Customer.io
Customer.io
Customer.io
Starting at $100 per month
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What is Customer.io?
Customer.io is the customer engagement platform that enables marketers to build their most sophisticated automated messaging campaigns. With access to your real-time behavioral data, create personalized and relevant messages that engage and retain your customers. Send emails, push notifications, SMS,...
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- Free Trial
- Free/Freemium Version
- Premium Consulting / Integration Services
Starting price (does not include set up fee)
- $100 per month
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What is Customer.io?
Customer.io is a customer engagement platform that enables marketers to build sophisticated automated messaging campaigns. With access to real-time behavioral data, users can create personalized and relevant messages to engage and retain customers. This includes sending emails, push notifications, SMS, in-app messages, and more through a visual building experience. Built for scale, Customer.io boasts users among over 4,600 companies, sending over 8 billion messages per year.
Founded in 2012, Customer.io is a globally distributed, remote-first company.
Customer.io Features
- Supported: Data-driven segment builder
- Supported: Multichannel messaging (Email, Rich Push, SMS, In-App)
- Supported: Newsletters
- Supported: Transactional messages
- Supported: Android, iOS, React Native, and Flutter mobile SDK
- Supported: Ad audience sync
- Supported: Visual workflow builder
- Supported: A/B testing
- Supported: Multivariate testing
- Supported: Triggered drip sequences
- Supported: API
- Supported: Webhooks
- Supported: Dashboards
- Supported: Conversion tracking
- Supported: Multiple sending workspaces
- Supported: Role-based permissions
- Supported: Timezone sending
- Supported: Multi-language messages
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Customer.io Technical Details
Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
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Operating Systems | Unspecified |
Mobile Application | No |
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Customer.io is the customer engagement platform that enables marketers to build their most sophisticated automated messaging campaigns. With access to your real-time behavioral data, create personalized and relevant messages that engage and retain your customers. Send emails, push notifications, SMS, in-app messages, and more all through an intuitive and powerful visual building experience. Built for scale, Customer.io is used by over 4,600 companies, sending over 8 billion messages per year.
Customer.io starts at $100.
The most common users of Customer.io are from Small Businesses (1-50 employees).
Customer.io Customer Size Distribution
Consumers | 0% |
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Small Businesses (1-50 employees) | 73% |
Mid-Size Companies (51-500 employees) | 25% |
Enterprises (more than 500 employees) | 2% |
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June 25, 2022
Powerful and user-friendly tool!
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Customer.io tool is amazing for email marketing. It's very comprehensive, lets you go into a lot of detail, and is also user-friendly. I have used it to handle email marketing flows and newsletters for various clients. Since it's so complex, there's a bit of a learning curve. But after that, it's so easy to create flows that trigger at different times of the day/week or whenever a user performs a certain action. The editor is also much easier to use than some other email marketing tools I've tried.
- Lets you create email flows without knowing code.
- Easy to create nice looking newsletters.
- Can easily segment users as many ways as you want.
- Great customer support and documentation.
- Price is quite expensive for Premium or once you get into high volumes of contacts.
- Depending on how you'll use it, it may require some help from developers to set up.
- Despite the support being great, you have to email them, there's not chat feature.
September 10, 2021
The Best Email Software You Have Probably Never Heard Of
We not only use Customer.io for all of our email and SMS communications, but we also use it as a database of sorts to segment our members. We send a monthly newsletter as well as about 50 different flows that are sent to our members based on their activity and involvement.
- Customer Segmentation
- Email Campaigns
- Email Newsletters
- A/B Testing
- Sorting of Data
September 11, 2020
Customer.io is great
We use Customer.io at First (now part of RE/MAX) to manage all of our communications with customers—primarily email and push notifications, but also SMS messages.
- Workflow building and management.
- Extremely flexible and integrates easily with other services.
- Solid email builder.
- Webhook makes it easy to send and receive data in event-driven contexts.
- Support for liquid makes highly detailed personalization possible in every message.
- Push notifications are very rudimentary. Everything has to be done by hand unless you're sending an extremely simple message.
- A bit too email centric.
- Lacks an ability to schedule messages on a daily, weekly, etc. basis.
Customer.io is a great tool to get started with getting your marketing to the next level. It keeps the customer base up to date with API connections, and segmentation is made easy. So it's really easy to build flows/drip campaigns to specific groups (automated).
Training customers with this tool is also easy, people who are not tech savvy catch up quick. It's really easy to use and fun to build.
Training customers with this tool is also easy, people who are not tech savvy catch up quick. It's really easy to use and fun to build.
- Ease of use, a good tool for non programmers, or not so tech savvy people.
