Ontraport Features

Allows administrators to customize to accommodate their unique processes. Includes ability to create custom objects, fields, rules, calculations, and views.

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.

Allows consuming, publishing and editing content from a central interface. Content management for CRM systems might include presentations, documents, images and other related electronic files.

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.

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.

The system has a large and interactive community of users.

Pagination, page headers and titles, meta tags and URL structure all contribute well to site SEO.

Able to build out different and multiple taxonomies to store and index content.

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

Provides features to allow scaling for large organizations or an expansive web presence.

Enables users to view and interact with the same content in multiple languages.

Access pre-built and custom reports and dashboards.

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.

Syncs lead data within the sales database for consistency and accuracy

Provides analysis on lead scores, funnel insights, and both open and closed opportunities

Store and retrieve information associated to customer contacts and accounts. Track company-wide communication and information about contacts and accounts.

Manage partners by tracking channel partner leads and sales opportunities. Provide a partner portal to collaborate with channels on sales opportunities and to share product, pricing, quoting, ordering, and training information

Manage sales opportunities through their lifecycle from lead to order. Track stages, values, and probabilities of close. Manage sales pipelines by individual sales rep, team, region, and company-wide.

Manage and track tasks and activities. Assign due dates and integrate to calendars to manage daily schedules and priorities.

Assign and manage sales quotas and territories. Track progress against quotas. Change as needed.

Allows users to sync their Email, Calendar and Contact tools with their CRM system. Includes Microsoft Outlook and Google integration.

Enter product/part numbers and manage the prices associated with them. Typically functionality allows users to add products and prices to opportunities and quotes if these modules are provided within the same system.

Allows users to create a quote to be provided to a customer that contain at least products, prices and associated discounts. Order management allows users to process orders that contain products, prices and associated discounts.

Management of contracts made with customers. Contract management includes negotiating the terms and conditions in contracts and ensuring compliance with the terms and conditions, as well as documenting and agreeing on any changes or amendments that may arise during its implementation or execution.

Allows users to send email to contacts in bulk. Common features include: Built in Email templates, social media integration, Subscriber list management, sign up forms, success rate reports, AB testing and auto-responders.

Optimizes the process for organizations to develop and deploy multiple-channel marketing campaigns to target groups or individuals and track the effect of those campaigns, by customer segment, over time.

Allows users to manage and track leads though a process. The lead process typically involves steps such as: 1. Lead Generation, 2. Customer Inquiry, Inquiry Capture, Lead Filtering, Lead Grading, Lead Distribution and Lead Qualification.

Enables analysis of effectiveness of an organizations various marketing activities

Tracks issues/help requests reported by customers through the resolution process.

Provides a convenient way for customers to get answers to inquiries, post service issues, place orders, view order histories, and gain access to other information contained in the knowledge base.

Information repository that provides a means for information to be collected, organized, shared, searched and utilized. Allows customers to get answers to common questions.

Allows customer support professionals access to all information required to support the customer including customer information, case history and related customer social activity. Common features include: call recording, analytics, workforce management, call script management, and compliance management.

Enables analysis of customer support activities to optimize customer support professionals, processes and tools.

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.

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.

Integrate with payment processing software and payment gateways.

Integrate with financial management systems such as accounting and ERP.

Integrate with software that manages customers, sales, and marekting.

Enables multiple users to interact by sharing information to achieve a common goal. Social collaboration focus's on the identification of groups and collaboration spaces in which messages are explicitly directed at the group and the group activity feed is seen the same way by everyone

Use public social networks to listen and engage with customers. Allows users to filter what’s important and respond quickly. Often this functionality allows questions and requests from customers on social networks to case management.

Allows software to be easily used on multiple mobile devices include phone and tablet devices.

Enables reporting of all data contained within the system. Typically contains standard reports as well as the ability to create ad-hoc reports.

An easy to read, often single page, real-time user interface, showing a graphical presentation of the current status and historical trends of an organization’s Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to enable instantaneous and informed decisions to be made at a glance

Enables projection of sales revenue, based on historical sales data, analysis of market surveys and trends, and salespersons' estimates.

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.

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

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

Drafting and publishing content is intuitive and non-technical.

Formatting content is straight-forward and painless.

Keep track of incrementally changing versions of the same content.

Available gadgets and modules suit the needs of your site and are easily incorperated onto the page.

Can easily institute an approval routing process between authors and editors.

Easily schedule content to be published at a certain time and in a certain order.

System allows the storage and management of rich media files.

Able to search your content based on keyword, metadata, tags, etc.

Content--both published and yet-to-be published--can be intuitively managed, edited, tagged, approved, and stored.

Provides an email for users to field communication within their website builder too.

Manages content such as blogs, marketing tools, newsletters, etc.

Allows administrators to create role or password-based permissions to ensure users see only what they should see.

Website Builder

The software provides a wide breadth of free or purchasable site templates that are attractive and suited to your webpages' needs.

Effective mobile templates are available and easily customizable.

