Easy to use with potential for powerful customization
Pluspunten
The interface is intuitive and easy to use. Having no prior experience, I was able to jump in quickly and navigate through setting up an email blast within a day. The object based data setup is also easy and intuitive to understand, despite coming from a traditional "relational tables" platform and background.
Minpunten
There are certain key features of an Email Platform that I find lacking for Iterable. Nothing show stopping, but things that I would have thought would be intuitively built in: no auto-suppression can be applied based on send classification (transactional vs. marketing), basic date comparison logic is not available (should be easy for eng to build, given they just need to set additional functions), no re-usable global content blocks available (think of SFMCs Content Areas, where you can house snippets of code, or static html, and wherever needed pull that content in to multiple emails, without having to recreate the same code over and over again - universal footer, header, etc).
Great innovative, growing product and highly recommended.
This product helps us daily with our email marketing needs.
Pluspunten
What I like is since I started using Iterable, the product has been evolving and getting more innovative. I enjoy the workflow section on the UI. I enjoy when my team needs product enhancements, they are willing to hear our needs out and work on improving. I like the great customer success team and always helping us. Finally, the upper management and when in need being available to get in discussion with any further needs we might have.
Minpunten
I would really like the segmentation piece to be improved. I would like to work with Iterable on needs here as I have found many flaws that I have iterated, but yet not gotten solved. Like searching for a number of campaigns that are similar all at once instead of doing OR's with tons of campaign ids. To be able to query a full workflow.
Impressed with the breadth of functionality
Pluspunten
We chose Iterable based on the strength of its API and its ability to handle a multi-million list size. As a marketer, Iterable has a number of powerful advanced features that make it easy for me to perform segmentation, write workflows and run multivariate tests. The support team is beyond amazing; they are knowledgeable and go out of their way to ensure their customers succeed.
Minpunten
Our engineers get a bit frustrated about some of the technical limitations. For example, certain types of API calls are currently centered around the individual user vs. a particular list (meaning that Iterable is designed to ping your server X million times for each user on a list vs. 1 X for the list itself). That said, the Iterable product team is very responsive to customer feedback, and this shortcoming is on the short-term roadmap to be fixed.
A developer oriented alternative to Mailchimp
Pluspunten
It has a slew of options and ways of creating audiences and targeting users via categories, funnels, actions and events. The API is very complex and a bit difficult to use if you don't contact the support every day.
Minpunten
Little documentation and long waiting times for tickets and support requests.
Love using Iterable!
Pluspunten
Iterable's interface is intuitive, clean and easy to use. List management is so much easier than other tools, updating and maintaining lists is no longer a pain. The reporting tool is super easy. You can aggregate multiple campaigns and specific time ranges with ease.
Minpunten
The main con I have with this tool is how cumbersome it is to upload photos. There are multiple back and forth steps and the process as whole could be a lot easier. I think this is something they are aware of and are working on, however.
Powerful tool, worth the hike up the learning curve
Pluspunten
Once you understand Iterable, it's life changing. Being new to the email marketing game and moving over from a clunky and buggy predecessor, Iterable is devastatingly powerful. The User Segmentation feature is a quick and efficient way to find the exact audience you're looking for. Workflows simplify life in ways I didn't know I needed.
Minpunten
Iterable does have a very steep learning curve, the first few weeks of using it were rough. Occasionally the HTML editor's interface annoys me with too many scroll bars and way too much to scroll through, but that's just a matter of getting used to making sure your mouse is in the correct position.
Best marketing platform
Pluspunten
Would recommend over any other platform. Great product for a great value. We use it for all our clients and it delivers far superior service than any of its competitors that we have tried.
Minpunten
Their API goes down occasionally. Usually not to a significant determinant, and they give us fair warning each time, but it can be annoying.
Iterable has a lot of potential
Pluspunten
The interface is fairly user friendly. Setting up workflows based on events, recurring lists or api posts is also fairly intuitive. The customer success team seems open to feedback and submitting tickets.
Minpunten
The thing that frustrates my team the most with Iterable is the lack of consistency between functionality. Of course, you don't realize what's missing until it's gone but, while Iterable has made considerable strides in the reporting suite. The basic daily export of subscriber status is still seemingly too tall of an ask. While the success team seems open to feedback and submitting tickets, there is often an absence of follow through.
Iterable Marketing Platform
Pluspunten
Easy to use platform with cross channel marketing. Open API that allows for various integrations and to work seamlessly with all your programs.
Minpunten
Like any platform sometimes processed are delayed. More information when maintence is being performed would be useful.
A lot of cutting edge features, maybe too advanced
Pluspunten
The behavioral based segmentation features are very powerful and put a lot of power from the engineering/analytics teams into the marketing team. Behavioral based segmentation, dynamic lists, and large workflows all have a lot flexibility but that can cause errors in incorrect lists/segments/emails.
Minpunten
An ESP has to encompass so many features to be useful and there are some that Iterable doesn't have or have just recently launched, such as an analytics dashboard to see how campaigns are performing against each other. Iterable has definitely focused on the advanced segmentation and workflows, but still has to build a lot of other core features that email marketers will find necessary.
Can't do without
Pluspunten
We recommend that every one of our clients use iterable. The integration between our website and our ESP makes the process of signing up on a site, getting added to a list, being delivered a welcome series... seamless.
Minpunten
Honestly, I have not found one thing that I would like different. It's great.
Iterable is great! Great for marketing for agencies
Email marketing
Pluspunten
I like that it's incredibly easy to use. As opposed to a software like salesforce thats much less user friendly, iterable is super simple, but still lots of features.
