What is ActiveCampaign?

ActiveCampaign is a category-defining Customer Experience Automation Platform that meaningfully connects and engages with customers. It creates optimized customer experiences by automating many behind-the-scenes marketing, sales, and support processes. Businesses of all sizes have access to hundreds of pre-built automations that combine email marketing, marketing automation, CRM, and machine learning for powerful cross-channel orchestration, segmentation and personalization.

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ActiveCampaign Ratings

Real user data aggregated to summarize the product performance and customer experience.
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Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

89 Likeliness to Recommend

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94 Plan to Renew

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85 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value


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Emotional Footprint Overview

Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

+96 Net Emotional Footprint

The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.

How much do users love ActiveCampaign?

3% Negative
2% Neutral
95% Positive

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Inspires Innovation
  • Client Friendly Policies

Feature Ratings

Average 84

Pipeline Management

89

E-Mail Campaign Management

87

E-Mail Integration

85

CRM Integration

84

Conversation Coaching

84

Dialer Integration

83

Sales Analytics

83

Workflow Automation

83

Internal Sales Collaboration

81

Call Management

81

Omnichannel Campaign Management

81

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 84

Availability and Quality of Training

87

Ease of Customization

86

Ease of Implementation

86

Ease of IT Administration

86

Quality of Features

85

Business Value Created

84

Breadth of Features

84

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

83

Ease of Data Integration

83

Usability and Intuitiveness

82

Vendor Support

81

ActiveCampaign Reviews

Albert G.

  • Role: Information Technology
  • Industry: Technology
  • Involvement: End User of Application
Validated Review
Verified Reviewer

Submitted May 2023

CRM and email software that is complete.

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates ActiveCampaign from other similar products?

With ActiveCampaign we can set up automated workflows, triggers, and conditions to send personalized messages to each individual based on their behavior or interests. This maximizes the customer experience. Quality Assurance reports are more comprehensive than other email platforms, and Read/Trend reports include a wealth of deliverability-related data.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Logical workflows adaptable to different real-world marketing challenges. CAN SPAM Compliance. Sales pipeline management. Simple email sequences and user classification. Weekly emails about service improvements and new features. Campaign management and automation.

What do you dislike most about this product?

There may be more and better templates available. The website lead forms could also be further customized.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

ActiveCampaign allows us to automate a variety of email and marketing procedures, giving non-technical staff members more freedom in designing email campaigns. It offers a comprehensive collection of developer APIs and documentation with how-to articles, tutorials, and recipes. Also, given the feature set for a small to medium population of users, the price is reasonable.

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing

Tracy D.

  • Role: C-Level
  • Industry: Technology
  • Involvement: Business Leader or Manager
Validated Review
Verified Reviewer

Submitted Mar 2023

I really, really like ActiveCampaign!

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates ActiveCampaign from other similar products?

As I am only familiar with the ESP features and not the CRM, my review will focus solely on those areas. The infinite customization options and useful extras are what I appreciate most. ActiveCampaign's ability to automate, set rules, and target specific audiences, among other things, used to need extremely costly and complex software like Infusionsoft, which was out of reach for most small businesses and solopreneurs. With this much leeway, your email marketing may be as basic or complex as you desire. The program has fantastic capabilities in general.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

ActiveCampaign is a fantastic tool, and I highly recommend it. My company uses it for web advertising, and so do perhaps ten of my clients. It's the program I always suggest to my clients. I like that the software is reasonably priced (especially for a startup) while yet meeting the needs of more sophisticated users (thanks to its high degree of integration). It's reliable, simple, and I can't remember ever having a problem with it. I really like the reporting capabilities, and the fact that it can be easily integrated with Woo Commerce and Shopify.

What do you dislike most about this product?

ActiveCampaign's ability to manage lists based on attributes, behaviors gleaned from the analysis of records, traffic sources, forms, and even other lists is one of the platform's greatest strengths and one of the biggest problems for any marketing department. We were also able to free up the marketing department's time formerly spent manually processing shipments and interactions by automating these processes.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

You couldn't ask for a more complete tool to rely on in running your company. This is an excellent option if you need a comprehensive service that can expand as your company does. Nevertheless, if you're in the market for an ESP that can do more than just send emails, and you want to be able to do things like collect payments and keep tabs on inventory without having to add a half dozen other programs, you may want to keep exploring.

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing

Brian G.

  • Role: C-Level
  • Industry: Technology
  • Involvement: Business Leader or Manager
Validated Review
Verified Reviewer

Submitted Mar 2023

ActiveCampaign is the champion

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates ActiveCampaign from other similar products?

We use ActiveCampaign since it's the best marketing tool all in one place. Our marketing team has seen conversion rates of 95% with this layout. We highly suggest this product due to its efficiency and ease of use. By utilizing its cutting-edge features, we are able to create enticing sign-up forms, web pages, and email layouts. We can easily afford the plans and are at ease with them. We can easily collect leads, move contacts, and manage everyone in one central location, plus we can easily automate and send out daily bulk emails. When our favorite applications are integrated into our workflow, it allows for greater freedom and convenience.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

After years of using Mailchimp, I made the transition to ActiveCampaign so that I could learn more about my contacts and engage with them in a more meaningful, tailored way. ActiveCampaign met my requirements for an email service provider while also providing me with much more in the way of customer experience automation. I like how intuitive the interface is and how comprehensive the features are. As I continue to work with it, I am able to acquire more knowledge and proficiency. Also, ActiveCampaign's assistance is incredible.

What do you dislike most about this product?

To tell you the truth, there is an element of fear involved. While I was debating whether or not to make the transfer, the sheer versatility of ActiveCampaign gave me pause. Well, this is going to take a long time to understand, and it's annoying to have to figure out yet another piece of software. On the encouragement of my entrepreneurial friends and associates, I decided to give it a shot.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

ActiveCampaign works very well for the cost for small and developing organizations who want to gain all the essential features of sales and marketing automation. To obtain all you need from it can be a bit of a hassle, but I have yet to do anything that I couldn't accomplish in the end. There are perhaps better options for teams that are larger or that have more extensive marketing databases.

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing

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