--- title: "ShakeSpeare Software Pricing, Alternatives & More 2026 | Capterra" description: "With the help of Capterra, learn about ShakeSpeare Software - reviews, pricing plans, popular comparisons to other Business Process Management products and more." source_url: "https://www.capterra.com/p/207450/ShakeSpeare-DMS/" page_type: "product" language: "en" --- # ShakeSpeare Software Review 2026: Features, Integrations, Pros & Cons Last updated on September 16, 2026 Provider data verified by our Software Research team, and reviews moderated by our Reviews Verification team. [Description](#description)[Use cases](#use-cases)[Alternatives](#alternatives)[FAQs](#faqs)[Features](#features)[Pricing](#pricing)[Support](#support)[Reviews](#reviews) ShakeSpeare ## What is ShakeSpeare? Document management and BPM with graphical interface and several hundred RPA, BPA automation plugins enabling process automation. ## What is ShakeSpeare used for? [Document Management](https://www.capterra.com/document-management-software/)[Business Process Management](https://www.capterra.com/business-process-management-software/) Top alternative Featured Overall rating Based on 10 user reviews Reviews sentiment Positive \- Neutral \- Negative \- Starting price €99 Per User, Per Month Free trial not available Free version not included Capterra Shortlist charts the highest-rated and most popular products... Our "Best of" badge program showcases products with the highest ratings... Our "Best of" badge program showcases products with the highest ratings... Do you work for ShakeSpeare?[Manage this product listing](https://www.g2.com/products/shakespeare-software/claim_requests/new?auto=true) ## ShakeSpeare Overview Updated September 2026 AI summary ShakeSpeare enables organizations to manage, store, and collaborate on documents securely, offering features like access controls, version control, electronic signatures, and compliance tracking. Suitable for businesses of all sizes, it covers both document and records management needs, with options for document generation, OCR, and file recovery. Deployment is available via cloud or Windows-based solutions. ## Compare with a popular alternative Capterra selects software alternatives based on relevant features, verified user reviews and user interactions. Placement may be influenced by client status. ### ShakeSpeare 4.7 (10) VS. [4.7 (652)](https://www.capterra.com/p/135004/Process-Street/reviews/) Starting Price €99 per user, per month Starting Price Contact vendor Free Trial Free Version Pricing Options Free Trial Free Version Ease Of Use 4.3 (10) Ease Of Use 4.6 (3,691) Value For Money 4.7 (10) Value For Money 4.6 (2,283) Customer Service 4.8 (10) Customer Service 4.7 (2,177) ## ShakeSpeare alternatives [4.4 (3,039)](https://www.capterra.com/p/76113/Wrike/reviews/) Starting price $10.00 Per User, Per Month Pricing Options Free Trial Free Version User Rating 89% of reviewers rated it above 4 stars [4.6 (6,112)](https://www.capterra.com/p/147657/monday-com/reviews/) Starting price $9.00 Per User, Per Month Pricing Options Free Trial Free Version User Rating 94% of reviewers rated it above 4 stars [4.5 (1,259)](https://www.capterra.com/p/131735/PandaDoc/reviews/) Starting price $19.00 Per User, Per Month Pricing Options Free Trial Free Version User Rating 91% of reviewers rated it above 4 stars Highest Rated [4.8 (186)](https://www.capterra.com/p/153712/ContractSafe/reviews/) Starting price $450.00 Per User, Per Month Pricing Options Free Trial Free Version User Rating 98% of reviewers rated it above 4 stars [View all alternatives](https://www.capterra.com/p/207450/ShakeSpeare-DMS/alternatives/) ## FAQs about ShakeSpeare Overview ### Which roles and teams benefit most from ShakeSpeare? ShakeSpeare is most used by executives and business leaders, including CEOs, COOs, managing directors, and company directors, who need faster communication and decision support. Technical and operations roles use it to streamline structured content creation, while account managers, project controllers, and restructuring leaders rely on it for client-facing documents, reporting, and workflow consistency. Answer based on 10 reviews Overview ### What company size and specific industries is ShakeSpeare built for? ShakeSpeare is designed for SMEs and large organizations across government, banking, insurance, legal, compliance, healthcare, industry, and services sectors. It fits companies and public bodies that need a broad range of applications, with a particular focus on BO. Features and Usability ### What are the key features of ShakeSpeare? ShakeSpeare offers document management features including document capture, document classification, document generation, document storage, and version control. It also includes electronic signature, file sharing, full text search, access controls and permissions, archiving and retention, compliance management, compliance tracking, and API support. Getting Started and Support ### What training and onboarding options does ShakeSpeare offer? ShakeSpeare provides in person