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Supported Operating System(s):
Mac OS, Web browser (OS agnostic), Windows 8About Autopilot
Autopilot is a visual marketing software that enables users to create marketing campaigns and manage lead conversions. The product offers multi-channel marketing capabilities, such as online, email, in-app, SMS, and traditional mail communications.
Features include capturing leads from multiple websites, blogs or apps, organizing leads into different lists or folders, and contact management that can sync with users' existing customer relationship management (CRM) systems.
Autopilot offers a drag-and-drop interface that allows users to automate marketing workflows and send personalized messages, thank you postcards, and SMS messages. Autopilot also offers other capabilities such as viewing user activities in real-time and monitoring campaign return on ...
Email status
Supported Operating System(s):
Mac OS, Web browser (OS agnostic), Windows 8Average User Ratings
Overall
Ease-of-use
4.5
Value for money
4.5
Customer support
4.5
Functionality
4.5
Likelihood to Recommend
Not likely
Very likely
February 2020
Kate from Alongside (Formerly Qimple)
Company Size: 11-50 employees
Industry: Computer Software
Time Used: Less than 6 months
Review Source: GetApp
Ease-of-use
5.0
Value for money
5.0
Customer support
5.0
Functionality
5.0
February 2020
A great tool, with great visual cues, powerful automation and integrations
Great platform, easy to learn and use, engaging for the team, awesome customer support, truly helpful content. No regrets. It's perfect for teams that are just starting out.
Pros
Because of the visual workflow (or journeys, as they appropriately call them) builder, this is an easy platform to catch on to. Getting the team to dive in and build our or edit journeys is quick and simple and doesn't require two days of reading documentation and tutorials to understand. Autopilot has done an amazing job of making the building of the workflows collaborative as well. Being able to annotate, comment, add images etc helps not only the team understand the goals, but is killer for reminding you why you built something the way you did a month later. The email, CRM, Slack integrations are all easy to set up and use as well.
Cons
I believe they are working on it since there have been a lot of updates recently, but the email manager could use a bit more love - it just doesn't stand out as well against the rest of the platform. Building and editing an individual email is simple enough, but managing the full list can be tricky. The reporting on the messaging bot is also lacking - but that feature is easy to use and helpful. It's easy to trust that they will continue to improve this.
Reasons for Choosing Autopilot
The visual designer and the confidence that I could get up and running fast enough.
October 2018
Garrett from Kudos®
Company Size: 11-50 employees
Industry: Computer Software
Review Source: Capterra
Ease-of-use
3.0
Value for money
4.0
Customer support
3.0
Functionality
3.0
October 2018
A Great Alternative to Full-Fledged Automation Software
Autopilot is a great solution if you're looking for something to automate a sequence of emails. I wouldn't consider it a replacement for full-fledged marketing automation software... yet, but it's a fantastic tool for email automation. Just keep in mind that there are a few hiccups that you'll potentially need to navigate such as email SpamAssassin errors (always use mail-tester.com to check your emails) and CRM sync issues.
Pros
It seems to me that Autopilot does only one thing - but it does that one thing REALLY well. I tested Autopilot briefly for a few weeks as an alternative to the drip program functionality in our Marketing Automation software. I was extremely impressed with how easy it is to build a drip program (called a "Journey" within Autopilot), as well as with the breadth of logic and functionality offered. Autopilot really sets itself apart with some amazing - seriously amazing - integrations and functionality that our Automation platform doesn't offer, such as sending SMS text messages or physical postcards. I really like that Autopilot offers in-app chat support, and that you generally don't need to wait longer than 5 minutes to get someone to help you out.
Cons
During the few weeks I tested Autopilot, I found a few issues that prevented me from really continuing to use the software for my use-case. The integration with Salesforce was clunky and un-intuitive, and most concerningly, it seemed that when the platform saw leads that already existed in Salesforce, it would stop them from progressing through the drip program. This was a real frustration, and I ended up just disconnecting Autopilot from the CRM in order to finish my test. Another concern we had was that after testing the emails I had configured using mail-tester.com, there was an error identified that could only be resolved by getting a dedicated IP address - something which adds a significant additional monthly cost to the cost of the program.
May 2020
Adrien from Toucan Toco
Company Size: 11-50 employees
Industry: Marketing and Advertising
Time Used: Less than 2 years
Review Source: Capterra
Ease-of-use
4.0
Value for money
3.0
Customer support
3.0
Functionality
4.0
May 2020
Good tool but some things to improve
Autopilot has been a good tool to use but we had too many issues with the tool. There were a lot of disconnections with Pipedrive. The e-mail features are not that great.
Pros
I like the simplicity and the design of the tool. It's very easy to understand and to set up. There a lot of connections with other platforms such ad Google Ads Facebook and CRMs.
Cons
I do not like the price model, it's quite expansive. Be careful. And the connectivity with Pipedrive is not very good.
Reasons for Choosing Autopilot
We had already a CRM so we did not see the value of purchasing ActiveCampaign.
Reasons for Switching to Autopilot
We needed more features.
March 2016
Jeffrey from SERVUS (whatisservus.com)
Company Size: 2-10 employees
Industry: Computer Software
Time Used: Less than 2 years
Review Source: GetApp
Ease-of-use
4.0
Value for money
5.0
Customer support
5.0
March 2016
Incredible Value. Make use of the templates. Explore the possibilities.
As a founder of a software startup, our team needed a solution to routinely engage our users/customers with information to help them with their on-boarding experience. Autopilot was the perfect fit! We had a lot of fun building the journeys and experimenting with what worked (and didn't work) for our team. Their templates gave us some great starting points, and helped us to open up our minds with ways to engage with our users in ways that we hadn't thought of. Of course, those same principals could easily be applied to outbound marketing campaigns with complex engagement logic, which we haven't started to implement as this time. Overall, we are very satisfied with Autopilot!
Pros
- Slack Integration - Segment Integration - Easy to build complex logic, visually - Dashboard to keep track of latest events - Many journey and email templates to get you started - Built-in email open/link tracking is helpful to find your engaged users - Good support - Great blog with ideas of how others use Autopilot - They are continuing to develop cool new features - User idea voting for features not yet developed
Cons
- Ability to access email / Slack templates seems inefficient (need to dig into the journey to find them) - With all of the capabilities that Autopilot offers, you can easily have your custom contact lists get out of hand - remember to KISS so that others on your team can pick up where you left off
April 2019
Richard from gen xyz media
Company Size: 1 employee
Industry: Marketing and Advertising
Time Used: Less than 12 months
Review Source: Capterra
Ease-of-use
5.0
Value for money
5.0
Customer support
5.0
Functionality
5.0
April 2019
Great for automating Marketing requirements
Very good. Customer service is incredible, so I feel like any issues or objectives I want to hit are fully supported by the team. I hope this only improves as they grow and doesn't become watered down.
Pros
You can plan multiple campaigns visually and then share the boards (completed with annotations) with the client. This means everyone is on the same page and understands how the campaign will proceed. The customer support is also second to none - really good. It's also very visual - as someone who gets easily distracted and bored easily, being able to visualise campaigns in a physical way really helps.
Cons
The reporting in the email side of things could be better. Mailchimp, for example, provides decent reporting with easy actions (like automatic re-send to non-openers' - AP requires you do smart segmenting (which is actually better in the long term), but the mental journey to sort this out would be impossible without the customer support (so it isn't an issue).