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 vs Drip comparison
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Selzy

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 $7 a month depending on the tariff, the contact list size and the final scope of work and extra services

Key features

  • 100+ free responsive email templates
  • Email block editor with customizable ready-made HTML modules
  • Personalization and segmentation
  • List hygiene
  • Analytics
  • A/B testing
  • Email automated
  • Email recommendations

Support

24/7 available support via chat, email and phone

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  • 4.4 Capterra
  • 4.4 G2

Average 4.4 / 5

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Drip

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

General info about company

Selzy

Selzy is an easy-to-use email marketing tool for businesses of all sizes with a focus on small and medium businesses.

Drip

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.

Difficulty

Selzy

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.

Drip

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

Best for

Selzy

Small and medium businesses, newbies in email marketing

Drip

Community-focused DTC and e-commerce businesses

Free plan

Selzy

Free forever plan with the full functionality and a limited contact list up to 100 addresses and a monthly limit of 1,500 emails a month

Drip

Drip doesn’t offer a free plan but there’s a 14-day free trial with no credit card required for registration.

Pricing

Selzy

Selzy offers two dynamic pricing systems — by contact list size (up to 500,000 contacts) and by email volume:

  • Lite: $10–$210/month
  • Standard: $15–$700/month
  • Premium: $220/month and higher, full price depends on the scope of work

If you pay by email volume, you can:

  • Pay $0.005 for each email you send
  • Pay in bulk monthly or annually, starting from $1150 for 500,000 emails

Drip

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

Support

Selzy

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.

Drip

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

Features

Selzy

  • Website subscription forms and pop-ups
  • Anti-spam email check
  • Email size check
  • Email authentication check
  • Email recommendations — for Standard plan users
  • Deliverability tips — for Premium users
  • Subject line assistant — for Premium users
  • Full campaign management from setting up DKIM to training and consulting — for Premium users

Drip

  • 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

Templates

Selzy

144 free templates sorted by industries and occasions, 16 of which are empty with fully customizable blocks. 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

Drip

  • 51 ecommerce email templates for holidays, promotion, and other occasions
  • 4 empty templates with different amount of columns
  • 1 plain text email template

Integrations

Selzy

  • CRM: Salesforce, Pipedrive, RD station, Zendesk, HubSpot, Kommo, Zoho
  • Tables: Google Sheets, Airtable
  • Form builders: Typeform, WordPress
  • Ecommerce: Shopify, Ecwid, WooCommerce
  • Social media: Facebook

Currently a beta version.

Drip

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

Devices

Selzy

  • A web app for desktop, the website is optimized for smartphones

Drip

  • Web app only but it’s optimized for mobile browsers

Languages

Selzy

English English Ukrainian Ukrainian

Drip

English English

Automation

Selzy

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.

Drip

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.

Pros

Selzy

  • Fully functional free trial
  • Many unique features like anti-spam check and deliverability suggestions
  • A simple interface great for newbies
  • 24/7 tech support
  • Affordable pricing

Drip

  • Good tools for list management and targeted campaigns
  • All the metrics in one place
  • Designed with e-commerce in mind
  • Powerful automation

Cons

Selzy

  • Interface not translated to many languages
  • A limited choice of integrations
  • Limited customization options in sign-up forms

Drip

  • 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

Reviews from experts

Selzy

“I recently started using Selzy and I have been extremely impressed with its performance. One of the standout features is its user-friendly interface. It's very easy to navigate, and I was able to set up my first campaign in just a few minutes. The drag-and-drop editor makes it simple to create visually appealing emails, and there are plenty of customizable templates to choose from.”

Anand S

Anand S

Business development manager at Corporate Hierarchy Solutions Pvt. Ltd.

“As someone who has built up my network with Selzy’s tools, I’m confident it’s saved me countless hours of hard work compared to other similar products—which speaks volumes. Plus, they consistently provide helpful customer support, comprehensive online tutorials & guides, and other resources that make it easy to start immediately. If you’re looking for an email marketing platform to help you stand out in the times ahead, give Selzy a try – you won’t regret it!”

Andy Thompson

Andy Thompson

Senior SEO and content marketing analyst at Digiexe.

Drip

If you're looking to take your email program to the next level with automation, you definitely need to consider Drip. Their support team is always timely and helpful whenever we've needed guidance on the platform or using the API.
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.

Charles Combs

Charles Combs

Head of Marketing at Molly Mutt

One thing I’m really missing in the workflows is the ability to A/B test your emails.
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.

Zoran Orak

Zoran Orak

Email marketing consultant, author of an email marketing blog

*This information is current as of 03/06/2024. While we regularly update our articles, it`s possible that this article may not contain some of the latest information.