CallRail offers phone call tracking, recording and analytics.
$50
per month
CTM
Score10 out of 10
Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
CallTrackingMetrics is a call tracking solution for all online and offline channels with real-time reporting and intelligent routing.
$79
per month
Google Tag Manager
Score9.4 out of 10
N/A
From Google, the Google Tag Manager is a tag management application that facilitates creating, embedding, and updating tags across websites and mobile apps. It is a free option, vs. the company's enterprise-tier Google Tag Manager 360.
$0
Pricing
CallRail
CTM
Google Tag Manager
Editions & Modules
Call Tracking
$50
per month
Call Tracking + Conversation Intelligence®
$100
per month
Call Tracking + Form Tracking
$100
per month
Call Tracking Complete
$150
per month
Marketing Lite
$79
per month
Marketing Pro
$179
per month
Sales Engage
$329
per month
Enterprise
$1999
per month
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CallRail
CTM
Google Tag Manager
Free Trial
Yes
No
No
Free/Freemium Version
No
No
Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No
Yes
No
Entry-level Setup Fee
No setup fee
Optional
No setup fee
Additional Details
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All plans include unlimited users at no extra cost, while Marketing Pro and higher also include sub-accounts for agencies and multi-location businesses. Discounts of up to two months free for annual agreements.
Acquisition Manager in Corporate at Point Acquisitions LLC (Real Estate, 1-10 employees)
Chose CallRail
CallRail seemed to have an easier setup and ease of use for onboarding new staff as well. The overall tracking structure and analytics seemed better with CallRail. CallRail also allows you to understand the call history and understand if this was a first touch or multiple …
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Verified User
Chose CallRail
I quickly used CallTrackingMetrics but we decided to keep using CallRail because of ease of use with new staff.
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Digital Media Manager in Marketing at White Shark Media (Marketing & Advertising, 51-200 employees)
Chose CallRail
CallRail has offered us the best solutions so far in terms of multiple aspects. #1 is scalability, we are a growing agency, we see clients come and go, CallRail has made it easy and efficient with new accounts being onboarded, UI backs up this process. Also, the multiple …
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Verified User
Chose CallRail
We've found CallRail to be easier to use than other systems that we've used or reviewed for potential purchase. Product support is good and there is a fair amount of users so finding solutions to problems online is relatively easy. Our team has found it easy to setup as well.
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Founder, CEO in Corporate at Auctus Creative (Marketing & Advertising, 11-50 employees)
Chose CTM
I have only used one call tracking platform at the level I am now which is CallTrackingMetrics. I have however, evaluated other call tracking platforms such as Invoca and CallRail. Invoca we quickly stopped demoing as we got into cost as the platform was more expensive that …
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Verified User
Chose CTM
I feel like CallTrackingMetrics is far more user friendly and accessible than CallRail. I said this earlier, but because CallTrackingMetrics has always been so easy to use and work with, I've never felt the need to pursue another function. When I've had to work with CallRail …
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Internet Marketing Manager in Marketing at Disruptive Advertising (Marketing & Advertising, 51-200 employees)
Chose CTM
They are very similar from functionality from what I have seen. CallRail is a prettier and possibly more user friendly platform, but also has a lot of fluff that CTM seems to cut through.
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Verified User
Chose CTM
By far CTM is my favorite. Price is good, it's easy to use and integrates well with our external reporting software. But most importantly it is accurate and the customer service/chat support is fantastic and very quick to respond.
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This is great software for differentiating where phone traffic is coming from. Whether it's paid/organic search, you can see exactly where the calls are coming in from. I'd love to see them add text/SMS features in the future, but it does what it claims. I'd also like to see more CRM integrations, but not sure that other users share the same sentiment
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[CallTrackingMetrics] is well suited for HIPAA Compliant Call Tracking when working with medical clients and is great for all clients who do online sales or patient intake. Clients with low volume of calls may not get enough value for the cost of this platform.
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I have found Google Tag Manager as the go to solution for managing all of your event and conversion tags for your website. Not only does it make it easy to manage all of your tags in the one place, it is fairly intuitive to use and there is plenty of videos and help documentation online to help set up what ever you need. No scenarios come to mind at the moment on where it is less appropriate to use.
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Tracking phone calls first & foremost! Being able to have a running tally of the phone calls made and listening to the recorded calls throughout the month and providing that information back to our clients is vital!
Their UI is exceptionally easy to use & navigate. This is important when we have many clients running at the same time and we are able to always determine what report is for which client.
