With Ontraport, you’ll always hear directly and transparently about changes to our platform, pricing or services that affect you and your business. And those changes are always decided with your needs in mind.
With Ontraport, you’ll always have the freedom to send as many emails as you need. You won’t need to throttle your sends, no matter how big your list grows. And you’ll have access to the foundational systems that get your emails delivered to the inbox — they’re not restricted only to higher plan levels.
ActiveCampaign is primarily a CRM and marketing automation platform. You’ll need to integrate ActiveCampaign with numerous other software, such as an ecommerce platform, calendar tools, and a referral marketing system, to create a complete experience. And all those integrations tend to cause breakdowns that impact your customers and keep you from being able to manage everything efficiently.
Ontraport comes with everything you need to run your entire customer experience — all your marketing, sales, fulfillment and support happen in one place. You can start with the package that serves your needs now, and level up to add more features as you grow.
At first glance, ActiveCampaign’s email marketing, CRM and sales tools may look appealing — but if you’re looking for deep functionality within each feature, Ontraport is for you. We created each of our features with real businesses and their use cases in mind. You’ll have rich functionality to build highly targeted automations, sophisticated lead management pipelines, interactive website experiences and more. The bells and whistles are all there, whenever you need them.
Like many platforms, both ActiveCampaign and Ontraport offer live chat and ticket-based support. But Ontraport takes it a step further by also offering unlimited screen share calls so you can get even your most challenging questions answered efficiently. Our reps work alongside you, going above and beyond to not only answer your questions but provide you with related tips along the way to help you reach your goals.
ActiveCampaign doesn’t offer membership capabilities so it’s not ideal if you plan to provide online courses or other password-protected experiences like client portals. With Ontraport, you can create, publish and host a complete site, plus seamlessly manage all your members and your related communications. You can even use our prebuilt systems and templates to get your whole site up and running quickly.
ActiveCampaign has what you need for attracting leads with traditional marketing, but it doesn’t offer out-of-the-box tools for getting new leads through referrals or partners, which can be critical since word-of-mouth typically outperforms marketing by a longshot.
Ontraport makes it easy for you to give your customers a referral code to share with friends and, for more extensive partner programs, has built-in features for managing commissions and tracking referrals. You can even use our prebuilt partner portal and start driving referrals immediately with minimal setup.
Like most marketing platforms, both ActiveCampaign and Ontraport offer a landing page builder. However, Ontraport also offers a full Content Management System (CMS) so you can create interactive, personalized web experiences and apps, such as sites for your online courses, blogs and knowledge bases, client portals, directory sites and more. It’s all drag-and-drop easy.
Plus, your website in Ontraport is deeply connected to the rest of your sales and marketing process, making it easy to incorporate functionality such as appointment scheduling, forms for lead capture, payment processing and more.
ActiveCampaign doesn’t come with any ecommerce functionality. With Ontraport, you can create order forms and process payments; offer order bumps, upsells and cross-sells to increase the total sale amount; and offer subscriptions, payment plans and unique payment structures to fit your business model.
