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Marketing Automation Software

For companies that need to send the right message to the right customer at the right time without a person doing it manually, at scale, across email, SMS and other channels.

18 businesses

Mautic

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Mautic began with a single focus. Equality. The mautic community believes in giving every person the power to understand, manage…

4.8 14 reviews

Sendlane

San Diego, California, United States

Truly unified email, sms, reviews, and forms. Transparent pricing, effortless migration, round-the-clock support, and an…

4.7 54 reviews

Cordial

San Diego, California, United States

Cordial automates billions of data-driven, cross-channel messages to create lifetime customer connections for leading companies.

4.6 44 reviews

Klaviyo

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Klaviyo (nyse: kvyo) is the autonomous B2C CRM. Powered by its built-in data platform and AI, klaviyo combines marketing…

4.6 909 reviews

Listrak

Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States

Listrak is the person-first marketing automation platform that seamlessly integrates data, identity, and cross-channel messaging…

4.6 184 reviews

Ontraport

Covina, California, United States

Bringing the power of enterprise CRM to your business. If you’re like most organizations, you have a collection of tech tools…

4.5 173 reviews Subscription

Delivra

Carmel, Indiana, United States

Delivra, a redbrick company, is a sophisticated email platform that designs custom solutions to help marketers and agencies…

4.4 74 reviews

Drip

Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

Build brand love 🖤 with our marketing automation platform.

4.4 452 reviews

Iterable

San Francisco, California, United States

Iterable is the AI customer engagement platform built for enterprise scale, loved by teams, and trusted by global brands like…

4.4 319 reviews

Customer.io

Portland, Oregon, United States

Create personalized customer journeys that engage and convert with our versatile customer engagement platform. Scale, flex, and…

4.3 147 reviews

Sugar Market

San Francisco, California, United States

Sugarai: the CRM that actually helps sellers sell. • B2B sellers know exactly where to focus, who to engage, and what to do next…

4.2 180 reviews

Act-On

Portland, Oregon, United States

Act-on software provides the innovative marketing automation platform for marketers who think big and act boldly. As the last…

4.1 971 reviews

MessageGears Platform

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Messagegears is the data activation and engagement platform that helps enterprises harness their data by streamlining the tech…

4.1 68 reviews

Axtria CustomerIQ

Berkeley Heights, New Jersey, United States

Axtria is a global provider of award-winning cloud software and data analytics to the life sciences industry. Axtria’s solutions…

4.0 2 reviews

ContactDB

Encino, California, United States

Contactdb inc. Is an integrated B2B marketing company that specializes in providing top quality data-related solutions and…

4.0 1 reviews

OutboundEngine

Seattle, Washington, United States

We believe every business deserves great marketing. Outboundengine helps businesses grow by making online marketing simple and…

3.8 150 reviews

These vendors build the software that sends, sequences and scores the marketing messages a company would otherwise need a person to trigger by hand. Concretely, that means welcome series and cart-abandonment emails that fire the moment someone signs up or drops off, SMS and push campaigns tied to customer behaviour, lead scoring that tells sales who's actually ready to talk, and landing pages or forms that feed straight into the same system. Once it's set up, a marketing team can build a customer journey once and have it run for thousands of people at once, adjusting based on what each person does or doesn't do next.

People go looking for this when marketing has outgrown what a person or a spreadsheet can keep up with. Common triggers: leads are coming in but nobody follows up consistently, the same email is being sent to everyone regardless of what they've bought or clicked, sales complains that marketing hands over unqualified leads, or a growing list means every campaign now takes hours of manual segmentation to send. Often there's already a CRM and an email tool, but they don't talk to each other, so nothing about the customer's behaviour actually changes what they receive next.

The products in this category solve it by connecting three things: data about what a customer has done, rules or workflows for what should happen next, and the channels that carry it out. Where they differ is in which of those three they're strongest at. Some are built email-first with deep deliverability and template tools; others lead with ecommerce data (orders, browsing, product catalogues) and are stronger for retail than B2B; others are closer to a CRM with automation bolted on, better suited to longer B2B sales cycles with fewer, higher-value leads. A few specialise in SMS and mobile push rather than email.

When comparing them, look past the feature list to three practical questions: how well it integrates with the CRM, ecommerce platform or data warehouse you already use; how its pricing scales as your contact list or send volume grows, since costs can jump sharply at certain tiers; and how much technical setup its workflow builder actually requires, since some are usable by a marketer alone while others need a developer to configure properly.

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