Mautic (open source) vs. Postal

Mautic is well suited for users who do not require a lot of maintenance on the technical areas and have only the general requirements of the email marketing sector. In case the users have more precise requirements and are more focussed on the quality and a proper quantitative analysis, Mautic would not be an ideal choice. In other words for small companies Mautic would be an idea choice where the budget is a constraint and the extent of use is low but in cases where budget is not really a constraint against the performance and quality, Mautic would not be an ideal choice.

If you are a small or growing team that understands experiential, ABM, and gift marketing strategies and how to leverage them, Postal.io gives you everything you need with moderate CSM coverage, without the white glove price tags of similar solutions like Sendoso.

Incentivized

• Mautic is very good at the tagging system.
• Mautic is very good at tracking website visitors. Visitors are first marked as unknown, however, once you get a signup Mautic automatically updates their profile.

Incentivized

• Integrates with our swag library at Swagup.
• Offers an excellent and growing library of direct mail/gifting options.
• Provides outstanding support and does a great job at their product marketing.

Incentivized

• Reporting can be very misleading sometimes, but you just need to get the hang of it
• When emailing, you need to know the exact time zone the server is set on, because it may not send the task when you think it would.
• We think it may have more room to add more templates, the one the platform has turned boring over time— I think it would be an interesting update.

Incentivized

• Navigation -Took time to find custom hyper links.
• Finding items - Can be hard to find where items are on platform.
• Layout could be better.

Incentivized

We get so much value out of the platform that I can't find any legitimate or logical reason why we wouldn't renew. Their team has been a pleasure to work with.

I love the tool, and my team relies on it heavily. We just completed our quarterly review and were able to track every single dollar spent

Salesforce and Dynamics may be fine if you can afford them, but don't offer much more than what you get from Mautic, for free and with total control and longer term active development. SugarCRM ended development and maintenance of their Community Edition around 2018. The long-term roadmaps for free versions of SugarCRM or its forks were very unclear

Postal.io was a more budget-friendly option than the alternatives I considered. We knew our gifting budget wouldn't be huge so we were willing to go with something less established in order to make sure we had as much budget left over as possible. We also like the flexibility with Postal.io that we could add almost anything to their marketplace if we could find it available online.

Incentivized

• Automating interactions with clients in an early funnel stage
• Focusing your sales team on the best qualified leads
• Influencing purchase decisions along the customer journey

• Increased Productivity: It has taken a huge headache out of keeping and maintaining what swag is on hand has saved a LOT of company time
• easier to reach out to potential clients

Incentivized