What are our data sources?
We use the data sources on the side for ranking solutions and awarding badges in proposal software category. Our data sources in proposal software category include;
Proposal software is a software tool used to simplify and automate the proposal request process. It enables sales professionals to create documents and share these documents across multiple channels and monitor their impact.
A typical proposal software includes features such as:
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We use the data sources on the side for ranking solutions and awarding badges in proposal software category. Our data sources in proposal software category include;
review websites
social media websites
search engine data for branded queries
According to the weighted combination of 7 data sources
PandaDoc
Proposify
GetAccept
Qwilr
RFPIO
Taking into account the latest metrics outlined below, these are the current proposal software market leaders. Market leaders are not the overall leaders since market leadership doesn’t take into account growth rate.
PandaDoc
Proposify
Qwilr
RFPIO
GetAccept
These are the number of queries on search engines which include the brand name of the solution. Compared to other Sales categories, Proposal Software is more concentrated in terms of top 3 companies’ share of search queries. Top 3 companies receive 61%, 8% more than the average of search queries in this area.
6 employees work for a typical company in this solution category which is 15 less than the number of employees for a typical company in the average solution category.
In most cases, companies need at least 10 employees to serve other businesses with a proven tech product or service. 56 companies with >10 employees are offering proposal software. Top 3 products are developed by companies with a total of 20k employees. The largest company building proposal software is Rockwell Automation with more than 20,000 employees.
Taking into account the latest metrics outlined below, these are the fastest growing solutions:
PandaDoc
GetAccept
DealHub.io
RFPIO
Proposify
We have analyzed reviews published in the last months. These were published in 4 review platforms as well as vendor websites where the vendor had provided a testimonial from a client whom we could connect to a real person.
These solutions have the best combination of high ratings from reviews and number of reviews when we take into account all their recent reviews.
This data is collected from customer reviews for all Proposal Software companies. The most positive word describing Proposal Software is “Easy to use” that is used in 14% of the reviews. The most negative one is “Difficult” with which is used in 4.00% of all the Proposal Software reviews.
According to customer reviews, most common company size for proposal software customers is 1-50 Employees. Customers with 1-50 Employees make up 45% of proposal software customers. For an average Sales solution, customers with 1-50 Employees make up 30% of total customers.
These scores are the average scores collected from customer reviews for all Proposal Software. Proposal Software is most positively evaluated in terms of "Customer Service" but falls behind in "Likelihood to Recommend".
This category was searched on average for 1.9k times per month on search engines in 2022. This number has decreased to 1.6k in 2023. If we compare with other sales solutions, a typical solution was searched 360 times in 2022 and this decreased to 260 in 2023.