Kit Reviews: 4.4/5 — Solid Choice

This platform allows us to maintain a fluidity of work through email marketing. You get great performance and satisfactory productivity, you can use its automation to save time, in addition to creating a customer funnel, it is easy to use, powerful and functional, the cost is more affordable compared to other software, also the system is dockable with employees so it is easier to adapt to their tools very complete and I like it.

We have obtained good results with this platform and we have not had problems, although if it presents some errors and its learning curve may be a bit high, the rest it seems to me a good choice at a low cost. The system must be more fluid for the automation and services of the tools.

We used this platform as it is more robust and solid, at first we used mailchimp but our list grew quickly and did not meet our needs. We carry out an automated segmentation to our list, we can send an email to our potential clients, each subscriber is tagged in a link function that when clicked, a purchase they made, forms and much more. In general, it is complete, it fully supplies the needs.

The Double Opt-In amazing feature which helps create a better and relevant email list is supported by Convertkit in a unique manner that will not impact your conversion rate. Sending emails again to prospects who haven't opened your email at first. Way easy to use than Mailchimp and has clear segmentations.

If you are an agency then it can get a bit expensive for managing multiple clients. It is much costlier than competitors in the industry. Since it's still a developing product, many electronic commerce products are yet not supported for integration.

I have extensively used Convertkit for email campaign automation. The best feature being Sequences which will send emails sequentially by which we are able to send emails as per our convenience and time. We have also been able to create landing pages from the tool itself.

I like how when I was sending emails out with convertkit, I got a 23% open rate. That may sound low, but I read the average is about 10% now! I have been using it for almost 2 weeks now and have found it to be a good solution for email marketing.

They don't allow you to import a large list, which sucks because it stopped us from testing convertkit with most of our customers. However, with the small sample we were allowed to import, it performed well.

I'm able to send emails automated instead of writing individual emails which allows marketing at scale.

This service is great for setting up tagging and automations, especially when just starting out. It has made it very easy to use.

Landing pages are very basic and not really structured for converting well. Some of the analytics are a little unclear.

I am able to contact my list regularly, keep segments separated, organize webinar sequences and follow ups easily, etc.

Convertkit allows me to draft, format and schedule e-newsletter mailings. I can add images, links, alternative text, etc. I appreciate that I can A/B test email subject lines, and view detailed open rate statistics once a campaign has been completed!

The learning curve is a little steep. I wish it were more intuitive at the beginning, but after a few times, you get the hang of it!

Drafting, formatting, and scheduling e-newsletter mailings.

My favorite part of using Convertkit is the tagging system. Convertkit is an overall reliable and affordable autoresponder. I do not consider myself a technically inclined person, but it found my way around this application fairly quickly.

I have had a handful of “glitchy” incidences (i.e.: broadcast did not send immediately, link not working properly in email, etc.) that we’re frustrating. Customer support has always been speedy and helpful though.

Convertkit is my primary autoresponder for my info. product based business. It integrates well with WordPress, and I use it often to create and deliver lead magnets, among other things. It’s an affordable way for me to keep in touch with my growing subscriber list, and it helps me to organize subscribers based on purchases through the tagging system.

I've only used ConvertKit for about a year and have had a good experience with it. I switched to ConvertKit from MailChimp after hearing so many rave reviews from other business owners. It's email automation features are second to none I've encountered. You can also integrate it with many third parties

It doesn't have nearly as many features as Mailchimp. It's also expensive compared to other systems. It doesn't have a landing page builder.

Email automation and taking control of my email marketing strategy

I love the ability to embed automations on client websites. It is nice to create an opt-in callout box on the site and Convertkit automatically follows up with an email chain.

I often find formatting does not carry over when I duplicate emails. The text often reverts to be smaller or takes on a different style.

As I mentioned before, we are using Convertkit to embed email automation chains on websites. My team and I have realized this is beneficial for gathering new email addresses and following up.

The broadcast and tag combination makes it easy to manage subscribers. I also enjoy the ability to tag and group subscribers into distinct groups, whether that's organizing by subscriber date or by email or by name, etc. This organization lets me email out to smaller sample groups instead of emailing the whole subscriber base and risking many unsubscriptions.

Too many features gets confusing, there are many layers to the software (which isn't bad, it just makes it moderately hard to figure the whole software).

Outreach, subscriber organization, and emailing lists. We're able to tag subscribers easily and efficiently

Responsiveness of CS if there are any issues when building broadcasts, forms or land pages.

Limited design for broadcasts and forms.

Conversion rates for emails to determine IRR on email marketing campaigns.

Convert kit makes it easy to set up newsletters, email autoresponders (visually) and the A/B testing is so easy to understand to someone who has a huge phobia of tech (like me.) When I was too lazy to set up a website, Convertkit was a lifesaver because they allow you to create landing pages and I was able to start collecting emails before I ever laid a finger on my website. I tried two other email systems before convertkit and the deliverability is waaaaay better. My email open rate went up but my emails didn't change. It's one of the reasons I am definitely sticking with convertkit. Last, the support with convertkit is amazing!!! They are fast and super polite. There are very few companies whose support I am impressed with but they are definitely one of them. I had a billing error happen around June and they fixed it in less than 30 minutes.

