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Icertis vs Priority Software

Icertis logo

Icertis

ERP

Enterprise contract lifecycle management built on Microsoft Azure

From
On request
Rated
-
Priority Software logo

Priority Software

ERP

Affordable cloud ERP for small businesses

From
$400/month
Rated
-

The short version

  • Each has a real cost: Icertis the value comes from structured clause and metadata models, and building those is legal and commercial work your own people must do, so a project resourced as an IT deployment stalls at the point where somebody has to decide what the standard clauses actually are.; Priority Software pricing is by quote only, with no published rate, minimum user count, contract term or add on cost for any of the Commercial, Manufacturing, POS or Optima PMS plans
  • They diverge on capability: Icertis covers Clause library and templates, Priority Software covers Financial management.
  • Prices and features above were last checked on 30 August 2026.

Where they differ

Only the attributes on which Icertis and Priority Software actually diverge.

Attributes where Icertis and Priority Software differ
AttributeIcertisPriority Software
Starting priceOn request$400/month
Pricing modelquotesubscription
PlatformsWebCloud, Web, Mobile
FoundedUnknown1990

Identical on both: free tier (No), user rating (Not yet rated), category (ERP).

What each one covers

Drawn from each product's published feature list. An absence here means we hold no record of it - not that the product lacks it.

Only in Icertis

  • Clause library and templates
  • Negotiation and redlining
  • Approval workflow
  • Obligation management
  • Contract repository
  • Microsoft integration
  • ERP and CRM connectors
  • Reporting and risk analysis

Only in Priority Software

  • Financial management
  • Inventory
  • Supply chain
  • CRM
  • Reporting
  • REST APIs
  • Webhooks
  • Third-party systems

What people use each for

The jobs each tool is most often brought in to do.

Icertis

  • An enterprise that cannot answer which of its live contracts contain a given liability or indemnity clause without a manual reviewnot Priority Software
  • A business losing revenue to unclaimed rebates, missed price escalations or auto renewals nobody trackednot Priority Software
  • A regulated organisation that must demonstrate to an auditor that specific terms are present across a contract populationnot Priority Software
  • A sales organisation where legal review is the longest step in the deal cycle and standard agreements are being reviewed as though they were bespokenot Priority Software

Priority Software

  • ERP for small and mid sized commercial and manufacturing businessesnot Icertis
  • Running retail point of sale alongside back office ERPnot Icertis
  • Property management for hospitality through the Optima PMS plannot Icertis

Where each one falls short

Documented limitations, not opinions. Every one is a constraint you would hit in normal use.

Icertis

  • The value comes from structured clause and metadata models, and building those is legal and commercial work your own people must do, so a project resourced as an IT deployment stalls at the point where somebody has to decide what the standard clauses actually are.
  • This is priced and scoped for large enterprises, so an organisation with a few thousand straightforward agreements pays for capability it will not configure and would reach most of the same benefit with a lighter mid-market product.
  • Implementations run in quarters rather than weeks once integrations to CRM and ERP are in scope, and the business case usually assumes benefits that only start after the historic contract population has been migrated and tagged.
  • Migrating legacy contracts means extracting terms from signed PDFs, and automated extraction needs human review to be trustworthy, so the backlog of old agreements is a labour cost that is routinely left out of the initial estimate.
  • The platform is built on Azure with its strongest integrations in the Microsoft stack, which is an advantage inside a Microsoft estate and a source of friction for an organisation standardised elsewhere.

Priority Software

  • Pricing is by quote only, with no published rate, minimum user count, contract term or add on cost for any of the Commercial, Manufacturing, POS or Optima PMS plans
  • Point of sale, manufacturing and hospitality capabilities are sold as separate plans rather than one product

Pricing, plan by plan

Icertis

On request

No published plan breakdown. See the Icertis review.

Priority Software

$400/month
  • Starter$400/month
    • Core ERP modules
    • Financial management
    • Inventory
  • Professional$900/month
    • All modules
    • Advanced features
    • Priority support

Which should you pick?

Choose Icertis if

  • You need clause library and templates.
  • You also want negotiation and redlining.

Choose Priority Software if

  • You need financial management.
  • You work on Cloud, Web, Mobile.
  • You also want inventory.

Questions people ask

Is Icertis or Priority Software better?
Neither clearly leads. Icertis starts at On request and Priority Software at $400/month, and user ratings are close enough to be indistinguishable. Choose on capability and platform support.
Which is cheaper, Icertis or Priority Software?
Icertis starts at On request and Priority Software at $400/month.
Does Icertis or Priority Software run on more platforms?
Icertis runs on Web. Priority Software runs on Cloud, Web, Mobile.
What is Icertis best used for?
Icertis is most often used for an enterprise that cannot answer which of its live contracts contain a given liability or indemnity clause without a manual review, a business losing revenue to unclaimed rebates, missed price escalations or auto renewals nobody tracked, a regulated organisation that must demonstrate to an auditor that specific terms are present across a contract population, a sales organisation where legal review is the longest step in the deal cycle and standard agreements are being reviewed as though they were bespoke. Of those, an enterprise that cannot answer which of its live contracts contain a given liability or indemnity clause without a manual review and a business losing revenue to unclaimed rebates, missed price escalations or auto renewals nobody tracked are not what Priority Software is typically brought in for.
What can Icertis do that Priority Software cannot?
Icertis covers Clause library and templates, Negotiation and redlining, Approval workflow, Obligation management. Priority Software covers Financial management, Inventory, Supply chain, CRM.

Answered from the vendors’ own pages

Icertis: How is this different from storing contracts in SharePoint?

A document store answers where the contract is. CLM answers what is in it. If your questions are about locating files, a document store is enough. If your questions are portfolio wide, such as total exposure to a clause type or which agreements renew next quarter, you need the terms as data.

Priority Software: How much does Priority Software cost?

Priority Software does not publish specific pricing on their website. The site emphasizes custom solutions with the tagline 'Pricing plans that suit your business. Not the other way around.' Visitors are directed to speak with a sales expert for quotes.

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Icertis: Do we need a legal operations team to make this work?

In practice yes, or someone doing that job under another title. The system enforces decisions about standard language, approval thresholds and acceptable deviation, and if nobody owns those decisions the workflow becomes an approval queue with no rules behind it.

Icertis: What does it compete with?

SAP Ariba contract management, Coupa, Conga, DocuSign CLM, Sirion and Agiloft, among others. The split is roughly enterprise depth against mid-market speed, and Icertis sits firmly at the enterprise end.

Icertis: Is contract data extraction from legacy agreements automated?

Partly. Extraction tooling gets you a draft set of fields, but anything you intend to rely on for a legal or financial decision needs human verification, so budget for review effort proportional to the size of your back catalogue.

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