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    Braze

    Score8.9 out of 10
    N/ABraze is a customer engagement platform that enables relevant and memorable experiences between consumers and the brands they love. With Braze, global brands can ingest and process customer data in real time, orchestrate and optimize contextually relevant, cross-channel marketing campaigns and continuously evolve their customer engagement strategies.N/A

    Cordial

    Score9.9 out of 10
    Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
    Cordial Intelligent Messaging is an email marketing solution built around features such as triggered messaging, real-time data segmentation, and robust integrations.N/A
    Pricing
    BrazeCordial
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    BrazeCordial
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    BrazeCordial
    Considered Both Products
    Braze
    Chose Braze
    Cordial was not an intuitive platform like Braze is. We love Braze’s drag-and-drop feature when building emails, and it’s very quick and easy to use. I’ve had very little problems with this feature.
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    Cordial
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    98%
    Would buy again
    111 Answers
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    Delivers good value for the price
    98%
    Delivers good value for the price
    82 Answers
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    Happy with the feature set
    97%
    Happy with the feature set
    110 Answers
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    94%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    65 Answers
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    Implementation went as expected
    88%
    Implementation went as expected
    64 Answers
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    Features
    BrazeCordial
    Email & Online Marketing
    Comparison of Email & Online Marketing features of Braze and Cordial
    Feature
    Braze
    -
    Ratings
    Cordial
    7.4
    5 Ratings
    7% below category average
    WYSIWYG email editor00 Ratings4.04 Ratings
    Dynamic content00 Ratings6.35 Ratings
    Ability to test dynamic content00 Ratings6.85 Ratings
    Landing pages00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    A/B testing00 Ratings7.04 Ratings
    Mobile optimization00 Ratings7.55 Ratings
    Email deliverability reporting00 Ratings8.44 Ratings
    List management00 Ratings7.55 Ratings
    Triggered drip sequences00 Ratings9.34 Ratings
    Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Braze and Cordial
    Feature
    Braze
    -
    Ratings
    Cordial
    7.0
    5 Ratings
    9% below category average
    Dashboards00 Ratings8.55 Ratings
    Standard reports00 Ratings6.55 Ratings
    Custom reports00 Ratings6.05 Ratings
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    Enterprises
    SAP Service Cloud
    Score8.5 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    BrazeCordial
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.2
    (82 ratings)
    6.0
    (5 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    -
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    Usability
    8.9
    (49 ratings)
    -
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    Support Rating
    4.5
    (21 ratings)
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    User Testimonials
    BrazeCordial
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Braze
    Braze is a fantastic tool if you're looking to build a large number of CRM journeys using complex canvas structures and maximising use of customer data to segment and personalise. There are numerous tools to ensure each channel is maximising impact and engagement. Braze offers great features for testing, managing message frequency and control groups and using dynamic attributes and liquid code. If you're looking to limit your use to single-send campaigns with no or few automations, I don't think this is the right tool. From my experience, many Braze users also use external tools for analytics rather than Braze's native analytics.
    Incentivized
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    Cordial
    Cordial has multiple options to create a message: single campaign, automation, orchestration and sculpt templates, which are drag-and-drop type functionalities but each of these blocks are based on HTML content so a user needs to be technically savvy. I would avoid using HTML includes as it is not possible to see which include a customer received. The team is fabulous, they know the tool and are dedicated to the success of the business. They are quick to respond and provide feedback. Reporting and analytics are very manual if you are combining multiple days in a test.
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    Pros
    Braze
    • Canvas feature has been really good for creating customer journey paths and long-term messaging campaigns.
    • They have been addressing feature requests to continue to improve the Canvas feature. One of the simplest but most-handy features is allowing Delay steps wait for a very specific date on a calendar -- so you can plan seasonal campaigns or when you have evergreen-style drip campaigns it allows for avoiding public holidays/etc.
    • The catalog feature provides a lot of use-cases and flexibility for personalizing comms or customizing comms for whitelabeled versions of our standard comms (for our B2B2C scenarios).
    • We use the catalog as a repository of our B2B2C brand info, messaging customization - it basically allows us to offer a whitelabeled configurable version of our optimized automated in-life comms in the branding of our b2b customers.
    Incentivized
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    Cordial
    • Provides helpful desktop and mobile previews.
    • Sends emails reliably.
    • Allows for pretty robust audience rules.
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    Braze
    • Enabling GIF/videos to be directly uploaded on to Braze's platform
    • Easier way of creating canvases; right now it is too complex for someone new who is starting off in the company to understand what things do and where things are
    • Ability to track duplicate user profiles within the entire audience segment
    • Automated deduplicating email addresses/phone numbers in each targeting segment; right now it's done manually after extracting csv files
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    Cordial
    • Some of the tasks on the platform are still technical in nature and often requires the help of a developer or technical marketer. But I've witnessed great strides towards accessibility and ease of use for non-technical marketers over the past three years.
    • A lot of the templating must be built from scratch.
    • Deliverability insights (out of the box) could be expanded further.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Braze
    We are on a mission for an omnichannel experience for our customers and are already making good progress with Braze able to fully support and optimise this
    Incentivized
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    Cordial
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    Usability
    Braze
    It is an easy-to-understand platform, thanks to its design and accessibility. You can, for example, easily find any users and their data, check exact volumes of segments, follow the history of messages sent, and create reports. We can connect Braze with other platforms for analysis or email design (Snowflake, Hightouch, Stripo...).
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    Cordial
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    Support Rating
    Braze
    Very responsive and helpful on simple questions, but not great other than that. They do not have a way for the customer/user to escalate a ticket. You have to contact your rep and in some cases, they don't respond within 24 hours so you have no idea if they have escalated it. There is no phone number for an urgent issue - you have to rely on email
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    Cordial
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    Alternatives Considered
    Braze
    Braze is just the best one when it comes to aesthetics and usability, which matter when you're working every day, making complex or even simple changes to highly contextual campaigns for multiple stakeholders. Even without following tutorials, you just get it instantly and start crafting journeys very quickly. And they continue to keep adding new features at a rapid pace, so credit where it's due.
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    Cordial
    Cordial by far has the best UI for simple navigation
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    Return on Investment
    Braze
    • We are currently trying to reduce churn of our members, numbers are stable but not as good as they could be.
    • We have achieved well in the upselling of our products, and expect to see a good proportion of revenue from this at the end of the year.
    • Higher engagement in our app work, performing much better than email. Keeping things interactive really helps.
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    Cordial
    • Best to manage your clients' business.
    • Not ideal for freelancers.
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    ScreenShots

    Cordial Screenshots

    Screenshot of Testing Powered by Machine-Learning: Never wait for an answer again. Test multiple message variations in real-time.Screenshot of Testing Powered by Machine Learning: Never wait for an answer again. Test multiple message variations in real-time.Screenshot of Native Drag-and-drop Email Builder: Build completely custom 1:1 personalized messages in seconds.Screenshot of Effortless Campaign Orchestration: Create sophisticated cross-channel message streams based on simple if/then statements.Screenshot of Up-to-the-Second Analytics and Reporting: Track customer behavior across all of your digital properties.Screenshot of Native Drag-and-Drop Editor: Build completely custom 1:1 personalized messages in seconds.