Minpunten
There are a few issues sometimes with the third party drag and drop feature, but other than that I haven't ran into any big issues.
It makes email marketing so easy!
Pluspunten
It's easy to use and understand. It's also very easy for me to create an email template for the rest of the team to use. The feature of multiple accounts is also a great way to easily switch between teams.
Minpunten
There's a few bugs here and there, but the support team are always happy to help me out! I do wish there was an easy way for me to upload images for the email templates.
Iterable is a game changer of an ESP
Pluspunten
Intuitive, clean UI and UX. Amazing customer support that's very responsive, knowledgeable and always eager to help. Iterable is very receptive to user feedback, and is constantly improving and building the too
Minpunten
The only issue I've had is with load times with list segmentation here and there- but nowhere near the level of frustration I've had with other legacy systems.
Excellent for workflows, but lacking in other areas
I really like Iterable and I think they're on to a winner, it does feel like they're still in early stages as not everything feels completely ironed out
Pluspunten
The workflow functionality is really great and offers a lot of opportunities for CRM management
Minpunten
Certain features don't function as you'd expect them to, and report stats aren't as clear and easy to use as competitors.
Very helpful for omnichannel marketing
This software makes it much easier to work with cross channel marketing. I was able to keep track of my data easily and make sure that I had accurately uploaded everything, which eased my anxious mind. Being able to present the data from the marketing easily to administrators was also useful.
Pluspunten
I loved that I could easily update social media, email, mobile, and blogs with slightly different campaigns. It took me much less time than before when I had to do individual updates.
Minpunten
Still difficult to upload photos - process is a little tedious compared to the ease available in other areas.
Great email marketing platform
Great email marketing platform. Has met our clients needs and is always rolling out new features and webinars.
Pluspunten
User friendly, easy access to Iterable Support through Intercom, big fan of the workflows
Minpunten
Sometimes there are glitches and queue congestions that can take awhile to fix.
Great Flexibility to do what you need
Its been great, the customer support really surprised me - they're very responsive.
Pluspunten
The database structure is similar to our CRM - so it houses all our data and allows me to access and data point I need. Handle bars are easy to use to customize based on any information and access any information about a lead in an email.
Minpunten
Its one thing that they say they're working on: in the database there are objects with arrays. However, in segmentation if you want to query against two fields in an array, it wont look for the criteria to match in the same array, they can be in different arrays.
Rainbows and unicorns promised
Automatic blame deflection of any issues we've raised, canned responses and total failure to meet promised value
Pluspunten
Cart abandoner targeting promised, non-engineer self-service of complex marketing and retargeting campaigns.
Minpunten
Blaming Segment for failure to merge anonymous events with identified users, blaming Segment for integration failures that caused significant loss of data. Awful limitations of workflows. No ability of non-engineers to actually successfully self-service on pretty much any features. Zero interest on actually enabling us to leverage the service to create value
Good product for managing email outreach
Pluspunten
Really easy to put together email templates and try lots of different campaigns and track the results.
Minpunten
Wish it would integrate with Salesforce natively which would have saved us a lot of time. Required additional developer work to integrate with our database as well.
The Best Growth Marketing Tool You Will EVER Use!
I seriously cannot say enough amazing things about Iterable. It has completely revolutionized the way we execute email marketing. It allows for far more sophisticated email list segmentation and trigger email / drip marketing campaign development vs. our previous Email Service Provider. It is a powerful tool that yields powerful results. Not sure if my company wants me to share exact numbers, but let's just say that its helped increase purchase conversions, overall user engagement and email traffic by a VERY considerable factor. I cannot recommend this product more highly! Oh, and the level of customer service is beyond anything I've ever experienced. I've had all my service requests'even ones submitted late on a Friday or Saturday night'promptly addressed. I feel like its a real partnership, which is a great feeling.
Iterable is awesome
Pluspunten
It integrates easily with Wordpress, which makes it easy for emails acquired through a WordPress form to automatically connect to a list in Iterable. The customer service is very reliable. Downloading email analytics to CSVs have a nice custom date range option and can filter what type of campaigns you want to show up on the export
Minpunten
I haven't run into too much. It take a while to really understand how to fully use it, but once you learn it, you realize how easy it is to navigate the tool.
New to Iterable, great experience so far!
Ability to better customize our marketing strategy.
Pluspunten
It is fairly intuitive--I don't have a background in email marketing but it is relatively easy for me to build templates and set up emails. And when I don't know how to do something, my CSM is super helpful!
Minpunten
It is much more complex than anything I'm used to and is a bit overwhelming while I am in the early stages of use. There is a lot to learn.
Exclusive for email marketing
The iterable really helps me in attracting more and more customers through email marketing
Pluspunten
The best thing i like about iterable is that it is very user-friendly compared to other email marketing software and their option of multiple accounts is very brilliant to switch from one team member to another
Minpunten
Honestly speaking I don't found any cons in it really works great for me and I suggest others to take a look at this also
Very easy to create campaigns with Workflows.
Pluspunten
Interface is very clear, easy to create complicated email or SMS flows. It also supports different types of API integration, such as API call, or mobile push, webhooks, which makes it really easy to integrate into different platforms.
Minpunten
It would be nice if the campaign analytics can be more customizable, and provide more information.
Overall, I would definitely recommend Iterable. As much as SFMC and others have dominated the market, their data structures and backend setup are more archaic and not easily scalable without custom implementation (SFMC frequently has to shuffle databases around based on client volume since many share instances and the larger ones can take an entire instance down). Although I think Iterable has some catching up to do in terms of more robust customization capabilities, and certain platform capabilities, I still think it's an innovative new tool that has a promising future to bring more powerful function than the old school platforms can keep up with.