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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Autoklose

    Score8.6 out of 10
    Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
    Autoklose, a VanillaSoft brand, is an SEP solution, presenting a combined package of sales email automation and tracking, contact and email campaign management with sequence templates and optimization.

    $59.99

    per month per user

    Echobox Email

    Score8 out of 10
    N/AEchobox Email is an email platform that generates optimized, personalized newsletters. With automation that tailors to the user's content and audience preferences, Echobox Email is designed to create emails with the right content, displayed in the right way, sent to readers at the optimal time, to increase open rates, click rates, traffic and engagement. Echobox Email integrates with a number of other platforms to ensure the user's subscriber lists are always in sync with…N/A
    Pricing
    AutokloseEchobox Email
    Editions & Modules
    Auto Kloser
    $59.99
    per month per user
    Advanced Kloser
    $69.99
    per month per user
    Accelerated Kloser
    $99.99
    per month per user
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    AutokloseEchobox Email
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    AutokloseEchobox Email
    Considered Both Products
    VanillaSoft
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    Echobox
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    90%
    Would buy again
    28 Answers
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    Delivers good value for the price
    93%
    Delivers good value for the price
    26 Answers
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    Happy with the feature set
    87%
    Happy with the feature set
    27 Answers
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    83%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    25 Answers
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    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
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    User Ratings
    AutokloseEchobox Email
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.6
    (33 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    9.2
    (30 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Availability
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    Performance
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.5
    (30 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Online Training
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Configurability
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
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    Ease of integration
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    Product Scalability
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    Vendor post-sale
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
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    Vendor pre-sale
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
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    User Testimonials
    AutokloseEchobox Email
    Likelihood to Recommend
    VanillaSoft
    If someone only runs a campaign using email and telephone communication, Autoklose is perfect, and I highly recommend it. If someone uses a more diverse set of tools and wants a more complex type of sequence, Autoklose does not allow their users to program communication tools that some other tools and software allow.
    Incentivized
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    Echobox
    Echobox Email is great for news or article-based sites. It's the only platform we've used that allows editors to simply paste one link to include or override a story. The ability to automate fully or enable periodically is a time and money saver for us during holidays or employee vacations. The platform has been easy to learn and a great improvement over our workaround solutions in Mailchimp and Campaign Monitor. Besides the platform UI and optimizations for articles (which is worth switching for alone), the AI/ML built in to the platform has already started showing improvements to our open and click rates. The personalized send time is a game-changer and the personalized story selection is a promising feature– we look forward to seeing how it plays out over time.
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    Pros
    VanillaSoft
    • It is helping in editing, managing, and send[ing] out large marketing campaigns.
    • It is easy to handle multiple emails in appropriate sequence.
    • Our company [has been] using this for a very long time. It is one of the perfect email solutions we found for our organization.
    • I have been very much impressed by their support staff.
    Incentivized
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    Echobox
    • Increases traffic
    • Saves time
    • Scheduling
    • Nice, Modern Design of Newsletters
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    Cons
    VanillaSoft
    • AutoKlose uses your own email, (e.g. Microsoft Outlook), so it runs the risk of exceeding the Microsoft Message Rate Limit, which can be problematic for your Outlook account.
    • Additional throttling limits for the SMTP Authentication protocol are:
    • 30 messages per minute
    • Recipient rate limit of 10,000 recipients per day.
    • Exceeding these limits will cause the following issues:
    • Exceeding the per minute limit causes email delivery delays, any excess in message submission will be throttled and successively carried over to the following minutes.
    • Exceeding the per day limit causes the following error message:
    • 554 5.2.0 STOREDRV.Submission.Exception:SubmissionQuotaExceededException.
    Incentivized
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    Echobox
    • Reporting area has bare minimum and could use some UI improvements
    • Timezone quirks can come up when editorial team is fully remote
    • Google Analytics integration would be nice to have so that popularity of articles could be incorporated in algorithm
    • Integrations with common form plugins would be great
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    Likelihood to Renew
    VanillaSoft
    We love it and it works
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    Echobox
    It has helped increase traffic via social media, which was something crucial for us. This came without extra working time. On contrary, it saved us time.
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    Usability
    VanillaSoft
    No answers on this topic
    Echobox
    It has all the features we need and is performing better than what we used previously. The support/development team has been very open to feedback and is actively working on new features and improvements. Any shortcomings (which may not exist for long) are very minor compared to the benefits and features specifically built for news/articles.
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    Reliability and Availability
    VanillaSoft
    No answers on this topic
    Echobox
    No answers on this topic
    Performance
    VanillaSoft
    No answers on this topic
    Echobox
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    VanillaSoft
    No answers on this topic
    Echobox
    No answers on this topic
    In-Person Training
    VanillaSoft
    No answers on this topic
    Echobox
    No answers on this topic
    Online Training
    VanillaSoft
    No answers on this topic
    Echobox
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation Rating
    VanillaSoft
    It is extremely easy to implement and start using right away
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    Echobox
    No answers on this topic
    Alternatives Considered
    VanillaSoft
    I think that I have already said it, Autoklose has much better support and is really quick to set up and use compared with any of the other systems that I have used over the years.
    Incentivized
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    Echobox
    Echobox is super "user friendly", has a great support when you face a problem, no matter how simple or complicated the answer is, you have available statistics about the results of your use, as well as suggestions for further improvement. The Newsletters service is new to us, but we spend zero time to prepare and send! We also have option about titles, logos and banners, which adds services for our clients.
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    Scalability
    VanillaSoft
    No answers on this topic
    Echobox
    No answers on this topic
    Return on Investment
    VanillaSoft
    No answers on this topic
    Echobox
    • Increased open rates 17%
    • Higher click totals overall
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    ScreenShots

    Autoklose Screenshots

    Screenshot of Step 01: Set up your campaignScreenshot of Step 02: Choose your recipientsScreenshot of Step 03: Select the best converting templateScreenshot of Step 04: Customize your e-mail sequence