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
MessageGears
Score 10.0 out of 10
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MessageGears is a hybrid email marketing service built around deliverability, actionable customer data, and audience segmentation and targeting.
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Pricing
Autoklose
MessageGears
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
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MessageGears
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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No
Entry-level Setup Fee
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Features
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Email & Online Marketing
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Autoklose
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Ratings
MessageGears
3.3
3 Ratings
83% below category average
WYSIWYG email editor
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1.52 Ratings
Dynamic content
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3.83 Ratings
Ability to test dynamic content
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2.23 Ratings
A/B testing
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2.73 Ratings
Mobile optimization
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8.01 Ratings
Email deliverability reporting
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3.83 Ratings
List management
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2.13 Ratings
Triggered drip sequences
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2.23 Ratings
Reporting & Analytics
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Ratings
MessageGears
1.1
3 Ratings
150% below category average
Dashboards
00 Ratings
1.13 Ratings
Standard reports
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1.13 Ratings
Custom reports
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1.03 Ratings
Pre-Send Testing
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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.
MessageGears can be a solid, inexpensive email solution and you can be able to send millions of emails per year. In 2020, we delivered over 235 million emails at a fraction of what that would cost with any other email service provider. We worked with MessageGears on a custom solution with our database.
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:
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.
Our situation is unique so I believe we are working on a semi-outdated UI which needs a tune up / version upgrade. Similarly, our custom connection means that we do not have access to the full feature set so I've never experienced MessageGears' best functionality
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.
MessageGears support is always quick to respond when we have an issue, which is rare. Gail has been our main rep and she has been great. We don't have many issues so luckily, we don't need to lean on their customer support team much. That said, it would be beneficial to hear from upper management more.
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.
MessageGears doesn't come close to Salesforce Marketing Cloud. We chose MessageGears based on how data was accessed. We never really got a good preview of how the system works or what was available, so we didn't know everything that it was lacking until we started using it.
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.