Drip Ecommerce CRM vs. Sales Engine International

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Drip Ecommerce CRM
Score 8.4 out of 10
N/A
Drip is an ECRM–an Ecommerce CRM offering email marketing automation software specifically for B2C online retailers. The vendor’s value proposition is that with Drip's simple, user-friendly visual campaign builder, users can design email campaigns based on specific subscriber behavior—so they always send the right message, to the right person, at the right time. Drip starts at $41/mo (with email sending and every feature enabled).
$19
per month
Sales Engine International
Score 9.0 out of 10
N/A
Sales Engine International is a new company resulting from the merger of Manticore and Sales Engine in 2012. The product has email marketing and landing page functionality with strong template libraries. The product provides connectors to both Microsoft Dynamics CRM and Salesforce.com. Primary customers are SMBs.N/A
Pricing
Drip Ecommerce CRMSales Engine International
Editions & Modules
Up to 500 people in account
$19
per month
550 - 2,000
$29
per month
2,001 - 5,000
$89
per month
5,001 - 8,000
$124
per month
8,001 - 15,000
$209
per month
15,001 - 22,500
$329
per month
22,501 - 27,500
$409
per month
27,501 - 35,000
$529
per month
35,001 - 50,000
$699
per month
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Drip Ecommerce CRMSales Engine International
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesNo
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
Drip Ecommerce CRMSales Engine International
Top Pros
Top Cons
Features
Drip Ecommerce CRMSales Engine International
Email & Online Marketing
Comparison of Email & Online Marketing features of Product A and Product B
Drip Ecommerce CRM
8.4
8 Ratings
3% above category average
Sales Engine International
2.3
1 Ratings
109% below category average
WYSIWYG email editor9.47 Ratings2.01 Ratings
Dynamic content7.06 Ratings00 Ratings
Ability to test dynamic content5.16 Ratings00 Ratings
A/B testing8.87 Ratings00 Ratings
Mobile optimization7.18 Ratings00 Ratings
Email deliverability reporting10.08 Ratings1.01 Ratings
List management10.08 Ratings2.01 Ratings
Triggered drip sequences10.08 Ratings00 Ratings
Landing pages00 Ratings4.01 Ratings
Reporting & Analytics
Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Product A and Product B
Drip Ecommerce CRM
6.9
8 Ratings
13% below category average
Sales Engine International
1.0
1 Ratings
153% below category average
Dashboards7.78 Ratings1.01 Ratings
Standard reports7.97 Ratings1.01 Ratings
Custom reports5.05 Ratings1.01 Ratings
Lead Management
Comparison of Lead Management features of Product A and Product B
Drip Ecommerce CRM
-
Ratings
Sales Engine International
2.3
1 Ratings
108% below category average
Lead nurturing automation00 Ratings1.01 Ratings
Lead scoring and grading00 Ratings2.01 Ratings
Data quality management00 Ratings2.01 Ratings
Automated sales alerts and tasks00 Ratings4.01 Ratings
Campaign Management
Comparison of Campaign Management features of Product A and Product B
Drip Ecommerce CRM
-
Ratings
Sales Engine International
1.0
1 Ratings
154% below category average
Calendaring00 Ratings1.01 Ratings
Event/webinar marketing00 Ratings1.01 Ratings
Social Media Marketing
Comparison of Social Media Marketing features of Product A and Product B
Drip Ecommerce CRM
-
Ratings
Sales Engine International
1.0
1 Ratings
153% below category average
Social sharing and campaigns00 Ratings1.01 Ratings
Platform & Infrastructure
Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Product A and Product B
Drip Ecommerce CRM
-
Ratings
Sales Engine International
1.5
1 Ratings
134% below category average
API00 Ratings1.01 Ratings
Role-based workflow & approvals00 Ratings3.01 Ratings
Customizability00 Ratings1.01 Ratings
Integration with Microsoft Dynamics CRM00 Ratings1.01 Ratings
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User Ratings
Drip Ecommerce CRMSales Engine International
Likelihood to Recommend
9.4
(8 ratings)
3.1
(3 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(2 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Availability
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Performance
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Online Training
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
Drip Ecommerce CRMSales Engine International
Likelihood to Recommend
Drip Global, Inc
If you're looking to take your email program to the next level with automation, you definitely need to consider Drip. Their support team is always timely and helpful whenever we've needed guidance on the platform or using the API. They are constantly improving their tools. It never feels stagnant or lacking in critical features. Their prebuilt workflows make getting started very easy and you can start driving more revenue almost immediately.
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Sales Engine Media
We used the Manticore Marketing Automation solution for almost/just over 2 years, and initially, it was a great solution. Everything just seemed to work. When Manticore Technology, Inc. and Sales Engine International merged on May 31st of 2012, the overall product quality began to decline. As browsers and other programs (like our CRM environment) went through updates and new releases, Manticore just didn't keep up. Parts of the program became incompatible with certain browsers, forcing us to change where and how we logged into the back-end of the system. It was a silly workaround, but not the end of the world. When we learned that other client-facing portions didn't work with certain browsers, we brought it to their attention, and were told that we needed to find some way to work with it, and that the changes to the system were not possible. We ended up having to change our 200+ landing pages/forms, and could no longer have the State/Province field as a required field for registrations. That is just one example of our experience, and there have been others that are just as troublesome.
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Pros
Drip Global, Inc
  • Simplicity + power. Drip is one of the quickest platforms to use in terms of setting up simple drip email sequences. Yet it also packs enormous power if you need to do complex automation.
  • Drip's direct integrations with other systems mean you can easily create hyper-personalized communications and anybody can set this up.
  • Drip's Javascript embed is easy to setup and great for helping to build deeper insights into customer behavior as well as triggering automation.
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Sales Engine Media
  • Awesome integration with CRM/SFDC.
  • Support is US-based, free with subscription, and very helpful.
  • Best workflow capability (drag and drop) I've seen in any comparable product.
  • Custom templates are available for purchase and are great for branding.
  • Easy to use landing pages.
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Cons
Drip Global, Inc
  • Possibly more email design templates for "new" users to automation, HTML coding, integrations, webhooks, etc.
  • Any supported integration partners are always good to see. They have expanded in this area, recently.
  • Some sort of WYSIWYG, drag-and-drop email editor, wouldn't hurt.
  • Sometimes, when trying to implement advanced HTML coding to an email template, the code doesn't stick, save or format as "native HTML."
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Sales Engine Media
  • List Building for Resends - I like to resend my email campaigns to non-openers and there is no easy way to pull this list within Manticore (If did not open this email is not an option). Typically I pull the report for the campaign, then re-import my list of non-openers to create a new list.
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Likelihood to Renew
Drip Global, Inc
No answers on this topic
Sales Engine Media
I've been incredibly pleased with Manticore/SEI and have selected them at several companies now. It's worked in a variety of different business environments, both big and small, and everyone on both the sales and marketing side have been extremely pleased with the results
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Usability
Drip Global, Inc
No answers on this topic
Sales Engine Media
Some of the actions require you to be in a specific section before actions are available to you, like adding a list. You first have to navigate to that section for options to be available to you
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Reliability and Availability
Drip Global, Inc
No answers on this topic
Sales Engine Media
Manticore hardly ever has "product down time" and almost never during a normal work day for our company
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Performance
Drip Global, Inc
No answers on this topic
Sales Engine Media
Email campaigns are deployed instantly when you launch, unlike other Marketing Automation tools I've used in the past that queue emails in batches and can take hours to complete a send
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Support Rating
Drip Global, Inc
No answers on this topic
Sales Engine Media
The Manticore team is very knowledgeable, I haven't had an issue where a ticket was left unanswered or unresolved
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Online Training
Drip Global, Inc
No answers on this topic
Sales Engine Media
Training was done online, but was one-on-one, giving me a lot of time to ask very specific product questions. They also walk you through setting up a test campaign, email, and landing page
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Implementation Rating
Drip Global, Inc
No answers on this topic
Sales Engine Media
It was the easiest integration and implementation that I've ever experienced. I've implemented other CRM integrated services before that provided the same services as Manticore that were extremely technical and expensive to integrate with Salesforce.com or Microsoft CRM Dynamics, or just plain couldn't integrate
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Alternatives Considered
Drip Global, Inc
Again, this is dependent on the use case. If you are a small- to medium-sized business that doesn't have a sales team, this is likely a great product for you. It is also a good price compared to larger enterprise software. Other software I have used worked better for other companies I worked for, but Drip fits best for my current company.
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Sales Engine Media
We migrated to Marketo approximately 6 months
ago, and were extremely happy with the change. Besides the higher sticker
price and the "everything's a sales pitch" communications from
Marketo, we can't find any fault.