training, live online sessions, webinars, and documentation to support team onboarding. In person and live online formats can guide setup and product use, webinars offer scheduled group instruction, and documentation gives written reference material for self-paced review. Getting Started and Support ### What customer support options does ShakeSpeare offer? ShakeSpeare provides 24/7 live rep support for users who need direct assistance at any time. The catalog lists this as the available support channel, and no reviewer feedback on support experience is available to describe response speed, helpfulness, or common issues. ## Features AI summary Based on 32,025 Business Process Management reviews Capterra reviewers highlight these as the features buyers value most when comparing Document Management software: - **Secure Data Storage** (**56%** of reviewers rated this feature as critical) - **Document Storage** (**51%**) - **File Sharing** (**49%**) ShakeSpeare includes **Document Storage** and **File Sharing**, giving teams a practical way to organize files and distribute documents across users. However, it does not offer **Secure Data Storage**. Instead, it provides **Electronic Signature** (**46%**), which can still support document workflows by helping businesses approve, sign, and finalize files faster while keeping work moving between stakeholders. Together, these features help businesses manage documents more efficiently and support day-to-day collaboration. Access Controls/Permissions Define levels of authorization for access to specific files or systems API Application programming interface that allows for integration with other systems/databases Archiving & Retention Moving and separately storing data that is not actively used or continuous storage of data for compliance purposes Collaboration Tools Provides a channel for team members to share AI models, media files, communicate, and work together Compliance Management Track and manage adherence to policies for any service, product, process, or supplier Compliance Tracking Track and report regulatory data to either internal management or external stakeholders ShakeSpeare 17 features ### All Features - Access Controls/Permissions: Define levels of authorization for access to specific files or systems - API: Application programming interface that allows for integration with other systems/databases - Archiving & Retention: Moving and separately storing data that is not actively used or continuous storage of data for compliance purposes - Collaboration Tools: Provides a channel for team members to share AI models, media files, communicate, and work together - Compliance Management: Track and manage adherence to policies for any service, product, process, or supplier - Compliance Tracking: Track and report regulatory data to either internal management or external stakeholders - Document Capture: Scan, move or upload electronic files within the software's repository - Document Classification: Assign categories, labels, tags, or attributes to documents for organization, search and storage - Document Generation: Custom forms to streamline repetitious aspects of a document - Document Management: Store, manage, and track all electronic documents in a centralized location - Document Storage: Store and organize documents in a centralized system - Electronic Signature: Digitally sign online documents - File Recovery: Recover lost, deleted, or damaged files - File Sharing: Public or private sharing of digital files such as documents, audio/video, images, and more - Full Text Search: Search for specific words or phrases within a document or database - Optical Character Recognition: Ability to recognize printed or written text within digital images or scanned documents - Version Control: Track revisions and updates made to files and navigate between different versions --- Get Advice We can help you find the software with the features you need. Features 4.3 (10) 4.3 Based on 10 reviews ## Pricing Value for money 4.7 (10) Basic €99.00 Value for money 4.7 (10) 4.7 Based on 10 reviews Connect with a Capterra advisor for a free 15-minute consultation Get a personalized software list aligned to your business needs with guidance from our expert advisors. Our team has helped 1 million+ businesses like yours find options that fit their needs. ## Support, customer service and training options Customer Service 4.8 (10) Support - Email/Help Desk - FAQs/Forum - Knowledge Base - Phone Support - 24/7 (Live rep) - Chat Training - In Person - Live Online - Webinars - Documentation - Videos Deployment - Web - Android - iPhone/iPad Typical users - Freelancers - Small businesses - Mid size businesses - Enterprises Customer Service 4.8 (10) 4.8 Based on 10 reviews ## User reviews Overall rating 4.7 Based on 10 reviews Filter by rating 5(7) 4(3) 3(0) 2(0) 1(0) Mentioned topic Sorted by most recent ZB Ziga B. Head of Restructuring Financial Services ### "ShakeSpeare long term user review" 5.0 Overall Rating 5.0 5.0 Ease of Use 4.0 4.0 Features 4.0 4.0 Customer Service 5.0 5.0 