MessageGears vs. Vero Cloud

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
MessageGears
Score 8.9 out of 10
N/A
MessageGears is a hybrid email marketing service built around deliverability, actionable customer data, and audience segmentation and targeting.N/A
Vero Cloud
Score 8.0 out of 10
N/A
Vero Workflows is an email marketing solution built to make customer engagement simpler with features such as in-app behavior tracking, audience segmentation, and workflow automation.
$54
per month
Pricing
MessageGearsVero Cloud
Editions & Modules
No answers on this topic
Starter
$54
per month
Pro
$219
per month
Growth
$549
per month
Enterprise
$1,429
per month
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
MessageGearsVero Cloud
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
Additional Details—15% discount applied with an annual subscription, paid upfront.
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Features
MessageGearsVero Cloud
Email & Online Marketing
Comparison of Email & Online Marketing features of Product A and Product B
MessageGears
3.3
3 Ratings
85% below category average
Vero Cloud
8.1
2 Ratings
1% below category average
WYSIWYG email editor1.62 Ratings6.02 Ratings
Dynamic content3.83 Ratings9.01 Ratings
Ability to test dynamic content2.33 Ratings10.02 Ratings
A/B testing2.73 Ratings00 Ratings
Mobile optimization8.01 Ratings6.01 Ratings
Email deliverability reporting3.73 Ratings8.02 Ratings
List management2.23 Ratings9.02 Ratings
Triggered drip sequences2.33 Ratings9.01 Ratings
Reporting & Analytics
Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Product A and Product B
MessageGears
1.1
3 Ratings
151% below category average
Vero Cloud
6.0
2 Ratings
27% below category average
Dashboards1.23 Ratings9.02 Ratings
Standard reports1.23 Ratings8.02 Ratings
Custom reports1.03 Ratings1.01 Ratings
Pre-Send Testing
Comparison of Pre-Send Testing features of Product A and Product B
MessageGears
3.7
3 Ratings
79% below category average
Vero Cloud
-
Ratings
URL Validation1.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Link Tracking2.93 Ratings00 Ratings
Image Validation7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Inbox Display7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Spelling and Grammar Check6.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Spam Testing1.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Email Previews1.12 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
MessageGearsVero Cloud
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
(3 ratings)
8.0
(2 ratings)
Usability
6.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
8.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
MessageGearsVero Cloud
Likelihood to Recommend
MessageGears
MessageGears can be a solid, inexpensive email solution and you can be able to send millions of emails per year. In 2020, we delivered over 235 million emails at a fraction of what that would cost with any other email service provider. We worked with MessageGears on a custom solution with our database.
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Vero
Vero tends to play nice with companies that have their websites as the primary source of truth. This allows them to send as many events as they need and develop more complex workflows that introduce conditionality into Vero emails. However, for those that rely more on Salesforce, it might have more limited applications. The product is fairly easy to use, so it's easy for multiple people on the team to pick it up and do what they need for their respective groups. On the other hand, creating email templates will require some knowledge of HTML/CSS, unless those are copied from another source. That would require another product of course that provides more robust layout editing features and templates.
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Pros
MessageGears
  • The MessageGears Support team is very helpful.
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Vero
  • Email template editor allowed our developers to design emails to looks like beautiful marketing emails or basic personal emails.
  • The Vero API allowed our developers to connect triggers and events from our visitors to kick start campaigns.
  • Campaign flows were fairly easy to create and define.
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Cons
MessageGears
  • Multivariate testing
  • WYSIWYG email builder
  • SQL audience error report
  • Native reporting
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Vero
  • While Vero offers some WYSIWYG editing, it's on the limited side, as it mostly allows you to edit copy, but not necessarily the layout.
  • The UI/UX has improved dramatically over the course of the last few years, but it can still lag from time to time and experience sluggishness.
  • While reliability is really good, it does have lapses from time to time that will introduce delays into emails being sent out. Once or twice, the system went completely down for a period of time.
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Usability
MessageGears
Our situation is unique so I believe we are working on a semi-outdated UI which needs a tune up / version upgrade. Similarly, our custom connection means that we do not have access to the full feature set so I've never experienced MessageGears' best functionality
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Vero
No answers on this topic
Support Rating
MessageGears
MessageGears support is always quick to respond when we have an issue, which is rare. Gail has been our main rep and she has been great. We don't have many issues so luckily, we don't need to lean on their customer support team much. That said, it would be beneficial to hear from upper management more.
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Vero
No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered
MessageGears
MessageGears doesn't come close to Salesforce Marketing Cloud. We chose MessageGears based on how data was accessed. We never really got a good preview of how the system works or what was available, so we didn't know everything that it was lacking until we started using it.
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Vero
Vero's price tag is far more attractive but for what you will find to be clear and obvious reasons. Vero has no CRM unlike HubSpot and Infusionsoft. Vero also has limited tracking unlike the seemingly endless possibilities offered from HubSpot which as we all know comes with at a significant cost, often not feasible by a small startup company.
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Return on Investment
MessageGears
  • Sending more email!
  • Onboarding handoff was a little rough
  • Great control on who we are sending to
  • Dynamic content is very easy!
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Vero
  • The overall costs of using Vero have been much lower than using two comparable products that handle transactional emails and newsletters, respectively. MailChimp has relatively recently integrated their Mandrill product for transactional emails, so that's worth looking at as well.
  • Using a single product for many things lowers the learning curve, as team members only have to learn one product well, rather than several.
  • While infrequent, Vero's outages have impacted our operations at times. If absolute reliability is crucial to your business, then you may have to find a larger provider with a more robust infrastructure. As mentioned, though, it hasn't been a big problem for us.
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