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phpList Reviews & Product Details

phpList delivers Open Source email marketing, including analytics, list segmentation, content personalisaton and bounce processing. Extensive technical features and a secure and stable codebase are the result of over 17 years of continuous development. Used in 95 countries, available in 20+ languages, and used to send 25 billion email campaigns last year. Deploy it with your own SMTP server, or get a free hosted account at http://phplist.com.

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phpList

Languages Supported

Czech, German, English, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Albanian, Serbian

Product Description

phpList is an email and newsletter marketing tool.

Overview by

Sam Tuke (CEO at Lightmeter ◎ Mentor)

Value at a Glance

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Perceived Cost

$$$$$

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phpList Reviews (16)

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Marcin K.

Founder

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

5/27/2024

"Easy and works"

5/5

What do you like best about phpList?

Easy to setup, works, free and open source Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about phpList?

Nothing major comes to my mind. Nothing to dislike Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Marketing and Advertising

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

2/24/2022

"Phplist the functional open source email marketing software"

4/5

What do you like best about phpList?

It is a very configurable and easily manageable set of email marketing tools that is written in php. It provided templates for multiple email campaigns as well as functionality for autorewponses. I recommend this software for any business needing email marketing and customer list management. This is a great opensource solution that is best of all free! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about phpList?

It lacks some functionalities of commercial software. It takes some self learning and knowledge of using opensource software is a must. It takes a little time to get the bounces configured properly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering phpList:

This is a great email marketing software for any company on a budget! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is phpList solving and how is that benefiting you?

I am sending email marketing campaigns and customer email letters through phplist. It allows us to sent email for a cost effective price. Free! It allows us to market more effectively. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Fardeen S.

Information Technology Desktop Support

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

10/22/2021

"The best affordable email marketing software"

4/5

What do you like best about phpList?

We can create funnels using subscribing pages as landing pages with forms. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about phpList?

Must develop easy to use landing page. By now we need some HTML experience to overcome this. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Internet

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

11/8/2021

"Powerful email marketing tool"

4.5/5

What do you like best about phpList?

It's free, open-source software and powerful Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about phpList?

Nothing, it does everything I need to do Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ashmeet S.

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

7/23/2020

"Best in the lot for broadcasting securely"

4.5/5

What do you like best about phpList?

1. Very intuitive- The functions and features are self-explanatory and easy to understand, even for a new user.

2. Flexible Features- The features are much more advanced than the competitors. I have used multiple such platforms and found the functions in phpList to be superior.

3. Much more secure than the competitors in terms of preserving data.

4. Superior UI interface. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about phpList?

1. Cluttered- While the features and more advanced and very intuitive, the range of functions can be confusing for a new user.

2. The way to define the audience can be made more user friendly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Massimiliano G.

Art Director & Web Developer

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

11/19/2019

"phpList, email management has never been easier"

4/5

What do you like best about phpList?

phpList is a historical software for direct email marketing based, as the name suggests, on PHP language. phpList offers its users maximum flexibility and reliability in managing promotional campaigns via email. Thanks to this tool it is possible to generate targeted messages for each type of customer, in order to improve the effectiveness of the marketing campaign.

phpList allows you to divide the subscribers of email marketing services into specific lists (as for example Mailchimp) and allows you to create and use multiple models.

phpList prevents a recipient from receiving the same message several times, even if his address is present in more than one list. In addition, it allows you to make a further submission exclusively for users who have registered after sending the newsletter. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about phpList?

First of all, the real phpList problem is the UI. phpList uses an old user interface typical of applications created by experienced PHP Developers but not by UX / UI Designers. No advanced infographics: data reports are not visible with bar or pie charts, or any other graphic element. There is no mobile App and currently the Web Application is not easy to manage via the browser on a smartphone. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering phpList:

phpList, as you can guess from the name itself, was developed in the PHP programming language and is meant to be run on Linux or Windows servers with Apache and MySQL. phpList must therefore be used by those looking for an independent DEM system to be installed on their server with these features. Furthermore it must be taken into consideration that it is necessary to have a server optimized for mass mailing. The newsletter must be sent on a dedicated SMTP and the number of emails must be unlimited by number and preferably by size. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is phpList solving and how is that benefiting you?

phpList is free and Open Source. phpList, thanks to PHP language, easily integrates with numerous CMS (Content Management System) and eCommerce platforms like WordPress, WooCommerce, Magento, Prestashop, Drupal, Joomla, phpBB and others. Service subscription data can be used by system administrators to filter recipients for targeted campaigns. A very useful feature is the ability to schedule marketing campaigns, planning the date and time of sending emails. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Animation

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

10/9/2020

Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores.

"Maybe"

1.5/5

What do you like best about phpList?

Game part is the best and most important part. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about phpList?

It’s slow to load the information. It’s got to

Load faster Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Daniel C.

Senior Data Analyst

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

6/19/2019

"A simple tool to manage email lists."

2.5/5

What do you like best about phpList?

phpList allows the user to manage their email lists in a simple way, it has useful functions, which are not very difficult to learn. When managing mailing lists, it provides the ability to perform tasks such as:

* Send messages as text or email.

* Customize the emails.

* Allow customers to not receive more mails in case they do not want it.

* Send attachments

* If a mailing fails, pick it up from where it left off. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about phpList?

It lacks a good report of the statistics, making it difficult to analyze the data, in addition, the interface of phpList could be more user friendly, it is somewhat outdated but it is still functional. It also has a very poor mobile platform Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering phpList:

If you want a tool that allows you to easily automate your email list management, you can try phpList, however, if you want to perform more complex tasks you could examine other tools. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is phpList solving and how is that benefiting you?

It allowed to optimize the diffusion of plans and services of the company, as well as the expansion of our clientele. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Miguel moises P.

Ingeniero de proyecto

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

8/9/2019

""a great phpList marketing tool""

5/5

What do you like best about phpList?

PHPList provides editors as add-ons, CKEditor being the best of the batch. PhpList includes complex statistics, such as subscribers who chose not to receive messages in the future.

It is also great because it has many payment facilities for premium plans, it can be canceled by messages or by subscribers. It is very comfortable to work with this platform and it is very easy to use quickly and intuitively. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about phpList?

I think the customer service could be more intuitive but in general it is in excellent mail software. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering phpList:

To all those people who are considering this software, I personally and professionally recommend it, it is safe for all subscribers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is phpList solving and how is that benefiting you?

Send complete emails with creatives and lines easily, it is one of its many advantages. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Javier S.

Web Developer

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

3/21/2019

"Free, very quick, easy to use and rock solid. "

3.5/5

What do you like best about phpList?

It has many payment facilities for premium plans. It can be paid by messages or by subscribers. It is very comfortable to work with this platform and it is very easy to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about phpList?

I wish it had predesigned templates to avoid wasting time when creating emails. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering phpList:

It is an excellent platform for sending mass emails. I do not recommend it for complex campaigns that need to track statistics. phpList is for something much simpler, promotions of products or companies. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is phpList solving and how is that benefiting you?

In my business we use it daily to promote our services. It is very easy to use that in just a couple of minutes you can make your first campaigns. It is the ideal product to get started in email marketing campaigns and its price makes it very affordable for most small businesses. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.