Braze vs. Buttondown

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Braze
Score 8.7 out of 10
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Braze is a customer engagement platform that enables relevant and memorable experiences between consumers and brands. With Braze, global brands can ingest and process customer data in real time, orchestrate and optimize contextually relevant, cross-channel marketing campaigns.N/A
Buttondown
Score 0.0 out of 10
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Buttondown is presented as a small, elegant tool for producing newsletters, from the company of the same name in Seattle. The minimalist interface enables users to focus on writing emails; the automation acts like an editorial assistant by checking for typos, broken links, or malformed images; the portable subscription widget makes it easier to grow an audience from wherever a site is hosted. The vendor states Buttondown's focus is on pragmatism over richness; it's…
$9
per month up to 1000 subscribers
Pricing
BrazeButtondown
Editions & Modules
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Basic
$9
per month up to 1000 subscribers
Standard
$29
per month up to 5000 subscribers
Professional
$79
per month up to 10000 subscribers
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
BrazeButtondown
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
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User Ratings
BrazeButtondown
Likelihood to Recommend
8.9
(160 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.1
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
7.6
(127 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
4.5
(21 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Online Training
9.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
BrazeButtondown
Likelihood to Recommend
Braze
If you're looking for a reliable, automated system to run customer feedback programme like the NPS, Braze offers possibly the best platform to operate such kind of a campaign. In addition, if you are looking to build email campaigns for existing clients with the goal of retention or relationship-building, Braze offers much better email delivery and engagement rates.
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Buttondown
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Pros
Braze
  • Canvas feature has been really good for creating customer journey paths and long-term messaging campaigns.
  • They have been addressing feature requests to continue to improve the Canvas feature. One of the simplest but most-handy features is allowing Delay steps wait for a very specific date on a calendar -- so you can plan seasonal campaigns or when you have evergreen-style drip campaigns it allows for avoiding public holidays/etc.
  • The catalog feature provides a lot of use-cases and flexibility for personalizing comms or customizing comms for whitelabeled versions of our standard comms (for our B2B2C scenarios).
  • We use the catalog as a repository of our B2B2C brand info, messaging customization - it basically allows us to offer a whitelabeled configurable version of our optimized automated in-life comms in the branding of our b2b customers.
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Buttondown
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Cons
Braze
  • Enabling GIF/videos to be directly uploaded on to Braze's platform
  • Easier way of creating canvases; right now it is too complex for someone new who is starting off in the company to understand what things do and where things are
  • Ability to track duplicate user profiles within the entire audience segment
  • Automated deduplicating email addresses/phone numbers in each targeting segment; right now it's done manually after extracting csv files
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Buttondown
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Likelihood to Renew
Braze
We are on a mission for an omnichannel experience for our customers and are already making good progress with Braze able to fully support and optimise this
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Buttondown
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Usability
Braze
From my experience thus far, Braze is able to deeply integrate into a variety of tools and I haven't found a use case where Braze cannot offer a solution to an integration requirement. Integrations have been very easy to setup and developers have been able to manage and upgrade these seamlessly.
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Buttondown
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Support Rating
Braze
Very responsive and helpful on simple questions, but not great other than that. They do not have a way for the customer/user to escalate a ticket. You have to contact your rep and in some cases, they don't respond within 24 hours so you have no idea if they have escalated it. There is no phone number for an urgent issue - you have to rely on email
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Buttondown
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Online Training
Braze
It's really well explained, there are lots of documentation about all topics. When we want to perform in a specific area, there are always a dedicated path. For each new feature, there is always some videos explaining the purpose and the new functionalities. Also I used to do the certification which allows me to show my achievements in my business environment.
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Buttondown
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Alternatives Considered
Braze
Braze is a cross-channel and data-driven tool. It is much more intuitive and easier to use. It supports a high volume of sending. Braze team provides excellent follow-up and support, and we are part of a large community of clients who share knowledge and help.
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Buttondown
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Return on Investment
Braze
  • We saved a couple of million by switching from Salesforce to Braze.
  • We increased our engagement for a limited-time promo by 33% by simply running a 4-variant subject line test.
  • We managed to reduce our unsubscribe volume by 18% by excluding dormant users.
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Buttondown
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