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RatiVault vs Adobe Sign

Adobe built a document empire. RatiVault built a document vault.

Adobe Acrobat Sign brings the trust of the PDF format Adobe invented. But financial services need more than trusted file formats — they need vaulted storage, immutable audit trails, and compliance frameworks designed for FCA and PRA scrutiny.

Two different approaches

RatiVault

Financial-grade signing with built-in vaulted document storage

Adobe Sign

Enterprise e-signatures backed by Adobe's trusted PDF platform

Feature-by-feature comparison

Feature
RatiVault
Adobe Sign
Vaulted storage
Immutable document vault with retention policies
Standard cloud storage
Financial compliance focus
Built for FCA, PRA, MiFID II requirements
General compliance certifications
Audit trail
Forensic-grade with full chain of custody
Certificate of completion PDF
Document integrity
SHA-256 hash, tamper-evident seals
Adobe digital signatures
Pricing transparency
Published pricing
Enterprise pricing requires sales call
API quality
RESTful, modern, well-documented
REST API on enterprise plans
White-labelling
All plans
Enterprise plans only
Standalone product
Yes — purpose-built for financial services
Part of Adobe Document Cloud

Pricing: RatiVault vs Adobe Sign

Adobe Sign pricing typically requires annual commitments and per-user fees. Here's what RatiVault offers instead.

Secure

£129 /per month

For advisory firms and small financial practices

  • 300 documents per month
  • Unlimited signers
  • Full audit trail with certificates
  • 7-year vaulted document storage

Enterprise

£349 /per month

For regulated firms with compliance obligations

  • Unlimited documents
  • Unlimited signers
  • Full audit trail with signed certificates
  • Configurable retention (1-10+ years)

Institutional

Custom

For banks, insurers, and large financial institutions

  • Everything in Enterprise
  • Dedicated tenancy
  • Custom data residency (UK, EU, multi-region)
  • Extended retention (10+ years)

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Why teams switch from Adobe Sign

Tamper-proof from upload to archive

SHA-256 hash at upload, before any signer touches the document. Immutable audit trail throughout. Any modification is cryptographically detectable. Not a feature flag — the architecture itself.

7-year vaulted storage, standard

Financial regulators expect years of retention. RatiVault stores documents and complete audit trails for 7 years by default, with immutable storage that prevents deletion or tampering during the retention period.

FCA-ready audit trail

Per-event logging: IP address, user agent, ISO 8601 timestamp, verbatim consent text, document hash. Exportable as signed audit certificates. Designed for the questions your FCA supervisor will ask.

Zero third-party exposure

The signing experience runs zero analytics, zero tracking pixels, zero third-party scripts. Your clients' financial data and signing behaviour is never shared with anyone. Full stop.

The bottom line

Adobe Sign is a reliable signature tool from a company you know. But financial services signing demands more than reliability — it demands provable compliance, vaulted storage, and audit trails that satisfy regulators. RatiVault was built for that scrutiny.

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