EngageBay’s Free Plan provides $20 worth of emails for free. So you have enough resources to leverage email marketing for growth in those early days.

You also get up to 5 free landing pages.

SharpSpring doesn’t give you more than a stack of emails for free. Yes, they have unlimited contacts but you can only store them. There is no list creation or email marketing available in SharpSpring’s Forever Free plan. This makes EngageBay the best SharpSpring competitor.

At EngageBay, we have identified mis-communication between the marketing and sales team as the biggest productivity killer.

We divided the two sections as both teams perform a largely different set of tasks. We could create a combined interface. It would have become complicated and then you would take a long time to learn on your own.

Be rest assured. Our design works for you and everyone in your team. Both sections, marketing and sales, access the same data. This reduces and almost nullifies the effect of mis-communication between the teams.

On top of astronomical prices, SharpSpring also charges an onboarding fee; they train you and your team for this fee. Depending on the plan you buy, SharpSpring’s onboarding fee could be anywhere between $600 and $3000.

We don’t serve the same set of customers like SharpSpring. Our pricing and design are optimized for smaller and younger business who aspire to be million-dollar, multinational corporations one day.

Unlike SharpSpring, EngageBay has no mandatory on-boarding fee. If you get stuck anywhere, our support associates are there to help you. No other SharpSpring competitor gives you these features.

Even with their $50/month Starter plan, SharpSpring’s email marketing features are limited:

• You cannot send more than 5 emails per month to each contact.
• List segmentation is included but its criteria are limited.
• No landing pages, no calls-to-action, no social media integration, no a/b testing, no triggers, no marketing automation in SharpSpring $50/month plan. For using any of these functionalities, you will have to invest in extra tools.

On SharpSpring, all these functions will cost $800/month paid yearly. There is also a mandatory on-boarding fee of $3000 that you can’t skip. It takes over $15,000 of initial payment to get started - and that’s even before adding the taxes.

You need landing pages, A/B testing, detailed segmentation, and marketing automation to have a growth-enabling ecosystem. It helps your marketing team thrive and achieve or even exceed your marketing goals.

At EngageBay, you can enjoy all these features for just $79.99/month. Your payment goes down even further to just $63.99/month, if you purchase an yearly contract. No onboarding fees, no hidden charges, and guaranteed phone support included in this plan.

If you do decide to take the plunge and pay for SharpSpring, you’ll be charged more than just your monthly fee. There’s both a mandatory on-boarding session fee and the yearly payment, both of which you pay at the start of becoming a SharpSpring user.

For availing significant functionalities in SharpSpring, you will need to buy their Professional plan, which costs $800 per month. Along with the onboarding fee of $3000 and monthly payments of $800 for all twelve months, your first payment to SharpSpring will be $12,600 (+ taxes)!

In contrast, EngageBay offers you:

• All features in your plan and email/chat support accessible without any extra onboarding or training fee.
• Affordable plans for growing businesses. Our Pro plan costs you less than $80/month. We also have discounts on yearly payment on all plans. The yearly version of the Pro plan costs less than $64/month.

Theoretically (i.e. before taxes), this means you pay less with for EngageBay for the entire year, than what would you pay SharpSpring for just one month. Give your hard-working employees a raise or take them on a vacation with all the money saved on not paying the onboarding fee.

For more details, check our pricing page.

List creation and management, email sequences, and email/phone support - all these features cost at least $50/month with SharpSpring. EngageBay understands the budget constraints for small businesses.

All these features are included in our Basic plan starting from $6.99/month if you bill annually and $9.99/month for monthly billing.

Need more features? Our Growth plan provides more features for less than $25/month (yearly contract). The next higher plan, Pro plan, costs you less than $64 and it covers almost all features we have to offer!

Your budget isn’t unlimited, nor is your time. By trying to learn and integrate several other programs or software into your current system, you waste time. Yet manually doing all your marketing sucks up even more time.

Our founders are owners of startups and small businesses just like you. We understand that money is tight in those early days. We also know how important it is to successfully market your new company. SharpSpring’s audience seems to be mid-sized or even Fortune 500 companies with unlimited budgets instead of small businesses like yours.

That’s why we’re here. EngageBay is made for small businesses who want all the marketing features of SharpSpring but without the hefty price tag.

We have aligned our pricing with budgets of most growing companies. Our most expensive package, the Enterprise package, costs less than $200/month . With that, you get priority support, account-based marketing, thousands of emails, and unlimited web forms and contacts.