Effie vs Proposify

Effie is a web platform for service businesses that combines client work, projects, billing, and team delivery. Users can import clients, capture leads with forms, and track prospects through a pipeline. Projects can be divided into tasks, assigned, and monitored, while time tracking includes timers, manual entries, approval workflows, cost reporting, and approved time prepared for invoices. Its proposal tool supports branded editing, AI drafting, fixed or percentage deals, online acceptance, reusable content, and pipeline analytics. AI proposal drafting uses up to 4,000 characters of client website context. Clients can accept and sign proposals through a public link without downloading a PDF. Ask Effie AI answers questions about workspace data, suggests task rescheduling, and drafts proposals, contracts, and email sections; its answers respect row-level security. Effie can invoice clients and accept card payments through Stripe. Connected Gmail accounts can send workflow emails with replies returning to the user's inbox. Workflows combine triggers, conditions, and actions, with scheduled or manual starts and run history. The Free plan costs nothing, with no credit card required.

Proposify is a web app for sales teams to create, send, track, and close customized proposals. Its drag-and-drop editor handles text, images, video, tables, and shapes, and interactive quotes let buyers select optional fees or enter quantities. Document analytics show when recipients open a proposal and how long they spend in each section. Documents can be created without a plan limit, though monthly send allowances vary: Basic includes 10, Team 30, and Business 75. All plans allow legal e-signatures, and the service supports online payment collection, custom branding, and CRM integrations. Proposals are created and sent in the web app; an iOS companion app monitors proposal activity. A 14-day trial includes Team plan features. Basic costs $19/user/mo when billed annually, while Basic monthly costs $29/user/mo and Team quarterly costs $49/user/mo. The company states that proposals use encrypted links and 256-bit SSL security, and that it is GDPR compliant and SOC 2 Type 2 certified.