Dotdigital Features

Tools for importing/exporting data to/from the platform to support campaign setup and reporting.

Supports extensibility through APIs to build and manage integrations with third-party tools.

"Offers a wide range of plug-and-play integrations with third-party applications. "

Integrates with CRM software, which can help provide context to your mailing lists.

Integrates with Social Media platforms, which can help expand your reach.

Integrates with e-commerce platforms, which can link directly to your online store.

Ability to input, modify and extract data from the application in bulk through a structured file.

Application Programming Interface - Specification for how the application communicates with other software. API's typically enable integration of data, logic, objects, etc with other software applications.

To what extent are there partner applications readily available for integrating into this product? Partner applications typically provide complementary, best of breed functionality not offered natively in this product.

Make sure subscribers see email as intended. View emulated inboxes of major email providers and mobile devices (e.g., iOS, Android) to resolve rendering issues.

List management tools include importing and maintaining subscriber data. Manage list segmentation, profile attribute management, and delivery status. Subscribers self-manage preferences.

Ability to send thousands of unique, personalized emails per second.

Tools for designing, editing, and personalizing email content for recipients.

Supports the ability to send outbound email campaigns to external recipients.

Maximizes inbox placement by managing spam compliance and sender reputation.

Automatically respond to user actions or triggers with predefined email messages.

Enables multiple users to login to the same account to maintain a single account for your entire marketing team.

Ability to send secure and personalized survey invites to your contact list.

Create and design emails with an editor; manage templates; personalize dynamically

Create targeted lists, schedule and manage bulk email sending.

Ensure inbox delivery. Includes opt-in management, bounce handling, unsubscribe processing, suppression lists, email preview, spam checking, link validation, and delivery monitoring.

Set up automated nurturing emails based on events, online activities, and lead scores

Run A/B tests on subject lines, areas of content (both images and text), from names, or send dates.

Basic campaign performance reporting such as delivery, open, click, and unsubscribe rates.

Access pre-built and custom reports and dashboards to measure leads by source/campaign/month, email performance, landing page performance, and web and social activity. Create report subscriptions that can automatically send updates to your team and executives.

Track which pages prospects and customers visit and how often they come back. Capture the history in database for lead scoring and sales intelligence. Use anonymous company look-up to identify anonymous visitors. Send alerts to sales reps of which of their prospects and customers web activity.

Measure leads, prospects generated, pipeline, revenue, investment, and ROI by marketing channel or program. The result is that you can see which marketing investments are generating the greatest return and get visibility into how marketing budget should be allocated going forward.

Analyze how leads flow through the funnel by measuring stage to stage conversion rates and velocity. Allocate pipeline and revenue credit among all the marketing activities that have successfully touched an opportunity as it moves through the pipeline.

Monitor and track how you rank for relevant keywords on major search engines and compare your overall performance to competitors.

System provides sufficient customization to meet business requirements

Automates a process that requires a series of steps that typically require intervention by a several different users. Administrators can write rules to determine who and when a user needs to complete a step. Also includes notification of users when they need to take action.

Grant access to select data, features, objects, etc. based on the users, user role, groups, etc.

Enables users to view and transact business with the same content in multiple languages and currencies.

Allows administrators to easily develop and test changes to the CRM deployment. After changes are made admins can easily migrate the changes into the "live" or "production" environment.

Software is consistently available (uptime) and allows users to complete tasks quickly because they are not waiting for the software to respond to an action they took.

Allows administrators to create templates that enable users to quickly generate dynamic documents in various formats based on the data stored in the application.

Ability to define a custom domain from which emails are sent.

Able to send emails from multiple domains.

Ability to use a dedicated IP for deliverability.

Availability and quality of documentation for API, code library, implementation, and set up.

Ability for the platform to manage individual domain reputations. That way, senders with good sending practices are not penalized based on the sending practices of others.

Tracks emails sent and delivery rates and compiles them into standard reports.

Provides features and infrastructure to allow scaling for large organizations.

Emails are consistently received and software performs reliably.

Optimizes marketing campaigns for mobile devices.

Integrates advertising/campaigns into mobile applications, games, and mobile browsers.

Facilitates global text message and mobile marketing campaigns.

Build customized landing pages and lead capture forms for specific marketing campaigns to maximize conversion and to capture the right qualifying information.

Dynamically customize emails, forms, and landing pages for specific segments of customers and prospects.

Test alternate versions of emails, landing pages, and forms. Learn what works, maximize response rates, and increase conversion.

Support mobile-optimized emails, online forms, and landing pages.

Track performance of keywords and links in major search engines. Measure search rankings and performance. Improve page-level SEO with tools to diagnose and improve page performance. Integrate with Google AdWords.

A marketing lead database is the system of record for your most important marketing asset: your leads and contacts. Includes a view of all marketing interactions between each prospect and your company, including website visits, email clicks, scoring changes, and data updates/history.

Data quality consists of deduplication, cleansing, and appending your marketing database.

Segment your database and build list of target leads and contacts. Filter on demographic and company attributes (title, company size, location) as well as behavioral filters and CRM information.