The ease of setting up a brand new client & their tracking phone number is fantastic! Saves a lot of time when it walks you through everything you need to know & do step by step.
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Very easy to set up and use. You can create as many tracking numbers and sources as you need. Easily organize and filter them for results and placing the code is so simple. Anyone can use this software.
Listening to the calls makes life simple. We can hear what the potential lead said and record feedback to better our marketing efforts. You can even flag or email the call recordings if you need to share inside or outside your organization.
Call reporting is a breeze! You can easily filter your sources, call duration, time and more and reports are extremely accurate.
Cost is well worth what you get from the software.
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Selecting elements on a site [object, class, cookie, etc] (to later fire an event, send some data, etc) is very easy with triggers. Want to add an event when someone clicks on a button? Super easy. It was many many DOM selectors and you can even add custom functions if you need to do something more specific
In general, firing events in different circumstances is very easy mixing triggers and tags. You can track almost any element of the DOM and do whatever you want with it.
Testing is a great functionality. Only you can see what's on the site and you can debug it easily by seeing which events or tags were triggered and all the DOM elements involved (and why they matched the trigger).
Working in environments (staging, production) and versioning is easy to do, deploying changes in 2 clicks.
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The integration with Hubspot is not as seemless as I would have liked. We had an issue where a person who was already in Hubspot called in, and their contact information was not matched to the caller ID correctly which created some duplicate entries. A little bit of a bummer, but from what I understand they may have fixed this. We had to stop using them for a little while because our outsourced sales team was more confused by adding CallRail, so we'll be re-implementing this once our new sales team is fully trained. Hopefully the record miss-match issue gets fixed.
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There are several good integrations, but there can always be more. Native tracking for call tracking solutions, analytics providers, non-Google advertisers would be top of my list.
Documentation is just dreadful. Luckily there are some awesome folks out there doing crowdsourced tutorials (shout out to Simo Ahava) but by and large the Google Tag Manager instructions are worth what you pay for them.
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I haven't found another option for us to use especially one that is free. Down the road we may go a different route but for now GTM is a good option and does what we need it to do. It'd be nice to get more support or more integrations but with the free version there's only so much one can expect to get I suppose.
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The platform is easy to use and we really don't have any complaints with using it so far. The information is invaluable for clients that rely on phone calls to drive more business. Not much negative to say about it at this point. We're actually really happy with it so far and the cost is manageable.
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No difficult obstacle to overcome but Google Tag Manager can still be difficult for many users to deploy. Sure the basic HTML script can be deployed quite easily, but when you start to require triggers, variables, etc, it can be a little daunting.
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CallRail support normally gets back to us pretty quickly when we submit a ticket and they have a good knowledge base for common questions. I've heard mixed reviews from other local marketing agencies that use this tool, but overall in my experience, support has been knowledgeable and quick working through our problems.
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GTM does not provide support. This is one of GTM's biggest issues but it's due to the level of customization for each website. If your team thinks they would heavily rely on the need for a support staff it is probably better to invest in a paid service with a team that can support your needs.
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Planning and communication will help greatly with an in-house implementation. If there are large teams, try to limit the number of people involved to 1-2 developers (back-end dev may be necessary depending on your platform), one analytics marketer and one project manager.
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Callrail has a very seamless and easy to use Dynamic Number Swap function. In other call tracking that we looked into the integration was either not as easy to use or required much more work to implement. Setting up CallRail has been so easy even our entry-level employees need very little training to master the platform.
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CallTrackingMetrics has stood up well compared to Salesforce. Being that we are a high volume call center for schools, it has been very good for the company. I feel that CallTrackingMetrics is really good for our company compared to Salesforece CMS.
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We moved to GTM from a standard Google Analytics implementation. GTM is much more flexible and easier to make changes, especially as the changes relate to multiple sites and environments. While there is a learning curve when figuring out how to use GTM, I believe the change has been worth it because it helps us understand at a more fundamental level how our tracking works and gives us a lot more control over what we track and how.
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It is useful to monitor our calls weekly. We can give our employees feedback on the quality of the calls which helps our overall sales and conversions.
By knowing which campaigns perform best, we can shift our budget to target those campaigns specifically which saves us revenue and increases sales.
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GTM is very useful to determine if a particular element on the site is useful (i.e. is it being watched, is it being clicked, does it help customers navigate through more pages). As an SEO person, I can use this information to decide what to optimize for but also to track progress and see improvements in engagement.
With the use of Google Tag Manager, I was able to easily inject an A/B testing tool which lead to several improvements in lead generation.
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