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Storylane shows the product. Ripcord also books the call and gets paid.

Storylane turns your product into interactive demos and sandboxes, from $40 a month for one seat on annual billing; buyer deal rooms (Hubs) are listed from its Premium plan at $1,200 a month for 10 seats. Its site lists no booking, live video calls, e-signature or payment collection. Ripcord books and hosts the call, records it, then closes it in a Sales Room with signature and payment.

A client's Ripcord dashboard: today's meetings, the pipeline and results (example account, demo data)
One Ripcord account: today's meetings, the pipeline and results. Example account, demo data.
The monthly bill

Five sellers, per month.

Storylane plus booking and video. Published or reported prices, all on annual billing.

Storylane Premium
Interactive demos plus Hubs, a buyer deal room: the first plan that lists them, 10 seats, billed yearly
$1,200
Calendly Teams
Booking with routing forms: 5 seats × $16
$80
Zoom Workplace Pro
Video meetings
$71
Storylane stack, 5 seats
$1,351
a month, three tools, three logins
Ripcord Team, 5 users
$699
a month, one link for the buyer

At five sellers the three tools cost $652 a month more than Ripcord Team, about $7,824 a year. Without a deal room, Storylane Growth ($500 for 5 seats) with Calendly and Zoom is $651, less than Ripcord Team, but it has no buyer room, signature or payment. At ten sellers the Storylane stack is about $1,502 and Ripcord Team is $1,194 ($699 plus five extra users at $99). At one seller, Storylane Starter ($40, no deal room listed), Calendly Standard and Zoom Pro come to about $64 a month; Ripcord Solo is $99 and adds video, recording, signature and payment on one link.

Side by side

Storylane and Ripcord, job by job.

What each job takes with Storylane, and what it takes in Ripcord.

Job
Storylane
Ripcord
Sales Room
Listed from the Premium plan ($1,200 / mo, 10 seats) as Hubs, a buyer deal room with demos, PDFs, videos and embeds. Its core product is the interactive demo.
Included. A Sales Room after every call, with the recording, the agreement and the payment.
Booking
Not listed on its site; teams add Calendly or similar.
Included, with routing questions on the booking form.
Live video
Not listed on its site; teams add Zoom or similar.
Included. Meetings run in the browser.
Call recording and AI summary
Not listed for sales calls. It builds product demos and tracks how buyers use them.
Included. Every meeting recorded, transcribed and summarized.
E-signature
Not listed on its site.
Included.
Payment
Not listed on its site.
Included. The buyer pays in the same Sales Room they sign in.
Price
Billed yearly: $40 / mo for 1 seat (Starter), $500 / mo for 5 (Growth), $1,200 / mo for 10 (Premium); a free plan for one seat
$699 / mo for five users, $99 per extra user. Solo: $99 for one.
Honest fit

When Storylane is the better pick

  • Your software is hard to show on a video, and buyers need to click through it themselves: interactive tours, sandboxes, guided demos.
  • You want self-serve product demos embedded on your website and in marketing, with analytics on who clicked what.
  • You don't need a buyer room, and your scheduling, video calls, contracts and payment are settled elsewhere: Storylane Growth with Calendly and Zoom costs less than Ripcord Team.
And the other side

When Ripcord is

  • You sell alone or in a small team and want one $99 product instead of a demo tool plus booking and video tools.
  • You want the buyer to book, meet, sign and pay from one link.
  • You want to see which rep turns booked meetings into signed, paid clients.
Price sources

Where these numbers come from.

Storylane's price is from its own pricing page (annual billing: Free for 1 seat, Starter $40 a month for 1 seat, Growth $500 with 5, Premium $1,200 with 10 and Hubs, Enterprise custom; monthly billing is 20% more). Its features are from its own site. The other tools' prices are per-user prices on annual billing from third-party guides; confirm with each vendor before you buy. Ripcord prices are Ripcord's list prices.

See it on a real call

Book a meeting, and we'll run it in Ripcord.

You'll see the booking, the video room, the recording and the Sales Room from the buyer's side. Solo is $99 a month for one seller; Team is $699 a month for five, with $99 for each extra user.

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