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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

    ShippingEasy

    Score8 out of 10
    N/AShippingEasy, an Auctane (formerly Stamps.com) company, offers their cloud-based ecommerce shipping platform, providing full support for USPS, UPS, FedEx and integrating with online marketplaces such as Amazon, eBay, Etsy, Shopify, BigCommerce, WooCommerce, Volusion, and others. ShippingEasy allows automated order tracking with fulfillment data, and inventory levels to populate in real time.

    $5

    per month 50 shipments per month

    Pricing
    AutokloseShippingEasy
    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
    Starter
    $5.00
    per month 50 shipments per month
    Basic
    $29.00
    per month 500 shipments per month.
    Plus
    $49.00
    per month 1,500 shipments per month.
    Select
    $69.00
    per month 3,000 shipments per month.
    Premium
    $99.00
    per month 6,000 shipments per month.
    Enterprise
    $159.00
    per month 10,000 shipments per month.
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    AutokloseShippingEasy
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    AutokloseShippingEasy
    Considered Both Products
    VanillaSoft
    No answer on this topic
    Auctane (Stamps.com, Inc)
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    90%
    Would buy again
    28 Answers
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    Delivers good value for the price
    93%
    Delivers good value for the price
    26 Answers
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    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
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    User Ratings
    AutokloseShippingEasy
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (34 ratings)
    10.0
    (4 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)
    1.2
    (2 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
    AutokloseShippingEasy
    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.
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    Auctane (Stamps.com, Inc)
    ShippingEasy is perfect for a small business that needs the inventory system but doesn't want to pay through the nose. The customer service is excellent - they help you in set up, making changes, and make sure you understand how to use it. They save me time in managing our inventory and save me time when there is a problem - I call and get an answer right away. Plus if there is a system wide problem, which there rarely is, they make announcements and keep us up to date during and after
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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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    Auctane (Stamps.com, Inc)
    • ShippingEasy makes it very easy to set up shipping rules for various scenarios so that shipping is fairly automated. It really is a click and ship type set up.
    • ShippingEasy integrates into our BigCommerce platform very well. We very rarely have any issues with ShippingEasy syncing orders and shipping status to BigCommerce and vise versa.
    • ShippingEasy's marketing service is very easy to use. It makes email campaign design extremely easy and aesthetically pleasing and it also makes automated emails very easy to set up as well.
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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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    Auctane (Stamps.com, Inc)
    • Fails to sync with the store consistently.
    • Integration with Stamps.com is problematic.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    VanillaSoft
    We love it and it works
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    Auctane (Stamps.com, Inc)
    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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    Auctane (Stamps.com, Inc)
    No answers on this topic
    Reliability and Availability
    VanillaSoft
    We have really had no issues.
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    Auctane (Stamps.com, Inc)
    No answers on this topic
    Performance
    VanillaSoft
    Always loads fast.
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    Auctane (Stamps.com, Inc)
    No answers on this topic
    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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    Auctane (Stamps.com, Inc)
    ShippingEasy customer support is excellent. We rarely have to wait on hold, the reps are knowledgeable, well trained, well spoken, and understand technical issues. They listen carefully to make sure they understand the issue and check if they do not know something. I feel confident that I am getting correct information and rarely have to make more than one phone call to get an issue corrected.
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    In-Person Training
    VanillaSoft
    Jelena is amazing! Very knowledgable. Great instructor.
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    Auctane (Stamps.com, Inc)
    No answers on this topic
    Online Training
    VanillaSoft
    Jelena is fantastic. She always responds to emails immediately.
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    Auctane (Stamps.com, Inc)
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation Rating
    VanillaSoft
    It is extremely easy to implement and start using right away
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    Auctane (Stamps.com, Inc)
    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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    Auctane (Stamps.com, Inc)
    ShippingEasy works well across multiple apps and offers better interface, in my opinion
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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.
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    Auctane (Stamps.com, Inc)
    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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    Auctane (Stamps.com, Inc)
    • ShippingEasy has really had a positive impact overall on our business. It is very simple to use and the flexibility of the shipping rules has more or less automated shipping. So for a small organization like ourselves, it allows us to reduce overhead by not having to have multiple employees to ship.
    • It also has helped reduce overhead significantly by switching our email marketing from Constant Contact. It is about a 10th of the price and has more functionality. So that was definitely a no-brainer
    • All in all, ShippingEasy helps us reduce overhead the most in labor. It is extremely easy to use so a lot less of our time is devoted to shipping concerns such as manually entering shipments like before and making sure shipment information is transferred over to BigCommerce, or doing return labels. Everything integrates so well it is essentially automated.
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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