Crossware Email Signature vs gSignature

Crossware Email Signature centrally creates and applies branded, personalized signatures to company email. It supports Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, Microsoft Exchange, and HCL Domino. Administrators can build signatures with rich text or HTML, templates, drag-and-drop blocks, images, and conditional fields. Rules can vary signatures or blocks according to whether a message is internal or external, new or a reply, or falls within a date range. Directory integration can bring current contact information into signatures. Access can be granted to selected users or groups without making them administrators. Signatures can include marketing banners and centrally managed legal disclaimers. For Microsoft 365, Crossware says the service runs in Microsoft Azure and applies signatures in the Microsoft cloud after messages are sent; this option needs no installation or download. Other deployment choices include cloud hosting and an on-premise server. Licensing is per user, defined as a mail file requiring a signature, and pricing depends on the number of email users and requires a quote. A free 30-day trial includes all features. The maker offers 24-hour email support.

gSignature centrally manages and distributes organizational email signatures. Administrators can apply signatures across a domain or organizational units, and set a default signature for new employees. Employee details can be synchronized from supported email environments, imported by CSV, or edited by employees and administrators. HTML signatures can include links and banners, with more than 25 built-in employee variables or custom parameters. Administrators can update banners across employees and measure promoted campaign results in Google Analytics. For Google Workspace, the product retrieves employee data and updates Gmail signatures through the Gmail API; server-side mode can add signatures to outgoing messages, including mail sent from non-Gmail clients used with Google Workspace. Documented environments include Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, Outlook and Exchange Online, with CRM connections such as Pipedrive, Salesforce and HubSpot, and Zendesk support. Registration requires a Google Workspace administrator. The maker says customer data remains within Google Workspace and Google Cloud, with access limited to authorized administrators. gSignature has a free plan and a 14-day trial, and runs on web, Android, macOS, Windows and as an extension.