Automatically qualify and score leads based on demographics as well as prospect online behaviors, including recency and frequency. Assign your own weights to determine lead scores for prioritization.

Automate drip marketing campaigns that send relevant messages over time, based on prospect behaviors and pre-defined campaign steps.

Track which emails a prospect opens and clicks, what web-pages they visit, what keywords they use, even what they say on social networks.

Create tasks automatically and provide real-time sales alerts over email, RSS or mobile device.

Sync lead, contact, account, and opportunity information with your CRM system.

Manage marketing campaigns and programs across multiple channels, including online ads, video campaigns, mobile, virtual events, and social media. Create and optimize program assets such as landing pages, emails, campaigns, and lists. Track program objectives, results, and costs to assess the program ROI.

Streamline the entire event process, including personalized invitations, registration, reminders, and post-event follow-up. Integrate with online meeting tools like WebEx, Adobe Connect, GoToWebinar.

Maintain a marketing calendar across multiple groups. Manage the calendar for the entire marketing department, from promotions to content to PR.

Manage all aspects of marketing investments, including assigning top-down budgets to various groups and divisions, planning marketing spending across programs, tracking open-to-spend, ensuring budget compliance, coordinating work-flows and permissions, and reconciling plans with actual invoices.

Monitor what leads and contacts say on sites such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, LinkedIn, blogs, and online communities. Incorporate into your lead and customer DB and use social insights to segment prospects. Trigger campaigns, and update lead scores.

Add intelligent social share buttons to your campaigns and content. Track who is sharing your content and driving conversions.

Schedule automated posts to one or more social accounts; use or integrate with URL shortening services; and measure likes, comments, replies, and retweets.

Social apps including polls, sweepstakes, and referral programs can enhance audience engagement. Include these on your website, landing pages, Facebook pages, and emails.

Amplify brand and community stories; Reach customers by social profile and activity; Optimize social ad campaigns in real-time

Process for administrator to create personalized email templates from scratch or incorporate and leverage existing templates.

Quantity and quality of preset email templates for administrators to construct their own emails.

Able to customize the unsubscribe templates, handler, and tracking.

Able to segment transactional emails based on their purpose.

Alerts administrator whenever a pre-set event occurs.

Integrates webhooks into emails to signal email status (i.e. sent, bounced, opened, etc.)

API used to track the status of emails.

API used to send emails (e.g. Web API, SMTP API)

Testing to ensure emails do not go to recipient's spam folder.

Integrates with e-commerce platforms.

Integrates with email marketing providers to share captured lead data.

Allows companies to connect landing pages to their existing domain.

Attributes app installs to the marketing campaigns and media sources that drove it.

Measures impact and effectiveness of mobile marketing campaigns.

Measures user-level uninstall insights.

Creates custom data views to suit every team member's needs.

Collects geo-location data on mobile users to customize relevant campaigns.

Pushes notifications or text messages to mobile devices

Provides templates for mass mobile messaging campaigns

Facilitates two-way text messaging to encourage consumer engagement and loyalty

Personalizes and optimizes email mobile marketing campaigns.

Identifies the most granular audience segments based on actions, inactions, and user properties.

Allow users to customize their messages.

Schedule push notifications to be delivered at a specific date and time, or set an expiration for time-bound messages

Retarget your messages based on previous user engagement.

Segment audience based on device type, location, demographics, customer behavior, etc.

Automate notifications based on user behavior

Sends out coupons and promotions to reward and entice mobile device users.

IP address quality analysis.

Sending domain quality analysis.

Email content analysis.

Determing email and domain compliance with policies such as DMARC.

Tracking open rate across recipients.

Measuring overall campaign performance across recipients.

Measuring overall reputation related to specific sending domains.

Track and report on performance metrics and conversions

Report on audience demographics and engagement

Provides native A/B testing for content and campaigns.

Allows users to build and analyze customer profiles.

Presents messaging depending on customer behavior.

Presents messaging depending on customer context.

Emails triggered by customer activity or behavior.

Messages triggered by customer activity or behavior.

Provides recommendations based on customer metrics.

Calculates and presents customized discounts.

Personalizes web experiences and presented content based on customer metrics.

Allow users to edit text and themes on email templates

Offer email proofing capabilities

Provide mobile responsive email templates

Offer pre-made email templates

Allow users to create their own email templates

Use drag-and-drop HTML editing to create email templates

Provide analytics reporting so that users can see how their campaigns perform

Allow for users to identify potential issues that would stop their emails from sending

Integrate with email software or email marketing and marketing automation platforms

Ability to share email templates via a link to collect feedback on the created emails easily

Enables users to send mass text message campaigns

Provides the ability to schedule single or bulk text messages to recipients on a specific date and time

Provides automatic text message replies to recipients

Provides automatic URL shortening to use less characters via text

Sends out multimedia via text messages, such as coupons, pictures, and audio

Offers features for personalizing text messages based on customer information or past behavior

Allows users to establish automated workflows and triggers to deliver transactional text messages

Uses external data sources to improve customer profiles.

Can be updated to accept new sources and types of data.

Can act as a content marketing platform.

