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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Autoklose

    Score9 out of 10
    Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
    Autoklose, a VanillaSoft brand, is an SEP solution, presenting a combined package of sales email automation and tracking, contact and email campaign management with sequence templates and optimization.

    $59.99

    per month per user

    Maropost Marketing Cloud

    Score4.3 out of 10
    N/AMaropost, headquartered in Toronto with offices in New York, London, and Delhi, offers an enterprise level email marketing and automation platform for email-centric campaigns and total customer lifecycle management via an automated workflow. It features social networking "listening" to keep track of all mentions across familiar spaces like Facebook and Twitter, dashboard reports and analytics to help make sense of data from emails and web activity, a survey / form builder, and custom landing…

    $279

    per month

    Pricing
    AutokloseMaropost Marketing Cloud
    Editions & Modules
    Auto Kloser
    $59.99
    per month per user
    Advanced Kloser
    $69.99
    per month per user
    Accelerated Kloser
    $99.99
    per month per user
    Essential
    $279
    per month
    Professional
    $849
    per month
    Enterprise
    $1,699
    per month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    AutokloseMaropost Marketing Cloud
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsDiscount for annual pricing.
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    Community Pulse
    AutokloseMaropost Marketing Cloud
    Considered Both Products
    VanillaSoft
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    Maropost
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    90%
    Would buy again
    28 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Delivers good value for the price
    93%
    Delivers good value for the price
    26 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Happy with the feature set
    87%
    Happy with the feature set
    27 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    83%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    25 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    30 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Features
    AutokloseMaropost Marketing Cloud
    Email & Online Marketing
    Comparison of Email & Online Marketing features of Autoklose and Maropost Marketing Cloud
    Feature
    Autoklose
    -
    Ratings
    Maropost Marketing Cloud
    7.9
    8 Ratings
    2% below category average
    WYSIWYG email editor00 Ratings8.95 Ratings
    Dynamic content00 Ratings8.54 Ratings
    Ability to test dynamic content00 Ratings6.65 Ratings
    Landing pages00 Ratings8.53 Ratings
    A/B testing00 Ratings8.46 Ratings
    Mobile optimization00 Ratings9.45 Ratings
    Email deliverability reporting00 Ratings6.98 Ratings
    List management00 Ratings6.55 Ratings
    Triggered drip sequences00 Ratings7.06 Ratings
    Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Autoklose and Maropost Marketing Cloud
    Feature
    Autoklose
    -
    Ratings
    Maropost Marketing Cloud
    8.1
    7 Ratings
    5% above category average
    Dashboards00 Ratings6.46 Ratings
    Standard reports00 Ratings9.64 Ratings
    Custom reports00 Ratings8.35 Ratings
    Pre-Send Testing
    Comparison of Pre-Send Testing features of Autoklose and Maropost Marketing Cloud
    Feature
    Autoklose
    -
    Ratings
    Maropost Marketing Cloud
    9.9
    2 Ratings
    19% above category average
    URL Validation00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Link Tracking00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Image Validation00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Inbox Display00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Email Accessibility Tools00 Ratings9.62 Ratings
    Spelling and Grammar Check00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Spam Testing00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Email Previews00 Ratings9.62 Ratings
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    Score9.8 out of 10
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    Score9 out of 10
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    Score7.7 out of 10
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    Score8.5 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    AutokloseMaropost Marketing Cloud
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (34 ratings)
    4.3
    (8 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    7.0
    (31 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Availability
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.5
    (30 ratings)
    2.0
    (1 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Online Training
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Configurability
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    AutokloseMaropost Marketing Cloud
    Likelihood to Recommend
    VanillaSoft
    If someone only runs a campaign using email and telephone communication, Autoklose is perfect, and I highly recommend it. If someone uses a more diverse set of tools and wants a more complex type of sequence, Autoklose does not allow their users to program communication tools that some other tools and software allow.
    Incentivized
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    Maropost
    Maropost is a little more expensive than its competitors. I'd say Maropost is well suited for medium and larger businesses, not small businesses unless they're really good at utilizing e-mail and monetizing it.
    Incentivized
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    Pros
    VanillaSoft
    • It is helping in editing, managing, and send[ing] out large marketing campaigns.
    • It is easy to handle multiple emails in appropriate sequence.
