Campaign Monitor vs Zoho Campaigns

Founded in 2004 by Ben Richardson, based in Nashville. Belongs to CM Group, along with other marketing software companies like Sailthru and LiveClicker.

Zoho Campaigns is the product of Zoho Corporation — an Indian-American company. The company was founded in 1996 by Sridhar Vembu and Tony Thomas. Global headquarters in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, and corporate headquarters outside of Austin in Del Valle, Texas.

The email editor is WYSIWYG and the platform provides users with a great choice of templates and an automated email builder for your brand — no coding or design skills are required. Campaign analytics come in the form of digestible graphs that are easy to interpret for junior marketers.

Possible to create emails and automations without coding or design skills. At the same time, many people find the interface to be not very user-friendly.

Marketing agencies, small organizations, publishers

E-commerce businesses that require simple, essential workflows like post-purchase emails or digital marketing agencies working with different clients.

No free plan, free trial only.

The free trial only allows sending test campaigns to 5 people or less, importing contact lists, and creating customer journeys without sending them

Has a free plan for up to 2,000 subscribers and 6,000 emails a month. The support is only available for the first 14 days. The features are limited. Segmentation, scheduling, and automation are excluded.

Dynamic, depends on the contact list size and the tariff type:

• Basic: $9–$299/month
• Unlimited: $30–$699/month
• Premier: $158–$989/month

All tariffs are limited to 50000 contacts.

For up to 500 contacts, billed yearly/monthly:

• Standard $3 / $4
• Professional $4.50 / $6

Other pricing features:

• 14 days free trial with all the features
• A Pay As You Go plan
• Discounts for non-profit organizations

An in-app Digital Assistant tool. Support agents around the world are available in the following hours:

• America: Mon to Fri 6 am to 5 pm PST/PDT
• Australia and Asia: Mon to Fri 9 am to 5 pm AEST/AEDT
• Europe: Mon to Fri 9 am to 5 pm BST/GMT

Limited support (unspecified working hours) is available on weekends and during holidays. Support phone numbers are only available for Premier users.

Aside from online support, Campaign Monitor offers:

• Video tutorials for newbies and experienced users
• A 30-minute Getting Started course
• Email Academy — an email marketing course
• Resources for developers
• The in-app Help Center with documentation

Weekdays support during working hours via email, live chat, and phone by default. Limited support during weekends. The response time is 8 hours depending on the pricing plan.

On the free plan, the support is only available for the first 14 days.
Offers paid additional support packages.

The Premium plan (an additional 20% of the Zoho subscription) includes 24/5 support and a three-hour response time.

The Enterprise plan (an additional 25% of the annual Zoho subscription with additional requirements) includes 24/7 support, one-hour response time, a dedicated technical account manager, a quarterly report, and early access to new features.

Knowledge Base, community forums, text and video guides, virtual classrooms, and self-service support portal.

• Supports SMS notifications
• Advanced segmentation — available for Premier users
• Link Review — checks for broken links
• Free email template builder
• Campaign analytics
• CAN-SPAM compliance checker
• Integrations with CRM systems and more

• Email automation in a drag-and-drop builder
• Integrations with various services
• SMS campaigns
• E-commerce workflows with content sync between the store and email campaigns and AI product recommendations
• Signup forms
• Drag-and-drop email builder and templates
• A mobile app for Android and iOS to send emails, see reporting, and import contacts

108 free mobile-friendly templates available without signing up, templates sorted by email types from announcements to transactional.

If you don’t like templates, you can build emails from scratch using blocks in the email builder.

Recently launched their own stock with free images.

Campaign Monitor also has an automated custom template builder where you fill in the questionnaire and get a bunch of email templates with the logo of your business and custom design.

240+ email templates including responsive email templates

The free plan doesn’t have advanced responsive templates

Templates for:

• Welcome messages
• Deals and offers
• Newsletter
• Webinars
• E-commerce
• Emergencies and crises

• Data for marketing: Salesforce, WordPress, Shopify +
• List growth: Intercom, OptinMonster, Unbounce +
• CRM: Raiser’s Edge NXT, Lexer, Qgiv +
• Advertising: AdRoll, Facebook Lead Ads, Rungopher+

More than 100 integrations are available for CRM, list management, surveys, and more

60 integrations including Zapier, Shopify, Salesforce, Twilio, Flickr, WordPress, Zendesk, and more.

• A web app accessible from phones

• No mobile app

• Website
• A mobile app for Android and iOS to send emails, see reporting, and import contacts, etc.

• No installable solution.

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The drag-and-drop interface for creating automated email sequences that includes:

• Triggers — subscribers’ actions that start or continue the sequenc
• Yes/No rules for personalization
• Timers — for example, you can send emails 3 or more days after a certain subscriber’s action or the previous email in the sequence

The sequence is visualized like an activity diagram where every element is customizable.

Many pre-built automation workflows:

• Different welcome series
• Reengagement
• Nurture series
• Customer retention
• E-commerce
• Conditional

• Good WYSIWYG email editor interface
• Easy and simple email automation
• Easy-to-understand campaign reports with good infographics

• E-commerce-focused features
• Integrations with other services including Zoho CRM
• A lot of templates and pre-built automations
• Various support options
• A mobile app
• Relatively cheap prices

• No live chat support + no 24/7 support
• All of the tariffs are limited to 50000 contacts
• No functional free trial you can actually use for work
• Contact importing is difficult when matching custom fields
• Split testing only allows 2 email versions
• No landing page builder

• Slow loading times
• Low deliverability
• Design options and the email builder are limited