Convertkit is missing some crucial things. The template selection is scarce, so I create my own which takes way longer. Seriously, I live for templates and they need an upgrade. I would love if you could set up your own domain like you can in someother programs. especially since you can create landing pages. I really wish the analytics were more detailed. Convertkit literally gives you the basics and thats it. At the very least they need to make it so you can integrate google analytics. I also don't like that I am so limited in the editor. Maybe that's what keeps the deliver rate sky high but I can't even use my brand fonts.

I am solving the problem of being able to send emails that actually make it to my email list. AND having a pretty self explanitory interface so that everything is easy to figure out on my own or look up.

Tags! The ability to add tags to users, to create autosequences, and ability to easily embed forms and ability to segment emails.

Lots of emails don't make it to the user's inbox and that was one of the top claims that Convertkit used to have -- deliverability.

Email marketing. Being able to communicate with our community.

I love that I can sendan email to a small list of subscribers who are interested in a certain type of information. This prevents me from sending the email to people who are not interested thus avoiding spam complaints or unsubscribing.

I don't like that there is no drag and drop functionality, because it makes it somewhat difficult for a person without technical skills to adapt to the system.

I can get up top of my email marketing needs with Convertkit thanks to their very useful analytics. The statistics provided by them has helped me make excellent business decisions. I can see at a glance if we are experience a dip in our email list, and make changes to increase my list. I can determine where my new subscribers are coming from and they use targeted list-building. Converkit allows me to see the conversion rate (or how many visitors became subscribers for each list-building optin offer I create.

What I love most is that a subscriber can be given different tags based on links they've clicked, forms they've filled out, etc. And then those tags are available for segmentation. They just unveiled a new visual automation tool. It's pretty powerful and it really helps visualize the paths customers are taking through our email sequences.

I dislike that some simple things are missing from their offerings. For example, it's impossible to add a few radio buttons to an email signup form and have those trigger some tags. If you're coming from MailChimp, you may notice a few things that seemed super easy on MailChimp that are just missing on ConvertKit. But other than that, it really is a pretty decent platform.

We're sending our email marketing through ConvertKit. We've seen it help us organize our subscriber list, gain new subscribers, and communicate with them (mostly) easily and quickly.

Easy to use. Has everything you need. Tag subscribers.

Cannot format email with beautiful template like mailchimp.

Email sequences.

ConvertKit allows you to set up simple automations in order to manage your email lists. While this isn't the most robust system in the world, it is perfect for companies just getting started with email marketing who do not yet need all the bells and whistles that come with solutions such as Ontraport and Infusionsoft. I also love how you can create simple landing pages.

Their form builder is very bare-bones. I prefer Aweber in this respect, since you can design forms directly in their dashboard. With ConvertKit, you can only build simple forms, and need to do any design work on your website. They also do not have email templates.

ConvertKit definitely saves money if you need simple email marketing software. It is less expensive than the more robust solutions, which have more options than most people need, but you can still do simple automations.

I love the ability to be able to tag what people are interested in so that I can send follow-up emails. It also immediately pulls things from my blog and creates drafts. I also like that there is only one list to have to content with.

The emails that you send out aren't as pretty as they are with some other sites. It's definitely function over form. Wish there were more landing page designs.

This is allowing me to interact with my email list, and also create landing pages. It can also integrate with my website effortlessly through a plugin, so that's great too.

Convertkit is rather basic in what it offers. Nothing too fancy, nothing too complicated. But that is why we implemented their solution very fast. We switched from Mailchimp for our mail automation needs and we were up and running in no time.

It is a rather small and startup-alike team. It means occasional downtimes and improvements on roadmaps that change from time to time.

On a regular basis we create a new website for one of our products and start sending automated mails to those interested. Creating an easy flow with the simple solution that Convertkit offers, we were able to convert many leads to engaging with us. It does not require you to work too hard to make it work... And that's a big plus.

I switched to Convert kit from another provider because it appeared easier to use. It has a nice clean well laid-out interface and lots of tutorials. They have good customer support.

The free plan is available for up to 1000 subscribers, however, there's not a lot you can do with it so if you want to send out automated emails etc you need to upgrade. The next package up is the creator package @$15 per month.

Convert kit allowed me to create landing pages and build an email list.

I really enjoy how easy it is to create automations and sequences for my e-mail list. I found it to be very easy to get set up quickly and have everything on auto pilot!

The landing page builder is really not very good. I find it difficult to create a sales page and landing page using Convertkit. I've had an acceptable landing page, but once I began using Leadpages, I realized how inferior Convertkit is, in that aspect

Convertkit is a decent all in one platform and it's email deliverability is very good! I just dislike that it's difficult to edit the landing pages. Also, trying to create a sales page seems impossible. There's also no help in trying to figure out that problem. That is why I have switched to leadpages for page building

I like the formatting tools. It's pretty easy to use for basic functions.