Consistent design elements across sites (including personalized brand components) unites webpages into a coherent online presence.

The visual appearance of webpages can be easily customized to fit your site’s needs.

Aligns lead scores with predefined lead distribution criteria

Matches and assigns leads to the correct sales representative

Determines which leads should be prioritized and then accelerates them up the pipeline

Integrates with lead capture and lead intelligence tools to discover leads

Creates and assigns scoring system to rank the viability of leads

Integrates with CRM or marketing automation tools to contextualize lead data

Reports on and analyzes lead scores to determine the conversion rate of lead opportunities

Aligns lead scores and strategy with existing sales operations

Provides ready-made templates for simplified website creation.

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

Permits HTML-savvy administrators to input code to uniquely customize their website.

Offers customers the option to purchase a unique domain name.

Provides insight into words that would increase search engine optimization.

Gives users insight into unique pageviews, subscribers, location of viewers, etc.

Provides tools that aid in user marketing efforts.

Allows users to turn their website into an online store by offering e-commerce capabilities.

Hosts domains within the tool.

Automates in-system tasks and provides reminders and details for manual tasks for sales team members to complete.

Integrates tightly with email inbox and allows the scheduling and tracking of email outreach and correspondence.

Provides sales dialer functionality or integrates tightly with dialer software, with useful automation and high-quality calls.

Provides relevant automation in sales channels outside of email and calls, like social media posts, SMS text messages and more.

Provides two-way integration with sales CRM: (1) Tracking sales team actions and prospect responses and (2) Pulling CRM data to populate and personalize sales outreach.

Integrates with calendar software so users can seamlessly schedule calls.

Automatically assign strategic leads and accounts to individual reps in a shared bucket for anyone to work on.

Retains and incorporates company-approved messaging and presentations into emails, calls, meetings, etc.

Orchestrates automated sales tasks and outreach across a number of channels (email, calls, social media, etc.) and/or integrated systems.

Reports on the effectiveness of an entire outreach workflow as well as the effectiveness of specific marketing materials, messaging, outreach tactics, and team members.

Surfaces relevant insights about how a team member can perform better, either with improved sales techniques or prospect-specific hints.

Provides gamifaction features to rank sales reps on performance

Enables users to send mass text message campaigns

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

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

Allows users to leave notes or comments on emails or relevant cases.

Provides a dedicated space or a thread feature that allows for long-form discussion.

Offer in-application assignment and task tracking functionality.

Allows users to create and follow predetermined workflows attached to actions.

Allows users to create canned answers or templates for email responses.

Integrates without outside software to provide additional functionality or pull information.

Provides a tagging system to allow users to sort emails by relevant subject.

Analyzes trends in email content and resolution.

Tracks performance and productivity of users inside the application.

Tracks email analytics like emails opened, how long the email was opened for, etc.

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

Text enables landline phones so users can receive text messages sent to an existing business number

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

Manage open opportunities for new or existing customers.

Track all open and closed orders by customer, or by product and plan.

Identify opportunities to upsell and cross sell based on product usage.

Plans can be renewed automatically or manually, when changes are required.

Track the financial performance of various types of packages.

Create deals that combine multiple products and plans, with differrent pricing

Monitor plan changes such as upgrades and downgrades, or cancellations.

Ability to group standard plans and products to create bundles

Assign standard monthly and yearly prices to products, plans, and packages

Define standard and custom discounts that can be applied to one or more products and plans

Analyze pricing data to identify opportunities to improve prices.

Ability to create and send invoices automatically at predefined or custom frequencies.

Consolidate invoices so customers can make one payment for multiple bills.

Adjust invoices to handle exceptions and correct errors.

Provide the option to combine recurring, one-time, and usage based billing

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.

Enables users to test changes to a page by administering the change to a portion of visitors and measuring conversion.

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.

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.

Allows users to create lead prioritization rules to prioritize the msot important bueyrs and customers.

Provides lead scoring features that allow user to target leads that are the most qualified and likely to engage

Provides features that allow users to identify and automate the best time to send out emails or other sales engagement communcations

Provides features that allow users to have insight into buyer profiles such as likelihood to respond to emails and calls.

Provides AI and machine learning features that offer predictive recommendations no how to engage with buyers based on historical buyer behavior.

Customer Support

Allows users to add custom fields to forms that aren't already on the templates

Enables forms to hide or show certain fields based on respondents' answers

Allows users to create forms with more than one page

Gives users the ability to customize the design of forms (e.g. logo, brand colors, fonts, etc.)

Enables forms to be embedded onto a website without having to create code from scratch

Can used without an internet connection

Sends notifications when a completed form is recieved

Contains integrations with payment processors, enabling users to accept payments through forms

Allows users to build, distribute and access forms from a mobile device

Allows users to generate text based on a text prompt.

Allows users to generate text based on a text prompt.

Allows users to generate text based on a text prompt.

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

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

Works across multiple software systems or databases

Engages in human-like conversation for task delegation

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

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

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

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

Makes informed choices based on available data and objectives