Selzy vs Drip
Trying to choose between Selzy vs Drip as your email marketing software? Here's when to choose each tool – and the pros and cons to know about.
Selzy
- 4.8/5 on GetApp
- 4.8/5 on Capterra
- 4.7/5 on G2
Selzy is an email marketing platform that targets small and medium-sized businesses. With Selzy you can create email campaigns in a matter of minutes, import existing contacts and collect new ones, automate tasks to save time, improve, test and track marketing campaigns.
Pricing
From $5.25 a month depending on the tariff, the contact list size and the final scope of work and extra services
Key features
- AI-powered email builder with customizable ready-made HTML modules
- AI email assistant
- 1,000+ free responsive email templates
- Personalization and segmentation
- List hygiene
- Analytics
- A/B testing
- Email automation
- Email recommendations
Support
24/7 available support via chat, email and phone
Drip
- 4.4/5 on GetApp
- 4.4/5 on Capterra
- 4.4/5 on G2
Drip is a multi-channel marketing automation tool for e-commerce.
Pricing
Dynamic, depends on the contact list and email volume, starts from $39 for 1–2500 people in the list + unlimited sends
Key features
- Marketing automation
- Intuitive email builder
- Onsite campaigns
- Campaign analytics
- Smart segmentation
Support
Email and live chat, designated schedule, the availability of these channels depends on your pricing plan
Selzy is an easy-to-use email marketing tool for businesses of all sizes with a focus on small and medium businesses.
Drip was founded in 2012 in Minneapolis, the US, and acquired by Leadpages in 2016. The company’s main goal is empowering small e-commerce businesses.
The platform offers a great choice of templates for any occasion from Black Friday to non-profit campaigns and a drag-and-drop email editor — no coding or design skills needed.
The workflow is intuitive and simple — it allows you to launch your first ever email campaign in 15 minutes.
The analytics dashboard is minimalist and only contains the necessary information.
Overall, Selzy is a great choice for those who have never done email marketing before.
The main focus of Drip is sales funnel automation, and the automation UI is tricky, which makes the platform less beginner-friendly than its competitors
Small and medium businesses, newbies in email marketing
Community-focused DTC and e-commerce businesses
Free forever plan with basic functionality and a limited contact list of up to 100 addresses and a monthly limit of 1,500 emails
Drip doesn’t offer a free plan but there’s a 14-day free trial with no credit card required for registration.
Selzy offers two dynamic pricing systems — by contact list size (up to 500,000 contacts) and by email volume:
- Lite: $5.25–$143.5/month
- Standard: $10.5–$1,155/month
- Enterprise: Custom, full price depends on the scope of work
If you pay by email volume, you can:
- Pay in bulk monthly or annually, starting from $26 for 5,000 emails (monthly) or $1,610 for 1, 000,000 emails (yearly)
Dynamic pricing depends on list size and sending volume.
$39–89/month: up to 5,000 contacts, unlimited email sends, full functionality, free migration, email support
$99–409/month: up to 30,000 contacts, unlimited email sends, full functionality, free migration, email and chat support
$489–1899/month: up to 170,000 contacts and up to 2,040,000 email sends, full functionality, free migration, email and chat support, dedicated Customer Success manager
Custom pricing: custom number of contacts, up to 120,000,000 email sends, all the product features, support, and a dedicated manager included in the previous tier
Selzy offers live chat, email and phone tech support available 24/7. The average response time is 5 minutes. The platform also has an extensive knowledge base with tutorials on getting started.
Email support:
- Available for all paying customers
- 9 am to 5 pm CT, Monday through Friday
Live chat support:
- Available for Drip customers on the $99/mo + plans
- 9 am to 5 pm CT, Monday through Friday
- Website subscription forms
- AI email builder and AI email assistant
- Email size check
- Email authentication check
- Send time optimization
- Email templates
- Personalization
- Email analytics
- Email automation
- Anti-spam email check — for Standard plan users
- Email recommendations — for Standard plan users
- Deliverability tips — for Standard users
- Subject line assistant — for Standard users
- Full campaign management from setting up DKIM to training and consulting — for Enterprise users
- Point-and-click email editor
- Dynamic content in emails
- A/B testing
- Email automation
- Free migration service
- List segmentation and contact tagging
- Pop-ups and signup forms
- Email analytics including conversion rates and revenue
- SMS marketing
1,000+ email templates for every case scenario. If you don’t like templates, here’s how you can build an email from scratch:
- Build an email in the block editor using pre-made rows
- Use an HTML editor to tweak Selzy’s templates or create your own
- Upload your own HTML code you’ve written in another editor
- 51 ecommerce email templates for holidays, promotion, and other occasions
- 4 empty templates with different amount of columns
- 1 plain text email template
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- CMS plugins: WordPress, Wix, Webflow, WooCommerce
- Others: Google Sheets, Airtable, Facebook, Pabbly, Webhooks
150+ integrations with e-commerce platforms like Shopify, CRMs like Zoho CRM, other ESPs like MailerLite, numerous event management tools, sales software including TikTok Lead Generation, social media, SMS marketing tools, and more
- Since Selzy is a web-based platform, it works on any device that supports modern web browsers, the website is optimized for smartphones
- Web app only but it’s optimized for mobile browsers
English
Ukrainian
Português
Español
English
Selzy offers 12+ templates for automated email chains — each template includes scenarios, email subject lines, and sending time. If none of them is suitable for your goal, you can start from scratch.
So far, Selzy offers two triggers for email sequences — “Add to list” and “Subscribe to list”. After choosing the initial trigger, you can start building an automation chain using actions like sending an email and conditions like sending different emails to different user groups. Conditions are highly customizable and include many characteristics from email engagement to UTM content, promo code, and so on.
39 automation templates from welcome to post-purchase designed for different e-commerce platforms: Shopify, WooCommerce, Magento, and BigCommerce. Drip also allows you to use the API of your custom e-commerce website built from scratch. The “Rules” feature allows users to create custom automation sequences with custom event triggers.
- Free trial with basic functionality
- Many unique features like anti-spam check and deliverability suggestions
- AI email builder and AI email assistant
- A simple interface great for newbies
- 24/7 tech support
- Affordable pricing
- Good tools for list management and targeted campaigns
- All the metrics in one place
- Designed with e-commerce in mind
- Powerful automation
- Interface not translated into many languages
- A limited choice of integrations
- Limited automation options
- Complex learning curve for new users
- Expensive compared to other ESPs
- No drag-and-drop automation workflow builder
- Slightly convoluted for one-off or otherwise not behavior-based campaigns
They are constantly improving their tools. It never feels stagnant or lacking in critical features. Their prebuilt workflows make getting started very easy and you can start driving more revenue almost immediately.
Actually, you can set up A/B testing, but you have to hack your way with liquid language. While this is no problem for really advanced users, 90% of the users won’t know how to do this.
I personally prefer to build everything that is automation related inside workflows. Even with simple sequence emails I can do in campaigns, I prefer to do them in workflows. It just depends on how advanced you want to get with automation.
If you want simple email series, without any branching logic (like if the user does this, send this), use campaigns. If you want to go more advanced than this, use workflows.
*This information is current as of 01/24/2025. While we regularly update our articles, it`s possible that this article may not contain some of the latest information.
