Postal vs. Swag Pro

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Postal
Score 8.1 out of 10
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Founded in 2020 in San Luis Obispo, California, Postal is a Global Offline Engagement Platform that serves over 600 B2B customers like Yelp, Cisco Meraki, Seismic, and Fivetran. Postal helps customers to create meaningful and impactful human connections with prospects, partners, customers, and employees.N/A
Swag Pro
Score 8.5 out of 10
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Printfection is a swag management platform that aims to simplify the buying, managing, and distribution of swag and branded merchandise, from the company of the same name in Denver. They offer a suite of online swag management tools and APIs alongside custom printing, inventory management, and distribution. The vendor states their customers use the platform to drive more leads, reward customers, and engage employees.N/A
Pricing
PostalSwag Pro
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Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
PostalSwag Pro
Considered Both Products
Postal
Chose Postal
Sendoso - complex, more geared to ENT companies, longer implementation/setup
Alyce - Great for small mom and pop shops, too small of a solution for where planful currently is, great fit for under 200 employees
Reachback - Great for Global campaigns, less intuitive than Postal, UX …
Chose Postal
Postal.io is cheaper than Sendoso and still meets the technical requirements. Reach desk has more capabilities. They can print prospects' names on whiskey bottles.
Chose Postal
Postal.io was a more budget-friendly option than the alternatives I considered. We knew our gifting budget wouldn't be huge so we were willing to go with something less established in order to make sure we had as much budget left over as possible. We also like the flexibility …
Chose Postal
Postal.io gives you everything the others do without the white glove price tag.
Swag Pro
Chose Swag Pro
I think SwagUp is more affordable.
Chose Swag Pro
In the past, I've used 4Imprint, but it's not showing up in the list above.
Chose Swag Pro
We selected Printfection because they were local, had excellent customer support, had a nice variety of products available, and fit within our budget.
Chose Swag Pro
Printfection was within our price range in comparison to the others, plus they have a centralized warehouse that allows for global shipping.
Chose Swag Pro
Our standing relationship with Printfection and our partnership with their customer success teams have been the largest selling point. They take care of us too well.
Chose Swag Pro
We did not evaluate any other companies - we are happy with Printfection and the selection of their products and the quality they offer. There are a lot of other swag management companies out there, but we already had a relationship with Printfection when I started in this role …
Chose Swag Pro
We used to use Canary for smaller orders only because at the end of the day we needed a "housing swag" solution. So with Printfections warehousing capabilities it was a no-brainer for us. Printfection allows you to order, print and get shipped (or store) items. We have trade …
Chose Swag Pro
I reserached swag platforms and narrowed it down to 3 that I wanted to learn more about. I based my choices on response time to demo requests, customer service, items, ability to meet the needs of my supervisor, etc. I learned that 2 out of the 3 platforms I found were both …
Chose Swag Pro
Pricing model was more flexible. They solved for our immediate need of custom branded swag and ability to ship internationally.
Chose Swag Pro
I had a poor interaction with their sales representative who didn't seem very interested in us or our business needs. Also their pricing seemed odd in that there was no monthly subscription but instead the postage costs were astronomical. I selected Printfection because I'd …
Chose Swag Pro
Swag.com was our previous swag company. I find Printfection has a superior customer support system as well as quick turnaround on new swag orders, and great communication when swag is shipped (I know when swag has been ordered, shipped, and delivered). I can also add a note to …
Chose Swag Pro
Printfection was easier to work with, cost effective, and offered more services
Chose Swag Pro
There were a couple of reasons we selected Printfection: price and contract/level of commitment (we are on a month-to-month plan). To be honest, there are products that integrate better with Salesforce and have more capabilities but we were looking for something that didn't …
Chose Swag Pro
Printfection met all of our requirements for an acceptable cost.
Chose Swag Pro
N/A - we have only used Printfection since I joined the company 10 months ago
Chose Swag Pro
We evaluated a couple of different options, Printfection won because we weren't limited like other companies when it came to SKUs of a particular item. We had men and women jackets we would send out, and other companies would require unique SKUs for each size which became …
Chose Swag Pro
The big thing for us with Printfection was being able to consolidate everything into one platform. We were using so many other swag tools, SwagUp, Swag.com, Merchology, iPromo, etc. We were able to take the items from those platforms, send them to Printfection, and get …
Chose Swag Pro
- The one-stop-shop solution
- Customer service
- The platform
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User Ratings
PostalSwag Pro
Likelihood to Recommend
1.1
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8.5
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Likelihood to Renew
10.0
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8.2
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Usability
6.4
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8.5
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Availability
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8.3
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Performance
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8.3
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Support Rating
-
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9.1
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In-Person Training
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8.2
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Online Training
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8.2
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Implementation Rating
-
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8.2
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Configurability
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8.3
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Ease of integration
10.0
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9.1
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Product Scalability
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8.3
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Vendor post-sale
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8.3
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User Testimonials
PostalSwag Pro
Likelihood to Recommend
If you are a small or growing team that understands experiential, ABM, and gift marketing strategies and how to leverage them, Postal.io gives you everything you need with moderate CSM coverage, without the white glove price tags of similar solutions like Sendoso.
