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About Bird (formerly MessageBird) is the next-generation CRM for Marketing, Sales, and Payments, powering over 5 trillion annual messages across Email, SMS, and WhatsApp. Leading brands grow cost-efficiently with Bird through personalized interactions on Email, SMS, and WhatsApp. The world's most innovative companies build communication solutions using Bird's applications and APIs. Get started today and talk to your customers over any channel, for any use case, anywhere in the world. Marketing messages, push notifications, order updates, delivery alerts and more. Operational bottlenecks slowing your growth? Use automated conversations and workflows to collect critical information up front, reduce manual tasks, implement self-service flows, and route chats to the right agent. Get up and running in minutes on our reliable, auto-scaling APIs with extensive documentations, complete API references and intuitive SDKs.	About Critical Impact allows you to enhance and simplify your email marketing campaigns. Our tools let you effectively manage your email and SMS lists, send personalized and automated emails, along with text messages (SMS) for your marketing campaigns all at a competitive price model. Our subscriber scoring algorithms will mine your data to quickly identify those subscribers who are most likely to read your next email, consume additional emails, or make another purchase. With our easy-to-use interface, you can schedule messages to send in minutes. Select your send options all on one page, and then prevent mistakes by seeing a confirmation of all your send details. Even A/B test your email across device screens – from phones to tablets to monitors.
Platforms Supported Windows Not Supported Mac Not Supported Linux Not Supported Cloud Supported On-Premises Not Supported iPhone Not Supported iPad Not Supported Android Not Supported Chromebook Not Supported	Platforms Supported Windows Not Supported Mac Not Supported Linux Not Supported Cloud Supported On-Premises Not Supported iPhone Not Supported iPad Not Supported Android Not Supported Chromebook Not Supported
Audience Companies looking for an omnichannel communications platform	Audience SME to Enterprise email marketers who want to boost sales, grow audiences and reduce workloads.
Support Phone Support Supported 24/7 Live Support Not Supported Online Supported	Support Phone Support Supported 24/7 Live Support Not Supported Online Not Supported
API Offers API Supported	API Offers API Supported
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Pricing $45 per month Free Version Supported Free Trial Not Supported	Pricing Customer Specific. Call or email for pricing. Free Version Not Supported Free Trial Not Supported
Reviews/Ratings Overall 3.5 / 5 ease 3.0 / 5 features 3.0 / 5 design 3.0 / 5 support 3.0 / 5 Read all reviews	Reviews/Ratings Overall 4.7 / 5 ease 4.7 / 5 features 4.5 / 5 design 4.7 / 5 support 4.8 / 5 Read all reviews
Pros & Cons from Real Users Pros The cost and feature set on the box were the only things that attracted us to it. It was meant to perform a lot of functions It offers a platform to interact with the customer using SMS, live chat, and WhatsApp. It also offers insight and reporting on interactions. Gives great customer support for business. Cons Super buggy, useless support. Both email and sms went to spam It worked great for me. Nothing to share about the con.	Pros & Cons from Real Users Pros Very easy to use and simple to generate emails. Uploading lists and organizing is flawless. It's almost perfect! The calendar view aids in tracking deployments by date, promoting collaborative work among team members. The message editor is user-friendly, and custom field-based subscriber search is a valuable feature. Deployment-specific message metrics are neatly organized and offer exportable one-page reports. Additionally, data/list exports are significantly faster compared to our previous platform, taking less than a minute, even for large exports. The reporting options on Critical Impact are incredible! The email editor is very user friendly and allows you to create custom emails or customize well done templates. This email marketing platform is very easy to use and includes a plethora of features that make my job as an editor much easier. This is an exceptional drag and drop platform that allows myself to be creative because of the advanced software in place. - Critical Impact is an extremely easy to use marketing platform, that allows our customers to manage and execute on their marketing plan. - Critical Impact offers fantastic support to us when troubleshooting through new workflows like SMS, and giving feedback in helping us improve how we utilize the software as a company. Cons Uploading images takes forever and sometimes dynamic lists take very long to generate. I believe you need a better server. Until this point, I have not faced any issues with Critical Impact. It performs well in every aspect of email marketing. I honestly do not have any major cons, Critical Impact has been easy to learn with an informative help center/ customer service when I do have an issue Occasionally, Critical Impact will have issues loading from page to page which can be frustrating, but Critical Impact's customer service team is very responsive and will help work through any issues you have. - The SMS registration process initially was a very long and drawn out process, with little to no insight into whether we were going to be able to offer this product to our customers. We eventually put together a workflow that worked, but it took months to get to that point.
