Plan Type:
Small Business (least expensive plan)
Contacts:
20,000
Onboarding:
$1,999
Plan Type:
Pro (most expensive plan)
Contacts:
Unlimited
Onboarding:
FREE
Signup now & get a FREE onboarding session worth $1,199
Signup now & get a FREE onboarding session worth $1,199
EngageBay offers you the flexibility of monthly and annual payments. Our Basic plan costs $14.99 a month and our Pro plan costs $99/month. If you don’t need a dedicated IP or account manager, you can go for the $49.99/month Growth plan. For those looking for a free alternative to SharpSpring, we have a free-forever plan or a 14-day free trial on all paid plans.
When looking for SharpSpring alternatives, most business owners want lower prices, better value for their money. EngageBay offers 10X more contacts at one-tenth the price. Our Pro plan offers unlimited contacts for less than $100, while Sharpspring costs $399 for 1,000 contacts.
At EngageBay, we follow a usage-based pricing model. You get 5,000-20,000 FREE EMAILS depending on your plan. For more emails, you just buy email extension packs.
At EngageBay, we have monthly and annual payments for all plans. You can try out any plan for as many months as you like, before you pay for the full year. No need to hastily buy an annual plan and then regret wasting your money. If you’re unhappy with the platform, you can cancel anytime – this is another way EngageBay is friendly for small businesses!
You pay such a high amount so you would expect at least some customer-friendly features. One of the biggest annoyances of using SharpSpring is that it locks into your blog after installation. EngageBay doesn’t lock into your blog. When you decide to leave EngageBay, there will be no dependency with us. EngageBay is truly the SharpSpring alternative you were looking for!
EngageBay offers Marketing, Service (live chat and helpdesk), CRM and Sales modules. Customers can buy them separately or as a single all-in-one suite. The all-in-one suite offers powerful insights and reports, reduces data inconsistencies and duplications, eliminates the need for multiple software, provides a holistic view of each customer across various departments – and saves a lot of time and money in the process.
Though Sharpspring offers a powerful marketing automation tool, it is expensive and can take months and training, and costly contractual commitments to harness this power. EngageBay, on the other hand, can be up and running in minutes (with zero upfront costs and minimal training)!
Here is how EngageBay compares with SharpSpring at individual feature level.
SharpSpring is an over-priced software and remains unaffordable for most small and growing companies around the world. Let us look at the exact numbers. For the starter plan, Sharpspring charges $399 per month for just 1,000 contacts. For 20,000 contacts, you have to dish out a whopping $1,299/month. On the other hand, EngageBay is one of the most feature-rich software yet super affordable for businesses of any size. We offer unlimited contacts for $99, and you can get started for as low as $12/month!
Refer the pricing page for more details.
While both SharpSpring and EngageBay offer integrated sales, marketing, and service software for growing companies, EngageBay is much more affordable and simple to use – making it the right alternative to SharpSpring for small businesses.
EngageBay and SharpSpring both deliver sophisticated email marketing services advanced campaign management, drag-and-drop designer, in-depth reports, and more. But what makes EngageBay the better option for small businesses is the difference in pricing.
We offer unlimited contacts and 10X more emails at one-fourth the price. Plus, Sharpspring charges you a hefty onboarding fee. This makes EngageBay the best Sharpspring alternative for email marketing.
While both EngageBay and SharpSpring offer Marketing Automation functionality, EngageBay is simpler to use and offers more powerful marketing automation features at a much lower price. With EngageBay, you can create multi-step and multi-channel marketing automation campaigns in minutes using a simple but powerful visual builder. EngageBay is the best Sharpspring alternative for marketing automation, and comes at the most affordable cost.
Sales Enablement helps your sales team improve their efficiency. Automating sales processes can save your agents hours every single day – so they can focus on the most important task: selling. Unlike SharpSpring, setting up sales automations is simple and does not need long implementation cycles and experts. Access powerful sales features, including in-CRM telephony, SMS campaigns, drag-and-drop deal management, account-based marketing, custom leaderboards, proposal tracking, and more. Many of these features are not available in Sharpspring.
Signup now & get a FREE onboarding session worth $1,199
EngageBay and SharpSpring offer a feature-rich CRM suite for unlimited users for free. However, EngageBay’s free CRM system is much simpler to use and comes fully integrated with its marketing, sales, and customer support modules – making it a top Sharpspring competitor.
Though Sharpspring offers excellent web visitor analytics, you need to pay hundreds of dollars a month to get these features. Engagebay provides real-time notifications on customer events, like opening an email, clicking on a link, or visiting web pages. You can also implement automations for events such as creating new tasks for your agents to place calls, adding tags for better customer segmentation, and more.
You can get all of these features for under $100 a month. This advanced analytics part of EngageBay makes it the best SharpSpring alternative your money can buy.
EngageBay and SharpSpring both are at par with each other in their social automation features.
EngageBay offers a powerful way to engage web visitors and capture leads. Create cool web popups and show them to your web visitors at the right time. Boost sales by showing your website visitors the latest offers and discounts at the right time.
Both SharpSpring and EngageBay offer extensive API access to all the data points. EngageBay's API is available in Rest, Java, .Net, Javascript and PHP.
Sharpspring offers Xero and Freshbooks integrations through third-party automation applications like Zapier and Automate.io. EngageBay, on the other hand, offers in-CRM integration with Xero and Freshbooks. EngageBay also offers in-CRM Stripe integration for payments. This eliminates the need to use multiple platforms.
Reports are vital for businesses to monitor their growth. EngageBay’s holistic reporting module offers deep, insightful, and recurring insights – making it one of the best Sharpspring alternatives.
EngageBay’s Free Plan offers 1,000 branded emails at no cost so you have enough resources to leverage email marketing for growth in those early days.
You also get a landing pages.
On the other hand, Sharpspring does not offer a free plan. Their least expensive plan starts at $399/month.
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. A combined interface would create more complications and result in a steeper learning curve. At EngageBay, we like to keep things simple!
Though we have different sections for marketing, sales, and customer service, the unified CRM ensures that everyone has access to the same data. This reduces and almost nullifies the effect of miscommunication 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 reach a whopping $1,999.
We don’t serve the same set of customers as SharpSpring. Our pricing and design are optimized for smaller and younger businesses that aspire to be million-dollar, multinational corporations one day. Unlike SharpSpring, EngageBay has no mandatory onboarding fee. If you get stuck anywhere, our support associates are there to help you.
Sharpspring’s plans operate on a sliding-scale model, which means you have to pay more as your contacts increase. For example, Sharpspring’s ‘Small Business’ plan starts at $399/month for 1,000 contacts. As your contacts increase to 20,000, you need to pay $1299/month.
If you need Pro features, you need the Enterprise or Agency plans with custom pricing.
In contrast, EngageBay offers:
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.
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. That’s why EngageBay’s all-in-one suite offers marketing, sales, and customer support in a single package.
We have aligned our pricing with the budgets of most growing companies. Our most expensive package, the Pro, costs less than $100/month. With this plan, you get priority support, account-based marketing, pro tools, thousands of emails, unlimited contacts, and unlimited web forms. We also professionally onboard you – absolutely free of charge!
With awesome software backed by a dedicated support team, make every part of your marketing, sales & helpdesk more effective.