Can engage with customers across any device with a consistent message.

Provides analysis of marketing program ROI and efficiency.

Predicts outcomes based on statistical models; can give insight to "what-if" scenarios.

Uses artificial intelligence to provide suggestions based on desired outcomes.

Test variations of a push notification on a portion of users and track conversions

Personalize messages with contextual data such as customer names or product recommendations

Integrate with third-party marketing or e-commerce software

Provides users the ability to dynamically segment their users based on varying criteria (i.e. email opens, product features, etc.).

Automates the testing and optimization of customer-facing messaging and campaigns.

Ability to uncover and visualize how users move through your website, marketing campaigns, and product(s).

Ability to measure product usage by feature, campaign performance by source, and other trending metrics.

Provides dashboards to combine and visualize quantitative and qualitive customer journey data.

Provides advanced data filtering capabilities to help users drill down, sort, filter, aggregate, and group customer journey data.

Ability to create visualizations or maps of past, current, or future customer journeys based on behavioral data.

Integrates with additional marketing analytics and other marketing, sales, and e-commerce-related software to provide one source of truth for customer journey analytics.

Provides the ability to setup automated alerts to drive targeted actions and customer experience improvements.

Empowers developers to intuitively integrate cloud communications functionality for their applications.

Grants high speed API calls for fast communications.

Enables a wide variety of communication types such as SMS, voice, video, etc.

Provides clear, effective documentation for API integrations.

Provides public user forums for support questions and help.

Connects users with professional support teams to troubleshoot and finetune integrations.

Provides pre-built or customizable performance reports

Automates tasks and features for added convenience

Offers a white labeling service for agencies or resellers to customize platform branding

Provides businesses with 5- to 6-digit short codes for running text marketing campaigns

Facilitates the integration of text messaging into existing business applications through an SMS gateway API

Allows users to drag and drop items and content to customize their site's look.

Provides ready-made templates for simplified landing page creation.

Allows users to edit a page's HTML or CSS code, or add custom code.

Allows users to upload and manage content such as photos, videos, and audio.

Creates mobile responsive pages for optimized viewing on mobile devices.

Gives users insight into unique pageviews, conversions, visitor location and device type, etc.

Optimizes content to increase search engine result rankings.

Allows users to generate text based on a text prompt.

Condenses long documents or text into a brief summary.

Allows users to generate text based on a text prompt.

Condenses long documents or text into a brief summary.

Allows users to generate text based on a text prompt.

Allows users to establish automated workflows and triggers to deliver transactional WhatsApp messages and notifications

Enables users to send mass WhatsApp marketing campaigns

Facilitates two-way WhatsApp messaging to encourage subscriber engagement and loyalty

Offers features for personalizing WhatsApp messages based on customer information or past behavior

Allow users to share promotions with subscribers via WhatsApp

Provides automated WhatsApp message replies to recipients

Deliver tailored promotions to specific audience segments

Facilitates the integration of WhatsApp messaging into existing business applications through WhatsApp Business API

Allow customers to browse, discover, research, purchase, and complete payment in real-time

Provides analytics on opt-ins, open and delivery rates, and click-throughs

Works across multiple software systems or databases

Capability to perform complex tasks without constant human input

Works across multiple software systems or databases

Improves performance based on feedback and experience

Anticipates needs and offers suggestions without prompting

Capability to perform complex tasks without constant human input

Improves performance based on feedback and experience

Anticipates needs and offers suggestions without prompting

Capability to perform complex tasks without constant human input

Works across multiple software systems or databases

Improves performance based on feedback and experience

Engages in human-like conversation for task delegation

Anticipates needs and offers suggestions without prompting

Makes informed choices based on available data and objectives

Capability to perform complex tasks without constant human input

Works across multiple software systems or databases

Improves performance based on feedback and experience

Engages in human-like conversation for task delegation

Anticipates needs and offers suggestions without prompting

Makes informed choices based on available data and objectives

Capability to perform complex tasks without constant human input

Ability to break down and plan multi-step processes

Works across multiple software systems or databases

Engages in human-like conversation for task delegation

Anticipates needs and offers suggestions without prompting

Makes informed choices based on available data and objectives

Capability to perform complex tasks without constant human input

Ability to break down and plan multi-step processes

Works across multiple software systems or databases

Improves performance based on feedback and experience

Anticipates needs and offers suggestions without prompting

Makes informed choices based on available data and objectives

Capability to perform complex tasks without constant human input

Capability to perform complex tasks without constant human input

Ability to break down and plan multi-step processes

Works across multiple software systems or databases

Works across multiple software systems or databases

Capability to perform complex tasks without constant human input

Ability to break down and plan multi-step processes

Works across multiple software systems or databases

Improves performance based on feedback and experience

Anticipates needs and offers suggestions without prompting

Makes informed choices based on available data and objectives

Capability to perform complex tasks without constant human input

Works across multiple software systems or databases

Improves performance based on feedback and experience

Anticipates needs and offers suggestions without prompting

Makes informed choices based on available data and objectives

Capability to perform complex tasks without constant human input

Works across multiple software systems or databases