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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Iterable

    Score8.1 out of 10
    N/AIterable is an AI-powered customer communication platform that activates customers across channels in real-time. With intelligent personalization, dynamic content, and a cross-channel suite, Iterable helps brands create seamless, data-driven experiences across email, SMS, push, and in-app notifications.N/A

    Sailthru

    Score5.2 out of 10
    N/ASailthru is an email marketing and marketing automation solution. It supports email management, site personalization, mobile management, and both predictive and retention-focused analytics.N/A
    Pricing
    IterableSailthru
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    IterableSailthru
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    IterableSailthru
    Considered Both Products
    Iterable
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    Zeta Global
    Chose Sailthru
    We chose Sailthru before evaluating these vendors. Currently though they are lagging a little bit with integration with outside data sources, flexibility with surfacing web content, and multi channel orchestration compared to these vendors
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    93%
    Would buy again
    103 Answers
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    Delivers good value for the price
    94%
    Delivers good value for the price
    80 Answers
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    Happy with the feature set
    92%
    Happy with the feature set
    102 Answers
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    91%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    67 Answers
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    Implementation went as expected
    86%
    Implementation went as expected
    66 Answers
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    Features
    IterableSailthru
    Email & Online Marketing
    Comparison of Email & Online Marketing features of Iterable and Sailthru
    Feature
    Iterable
    8.1
    119 Ratings
    5% above category average
    Sailthru
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    Ratings
    WYSIWYG email editor8.9106 Ratings00 Ratings
    Dynamic content8.8113 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ability to test dynamic content8.6111 Ratings00 Ratings
    A/B testing8.6115 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile optimization8.0110 Ratings00 Ratings
    Email deliverability reporting7.1115 Ratings00 Ratings
    List management7.0115 Ratings00 Ratings
    Triggered drip sequences8.1102 Ratings00 Ratings
    Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Iterable and Sailthru
    Feature
    Iterable
    5.7
    116 Ratings
    27% below category average
    Sailthru
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    Dashboards6.1116 Ratings00 Ratings
    Standard reports5.5114 Ratings00 Ratings
    Custom reports5.3105 Ratings00 Ratings
    Platform & Infrastructure
    Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Iterable and Sailthru
    Feature
    Iterable
    7.0
    113 Ratings
    8% below category average
    Sailthru
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    Ratings
    API7.8102 Ratings00 Ratings
    Role-based workflow & approvals8.196 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customizability7.4103 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integration with Microsoft Dynamics CRM4.75 Ratings00 Ratings
    Third-party software integrations7.120 Ratings00 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    IterableSailthru
    Small Businesses
    Vbout
    Score9.9 out of 10
    Listrak
    Score10 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Bloomreach
    Score9.2 out of 10
    Marin Software (discontinued)
    Score9.1 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Bloomreach
    Score9.2 out of 10
    Listrak
    Score10 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    IterableSailthru
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.6
    (120 ratings)
    7.7
    (21 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    10.0
    (7 ratings)
    Usability
    9.1
    (3 ratings)
    -
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    Availability
    8.2
    (4 ratings)
    -
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    Performance
    8.2
    (4 ratings)
    -
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    Support Rating
    9.1
    (4 ratings)
    1.0
    (1 ratings)
    Online Training
    6.4
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    7.3
    (4 ratings)
    -
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    User Testimonials
    IterableSailthru
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Iterable
    - Scalability: as I mentioned, Stayforlong serves more than 3 Million travellers in 40 markets and 32 languages. We managed to build a robust CRM strategy with only 2 members on the CRM team, which helped us expand the channels with a really small, lean team. - Real-time relevance: for us, having the latest available offer is a must; we need to offer the rooms that are available in real time, because the inventory is live.
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    Zeta Global
    Sailthu is perfectly suited, no matter what level of technical skill you have or support from an Engineering team. That said, it includes many advanced features which can only be fully utilized when integrated with custom webhooks and after receiving customer data sent via their APIs. There may be easier solutions out there for less technical users or for people wanting a simpler setup to begin with.
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    Pros
    Iterable
    • Customer Journey creation - the platform easily creates a visual path for the marketing team to curate messaging based around timing, channel, behavior as well as add split testing logic and exit criteria so we target only the audiences we want.
    • Customer Success - one of the best teams I've ever had the pleasure of working with. I'm able to move so much quicker because they really create a helpful partnership.
