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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

    Streamsend (discontinued)

    Score7 out of 10
    N/AStreamsend was an email marketing software solution acquired by J2 Global in late 2017, and since discontinued.N/A
    Pricing
    AutokloseStreamsend (discontinued)
    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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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    AutokloseStreamsend (discontinued)
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
    Additional Details
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    Community Pulse
    AutokloseStreamsend (discontinued)
    Considered Both Products
    VanillaSoft
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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
    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
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    User Ratings
    AutokloseStreamsend (discontinued)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (34 ratings)
    7.9
    (5 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    6.9
    (5 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)
    -
    (0 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
    AutokloseStreamsend (discontinued)
    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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    Discontinued Products
    The best scenarios would be email marketing campaigns such as eBlasts, Evites and newsletter/notifications. I believe Streamsend would be less appropriate for overall branding campaign and strategy.
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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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    • Streamsend reports allows us to see who is opening our email blasts and it even pinpoints how many viewers then go onto look at our social media sites and website.
    • Streamsend allows you to go back and review past email blasts. This prevents me from creating marketing material similar to what I have done in the past.
    • The site shows you who's email address was undeliverable. This helps me to weed out any old e-mails or individuals who requested to block the blasts.
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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.
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
    • Easier ability to delete old subscriber lists.
    • Notification when emails for the month are running low.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    VanillaSoft
    We love it and it works
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    Discontinued Products
    The renewal process is easy and doesn't require much thought. Our accounting team already has Streamsend as an approved vendor. We are happy with Streamsend and how it works. Switching email systems would require training and a learning curve that will be difficult to schedule in a busy department. The quality and reliability of Streamsend is something our team and attorneys trust.
    Incentivized
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    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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    Reliability and Availability
    VanillaSoft
    We have really had no issues.
    Incentivized
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    Performance
    VanillaSoft
    Always loads fast.
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
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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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    In-Person Training
    VanillaSoft
    Jelena is amazing! Very knowledgable. Great instructor.
    Incentivized
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    Online Training
    VanillaSoft
    Jelena is fantastic. She always responds to emails immediately.
    Incentivized
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    Implementation Rating
    VanillaSoft
    It is extremely easy to implement and start using right away
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    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.
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
    I do not like the Constant Contact interface at all, and find Streamsend to be a modern and suitable alternative to the popular MailChimp.
    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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    Discontinued Products
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    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.
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
    • I saw an impact on our ROI when using Streamsend for our weekly newsletters, since we used them as a redirect back to our website for new business
    • The only negative impact I can think of would be the loss of some our registrants through our email database. Some thought that we sent out Eblasts and newsletters to frequently.
    • It did help with faster lead conversion as we saw higher traffic and visitors to our website through direct click-through from our email campaigns
    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