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B2B companies, SaaS companies, larger or important swag or customer gifting motions, ABM strategies, large customer thank you motions, certification programs where earners are thanked or rewarded, lean teams, ample budgets, field sales teams with agency of gifting and swag, marketing teams that don't have room or space for holding or managing inventory
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Pros
  • Integrates with our swag library at Swagup.
  • Offers an excellent and growing library of direct mail/gifting options.
  • Provides outstanding support and does a great job at their product marketing.
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  • The swag catalogue has lots of items to choose from and they try to source anything else you need
  • Takes care of the logistical challenges of getting swag to offices, events and to customers
  • Their customer team are really hands on and helpful
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Cons
  • Navigation -Took time to find custom hyper links.
  • Finding items - Can be hard to find where items are on platform.
  • Layout could be better.
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  • Getting started, it took me a bit to navigate the various features of their platform as well as a few calls to customer support to help me find my way but after some practice I was able to navigate and found that the platform is pretty intuitive.
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Likelihood to Renew
We get so much value out of the platform that I can't find any legitimate or logical reason why we wouldn't renew. Their team has been a pleasure to work with.
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We are currently extremely satisfied with printfection. The quality of swag is very good, but the customer service ranks high above any other swag company. I have been working closely with my Printfection manager (Tyler Rowland) and he has been more than helpful from the start.
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Usability
I love the tool, and my team relies on it heavily. We just completed our quarterly review and were able to track every single dollar spent
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I think they do their work well. It's just not amazing or a company I feel a necessity to keep. If someone had the same service with the same cost, I might suggest asking both about the level of customer service.
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Reliability and Availability
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Prinfection's availability has been great. There was one time when a product we needed wasn't available, but our Printfection rep made sure to get what we needed.
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Performance
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Printfection's performance has been top-notch. We have been using Printfection for only about 8 months, and have not had any issues with performance.
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Support Rating
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They're willing to help and do what is necessary, even when unnecessary. This is the case when I don't need service at that level, but I'd rather have excellent service always than wonder if it will be there when I need it. Overall, they are perfect, and they have good intentions.
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In-Person Training
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Tyler led some of our staff through training and was very helpful. Tyler was also always available for any questions after training was complete.
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Online Training
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We completed online training with a Printfection rep leading us through the process. This made the whole experience easy and helpful.
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Implementation Rating
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Their team is very helpful in getting set up and we felt like they worked with us on price and also getting our previous inventory we had at our offices set up in Printfection. The only down side of shipping in your items to Printfection is the photography of the items (which clients can see) is pretty terrible if you don't have clear product photos prior to sending the items to Printfection warehouse.
**All items purchased through Printfection the product photos look better (so this issue won't be the case with those who aren't shipping existing swag to their warehouse)
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Alternatives Considered
Postal.io was a more budget-friendly option than the alternatives I considered. We knew our gifting budget wouldn't be huge so we were willing to go with something less established in order to make sure we had as much budget left over as possible. We also like the flexibility with Postal.io that we could add almost anything to their marketplace if we could find it available online.
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I reserached swag platforms and narrowed it down to 3 that I wanted to learn more about. I based my choices on response time to demo requests, customer service, items, ability to meet the needs of my supervisor, etc. I learned that 2 out of the 3 platforms I found were both under Custom Ink which I have used in the past. So I know the items are of good quality. The main deciding factor was the staff. Both companies had nice staff. But Printfection did a superb job of not making me feel like a cutomer but a friend. I didn't fee like I was a sale but a partner.
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Scalability
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Only a few of our departments will be using Printfection, (like HR and Customer Success), but both departments find Printfection flexible and scalable.
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Return on Investment
  • Increased Productivity: It has taken a huge headache out of keeping and maintaining what swag is on hand has saved a LOT of company time
  • easier to reach out to potential clients
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  • Printfection is far more expensive than what we were previously using and we haven't seen a huge ROI yet in terms of influence on pipeline.
  • Our employees are more engaged using Printfection than they were with our previous tool.
  • Printfection helps with product design and research which saves me a ton of time when selecting new items.
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