| Functionality | 8 <p>Moosend offers almost all the email marketing functionality that e-commerce SMBs need. This includes building complex automated email workflows, landing pages, sign-up forms, and more. Its email builder, while not the most intuitive, is one of the most feature-rich we've come across—you can add countdown timers and showcase your products directly in your emails. It also boasts one of the richest email template libraries we've seen. However, Moosend doesn't offer marketing functionality for other channels like SMS, social media, or ads.</p> | 4 <p>As a sales outreach platform, Reply is very much fit for purpose. However, in terms of other marketing features, such as aesthetic email templates or richer automations geared towards e-commerce, Reply lags behind.</p> |
| Ease of Use | 4 <p>We find that Moosend is so packed with features and customization options that it can be overwhelming and confusing. Advanced features often lack explanation or guidance. For example, in the email editor, there are multiple panels where you can edit the same thing, and elements like customizing a "slot" or "anchoring" text come without any explanation. Filters are also often ungrouped, so you have to scroll through a long list to locate the right one. It could take an average SMB employee at least a week and some assistance to feel comfortable using the platform.</p> | 5 <p>We didn't find Reply particularly easy to use; its learning curve will be quite steep for those who are only used to running marketing automations on the bigger player apps - the layout on the home bar is not particularly easy to navigate.</p><p><br></p><p>We'd estimate the app to take at least a day for a regular startup employee to pick up - significantly more time than the other apps we tested.</p> |
| Look and feel | 2 <p>We find Moosend's interface to be quite dated, with most screens cluttered by excessive information and customization options. The design isn't responsive, so when you resize your browser window, elements often overlap or text spills out of containers, making it frustrating to use. However, page load times are acceptable (1-2 seconds).</p> | 8 <p>Reply has an excellent look and feel. The interface is clean and modern - and once you find your way around, it's a pleasure to use. Pages also load very fast, meaning that technical holdbacks won't set you back!</p> |
| Customisability | 8 <p>Moosend is about as customizable as it gets for a platform designed for non-technical marketing teams (i.e. without code) You can build complex automated email workflows and customize most client-facing assets. For example, you can branch email workflows to target different percentages of your audience, and you can almost completely customize landing pages and forms using a drag-and-drop builder. However, you can't segment users based on custom events that require code or use custom data objects.</p> | 8 <p>Automations and emails are highly customisable - and the API key is easily accessible within the main menu, helping you create any integrations you may need.</p><p><br></p><p>Moreover, the emails are mostly text-based, and are also highly customisable.</p> |
| Ease of Setup | 4 <p>We found that getting up and running on Moosend took longer than with other Marketing Automation platforms. This is largely down to two things: advanced features being extremely hard to set up, and the layout of the platform itself being unintuitive.</p><p><br></p><p>During our testing, basic setup took more than 45 minutes, and advanced setup took up to a few days.</p> | 5 <p>Given the complexity of setting up any type of sales system, we've given Reply an average ease of setup score. This encompasses the amount of time it takes to complete basic setup (around an hour), as well as the amount of time it takes to complete more advanced customisations, such as advanced workflows and integrations.</p> |
| Customer Support | 8 <p>You can contact Moosend's support team via live chat on the platform. Even during peak hours, we got connected to a human agent within minutes, and agents were always friendly and helpful. However, Moosend's help centre is only of average depth/ quality.</p> | 7 <p>Reply has a live chat feature which has been enhanced by AI (thanks to intercom, their customer support provider). There's also a dedicated customer success team on hand, who you can email anytime with strategy or project-specific queries.</p> |
| Integratability | 5 <p>Despite having a huge library of pre-built integrations, we found that Moosend is lacking a few key integrations, especially for ecommerce. For example, it doesn't integrate with Shopify, the leading ecommerce platform, not Webflow, the leading web builder. It also doesn't integrate with Stripe, which allows you to directly collect payments from your emails/ newsletter.</p> | 5 <p>There is a fantastic list of integrations provided by reply - covering automations, account-based selling, and marketing. However, it does not cover a whole list of e-commerce and marketing tools that other platforms do cover.</p> |
| Ease of Migration | 8 <p>You can easily export key data via self-serve into Excel/ CSV format e.g. email list, email list by status, segments etc. It also has a reporting module where you can export custom data about campaign performance, email list changes etc.</p> | 3 <p>There is no clear way to export contacts from Reply. However, if you use Reply Data – their database with 140m+ contacts – there an option to export selected contacts.</p> |
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