Easy to use email automation with a few minor inconveniences
February 09, 2021

Easy to use email automation with a few minor inconveniences

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Software Version

Small Business

Overall Satisfaction with ActiveCampaign

We use ActiveCampaign to run all of our email marketing campaigns as well as our email automations. [ActiveCampaign] is a great platform, as it allows you to easily manage all of your email needs in one place. The automation capabilities are robust and also quite easy to learn and to use. For more standard email campaigns such as weekly newsletters, [ActiveCampaign] also does a good job and provides you with usable stats to track email performance.
  • Email automations
  • Email campaigns
  • Contact tagging
  • Form building
  • I wish that I could use my own IP and a third party tool like SendGrid to manage deliverability
  • Some of the contact search capabilities are lacking
  • Ability to add additional users for a small fee would be preferable to needing to upgrade for a substantial monthly additional fee
  • Definitely a massive ROI, as we rely heavily on email automation to keep our conversion rates high
  • Saves us a tremendous amount of time on email followup
  • Saves us a lot of time by being easy to use and train others on
I ended up selecting and remaining with ActiveCampaign rather than IS for two main reasons. The cost at the time for IS was much higher (although now II believe that the cost difference is quite small). I kept hearing from people that IS was extremely confusing (hence the nickname "Confusionsoft"). [ActiveCampaign] is really easy to understand and use, which saves a lot of time during setup and makes maintenance much easier.

Do you think ActiveCampaign delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with ActiveCampaign's feature set?

Yes

Did ActiveCampaign live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of ActiveCampaign go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy ActiveCampaign again?

Yes

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.
The support is always relatively quick, though the response time could certainly be improved. Expect a response time of around 10-20 minutes. This can also be a bit frustrating when they close a ticket after you've waited in queue for a long time, simply because you missed the agent's response. Additionally, the support team seems to have relatively limited knowledge and problem solving capabilities. The account reps are much more knowledgable and helpful.
[ActiveCampaign] is well suited for companies that need a really robust email automation tool that's easy to setup and use. It's great if you're running webinar funnels or other funnels where there are multiple different places for contacts to "fall out" and you rely on email marketing to get those contacts to re-enter the funnel in the right place. Th automation tools in [ActiveCampaign] make it easy to pinpoint exactly where a contact has left the funnel and intelligently push them back to where they left from.

ActiveCampaign Feature Ratings

WYSIWYG email editor
Not Rated
Dynamic content
Not Rated
Ability to test dynamic content
Not Rated
Landing pages
Not Rated
A/B testing
8
Mobile optimization
Not Rated
Email deliverability reporting
2
List management
7
Triggered drip sequences
9
Lead nurturing automation
10
Lead scoring and grading
Not Rated
Data quality management
Not Rated
Automated sales alerts and tasks
Not Rated
Calendaring
Not Rated
Event/webinar marketing
9
Social sharing and campaigns
Not Rated
Social profile integration
Not Rated
Dashboards
7
Standard reports
6
Custom reports
Not Rated
API
10
Role-based workflow & approvals
Not Rated
Customizability
9
Integration with Salesforce.com
Not Rated
Integration with Microsoft Dynamics CRM
Not Rated
Integration with SugarCRM
Not Rated