    • Our company [has been] using this for a very long time. It is one of the perfect email solutions we found for our organization.
    • I have been very much impressed by their support staff.
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    Maropost
    • Maropost is particularly strong in the customization aspect. As a sales person, I love using MSC because I can customize everything from A-Z.
    • The features are endless, a personal fav is the Journey's feature with Marketing Cloud.
    • Client support is quick to respond.
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    Cons
    VanillaSoft
    • AutoKlose uses your own email, (e.g. Microsoft Outlook), so it runs the risk of exceeding the Microsoft Message Rate Limit, which can be problematic for your Outlook account.
    • Additional throttling limits for the SMTP Authentication protocol are:
    • 30 messages per minute
    • Recipient rate limit of 10,000 recipients per day.
    • Exceeding these limits will cause the following issues:
    • Exceeding the per minute limit causes email delivery delays, any excess in message submission will be throttled and successively carried over to the following minutes.
    • Exceeding the per day limit causes the following error message:
    • 554 5.2.0 STOREDRV.Submission.Exception:SubmissionQuotaExceededException.
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    Maropost
    • The Sales Department shouldn't promise the customer what support can't deliver on.
    • They should also brush up on some ethics courses. It's appalling to me how they conduct business. Buyer beware.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    VanillaSoft
    We love it and it works
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    Maropost
    No answers on this topic
    Usability
    VanillaSoft
    Whether it's setting up integrations, creating email campaigns, managing conversations with prospects, Autoklose is a well-designed tool that provides clarity along the way for users to find their bearings, and understand what to do. The help documentation is excellent, the support is great, but the tool is built in a way that simply makes sense when you're using it.
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    Maropost
    No answers on this topic
    Reliability and Availability
    VanillaSoft
    We have really had no issues.
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    Maropost
    No answers on this topic
    Performance
    VanillaSoft
    Always loads fast.
    Incentivized
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    Maropost
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    Support Rating
    VanillaSoft
    Our Autoklose rep is amazing! Jelena has always gotten back to us within 24 hours, despite living on a different continent. She is completely proficient with the tool and is usually able to answer our questions with a brief email or short virtual meeting.
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    Maropost
    Though relatively responsive, the responses were always utterly unhelpful and sometime not even relevant to the questions we asked. It quickly became apparent that it was outsourced copy/paste support.
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    In-Person Training
    VanillaSoft
    Jelena is amazing! Very knowledgable. Great instructor.
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    Maropost
    No answers on this topic
    Online Training
    VanillaSoft
    Jelena is fantastic. She always responds to emails immediately.
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    Maropost
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    Implementation Rating
    VanillaSoft
    It is extremely easy to implement and start using right away
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    Maropost
    No answers on this topic
    Alternatives Considered
    VanillaSoft
    I think that I have already said it, Autoklose has much better support and is really quick to set up and use compared with any of the other systems that I have used over the years.
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    Maropost
    Maropost had everything we needed and more. We loved that fact that one price covered everything. As we move forward we don't have to go back and purchase modules that we are now ready for. No one wants to go back to management and ask for more money
    Incentivized
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    Scalability
    VanillaSoft
    It's expensive to have a single seat for each salesperson, so the alias feature will be the perfect addition to this product.
    Incentivized
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    Maropost
    No answers on this topic
    Return on Investment
    VanillaSoft
    • I feel the increased prospect engagement and business opportunities created supported the cost. In my industry 1 customer can support positive ROI.
    • I saw an overall increase in mass emailing effectiveness and we were able to automate majority of our campaigns which increased productivity for marketing & sales.
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    Maropost
    • Lack of data and information about our users that we can use to get smarter in our segmentation hurts us in that we lose branded deals or partnerships.
    • Takes too much time to export reports and gain attrition reporting information, manually preparing reports is not a good use of time for anyone on our team.
    Incentivized
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    ScreenShots

    Autoklose Screenshots

    Screenshot of Step 01: Set up your campaignScreenshot of Step 02: Choose your recipientsScreenshot of Step 03: Select the best converting templateScreenshot of Step 04: Customize your e-mail sequence

    Maropost Marketing Cloud Screenshots

    Screenshot of Main Maropost DashboardScreenshot of 360° View - Customer DashboardScreenshot of A/B Campaign ReportScreenshot of Built In Image LibraryScreenshot of Campaign Report