Electronic Signature Software Your Team Actually Controls
DocuSign charges per seat. Adobe hides its pricing. And neither lets you own the data. DocuSeal is open-source electronic signature software: one flat monthly fee, all your documents on EU servers, no per-user surprises. Your team can be signing contracts in under 10 minutes.
Why Teams Leave DocuSign
The per-seat model was never designed for teams that grow. It was designed for recurring revenue.
No More Per-Seat Bills
DocuSign starts at $10-15 per user per month and climbs to $40 or more for premium features. For a 10-person team that all need to send contracts, that bill hits 1.9K a year before you add a single integration. Opsily runs DocuSeal on a flat monthly plan. Add your whole team. The price stays the same.
Your Contracts Stay in Europe
DocuSign is a US company. Your signed NDAs, HR agreements, and customer contracts live on their servers, under their jurisdiction. DocuSeal on Opsily runs in Frankfurt. Your data never leaves Germany. That matters for GDPR, for your legal team, and for the clients who ask where their data lives.
Cancel Without Losing Everything
SaaS lock-in is not just about price. It is about what happens when you cancel. With DocuSign and Dropbox Sign, your signed documents are inside their platform. With DocuSeal on Opsily, your documents are in your database, on your server, exportable anytime. You own them, full stop.
Built for teams who need reliability
What DocuSeal Electronic Signature Software Actually Gives Your Team
This is not a stripped-down open-source version. This is the full platform, running on infrastructure you control.
12 Field Types, One Builder
Signature, date, checkbox, text, email, phone, radio, file upload, formula -- all configurable with a drag-and-drop editor. You can build complex multi-signer contracts in the same interface as a simple one-page NDA. Conditional fields mean you can show or hide sections based on what a signer already filled in. No code required.
Collect Signatures and Payments Together
The Pro tier lets you collect payment at the point of signing: deposit for a lease, retainer for a contract, registration fee for a course. DocuSeal charges 0% on these payments. That alone covers the cost of running DocuSeal for most teams doing any volume of paid agreements. Compare that to platforms charging 4% on every transaction.
EU Qualified Signatures for Legal Binding
If your team operates in the EU, you may need eIDAS-compliant signatures, not just a name typed into a box. DocuSeal supports EU Qualified Electronic Signatures (eQeS), the highest level of legal validity under EU law. That means your signed contracts hold up in court across 27 countries. Available at $2-4 per document, charged only when you use it.
Built for teams who need reliability
Why Self-Hosting Makes Sense in 2026
The infrastructure argument has flipped. Running your own apps is now simpler than managing SaaS subscriptions.
One Price, No Surprises
SaaS pricing has a built-in growth trap. More users means more seats. More features means higher tier. More API calls means overages. With a flat Opsily plan, you pay for server capacity, not for how many people use it. A team of 5 and a team of 50 pay the same. That changes how you think about rolling out tools company-wide.
GDPR Without the Audit Anxiety
GDPR compliance is not just about where data is stored. It is about who can access it, what requests they need to honor, and how quickly you can respond to a data subject access request. When DocuSeal runs on your Opsily instance, you have direct database access, full export capability, and no third-party data processor in the chain. Your DPO will notice.
Automate Without Paying Per Trigger
DocuSeal has native webhook support and integrates with n8n, Make.com, and Zapier out of the box. Send a signed contract to your CRM. Trigger an onboarding flow when an NDA is completed. Create a record in your database when a lease is executed. These automations cost you nothing extra because n8n also runs as a flat Opsily app alongside DocuSeal.
Built for teams who need reliability
Up and Signing in Four Steps
Managed hosting means no server configuration, no SSH, no ops burden. You pick a plan and we handle the rest.
Choose Your App
Select an app to get started.
Pick a Plan That Fits Your Team
Choose based on how many apps you want to run alongside DocuSeal, not on how many users you have. Every plan includes EU hosting, daily backups, SSL, and support. No per-seat pricing at any tier.
Deploy DocuSeal in One Click
From the Opsily console, find DocuSeal in the catalog and click Install. Your instance is running in Frankfurt within minutes. You get a subdomain or bring your own custom domain, configured automatically.
Upload Your First Template
Import an existing PDF or build a form from scratch with the drag-and-drop field editor. Migrating from DocuSign? DocuSeal supports direct template import. You can have your first document ready to send in under 15 minutes.
Invite Your Team and Send
Add teammates, send your first signature request, and watch the audit trail build automatically. There is no seat limit, so add your whole legal, sales, and HR team on day one without rechecking the pricing page.
Pair DocuSeal With Your Existing Stack
DocuSeal works best when connected to the tools already running your business. These three pair naturally with document signing workflows.
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Simple, Transparent Pricing
One flat monthly fee covers your whole team. No per-user charges, no signing limits, no surprise overages as your headcount grows.
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The Right Choice for Signature Data You Cannot Afford to Lose
Signed contracts are not just files. They are legal records, evidence in disputes, proof of consent. They belong on infrastructure you control, not on a vendor's platform that can change terms, get acquired, or raise prices.
GDPR Data Residency
All DocuSeal data on Opsily stays in Frankfurt, Germany. No data leaves the EU, no US cloud provider is in the processing chain. When a client asks where their signed agreement lives, you have a clean answer.
eIDAS Qualified Signatures
DocuSeal supports EU Qualified Electronic Signatures (eQeS) under the eIDAS Regulation. These carry the highest legal weight available in EU law, equivalent to a handwritten signature in all 27 member states. Available on-demand at $2-4 per document.
Full Audit Trail
Every signature request generates a timestamped audit trail: who signed, when, from which IP, with what device. This record is stored in your database, not on a third-party server. Disputes get resolved with evidence you can produce instantly.
No Vendor Lock-In
DocuSeal is open-source (AGPL license). If you ever want to move, your documents export cleanly. You are not migrating away from a proprietary format. And because you self-host, there is no account termination risk taking your signed contracts with it.
Encrypted Backups, Daily
Opsily takes encrypted backups every 24 hours and retains them for 7 days. Your signed contracts are protected against accidental deletion, database corruption, or infrastructure failure. Restore to any point in the retention window with one click.
Common Questions About Managed DocuSeal Hosting
Real questions from founders and ops leads evaluating DocuSeal as their electronic signature software.
Most teams are signing documents within 10 to 15 minutes of starting. You pick a plan, click Install on DocuSeal in the Opsily catalog, and your instance is running in Frankfurt within minutes. You get a subdomain immediately, or you can connect your own domain in the same session. The first template takes about 5 minutes to configure using the drag-and-drop builder, and you can import existing PDFs directly. There is no server setup, no SSH, and no configuration files to edit.
Stop Paying Per Seat for Your Signature Software
DocuSeal on Opsily gives your team legally binding electronic signatures on EU infrastructure, at a flat monthly price. Deploy in minutes, add unlimited users, and keep every signed document in a database you own.