ActiveCampaign offers 4 plans:

Lite package

This starts at $9/month (and $15/month for month-to-month billing) and includes 500 contacts, unlimited sending, email marketing, newsletter sending, marketing automation, and chat & email support for up to 3 users.

Plus package

This is $70 per month or $49 per month paid yearly. It includes everything from Lite plus unlimited sending, CRM w/sales automation, contact & lead scoring, deep data integrations, custom user permissions, custom domain, custom branding, one-on-one training, and SMS marketing for up to 25 users.

Professional package

The Professional plan is $159/month paid monthly or $129/month paid yearly. It includes everything from Plus, unlimited sending, site messaging, and attribution for up to 50 users.

Enterprise package

The Enterprise plan is $279/month paid monthly or $229/month paid yearly. It includes everything from Professional, plus custom sending limit, custom mail server domain, a dedicated account rep, in-depth onboarding, free design services, free social data (this automatically determines the social profiles of your contacts), phone support, and uptime SLA for an unlimited number of users.

Like most email marketing platforms, the prices go up depending on how many contacts you have, and you may have to communicate with ActiveCampaign directly for a price quote. The pricing is reasonable in comparison to other email marketing services.

There is a 14-day free trial available where no credit card is required. They also offer a 20% discount for non-profits. All plans come with free migration if you are transferring from another platform.

ActiveCampaign is a rapidly expanding Chicago-based startup offering email marketing services. Though it started as a solution for business owners to keep in touch with their contacts, it pivoted to a SaaS model in 2013. It offers integrated email marketing, marketing automation, and a small business CRM for sales automation.

ActiveCampaign offers a number of amazing features, making it really stand out:

Customizable newsletters

With the ActivePlus feature, as soon as you create a campaign for a newsletter, you can insert buttons, and in any content block, you are able to duplicate, save to content library, hide on mobile devices, make them conditional, and delete them. In the newsletters you can insert Text blocks, images, buttons, videos, line breaks, spaces, RSS feeds, social links as well as HTML Blocks.

The social link builder

This includes all the major social media platforms including: Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google Plus, YouTube, Instagram, Tumblr, Pinterest, Websites and Email

Import contacts from a variety of channels

This includes Gmail, Eventbrite, Salesforce, Quickbooks Online, Google Glass, Capsule CRM, and more.

Google analytics integration

You can track what your contacts do after they click through to your site. There is also a geotracking function so that you can automatically capture your contacts location for geo-targeted campaigns.

Conditional content and unlimited personalization

With conditional content, you can send a single campaign customized based on content for different contacts depending on their behavior or any insight you have obtained about them. With this special feature, your emails will be highly personalized so your contacts can really relate to and therefore engage more with your content.

With unlimited personalization, personalized tags are created to really speak to and connect with your customers depending on criteria specific to them.

ActiveCampaign has 40 professionally designed, responsive templates, including newsletter templates that are very unique, and any images that need to be changed or manipulated can easily be done with the drag-and-drop designer. The templates have modern designs with many options to alter them when it comes to content, images, buttons, and more.

ActiveCampaign is simple to use and easy to navigate. Its interface is a pleasure to use, and its drag-and-drop designer makes creating campaigns and newsletters a snap! It has amazing integrations to achieve marketing goals, and it’s a platform is straightforward enough that even a beginner can easily master it.