Likelihood to Recommend 10/10 November 20, 2020 Very satisfied. Pros Shakespeare software is daily used in our work for managing legal cases. It helps the users to have better overview of their tasks and status of legal cases. Software is also integrated with our courts, so it saves a lot of time and reduces operational risk, as it automatically tracks the development and status of certain legal cases. Additional integration with our core system is also possible, to even further automatize the manual work and focus really only on content of legal cases, instead of a lot of administrative tasks. Cons Not much, as the company listened to our needs and did needed modifications and upgrades to cover our needs and work process. Review source Non-incentivized review: any software user can leave a review for any product listed on our site. All submitted reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. Response from Vendor November 23, 2020 Thank you very much for your response. As banking clients are one of our most important clients we are very happy to receive positive feedback for our solution and our work. ED Emin D. Key Account Manager Information Technology and Services ### "ShakeSpeare DMS & BPM" 4.0 Overall Rating 4.0 4.0 Ease of Use 4.0 4.0 Features 5.0 5.0 Customer Service 5.0 5.0 Likelihood to Recommend 8/10 November 20, 2020 I am generally satisfied with the solution and the functionalities it offers. The solution can be customized to the client's needs within reasonable limits Pros Ability to customize solutions to customer needs Cons Sometimes simple modifications turn out to be complicated and require more time to develop and set up Review source Non-incentivized review: any software user can leave a review for any product listed on our site. All submitted reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. Response from Vendor November 23, 2020 Thank you very much for your review and feedback. We are constantly working on supporting faster deployment of standard market requirements and are implementing new approaches to reduce resource requirements. HH Hanna H. Project Controller Accounting ### "System functionality" 4.0 Overall Rating 4.0 4.0 Ease of Use 4.0 4.0 Features 2.0 2.0 Customer Service 4.0 4.0 Likelihood to Recommend 6/10 November 20, 2020 Pros Easy and intuiative handling. Good and flexible Workflow designs Cons Still quite manually process. No automatic readout of invoices Review source Non-incentivized review: any software user can leave a review for any product listed on our site. All submitted reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. Response from Vendor November 23, 2020 Thank you very much for your feedbacks. We would like to inform you that we do offer automatic readout of invoice with our OCR module (GINI) which can be connected to a workflow for automatic readout (data-capture) of invoice information. Please feel free to get in touch with our team or me directly to show you the solution. The module was implemented as part of our standard offer for invoice processing in September 2020. AB Andreas B. Geschäftsführer Alternative Dispute Resolution ### "work flow optimization at the top level" 5.0 Overall Rating 5.0 5.0 Ease of Use 5.0 5.0 Features 5.0 5.0 Customer Service 5.0 5.0 Likelihood to Recommend 10/10 November 20, 2020 It does take time to set up shakespeare according to my individual workflow needs, but once all is done it beats all the rest Pros shakespeare is a top tool to automate and digitalize pretty much all of your work flow tasks. This helps you to save so much time on your daily job Cons every process must be set up to your individual needs. for many of my workflows it was not possible to pull out a standard tool out of the box Review source Non-incentivized review: any software user can leave a review for any product listed on our site. All submitted reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. Response from Vendor November 23, 2020 Thank you very much for your very positive review. We are working on offering more and more out-of-the-box workflows as part of our software, with many fields the requirements are quite specific so it is difficult to standardize, but we are definitely doing our best on a regular basis. GT Gaber T. CTO Information Technology and Services ### "Affordable and feature rich DMS software" 5.0 Overall Rating 5.0 5.0 Ease of Use 5.0 5.0 Features 4.0 4.0 Customer Service 4.0 4.0 Likelihood to Recommend 9/10 November 19, 2020 Our project had to integrate existing 3rd party front-end application with our backend application that was also connected to other external systems. ShakeSpeare DMS was used as document storage and document template engine in the project. Pros Configurable options for document storage with supported meta data. Easy customization of document templates using DMS engine. Out of the box integrations with several back-office systems. Cons We wanted to use REST interfaces for the integration but only SOAP interfaces are supported. Reasons for choosing ShakeSpeare Solution vendor