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ActiveCampaign

Starting at $19 per month
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Overview

What is ActiveCampaign?

ActiveCampaign helps small teams power big businesses with a platform for intelligent marketing automation. It provides email marketing, marketing automation, and CRM tools that help businesses to create incredible customer experiences.

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Recent Reviews

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Confusing and overwhelming user interface: Several users have found ActiveCampaign's user interface to be confusing, overwhelming, and not …
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Products that are considered exceptional by their customers based on a variety of criteria win TrustRadius awards. Learn more about the types of TrustRadius awards to make the best purchase decision. More about TrustRadius Awards

Popular Features

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  • List management (650)
    9.6
    96%
  • Standard reports (584)
    8.0
    80%
  • Dashboards (597)
    8.0
    80%
  • Email deliverability reporting (631)
    7.4
    74%

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Pricing

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Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee
For the latest information on pricing, visithttps://www.activecampaign.com/pricing

Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Starting price (does not include set up fee)

  • $19 per month
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Product Demos

3 simple steps to writing great emails using AI in 6 minutes

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Getting Started With Automation In 5 Minutes With Free Templates

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A/B Testing automations using the drag and drop builder (Case Study)

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Getting More Deals With This Automated Cold Email Outreach Tool

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ActiveCampaign Updates: AI Tools, and Advanced Segmentation

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Making Great Forms that get Great Leads in 2023 | ActiveCampaign Strategy

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Features

Email & Online Marketing

Using software to manage lists, send emails, automate email campaigns, and track results.

8.9
Avg 7.8

Lead Management

The process of tracking and managing prospective customers from lead generation to conversion.

7.4
Avg 7.7

Campaign Management

Users can schedule campaigns and/or events with reminders, announcements, etc.

9.5
Avg 7.6

Social Media Marketing

Using social media networks to help amplify marketing endeavors.

9.5
Avg 7.5

Reporting & Analytics

Users can report on and analyze usage, performance, ROI, and/or other metrics of success.

8.3
Avg 7.5

Platform & Infrastructure

Features related to platform-wide settings and structure, such as permissions, languages, integrations, customizations, etc.

9.2
Avg 7.6
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Product Details

What is ActiveCampaign?

ActiveCampaign offers small teams a platform for intelligent marketing automation. According to the vendor, customers from over 170 countries use ActiveCampaign’s mix of pre-built automations and integrations (including Facebook, Google, WordPress, Salesforce, Shopify, and Square) to power personalized marketing, transactional emails, and one-to-one CRM interactions throughout the customer lifecycle.

ActiveCampaign Screenshots

Screenshot of tagging, that when combined with conditional content helps to put the right message in front of each customer.Screenshot of marketing automationScreenshot of audience segmentation based on engagement, purchase activity, lead score, or any other dimensionScreenshot of live chat, site messaging, email, and a unified inbox that can be used to build relationships with customers.Screenshot of the CRM, which helps sales reps to get more done in less time

ActiveCampaign Videos

Using automations to save time and push podcasts with Caspian Studios
Making more money using advanced Abandoned Cart Tool [eCommerce 2023]

ActiveCampaign Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationApple iOS, Android

Frequently Asked Questions

ActiveCampaign helps small teams power big businesses with a platform for intelligent marketing automation. It provides email marketing, marketing automation, and CRM tools that help businesses to create incredible customer experiences.

ActiveCampaign starts at $19.

Mailchimp, HubSpot Marketing Hub, and Klaviyo are common alternatives for ActiveCampaign.

Reviewers rate Integration with Microsoft Dynamics CRM and Integration with SugarCRM highest, with a score of 9.7.

The most common users of ActiveCampaign are from Small Businesses (1-50 employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

(895)

Community Insights

TrustRadius Insights are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, 3rd-party data sources. Have feedback on this content? Let us know!

Users commonly recommend ActiveCampaign for its CRM, email marketing, and marketing automation capabilities. They suggest that businesses in need of these features should consider using ActiveCampaign as it provides all these functionalities in one platform.

Another common recommendation is to take advantage of ActiveCampaign's onboarding and support services. Users recommend trying the platform and utilizing their resources to ensure a smooth transition and effective use of the software.

ActiveCampaign is often praised as a robust system for small businesses on a budget. Users appreciate the value they receive from the platform, making it an attractive option for those with limited resources.

