Platformly Reviews

Pros: I really enjoy the email marketing automation that this tool provides. I am an advanced email marketing user and this tool is perfect for my needs. The event tracking is also really good and last but not least I love the clear dashboard I get with ply.

Cons: I would like to see a more polished user interface. The tool is fast and easy to use but I would like to see a better internal design.

Reasons for Switching to Platformly: Rep. is really good but in my experience the self hosted thing was pain. I was able to set it up but it was an extra step and maintenance that I didn't like.

Pros: many features almost everything can be done pricing

Cons: it is a steep learning curve. You need a lot of time to find out how the different functionalitites work. The support needs some time to figure out why something does not work or how you could solve it.

Reasons for Switching to Platformly: new pricing model of mailchimp did not work anymore for our company

Overall: I'm setting it up for donor and advocacy campaigns. This'll allow us to give our donors and followers a customized experience to draw them into our work.

Pros: - Powerful builders for forms, landing pages & email campaigns - High email deliverability - Great service from the team - Quick development of new features - All-in-one with advanced reports - Many native integrations to improve the automations

Cons: - Some of the templates look outdated - Needs more templates for form builder, landing page builder & email campaigns - Back-end UI could look a little smoother - Only allows "text" custom fields - Since it is a "newer" product, many 3rd party services have not integrated with them yet

Reasons for Switching to Platformly: I've been using Mailchimp, but it is more expensive, and is more limited to marketing automation rather than all-in-one CRM along with marketing automation.

Overall: I've tried almost every similar platform out there just to find something that made sense for my business in a common sense, not-too-complicated kind of way. And I finally found it with Platform.ly. It's robust, deeply connected and integrated within itself, and it's truly an all-in-one for us.

Pros: It's a beautiful cohesion of marketing, sales, metrics, automation and CRM. It connects easily to my payment processors and pulls in all my accounts with ease and straight-forwardness. I especially appreciate the fact that I can setup and organize multiple projects, domains, sender profiles, automations, payment processors, tracking links, etc. Being able to stay organized is a huge kicker for me, and the visual reports make using Platform.ly a serious pleasure for this vision-minded, see'er of a geek.

Cons: I wasn't fully sure what I was getting myself into when I started the trial. I kind of knew, but I just didn't know, ya know. Sure, I knew the overarching idea but I didn't know how deeply things would integrate. I didn't feel the website explained it enough, nor did it seem like a simple process for a new user like myself; I just wasn't sure how it was going to work with the systems I already have in place. But once I got in and started digging, I was able to put the missing pieces together and make all the connections (visually and mentally) that I needed and ended up being like, "Heck yeah, this is sweet!" You can expect a learning curve - just like every new platform - but everything really does flow seamlessly and it's quite a beautiful thing when it all comes together. I do, however, wish there were more landing page templates and integrations that don't require Zapier (not a fan).

Overall: It is a total one stop solution for making the best use of marketing strength of a company by taking care of attributions related to email listings, tracking of engagements across various campaigns and networks throughout the pool of email marketing campaigns.

Pros:  The business dashboard- One of the most important feature of the tool is the dashboard. It fully customizable. The dashboard showcases real time data in overview format of what is happening to business. This helps in extracting the exact needful strategies to implement with timely data with right drill down capability. Email marketing - One of the biggest plus point of the tool is that it can deliver right email to the right person at the right time. Using platformly's visual email builder one can send ideal responsive campaign driven emails and broadcast it as well. The tool is said to have best delivery rates. CRM- the CRM by platformly is a hub point where in one location a business can manage and strengthen their customer relationships. A business can see through the overview all contacts and can choose any contact to see the detail history and associations with them. The data in CRM is automatically update don real time basis.

Cons: The only cons I could point out would be a little bit of learning curve for non techies to start with. But the customer support is brilliant.

Overall: For our SAAS (emergency) notification business we needed a solution that could help us catch , manage and identify users while on our website and in our APP. SO that we could start a relation with the help of email marketing based on the user actions... As add on we got integrated options like the business dashboard. We are very happy with Ply!

Pros: There where mulltiple things that stood out for us. One of them the possibilty to, easily manage the marketing process of multiple products/ brands from within 1 user interface/experience. Really good. Furthermore you can see/feel that the team at Platformly know their stuff. Good email segmentation options. Be able to build different "funnels" based on user events on your website or in your APP. Together with the CRM options... those where the most important features for me.

Cons: At first, when we started >12 months ago...the integrated forms to catch userinfo and events on your website, where not the best. However, the Platformly team promissed and delivered a good new version. Together with the options that you can also use external tools like ConvertFul ( they jave full integration now as well) you have more than enough options.