The UI needs improvement. It can be buggy at times.

I use it as my primary mailer for my email list. It does its job.

I can automate my newsletter, which allows me to "set it and forget it". I can also create landing pages, forms, and process payments all in one place.

Customer service is not ideal. You can only contact customer service through a chat window (vs. phone) and in my experience, there is always a delay in response, each step of the way as you exchange comments/questions back and forth. I also had an experience where a customer service rep directed me to do something, which created an irreversible issue for my newsletter automation. I'm sure she had good intentions, but didn't have the necessary knowledge to guide me appropriately.

creating landing pages and forms to use on my website and accepting payments

Convertkit does a great job of allowing you to segment your audience, creating appropriate automations and workflows.

It's not quite as well known as other platforms, but I think it can be in the future.

Emailing my lists with the ability of automations and segmentation

For someone without a lot of technical knowhow, you can simple, clean, great looking emails. Even someone like me, who is tech-savvy and has used almost every major email marketing provider, the CK setup time is great.

Sometimes it would be nice to have the option to create something more "showstopping" for special occasions. The landing page templates also aren't that great - but they'll do and they're great for those without skill or who are short on time. The cost. Now they have a free plan. I feel like they could have had one for years. Eventually, when I purged my list and was starting over, it didn't make sense to pay them $50/mo to manage a handful of names.

I switched them from MailChimp years ago when I wanted easier and faster ways to segment my audience without creating multiple lists (thereby counting contacts more than once). This was before MailChimp had a tagging feature. They also had landing pages before MC did (if memory serves me correctly), so it was nice to be able to quickly create a page and tie it to my mailing list.

It has helped me improve traffic to my blog through email marketing campaigns, which I can create in just a few steps and in that way increase the reach of my content, another thing that I really like is the fact that it is quite accessible in money matters, with other applications it happened to me a lot that if I had repeat people in the list of recipients they charged me a penalty for the duplicate, however Convertkit does not do this, which is a great relief for my finances. Besides leaving tasks scheduled to run automatically without the need for me to be aware of them at all times, the interface is also quite easy to use, which is why for me it is a fairly powerful tool

I feel that it needs to exploit its potential a little more, since currently it seems to me that it is a very good option compared to the other systems that circulate, but nevertheless I believe that they have remained stagnant and have not sought to improve their functions to continue up front compared to the others.

It has been very useful to me to design my email marketing campaigns as a mechanism to help a massive dissemination of the content published on my social networks and informative blog, since in this way I manage to increase the number of visits to my profile and in that way to be more recognized in the digital world.

ConvertKit is barebones. It's simple. It's not made for people doing complicated list stuff.

It's simple. It's not made for people doing complicated list stuff.

Emailing and organizing my contacts

Convertkit is best for those who want to write streamlined, text-only emails to their users. While it offers plenty of formats for things like landing pages and in-post CTA's, the emails themselves are very simple. No designs, no templates. Just text like you're emailing a friend.

The move over to Convertkit can be a bit clunky if you have several lead magnet journeys, but the team is very accessible and responsive over Basecamp, so as long as you're in contact about the transition process, you'll be fine.

We moved over to Convertkit from Mailchimp because despite Mailchimp priding itself on ease of use, we found it ultimately too complicated to customize as we grew. Convertkit's emails are simpler, but the visualization of email journeys is much easier to work with.

I love how easy it is to create an automation, tag subscribers, and create sequences. I love being able to target my emails to the most receptive people.

Since it is a newer email service provider, there have been times when I've had issues with deliverability and emails not making it to the subscriber. I've always been able to resolve those quickly with the help of support. I don't like that I have to worry about it though.

ConvertKit solves the problem of keeping in touch with people who want to hear from me. It's a great solution for people who have outgrown MailChimp (or who are sick of paying double for subscribers) but don't need the power of InfusionSoft. ConvertKit makes it easy for me to tag subscribers based on the actions they take when reading my emails and this lets me create content based on those actions. More importantly, it lets me make offers to people based on their actions.

The options for setting up lead systems are incredible

Hard to customize emails, but great for basic email needs.

Convert kit helped to establish lead funnels

I love that everything is one place: email sequences, opt-ins, landing pages, forms - no more having to link everything together! ConvertKit is simple to use - especially if you want simple letters with essentially no frills. There's no setup time, nothing to learn - you can just start sending letters.

My biggest concern is the lack of SEO options on landing pages. What advantage to me is it to use their landing pages if you can't edit SEO important fields (meta-description, page title, etc)...AND their lack of SEO overrides anything you do on a Wordpress page? You want people to be able to find your opt-in...which means you want it optimized for SEO. It's impossible to fully do that using a ConvertKit landing page. (Most of the time I use a naked form on a landing page built off my Wordpress page now.) Also, remember the no frills? Sometimes I want frills. I'd love to be able to change text color without having to edit css each time. I'd love to be able to click to add a simple link to remove someone solely from a sequence, instead of the entire mailing list.

The best part about ConvertKit is the ability to send opt-ins easily - with very little time for setup.