Additionally, users recommend ActiveCampaign for email marketing purposes, often highlighting it as an alternative to MailChimp. It is seen as a helpful tool for creating and managing email campaigns.

Furthermore, some users suggest using ActiveCampaign as a means to build a business without relying on advertising. The platform's features and support are seen as instrumental in achieving this goal.

Lastly, users express satisfaction with ActiveCampaign's support team, describing it as amazing. They find the support available through webinars, live chat, and other channels to be helpful in maximizing their use of the platform.

Attribute Ratings

Reviews

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Mike Clayton | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
This questions set is poor. ActiveCampaign is not easy to use. And NEITHER SHOULD IT BE. It is a sophisticated set of software tools with huge capability. I expected a long learning curve and that is what I experienced. Ease of use is not the right criteria if you need some of the tools that AC provides. Expect to spend time understanding what it can do and how it can do those things. Then, you will have a system that, if you can think through your business logic clearly, will be a huge asset. Could the UI be more pleasant and engaging? Yes. Could AC design a few ways to ease use a little? I expect so. But will a tool this capable ever be easy to use for a beginner? No - or at least not until beginners can describe complex processes accurately and precisely in plain language AND until AI can interpret that anguage 100% accurately. And I expect AI to be capable before beginners are in this regard! Can I use AC for everything I need? Yes (saving the odd minor feature that I wish they would add).
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
You take some time to get used to ActiveCampaign. Chat help is very good. However, email follow-up is not. Bugs take a long time to be fixed and without feedback when they are eventually fixed.
Steena Brown | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I have found Active Campaign to be one of the simplest email list solutions to use. There's a short learning curve and plenty of online tutorials you can find to explain basic set ups for broadcasts and automation flows.
Matt Dickerson | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
ActiveCampaign has been the easiest marketing automation software we have ever used. They provide tips throughout the entire process of anything you are building. Their support team through LIVE CHAT has been extremely fast and helpful. The monthly meetings provided with the enablement team has helped us through several large and urgent needs.
Brad Schneider | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
For many of the same reasons I have already given. I can quickly get strong automations running with little support or additional training or knowledge needed. I can maintain and leverage them with my basic technology skills.
Courtney Elmer | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Active Campaign's ready-to-help support team and easy-to-use platform set it apart from other email marketing platforms. The platform itself is intuitive and doesn't require advanced technological or coding knowledge to operate. While the reporting features have some room for improvement in terms of being able to compare campaigns and toggle back and forth between campaign views, the platform overall is highly efficient and effective.
Tanja Baumann | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It was great. Recently they have done some upgrades that make the system unstable. Some important features disappeared.

Overall it is really great to work with it. I think I use a maximum of 25% of what it really can do. It is also my clients' favorite tool, which means I use it a lot.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We love ActiveCampaign because whether you're a newbie or a seasoned email marketing vet, you can do what you want to do. It's SUPER easy to set up a basic broadcast email or automation. But it's also loaded with tons of features that allow you to really geek out your email marketing.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
If I can think it up, I can build it in ActiveCampaign, and that is huge to me as a business owner. That doesn't mean building features for your business is easy in ActiveCampaign. It is not, and it's quite difficult if you do not know what you are doing. It's very easy to learn what to do if you take the time. But I find that people who are not tech saavy struggle with using ActiveCampaign--especially if it is never set up to work well for the business it is intended for.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I don't use it to it's fullest capacity and would need more time to learn and implement the other resources it offers. The speed of opening and navigating between campaigns/automations/contacts is slow. I have found it great to automate systems for managing contacts.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized

I am satisfied with Active Campaign and every day I use it I find new tricks to get the most out of this interesting software. Having a good mail marketing tool is important and Active Campaign helps me a lot in this job.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Overall, [ActiveCampaign] is pretty easy to get the hang of even if you've never implemented email automation before. The logic is pretty intuitive and the system works as you'd expect it to in almost all instances. Setting up new campaigns and automations is straightforward and efficient so there's relatively little time wasted during the process.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Very easy to use. I only give it a 9 instead of 10 because it would be best if you have some marketing knowledge before you start using it. Even if it's just a basic understanding of terms and best practices. However, the chat support is great and they even offered to send me videos of them doing what I needed help with.
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