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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

    Vero Cloud

    Score8 out of 10
    N/AVero Workflows is an email marketing solution built to make customer engagement simpler with features such as in-app behavior tracking, audience segmentation, and workflow automation.

    $54

    per month

    Pricing
    AutokloseVero Cloud
    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
    Starter
    $54
    per month
    Pro
    $219
    per month
    Growth
    $549
    per month
    Enterprise
    $1,429
    per month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    AutokloseVero Cloud
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalOptional
    Additional Details—15% discount applied with an annual subscription, paid upfront.
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    Community Pulse
    AutokloseVero Cloud
    Considered Both Products
    VanillaSoft
    No answer on this topic
    Vero
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    90%
    Would buy again
    28 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Delivers good value for the price
    93%
    Delivers good value for the price
    26 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Happy with the feature set
    87%
    Happy with the feature set
    27 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    83%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    25 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    30 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Features
    AutokloseVero Cloud
    Email & Online Marketing
    Comparison of Email & Online Marketing features of Autoklose and Vero Cloud
    Feature
    Autoklose
    -
    Ratings
    Vero Cloud
    8.1
    2 Ratings
    2% above category average
    WYSIWYG email editor00 Ratings6.02 Ratings
    Dynamic content00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Ability to test dynamic content00 Ratings10.02 Ratings
    Mobile optimization00 Ratings6.01 Ratings
    Email deliverability reporting00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    List management00 Ratings9.02 Ratings
    Triggered drip sequences00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Autoklose and Vero Cloud
    Feature
    Autoklose
    -
    Ratings
    Vero Cloud
    6.0
    2 Ratings
    25% below category average
    Dashboards00 Ratings9.02 Ratings
    Standard reports00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    Custom reports00 Ratings1.01 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    AutokloseVero Cloud
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.6
    (33 ratings)
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    9.2
    (30 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Availability
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    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)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    AutokloseVero Cloud
    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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    Vero
    Vero tends to play nice with companies that have their websites as the primary source of truth. This allows them to send as many events as they need and develop more complex workflows that introduce conditionality into Vero emails. However, for those that rely more on Salesforce, it might have more limited applications. The product is fairly easy to use, so it's easy for multiple people on the team to pick it up and do what they need for their respective groups. On the other hand, creating email templates will require some knowledge of HTML/CSS, unless those are copied from another source. That would require another product of course that provides more robust layout editing features and templates.
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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.
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    Vero
    • Email template editor allowed our developers to design emails to looks like beautiful marketing emails or basic personal emails.
    • The Vero API allowed our developers to connect triggers and events from our visitors to kick start campaigns.
    • Campaign flows were fairly easy to create and define.
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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.
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    Vero
    • While Vero offers some WYSIWYG editing, it's on the limited side, as it mostly allows you to edit copy, but not necessarily the layout.
    • The UI/UX has improved dramatically over the course of the last few years, but it can still lag from time to time and experience sluggishness.
    • While reliability is really good, it does have lapses from time to time that will introduce delays into emails being sent out. Once or twice, the system went completely down for a period of time.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    VanillaSoft
    We love it and it works
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    Vero
    No answers on this topic
    Usability
    VanillaSoft
    Whether it's setting up integrations, creating email campaigns, managing conversations with prospects, Autoklose is a well-designed tool that provides clarity along the way for users to find their bearings, and understand what to do. The help documentation is excellent, the support is great, but the tool is built in a way that simply makes sense when you're using it.
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    Vero
    No answers on this topic
    Reliability and Availability
    VanillaSoft
    We have really had no issues.
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    Vero
    No answers on this topic
    Performance
    VanillaSoft
    Always loads fast.
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    Vero
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    Support Rating
    VanillaSoft
    Our Autoklose rep is amazing! Jelena has always gotten back to us within 24 hours, despite living on a different continent. She is completely proficient with the tool and is usually able to answer our questions with a brief email or short virtual meeting.
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    Vero
    No answers on this topic
    In-Person Training
    VanillaSoft
    Jelena is amazing! Very knowledgable. Great instructor.
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    Vero
    No answers on this topic
    Online Training
    VanillaSoft
    Jelena is fantastic. She always responds to emails immediately.
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    Vero
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    Implementation Rating
    VanillaSoft
    It is extremely easy to implement and start using right away
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    Vero
    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.
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    Vero
    Vero's price tag is far more attractive but for what you will find to be clear and obvious reasons. Vero has no CRM unlike HubSpot and Infusionsoft. Vero also has limited tracking unlike the seemingly endless possibilities offered from HubSpot which as we all know comes with at a significant cost, often not feasible by a small startup company.
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    Scalability
    VanillaSoft
    It's expensive to have a single seat for each salesperson, so the alias feature will be the perfect addition to this product.
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    Vero
    No answers on this topic
    Return on Investment
    VanillaSoft
    • I feel the increased prospect engagement and business opportunities created supported the cost. In my industry 1 customer can support positive ROI.
    • I saw an overall increase in mass emailing effectiveness and we were able to automate majority of our campaigns which increased productivity for marketing & sales.
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    Vero
    • The overall costs of using Vero have been much lower than using two comparable products that handle transactional emails and newsletters, respectively. MailChimp has relatively recently integrated their Mandrill product for transactional emails, so that's worth looking at as well.
    • Using a single product for many things lowers the learning curve, as team members only have to learn one product well, rather than several.
    • While infrequent, Vero's outages have impacted our operations at times. If absolute reliability is crucial to your business, then you may have to find a larger provider with a more robust infrastructure. As mentioned, though, it hasn't been a big problem for us.
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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

    Vero Cloud Screenshots

    Screenshot of WorkflowsScreenshot of ReportingScreenshot of Customer profilesScreenshot of Workflow toolkit