offers complete suite: DMS and BPM, which decreases IT project implementation risk significantly. Review source Non-incentivized review: any software user can leave a review for any product listed on our site. All submitted reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. Response from Vendor November 23, 2020 Thank you very much for your feedback. We are always happy to receive positive reviews as well as feedback and improvement suggestions. AB Ana B. Company director Retail ### "We use Shakespeare for invoice authorization" 4.0 Overall Rating 4.0 4.0 Ease of Use 3.0 3.0 Features 4.0 4.0 Customer Service 5.0 5.0 Likelihood to Recommend 8/10 November 19, 2020 Overall experience is positive, especially in terms of customer support and personalization Pros transparency, personalization according to user needs Cons Outdated interface, not intuitive in terms of search Reasons for choosing ShakeSpeare Integration with accounting software Review source Non-incentivized review: any software user can leave a review for any product listed on our site. All submitted reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. Response from Vendor November 23, 2020 Thank you very much for your review. We are working on improving the browser-based interface to keep pace with the UX suggesions. A minor implementation of UI improvements with implementing a new graphical theme to the web browser interface. A major revamp of the user-interface is planned for summer 2021 which will also include an advanced and improved search function with a lot of new possibilities to search through data and documents in the system. DB Denis B. CEO Computer Software ### "Game-changing software solution" 5.0 Overall Rating 5.0 5.0 Ease of Use 5.0 5.0 Features 5.0 5.0 Customer Service 5.0 5.0 Likelihood to Recommend 10/10 November 19, 2020 Really satisfied - brings us the game-changing experience. Pros Easy to use, modular, easy to reconfigure or build up a new processes. Cons It's complex in learning-phase (for admin), but when you grab the know-how, it's easy and fast. Switched from [Microsoft SharePoint](https://www.capterra.com/p/1167/SharePoint/) Previous system was more-less hard-coded, one platform but with a separate applications. Shakespeare have this major advantage that all what we need and use is placed within the same application. With just one shortcut. Review source Non-incentivized review: any software user can leave a review for any product listed on our site. All submitted reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. Response from Vendor November 23, 2020 Thank you very much for your feedback. We are always happy to receive positive reviews as well as feedback and improvement suggestions. BJ Bruno J. COO Computer Software ### "ShakeSpeare DMS" 5.0 Overall Rating 5.0 5.0 Ease of Use 4.0 4.0 Features 5.0 5.0 Customer Service 5.0 5.0 Likelihood to Recommend 10/10 November 19, 2020 Powerful tool for business process management. Pros Lots of possibility and useful tools for business process management. Cons Relatively difficult process programming. Requires a deeper IT knowledge. Review source Non-incentivized review: any software user can leave a review for any product listed on our site. All submitted reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. Response from Vendor November 23, 2020 Thank you very much for your feedback. We are always happy to receive positive reviews as well as feedback and improvement suggestions. SH Samy H. ICT Specialist / R&D Information Technology and Services ### "Experiences so far" 5.0 Overall Rating 5.0 5.0 Ease of Use 5.0 5.0 Features 5.0 5.0 Customer Service 5.0 5.0 Likelihood to Recommend 10/10 November 17, 2020 Pros Shakespeare has been extremely simple to use with high degree of adaptability no matter the clients' needs. It covers all the needs a work process might have from simplest tasks to complex branching out processes. Seamless user interface. Cons So far nothing, any issues found has been addressed in rolling updates. Review source Non-incentivized review: any software user can leave a review for any product listed on our site. All submitted reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. Response from Vendor November 19, 2020 Thank you very much for the very positive feedback. We are happy to get validation for our technology. Matej P. managing director Computer Software ### "DMS for invoices with workflows" 5.0 Overall Rating 5.0 5.0 Ease of Use 4.0 4.0 Features 4.0 4.0 Customer Service 5.0 5.0 Likelihood to Recommend 9/10 November 16, 2020 I like it, it enhances my work and helps me with ease of use of a DMS solution for invoices and archiving. Pros Out of the box preset workflows for invoice management and archiving. Cons As Apple user the graphical interface is not in lines of Big Sur design language. Review source Non-incentivized review: any software user can leave a review for any product listed on our site. All submitted reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. 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