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WebEngage

Score4.4 out of 10

18 Reviews and Ratings

What is WebEngage?

WebEngage calls itself a multi-channel user engagement platform. It automates communication across a user's lifecycle and helps companies send messages via these channels:

  • Web Messages
  • In-app Messages
  • Push Notifications
  • Web Push Notification
  • Email Marketing
  • SMS Marketing
  • Facebook Remarketing
According to the vendor, cross-device tracking helps keep communication coherent and contextual, making the experience personalised and relevant. Integration with WebEngage is a one-time job and requires minimal assistance. Once the SDKs are integrated, the data starts to flow into WebEngage, making it measurable and actionable.

WebEngage also offers what they call "Rolling Segments", meaning criteria can be defined dynamically rather than on the basis of queries. Companies can segment audiences by:
  • Who they are - User attributes
  • What they do - User behaviour
  • How they reach you - Technology they use

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Webengage dashboard - User Analytics
Webenagge dashboard - User Details
Webengage dashboard - Creating Mobile notifications
Webengage dashboard - Creating Emails
Webengage Dashboard - Journey Designer
Webengage Dashboard - Journey Designer (2)

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Top Performing Features

  • API

    An API (application programming interface) provides a standard programming interface for connecting third-party systems to the software for data creation, access, updating and/or deletion.

    Category average: 8

  • Triggered drip sequences

    The software allows users to set up automatic / drip email campaigns triggered by certain events.

    Category average: 8.6

  • Calendaring

    The software helps users maintain a calendar of all marketing activities.

    Category average: 7.7

Areas for Improvement

  • Integration with Salesforce.com

    The software can integrate with Salesforce.com bi-directionally, allowing for data syncs, activity alerts, campaign triggers, enhanced reporting, and lead assigning.

    Category average: 8.3

  • Event/webinar marketing

    Users can streamline event marketing with features such as personalized invitations, registration, reminders and post-event follow-ups.

    Category average: 8

  • Automated sales alerts and tasks

    The software helps ensure that a sales person is notified of lead activity and can act on the information in a timely fashion.

    Category average: 8.2

A great tool for automating marketing at scale with excellent ROI

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are currently using WebEngage to manage marketing automation at scale for our e-commerce business vertical. Using WebEngage integration on our platforms(mobile/desktop/app) we are sending personalized remarketing communication to users in order to improve our conversion funnel on journey abandonment. Further, improving retention of our existing customers via promotional and transactional engagement journeys.

Pros

  • Journey Automation
  • User Segmentation
  • Intuitive user interface
  • Easy service provider integration

Cons

  • Analytics
  • Attribution
  • RFM Analysis

Return on Investment

  • Reduced dependency on discounts for user engagement and conversion
  • Improved user retention %
  • Single dashboard for omnichannel marketing communication

Alternatives Considered

Adobe Analytics, Adobe Marketing Cloud and Netcore Smartech

Other Software Used

Adobe Analytics, Adjust Attribution, Google Ads (formerly AdWords)

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Pros

  • Ease in creating user journeys.
  • Easy implementation of APIs.
  • Good reporting dashboard and scheduling features.
  • Segmentation of the users is easy.

Cons

  • Relays
  • Onsite should have more options of templates.
  • Backend support for better reachability of the channels.
  • Cohort studies should be more customizable.

Return on Investment

  • Helped improves quality of acquisition by defining the journey of new users.
  • Business operations made easy because of automation which helped in scaling.
  • Improved retention of the users resulted into higher ROI.

Alternatives Considered

CleverTap

Other Software Used

CleverTap, MADS, reviveadserver, Campaign Manager, Facebook for Business, Google Ads (formerly AdWords), AppNexus, Taboola, Outbrain, MGID

WebEngage is a must use tool to automate your marketing communications

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use WebEngage to automate our marketing automation and create meaningful user journeys. WebEngage gives us the power of talking personally with our users at a very niche level. I would recommend all startups to use it and implement their all channels of communication through this. It will make your work a lot easier and efficient. The abandoned cart journeys are the best use case

Pros

  • Marketing automation
  • Sending WhatsApp
  • Sending emails
  • Creating journeys

Cons

  • Ui
  • Ux
  • Support

Return on Investment

  • Ease of use
  • Less headache
  • Automated flow

Alternatives Considered

MoEngage

Other Software Used

Buffer, Restream

A substitute to expensive CRMs that can help in Drip Marketing

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

WebEngage is a fantastic marketing automation tool that helps you in visualizing user journeys by seamlessly integrating various customer touchpoints and thus enables you to understand key gaps in your workflows and form strategies for them. We used it to create automated workflows for all leads that we were generating with the objective of achieving higher connections via call center and enhancing the digital consumer experience for our prospective buyers. The tool helped us in creating a sales-focused funnel and helped in benchmarking across the funnel to enable quick decision-making to build more efficiencies and thus drive higher profitability.

Pros

  • Automated Communication.
  • Data Visualization.
  • Browser Notifications.
  • User Journey Mapping.
  • Marketing Automation.

Cons

  • UI/UX can be better.
  • Creative Template Creation.
  • Building Sales Intelligence via Auto-recommendations.

Return on Investment

  • Helped in lowering cost of marketing.
  • Driving higher volume of Direct Sales.
  • Increasing conversion rate on the website.
  • Increasing lead to sale ratio.

Alternatives Considered

Plumb5 and LeadSquared

Best Automation Tool

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Webengage as Marketing Automation and Customer Retention Platform: We use it to store and analyze customer data We use it to use that data to send personalized campaigns across different channels Business Problems Webengage solves; 1. Helps keep the customer engaged, 2. Help collect, store and analyze first-party data and use it in campaigns.

Pros

  • A/B Testing of Campaigns (Email/WhatsApp/SMS/Push).
  • Customer Support is prompt and good.
  • Releases good features.

Cons

  • Native Integration with Shopify is not there.
  • Analytics can be improved.
  • Segment creating time can be reduced.

Return on Investment

  • Had a negative impact on the first month while setting up.
  • Post first month, performance is increasing consistently.

Alternatives Considered

CleverTap

Other Software Used

Twilio SendGrid