Know when your prospect reads the proposal.

You send a proposal. Then you wait. One day? Two days? A week? Follow up too early and you seem pushy. Too late and you've lost momentum. The problem isn't your proposal — it's that you have zero visibility into what's happening on the other side.

ShareDoc solves this by showing you exactly when someone opens your document, how much of it they read, and what they focused on. When a prospect spends 4 minutes on the pricing page, that's your signal to call. When they forward it to a colleague, that's buying signal. When they open it three times in one day, that's urgency.

Stop guessing. Start timing your follow-ups based on real engagement data.

DocSend is the incumbent, but it's built for enterprise — per-seat pricing ($15-65/user/mo), complex workspace setup, and a learning curve that slows down onboarding. For a 5-person sales team, that's $75-325/month before you send a single document.

ShareDoc gives you the same core capabilities — page-by-page analytics, email capture, view notifications — at $29/mo flat. No per-seat pricing. No 30-minute onboarding. Upload a PDF, share it, and start tracking in under a minute.

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Most sales reps treat sending a proposal like crossing a finish line. In reality, it's the starting gun. The data tells a brutal story: your proposal has an 82% chance of being read within the first hour of sending.[1] Wait 24 hours and that drops to 48%. Wait a week and you're down to 8%.[1] After two weeks, just 2.1% of prospects will ever open it.[1]

Even when prospects do open your proposal, engagement is shallow. The average proposal completion rate is just 38% — meaning most buyers never make it to your pricing page or case studies.[1] Shorter proposals perform better (43% completion for under 10 slides), but the drop-off after 18 slides is steep.[1]

The silver lining: when buyers are interested, they move fast. 46% of accepted proposals are signed within 2 days, and 81% within a week.[1] The window between "interested" and "decided" is narrow. If you don't know when they opened it, you've already missed it.

Here's the persistence gap: 80% of sales require 5 or more follow-ups, but 92% of reps give up after just 4 attempts.[2] And 40-60% of B2B deals end in no decision at all — not a loss to a competitor, just indecision.[1] The problem isn't your product or your price. It's that you can't see what's happening after you hit send.

The best sales teams don't guess when to follow up — they read the signals. Document analytics platforms give reps real-time insight into how prospects interact with proposals, turning every share into a data point.[3]

Data-driven sales teams that combine document engagement data with CRM analytics consistently identify high-potential opportunities faster and close deals with shorter cycles.[4]

Dedicated proposal tools like Better Proposals, GetAccept, and Proposify bundle tracking with proposal creation, e-signatures, and CRM integrations.[5][6] They're powerful — but they're also complex, expensive, and force you into their document format.

If you need a full proposal creation suite with built-in templates, e-signatures, and CRM workflows, tools like GetAccept or Proposify are purpose-built for that.[6] But if you already have proposals in PDF format and just need to know who reads them and when — ShareDoc does that without the overhead.