- Great support, willing to help a lot, by chat, calls, or screen sharing.
- Fast updates, it's a newer tool, but they are coming with fixes and updates fast.
- Better visual automation builder, they are a little behind here.
- Automate reports, I would love to see this.
February 13, 2019
Scalability and automation for your emails
We are using Customer.io in the Marketing and Customer Experience departments.
For marketing, we are using it for two things: sending newsletters (massive) and triggered campaigns, that means, based on behavior or attributes of our users.
In the case of customer experience, we use them based on behavior. For example, if someone gives us an NPS of 10, we send them an email thanking and inviting them to share their testimony.
Basically, it solves our email issues with the scalability it provides based on their attributes and events engine.
For marketing, we are using it for two things: sending newsletters (massive) and triggered campaigns, that means, based on behavior or attributes of our users.
In the case of customer experience, we use them based on behavior. For example, if someone gives us an NPS of 10, we send them an email thanking and inviting them to share their testimony.
Basically, it solves our email issues with the scalability it provides based on their attributes and events engine.
- Managing users, attributes and events. You are easily able to modify any user, based on their ID, and add or remove attributes, assign events to them. That makes it very easy to segment later and to assign them to several campaigns based on behavior. Just a warning: this integration isn't so easy (at least it wasn't for us).
- Creating workflows of campaigns is very easy. You can quickly create behavioral campaigns based on attributes, segments and add elements to the workflow. You can send an email, then wait, then send another, then exit the campaign if they converted, etc. The workflow is easy to configure and very powerful for automation.
- We don't use many email templates (we make them in MJML) but it's very easy to add senders, to change templates and in general to test designs.
- Deliverability works very well, at least for us. It sends emails pretty fast and without issues.
- Exporting is very quick and easy. Importing wasn't a feature until recently, but it works well too.
- Seeing activity it's also useful. In general, logs are awesome (be it of a customer, of activity on the site, email sends, etc.).
- We don't use environments, but it might be very useful for a bigger company.
- Data collection is a very weak part of Customer.io.
- You can't export data. You can't see it in any other way except the one they provide... definitely don't expect to rely only on their data because it's poor and can't be segmented.
- A/B testing could be better. You could use multivariate tests and you should be able to track which parts of the email you sent are most clicked, and so on.
- Onboarding isn't easy. Sending pageviews every time with the ID is very useful but not very easy to achieve, at least for a smaller company. Docs help but are extremely technical. I think it would be useful to have a friendlier or even an integration team for smaller/less technical teams.
- Integrating with other APIs for sending special content. For example, trying to send personalized emails to customers based on previous purchases isn't easy to achieve at all.
August 16, 2018
The best email platform for high-volume B2C communication
We use customer.io for B2C email marketing, specifically automatic and personalized triggers. It's use by marketing and sales primarily. It helps us communicate with customers and provide real-time and personalized information in a fast and automated way. For B2C companies, Customer.io is probably the best email product out there for high volume communication.
- Automatic email triggers
- Customization
- Deliverability
- HTML editor
- Integrations
- Mobile app
August 01, 2017
Using Customer.io with Segment - dream come true
We use Customer.io to automate all our email campaigns. I personally use it to trigger auto-messages for trial users signing up. It's all about urgency and timeliness when replying/messaging a new user and Customer.io allows me to do that hands free and automatic. The tool is addressing the problem of urgency and needing to be always available by allowing us to automate our email messaging.
- Integrate with our existing tools
- Trigger emails based on events
- Automating our email drip campaigns
- Time based/triggered emails for new users signing up
- I may be missing it in the UI, but a place to see the list of emails who qualify for a certain email.
- One easy to view chart of all our automated/lifecycle emails to see what a given user would see over their customer journey. (This is really just a feature request/idea - the product itself is really awesome.)
Customer.io was used for our drip email campaigns. A drip email campaign is a bit more complicated than a regular newsletter campaign: drips are an automatic series of emails that go out, and can change based on different behaviors. We used Customer.io ever since they first launched and found their system the easiest and most feature-rich for this type of campaign.
We were able to send out dynamic series based on whether new clients were actively using certain features of our own software -- so we could send the right emails based on behaviors our clients or prospects took using our system. This made our engagements more useful, personalized, and effective.
We were able to send out dynamic series based on whether new clients were actively using certain features of our own software -- so we could send the right emails based on behaviors our clients or prospects took using our system. This made our engagements more useful, personalized, and effective.
- Drip emails
- Analytics and reporting
- Integrations and API access
- Reporting could be more customizable -- for example, seeing breakdowns of analytics by cohorts took a little bit of finagling