dotMailer vs. ReachMail

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
dotMailer
Score 8.0 out of 10
N/A
N/A
$150
per month
ReachMail
Score 9.6 out of 10
N/A
ReachMail focuses on assisting email marketers in achieving delivery success, and present their services a a guide in the ever-changing world of marketing and transactional email. ReachMail includes tools like optimized time-of-day sending, integrated list hygiene and expert support.
$9
per month
Pricing
dotMailerReachMail
Editions & Modules
Growth
$150.00
per month
Professional
$500.00
per month
Basic
$9.00
per month
Prro
$29.00
per month
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
dotMailerReachMail
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
dotMailerReachMail
Features
dotMailerReachMail
Email & Online Marketing
Comparison of Email & Online Marketing features of Product A and Product B
dotMailer
9.0
1 Ratings
13% above category average
ReachMail
9.2
9 Ratings
15% above category average
WYSIWYG email editor9.01 Ratings9.07 Ratings
Dynamic content9.01 Ratings10.06 Ratings
Ability to test dynamic content9.01 Ratings10.06 Ratings
Mobile optimization9.01 Ratings9.05 Ratings
Email deliverability reporting9.01 Ratings10.08 Ratings
List management9.01 Ratings10.09 Ratings
Triggered drip sequences9.01 Ratings10.02 Ratings
Landing pages00 Ratings5.04 Ratings
A/B testing00 Ratings10.05 Ratings
Reporting & Analytics
Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Product A and Product B
dotMailer
-
Ratings
ReachMail
9.7
9 Ratings
24% above category average
Dashboards00 Ratings10.08 Ratings
Standard reports00 Ratings9.09 Ratings
Custom reports00 Ratings10.05 Ratings
Pre-Send Testing
Comparison of Pre-Send Testing features of Product A and Product B
dotMailer
-
Ratings
ReachMail
9.8
1 Ratings
21% above category average
URL Validation00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Link Tracking00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Image Validation00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
Inbox Display00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Email Accessibility Tools00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Spelling and Grammar Check00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
Spam Testing00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Email Previews00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
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User Ratings
dotMailerReachMail
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
(2 ratings)
10.0
(11 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
10.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(2 ratings)
User Testimonials
dotMailerReachMail
Likelihood to Recommend
dotMailer
Well suited for a company with a larger marketing budget as this is a costly program compared to the other ESPs. If your use case is not eCommerce, you would probably be better off with a standard ESP like Drip.
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ReachMail, Inc
The free Reachmail account (which I have used for several small organizations) is a good tool where there are limited or zero email marketing dollars, a contact audience of up to 5,000 subscribers, and a max of 15,000 monthly emails. The pricing levels are really reasonable for volume requirements, including custom plans for infrequent mailings. If there are constraints (time and/or design experience) that require a large choice of ready-made contemporary templates without graphic or font modifications, then this probably isn't a good email marketing tool.
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Pros
dotMailer
  • Easy Editor - no HTML required. It's very easy to drag and drop your elements, customizing the campaign according to your needs.
  • Reports- the reports are robust, showing you your open rates, browsers used, who clicked what, etc. It is easy to section out this information and deliver it to the appropriate stakeholders.
  • Templates - building your own template library makes creating and sending campaigns and quick and easy experience. In a global company like ours, it also enables consistency across the brand locations throughout the world.
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ReachMail, Inc
  • I have a $10 account, but customer support treat me like a princess. They even added a feature to one page to remedy a problem I was having with that page. They care about their customers.
  • ReachMail Features (or at least, these are the ones I know they have): WYSIWYG Email Editor, Template Management, Mobile Optimized Emails, Dynamic Content, Subscribe/Unsubscribe, Mailing List Management, Drip Campaigns, Auto-Responders, Image Library, A/B Testing, Customer Surveys, CAN SPAM Compliance, Reporting/Analytics.
  • These folks know what they’re doing. I can’t speak highly enough about ReachMail.
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Cons
dotMailer
  • Integration is overly complex.
  • Cannot progressively profile from anything other than an email address.
  • Too expensive.
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ReachMail, Inc
  • There are no batch report downloads. When I have multiple variations and waves in a campaign, I have to download reports individually. I'd like for a way to download one report of all sends during a certain time period, or given another set of parameters.
  • It would save a lot of time if we had the ability to upload multiple images or assets at once.
  • There's only a two-level "tree" of organization of lists and suppression lists. It would be great if we had the abililty to nest lists into better categories, rather than having to scroll through one giant list of suppressions or deployment lists. Something like a 2015 folder, then inside that a Business Unit folder, then inside that, a Campaign folder, etc. This would make things much easier to find.
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Likelihood to Renew
dotMailer
Since this is used on a global scale and it is preferable to all of our brands, I cannot see us switching to a different provider. We have built years worth of contacts and templates within our current system, which saves our marketing team a lot of time when putting together future campaigns. All of them are mobile optimized which makes it even easier to work with
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ReachMail, Inc
No answers on this topic
Usability
dotMailer
No answers on this topic
ReachMail, Inc
Their team is knowledgable and willing to help offer insight and support to build out the right campaigns to fit our business needs and goals
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Alternatives Considered
dotMailer
DotMailer is built for eCommerce. Drip, ActiveCampaign, and Infusionsoft are not eCommerce platforms out of the box, though they can be tailored to that use case. DotMailer is especially geared toward retail businesses.
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ReachMail, Inc
In my opinion, ReachMail is a good competitor to Mailchimp, probably has more features though and analytics to help organize information. There are also a lot more third party integrations that have helped us compared to other apps that we've tried before, but ReachMail has been the most useful, for me personally and my team
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Return on Investment
dotMailer
  • Better customer service
  • Increased brand awareness
  • Increased brand engagement
  • Streamlined processes
  • Regular communication with customers
  • Increased audience/reach
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ReachMail, Inc
  • None. I signed up for a pay account so only had to spend a dollar for the first month. Even that was a waste as I simply can't send emails out with their forced unsubscribe header. If it was the typical CAN-SPAM footer it would be fine, but it just looks awful.
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