 — checking details the sender already typed, not pulling names out of the document. DocuSign does extract parties by name in Navigator — renamed Agreement Manager in 2026 — but that is a repository for already-signed agreements, used for search and reporting.7 It doesn't place fields or assign recipients before you send, and neither does anything else in their IAM plans.
Automatic field placement is not unique to us. Adobe Acrobat Sign does it today with no template.5 DocuSign announced AI-assisted field placement in January 20266; as of 10 August 2026 their own features page still lists "AI-Assisted Field Suggestions" as Coming soon.8 Assume it ships. What's different here is the party-name mapping, not the placement itself.
Adobe's detection has a ceiling that matters in real estate: it doesn't run on documents over 25 pages, or on documents that already contain form fields or text tags.5 A purchase contract with schedules routinely goes past that. WriteOffer has been tested on a 12-page contract with 28 fields placed correctly, and has no page limit by design.
DocuSign's compliance depth is real, and a one-person company cannot match it. They hold ISO 27001, SOC 1 and SOC 2 Type II, PCI DSS, FedRAMP, DoD IL4, EU Trusted List status, and Government of Canada Protected B certification.9 If your brokerage asks for any of those by name, use DocuSign.
They also have things we don't: government photo ID verification, SMS and knowledge-based signer authentication, bulk send, payment collection, conditional and calculated fields, and over a thousand integrations.10
| WriteOffer | DocuSign (CREA member plan) | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | CA$20 / month flat | CA$27.08 / user / month2 |
| Documents per year | Unlimited | 100 envelopes / user / year2 |
| When you hit the limit | There isn't one | Sending is blocked3 |
| Reads party names from the contract | Yes | No evidence of it |
| Auto-places fields, no template | Yes | Announced Jan 2026, listed "Coming soon"8 |
| Page limit on detection | None | Adobe's equivalent stops at 25 pages5 |
| Signer needs an account | Never | Account prompts are a recurring signer complaint11 |
| Cancelling | Two clicks, any time | Auto-renewal and cancellation draw frequent complaints11 |
| Audit trail on every document | Yes | Yes |
| Government ID verification | No | Yes10 |
| SOC 2 / FedRAMP / GC Protected B | No | Yes9 |
| Bulk send, payments, integrations | No | Yes10 |
Most companies don’t publish this list. Here it is anyway, so you can decide with your eyes open rather than find out in the middle of a deal.
The signer gets a code on their phone and enters it before they can see the contract. Closes the “how do you know it was really them” gap for a few cents a send.
Buyer signs first, then the seller is invited automatically. Today everyone is invited at once.
Scan an ID, take a selfie, machine-match the two — the method FINTRAC describes for verifying someone you can’t meet in person. Optional, priced per check, and the ID image is never stored on our servers.
Useful for a brokerage sending the same form to a list.
These are formal third-party audits that cost tens of thousands of dollars and take months. A one-person company can’t hold them. If your brokerage requires one by name, use DocuSign — that’s the honest answer.
Not happening at this size, and pretending otherwise would waste your time.
“In progress” here means actively being built, not aspiration. If one of these is the reason you’d switch, email us and we’ll tell you honestly where it stands.
Use DocuSign if your brokerage mandates it, if you need government ID verification on signers, or if a compliance department asks for certifications by name.
Use WriteOffer if you're an individual agent writing more than eight documents a month on a capped plan — or looking at CA$480 a year for their cheapest unlimited one — and you want your client to sign on their phone without creating an account.
Upload a contract, press one button, and see where the fields land.
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