Ironclad vs Apttus
The Apttus Alternative For Teams That Want to Close Contracts Faster
Fly through contract collaboration and approvals with drag and drop workflows and real-time activity feeds. Built for modern sales, revenue operations, and legal teams. Ironclad helps you launch, negotiate, close, and store smarter contracts, faster.
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Ironclad is the only platform built from the ground up to handle all contract types – legal, sales, finance, HR, marketing, procurement, and more. That’s why respected brands everywhere trust us to help them make and manage their digital business contracts.
Sales and legal need a contract solution that doesn't hold up deals
Legacy contract management tools are stuck with code-based workflows, bugs, and failed implementations. With Apttus:
- The tool is sold as separate products that solve pieces of the contract lifecycle and stall collaboration
- Sales and legal want to move fast, but outdated contract management systems can’t keep up
Ironclad: the Apttus Alternative
Sign contracts without bottlenecks
Create workflows and launch new contracts in minutes
Revenue Operations and Legal teams use the drag-and-drop Workflow Designer to create contract generation and approval processes in minutes. With new workflows in place, business teams can easily deploy new contracts from anywhere, including Salesforce.
"The user interface and UX design are top-notch. It has made the user adoption journey as easy as possible which has made all the difference in identifying immediate impact on the business."
Bill Novomisle
Director of Legal Operations
Cresco Labs
Launch contracts from Salesforce
Start documents without switching back and forth between tabs. Reps can launch contracts with information they have in Salesforce and win more time back for sales.
"With Ironclad, all our templates are streamlined and integrated with Salesforce which removes the double entry and manual work."
Ummu Fallon
Legal Operations Manager
Camunda
Review contracts 60% faster with AI to focus on high value work
Sales can negotiate contracts within the right guardrails, without Legal and Revenue Operations involvement. Speed up new business creation, drive results, and close contracts faster.
"Our legal team is first-rate, but at times it could be frustrating, waiting for the proverbial T’s to be crossed and I’s to be dotted. With Ironclad, my team can basically self-service contracts now."
David Gardner
Regional Sales Director
Signifyd
Ironclad vs Apttus
Ironclad makes the entire contract lifecycle intuitive for every team
Store contracts and find answers to your questions with AI
Upload and create contracts at scale. Ironclad AI-Powered Repository makes them easy to search, track, and extract data from. Find any agreement, clause, or insight in a split second, with a search experience designed for contracts.
"I like having a fully searchable repository so I can find data and information when I need it."
Sandra Jadur
Associate Director
Contracts at Innovapptive Inc
Edit and redline in your browser
Get full DOCX editing capability without leaving the app. Share or upload clients’ Word Docs in a single click and edit in your browser without adding more steps to how you work.
"With Ironclad, you don’t have to review the same contract multiple times with different people. Ironclad facilitates the signatures, the review process, the redlining , and negotiating — it really is seamless."
Elyssa Dunleavy
Assistant Vice President, Advertising Counsel
L’Oréal USA
Create self-service contracts at scale, ensuring compliance
Use Clickwrap to manage a high volume of agreements with a low touch and fully compliant process. Automate deals that don’t require attention from both sales and legal teams.
"Ironclad's Clickwrap enabled us to intake and organize a large volume of contracts. Without Ironclad, we would have spent considerable time and resources to attempt to build a solution of our own. "
Stephen Chu
Chief Legal and People Officer
InStride
Ironclad vs Apttus
Ironclad accelerates contracts
Implementation
Service-led with added fees
In-house implementation experts + training content
Free trial
Not available
14-day free trial
No credit card required
Workflow builder
Requires support / consultant help to set up and update
Create workflows without being a legal engineer
Contract creation
Template-based
Harder to scale with infinite templates
Workflow Builder
Create flexible contract processes that fit any scenario
AI
Limited
Won’t work with all contracts — Expensive to train and scale
Powers All Stages
Works out of the box on all documents
Clickwrap
Not available
Manage online contracts without losing track or control
Public Workflows
Not available
Launched from SFDC
Ironclad Community
Join the world’s leading digital contracting community
Get the answers and ideas you need to advance your role. Connect with peers, attend events, and voice your ideas with the Ironclad Community and Ironclad product team.
"My experience with the Ironclad community has been nothing short of warm and inviting. It is an amazing group that has found a way to connect a diverse legal industry through practical conversation and enjoyable dinners."
Lacy J. Lodes
Associate General Counsel
Mercari US
Shane Riehl
Contracts Negotiator
Glassdoor
Ironclad gives me the control to create workflows that make sense for the needs of the business when I need them, while also empowering the business groups I work with to take an active role in managing contracts to completion.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Implementation always depends on the complexity of your contracting process. However, most of our clients manage to implement and adopt Ironclad, on their own, in a matter of days.
While other Apttus alternatives require extensive training and expensive help from consultants, Ironclad users can set up contract workflows, automate approvals, review documents, streamline collaboration, get signatures and store contracts for reporting, on their own.
If you need extra help, you can get in touch with support or your account manager to clear your questions and provide feedback.
Absolutely. It’s critical for Ironclad to keep your documents secure while they’re being created, edited, stored, and processed.
Enhance document security with encryption and cloud-based deployment. Encryption of all data in transit (using TLS 1.2 or higher) and at rest (through AES-256). Cloud-based deployment. Ironclad uses the US-hosted Google Cloud Platform for production servers and operates in multiple zones to create robustness against outages.
Ironclad was built by legal, for everyone. Business users find Ironclad simple to use and adopt. Ironclad is a unified Apttus alternative for contract management, meaning sales, procurement, operations, marketing and other departments also have the ability to create, review, collaborate and store contracts in one place.
Yes. Ironclad does support a Salesforce integration, which is AppExchange approved. With this integration, sales users have the ability to automate contract creation and launch a legal-approved contract in seconds.
Yes, all businesses can use Ironclad. As opposed to other Apttus alternatives that rely too much on templates, Ironclad uses a no-code Workflow Designer that allows any type of customization and approval workflow, no matter the complexity. Ironclad uses conditional logic to create and manage infinite contract variations at scale, allowing your teams to replicate any legal process.