Reasons for Switching to Platformly: a number of factors. we had the feeling PLY had a good foundation to grow into something big with some advanced fuctionality. Together with a good price it made us "jump"

Overall: I'm using platformly everyday for more than 6 months, and even though at the beginning the learning curve was a bit long, with the help of the support team, I was able to do the setup and run everything smoothly. If you need upgrades, this are at 1 click and at competitive price. one advantage is that you can create DKIM records for unlimited domains and manage more than one business in the account, we have 3 brands and we are using one dashboard per each getting updates everyday and tracking everything!

Pros: Email deliverability is skyrocketing my newsletters! Tracking conversions and the whole funnel for our online sales is very handy. And the poweful dashboard let me review everyday the progress of my sales, and analytics from Google. Support Rocks! The Support team is amazing, always ready to provide assistance, I have setup integrations for stripe and Paypal and I've got some problems with Paypal and they take more than 2 hours on Sunday to get it sorted.

Cons: Landing Page Builder has room for improvement, but still working pretty well.

Overall: Platformly has helped us automate our email follow-up and keep in touch with our clients. It's been a huge win to quickly and easily setup automations with complex lead scoring and other rules. We have seen a huge increase in sales because of the power of email marketing with Platformly.

Pros: We had about 10K contacts, but we struggled to communicate with them in a meaningful way because they were in random lists that never got updated. We had no simple way to identify if individual contacts were engaged. With Platfomly, we are using tags and segments to reach the right people and using automation to identify and segment those that are engaged and disengaged.

Cons: There is not much to dislike but room for improvements would be there CRM. I miss sales pipeline too much. But overalll very good CRM for its price.

Overall: Platformly helps me a lot to automate business processes. We already automated customer onboarding and our promotional campaigns.

Pros: One of my favorite things at Platformly is automations. You can do almost everything you can think with this feature using a simple drag-and-drop builder. Also, I love their tagging - this makes segmenting your list a breeze, making every marketing campaign powerful. The price of Platformly is unbeatable. The relation between quality and price is one of the best in the market."

Cons: I'd like to see more out of the box integrations.

Overall: I am running email automation campaign for my clients by using platformly and it work great. I highly recommend this tool if you are looking CRM and EDM system. reply

Pros: The email automation system is awesome! Also the user interface is clean and beautiful.

Cons: EDM builder is not user friendly enough. Also they don't have enough edm template.

Reasons for Switching to Platformly: Platformly CRM system is more powerful than Mailchimp and more user friendly.

Pros: Platformly is one of the better priced Email marketing tools I have used. I manage my lists and the platform is perfect for my needs. It also have a great service regarding the analytics of the emails. You can see who from the list reads it and who clicks on the links.

Cons: Even if you can easily modify the templates, sometimes with Platformly you need some video guide for a better understanding. Other than that the app is great!

Overall: We build out subscriber list with ease and are able to automatically drop new subscribers into a drip funnel, depending on where they came from.

Pros: What I like most about Platformly is its simplicity, how easy it is to create a campaign and, of course, its deliverability. It is a tool in which email managers trust so you make sure that all your campaigns reach the inbox.

Cons: No cons found yet. We are still learning the system and looking forward to working with it more.

Overall: I really like the platform and would recommend it to anyone who is in need of marketing automation and basic CRM and Reporting capabilities. For me, it hit the sweetspot of features and open architecture so I can compensate it´s weaknesses by using third party provider.

Pros: I quite enjoy having an end to end solution that starts with linktracking for incoming traffic, over marketing automation to the reporting in form of business dashboards. In addition platformly comes with an CRM to keep track of your client/prospect base so you don´t have to integrate it with an external CRM provider (but you certainly could). In addition, I like that the platform is build with connectivity and third party integration in mind, so you can hook it up with pretty much any tool as long as it supports Webhooks.

Cons: The strength of tying to cover everything is, in my opinion, the platforms weakness. It makes the setup and onboarding process a bit daunting. The platform has also it´s weakpoints in regards to the landingpagebuilder, which will become obvious if you worked with best in class builders like Elementor before.

Overall: Easy to use, easy to set up.

Pros: One-stop shop for everything I need to manage my lists. All at an affordable price.

Cons: As of Dec 2019 I don't have anything to mention on the least liked feature.

Reasons for Switching to Platformly: More affordable for my style of marketing.

Overall: Overall my experience was great their support has been very responsive and helpful should I need help

Pros: I like how simple this is and how it fits well for my real estate business - I don't need something complicated and it has all features that I needed

Cons: The UI can have some more love to look more modern

Pros: Easy to navigate and understand. The learning curve on this is very shallow and there are guides to get you going in no time at all.

Cons: A few integrations are missing that we use like piesync but there is zapier, webhooks and their own api.