Sales
Engine International - Manticore (commonly referred to as Manti-beast
internally) created many problems for us. And while they did integrate
with our Microsoft Dynamics environment, the software quickly ate through our
purchased storage and forced us to constantly purchase more. That alone
cost us many hundreds of dollars in Microsoft Dynamics CRM storage every year.
And, when confronted about it, Manticore support flat out lied about how
much storage their activities were taking up in our system. So, while it
integrates, it's a very poor integration.
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Return on Investment
Drip Global, Inc
  • Saves hours of typing redundant emails
  • Helps with our retention based on the constant contact with our current clients
  • Keeps our prospects up to date as we move through the stages of the sales cycle which also increases our capacity to handle more volume.
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Sales Engine Media
  • Errors in forms led to a decrease in registrations - found workaround to correct it, but was never informed of certain incompatibilities
  • Reports have been inaccurate and very inflexible, and have not allowed for reliable forecasting/planning
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ScreenShots

Drip Ecommerce CRM Screenshots

Screenshot of Get a deeper look into when and how often your customers are up to something. Tracking Events in Drip lets you understand all the times someone takes a peek at their favorite product, when they make a purchase, and more so you can personalize experiences based on real-life behaviors and engagement.Screenshot of Not only do Tags help you quickly see how people interact with your brand, but they also provide an intuitive way of segmenting your people when it comes time to tailor your messaging.Screenshot of Drip’s one-time setup makes it simple to start collecting all the revenue attribution data you need in one place for confident decision-making for the long haul.