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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Drip Ecommerce CRM

    Score7 out of 10
    N/ADrip 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

    Twilio SendGrid

    Score6.6 out of 10
    N/ATwilio SendGrid Marketing Campaigns provides users with segmentation, campaign editing, and deliverability. According to the vendor, Twilio SendGrid Marketing Campaigns is trusted by over 80,000 customers globally, including Airbnb, Spotify and Uber. Twilio SendGrid Marketing Campaigns aims to help users by providing: MORE EFFICIENT EMAIL BUILDING The campaign building process is free from frustrating, rigid step-by-step wizards that slow users down. The vendor says…

    $15

    per month

    Pricing
    Drip Ecommerce CRMTwilio SendGrid
    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
    Basic
    $15
    per month
    Advanced
    $60
    per month
    Free
    Free
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Drip Ecommerce CRMTwilio SendGrid
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Drip Ecommerce CRMTwilio SendGrid
    Considered Both Products
    Drip Global, Inc
    No answer on this topic
    Twilio
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    No answers on this topic
    75%
    Would buy again
    15 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    No answers on this topic
    72%
    Delivers good value for the price
    13 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    No answers on this topic
    70%
    Happy with the feature set
    14 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    No answers on this topic
    65%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    13 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    No answers on this topic
    70%
    Implementation went as expected
    14 Answers
    Features
    Drip Ecommerce CRMTwilio SendGrid
    Email & Online Marketing
    Comparison of Email & Online Marketing features of Drip Ecommerce CRM and Twilio SendGrid
    Feature
    Drip Ecommerce CRM
    6.3
    9 Ratings
    24% below category average
    Twilio SendGrid
    6.8
    50 Ratings
    17% below category average
    WYSIWYG email editor6.08 Ratings9.337 Ratings
    Dynamic content7.06 Ratings6.740 Ratings
    Ability to test dynamic content5.16 Ratings4.438 Ratings
    A/B testing8.08 Ratings9.330 Ratings
    Mobile optimization7.09 Ratings8.938 Ratings
    Email deliverability reporting8.09 Ratings5.050 Ratings
    List management2.09 Ratings4.744 Ratings
    Triggered drip sequences7.09 Ratings4.624 Ratings
    Landing pages00 Ratings8.024 Ratings
    Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Drip Ecommerce CRM and Twilio SendGrid
    Feature
    Drip Ecommerce CRM
    6.7
    9 Ratings
    13% below category average
    Twilio SendGrid
    6.1
    50 Ratings
    22% below category average
    Dashboards7.09 Ratings4.748 Ratings
    Standard reports7.08 Ratings5.148 Ratings
    Custom reports6.06 Ratings8.631 Ratings
    Pre-Send Testing
    Comparison of Pre-Send Testing features of Drip Ecommerce CRM and Twilio SendGrid
    Feature
    Drip Ecommerce CRM
    -
    Ratings
    Twilio SendGrid
    8.2
    12 Ratings
    1% above category average
    URL Validation00 Ratings7.911 Ratings
    Link Tracking00 Ratings7.512 Ratings
    Image Validation00 Ratings8.29 Ratings
    Inbox Display00 Ratings8.011 Ratings
    Email Accessibility Tools00 Ratings9.012 Ratings
    Spelling and Grammar Check00 Ratings8.19 Ratings
    Spam Testing00 Ratings8.111 Ratings
    Email Previews00 Ratings9.112 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Drip Ecommerce CRMTwilio SendGrid
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.4
    (8 ratings)
    4.7
    (61 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    4.9
    (8 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    3.0
    (9 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Drip Ecommerce CRMTwilio SendGrid
    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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    Twilio
    If you're prepared to build out your whole staff UX, audience creation, email production, and analytics on your own using API, this tool may have that flexibility. If you require a sturdy drag and drop production tool, this tool has it but at the expense of a lot of other critical functionality. Out of the box analytics/reporting, is extremely limited. Complex queries, even something like pulling those who haven't engaged in email within a certain time period, is clunky. If you require any support at all, this is not the tool for you. I'm a deliverability consultant and have used many of the top email marketing tools and SendGrid has been extremely difficult for my team. I do not recommend it. Shiny and bright during sales, pretty disappointing thereafter.
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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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    Twilio
    • Managing email lists / audiences is easy with features like groups and segments.
    • They provide pre-built email templates that are very easy to modify. It is also super easy to create new email templates with their drag-and-drop email builder.
    • Provides clear / easy-to-read analytics of email campaigns.
    • I can easily import large email contact lists all at once or add a user manually one-at-a-time, when needed.
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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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    Twilio
    • Not necessarily their Email API but their email in general - they are currently in beta for automated email sequences but are still bare bones. Much more work is needed before it can be used mainstream and be able to convert everything to SendGrid.
    • Helping with warming up our dedicated IP for the best-sending score.
    • We seem to hit the promotions folder a decent amount (maybe the IP problem above) and even a lot of their emails hit my spam or promotions folder (whether they be transactional or marketing) which isn't a great sign when trusting an ESP.
    • Transactional email sequences would be a huge plus.
    • Now that Twilio owns SenGrid, having an integrated platform where you could see all our transactional emails together.
    • Better reporting and split reporting between transactional and marketing emails.
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    Usability
    Drip Global, Inc
    It’s easy for not just experts, but anyone. Both of my VAs picked it up really quickly
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    Twilio
    It is usable but needs improvement in overall user experience and ease of use. A new joinee/anyone new to the tool would need more tarining currently before he can use the platform seamlessly. The set-up to value realization time for Twilio SendGrid customers is generally high because of this concern.
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    Support Rating
    Drip Global, Inc
    No answers on this topic
    Twilio
    Twilio SendGrid Email API is everything we want it to be, and we have no reason to look for any other solution. Features and pricing match exactly what we need. As developers for SaaS products, Twilio SendGrid Email API provides a great service. I hope that they stay this way and don't inflate the service with too many marketing oriented features, because there are other tools for that and Twilio SendGrid Email API is a API for sending email first and foremost.
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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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    Twilio
    Sendgrid has a lot of features that other providers have and a few more - like the dynamic template builder, which AWS SES doesn't have. We choose the provider based on the scenario of use and the provider we're using. If we're going to be making regular changes to a template, then we'd go with Sendgrid, as the changes will be easier to make and don't necessarily require developer intervention.
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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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    Twilio
    • As it was cheaper than the transactional service we previously used, it saved costs.
    • The API was relatively easy to work with so it helped us ship the service and test it quickly.
    • We still use the transactional email service, even though we recognize its limits as it meets our immediate needs.
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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.