    • Audience segmentation, the platform is easy to work with even if you're a first time user, they do a great job of visually showing the logic and the and/or/none type rules.
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    Zeta Global
    • Personalization - one of the most important things you can utilize when emailing people.
    • Segmentation - Sailthru makes it very easy to build an audience based off their criteria; there are so many different fields to choose from. We use this mostly for geo-targeting and engagement.
    • Analytics - post-campaign analytics are very easy to look at, customize your view, and download as a csv to share with your team and company.
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    Cons
    Iterable
    • In-app channel, although it works, has some shortcomings in UI functionality or system backend logic, which suggests it is built on an email send-out architecture.
    • Drag and drop editor has its own limitations - it isn't perfect. You can't create some basic designs.
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    Zeta Global
    • Giving more practical examples of technical setups, sometimes the only way to understand it is to see it.
    • Can't filter lists by date created or date modified, particularly needed when tracking down a specific list or looking to remove older lists.
    • Can't set up automated data dumps to an email address, has to be sent via API.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Iterable
    Its a robust platform that can serve complex business needs. Current and futures. It tries to adapt an newest trends and has good CS and CSM specialists.
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    Zeta Global
    The biggest factor is that even after two months of trying to go through their credit processes and getting the right consideration for the real damages we had with the tool not being able to send campaigns for days, their sales staff is still not willing to work with us on it, making us do the switch away from them right now. We got extremely disappointed by trying to work with them through those issues.
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    Usability
    Iterable
    Iterable very easy to learn and use. It's a great platform for both a new email marketer and a marketer that's been working in email for 20+ years.
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    Zeta Global
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    Reliability and Availability
    Iterable
    Iterable is there like 99.9% of the time. However, when it goes down, it grinds us to a halt. Most of the time, outages are an hour or less, but if that's at a peak time, it can be a nightmare. That said, when the worst does happen, there are frequent updates and an easy situation tracker that give you an estimate of how much longer you'll have to wait for the issue to be resolved.
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    Zeta Global
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    Performance
    Iterable
    The API is super quick. The UI can be a little sluggish depending on what you're loading, but overall Iterable performs great. Iterable appears to do a good job of making processes async so that one action isn't blocking another.
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    Zeta Global
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    Support Rating
    Iterable
    I've never experienced any issues with Iterable. As I and my colleagues have learnt the system and it's features, response to questions and advice from our account manager is always quick. Kevin knows the product well, and with the few tricky questions has hasn't been able to answer he's been quick to get back to us.
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    Zeta Global
    Their account management / sales staff doesn't seem to be taking the problems you experience very seriously - it took us 3 months and nudge emails to them every 2 weeks to ask for status updates (plus 6 different conversations with different people) to get a (very small credit) for a major issue, which in two months prohibited us from sending campaign emails for 2-3 days at a time.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Iterable
    My understanding is that Mailchimp has evolved a lot since we moved to Iterable 4 years ago, so any comparison is legacy. Keeping that in mind, Iterable is far more sophisticated, especially the journey builder, personalised STO by user and segmentation.
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    Zeta Global
    Sailthru provided a powerful, easy-to-use platform that was able to adjust to the needs we had at Dotdash. It was able to support the simple campaigns where we would send static creative to all recipients and the complex dynamic campaigns where we were customizing content. The scale and flexibility really made it a great platform for us to use.
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    Scalability
    Iterable
    We've definitely tested scalability, and it's no line - it works. The process is pretty easy. Most of the times it goes off without a hitch. Any time we do encounter issues, our support team is quick to get on the job and very communicative as they work us through a successful launch.
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    Zeta Global
    No answers on this topic
    Return on Investment
    Iterable
    • I do not have hard numbers, as I am not in the department that deals with those kinds of quantifications of impact. However, I do believe the use of Iterable has been a positive thing for us in providing more comprehensive data that is useful when dealing with customer tickets.
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    Zeta Global
    • Sailthru has helped us build a welcome series that's much more effective than anything we had before.
    • It's much easier to analyze transactional campaigns than our previous ESP.
    • We're better able to run A/B tests and learn from the results -- all of which improves our email strategy.
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