Training Documentation Supported Webinars Not Supported Live Online Supported In Person Not Supported	Training Documentation Supported Webinars Supported Live Online Not Supported In Person Not Supported
Company Information Bird Founded: 2011 Netherlands bird.com	Company Information Critical Impact Founded: 2009 United States criticalimpact.com
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Categories Auto Dialer Supported Bulk SMS Supported Chat SDK & API Supported Communication APIs Supported Communications Platform as a Service (CPaaS) Supported Conversational Support Supported CRM Supported Email APIs Supported Email Deliverability Supported Email Marketing Supported Email Verification Supported Sales Dialers Supported SMS API Supported SMS Gateways Supported SMS Marketing Supported SMTP Supported Transactional Email Supported Voice Calling API & SDK Supported WhatsApp Marketing Supported	Categories Email APIs Supported Email Marketing Supported Email Template Design Supported Email Tracking Supported SMS Marketing Supported SMTP Supported Transactional Email Supported
SMS Marketing Features 2-Way Messaging Supported Artificial Intelligence Not Supported Contact Management Supported Mass Texting Supported Message Personalization Supported MMS Supported Mobile Coupons Supported Mobile Keywords Supported Polls / Voting Supported Reporting/Analytics Supported Scheduled Messaging Supported Shortcodes Supported Text-to-Win Supported	Email Marketing Features A/B Testing Supported Artificial Intelligence Not Supported Auto-Responders Supported CAN SPAM Compliance Supported Customer Surveys Supported Drip Campaigns Supported Dynamic Content Supported Event Triggered Email Supported Image Library Supported Landing Pages/Web Forms Supported Mailing List Management Supported Mobile Optimized Emails Supported Reporting/Analytics Supported Subscriber Management Supported Template Management Supported WYSIWYG Email Editor Supported SMS Marketing Features 2-Way Messaging Supported Artificial Intelligence Not Supported Contact Management Supported Mass Texting Supported Message Personalization Supported MMS Supported Mobile Coupons Supported Mobile Keywords Supported Polls / Voting Supported Reporting/Analytics Supported Scheduled Messaging Supported Shortcodes Supported Text-to-Win Supported Transactional Email Features A/B Testing Supported Contact Database Supported Dynamic Content Supported Email Monitoring Supported Mailing List Management Supported Reporting/Analytics Supported Spam Check Supported Template Management Supported Show More Features Email Template Design Features A/B Testing Supported Code From Scratch Supported Drag & Drop Editing Supported Image Library Supported Import HTML Code Supported Mobile-Friendly / Responsive Supported Potential Issue Identification Supported Premade Templates Supported Proofing Supported Reporting / Analytics Supported Text Editor Supported Theme Editor Supported Email Tracking Features A/B Testing Supported Audience Segmentation Supported Campaign Management Supported Event-Based Notifications Supported Location Tracking Not Supported Team Management Supported
Integrations Shopify Supported Zapier Supported Amio Supported CanopyDeploy Supported Causal Supported Corezoid Supported Craft CMS Supported Easyflow Supported Gravity Forms Supported HostBill Supported Lyftrondata Supported Magento Not Supported Make Supported Propstack Supported Returnista Supported SpinOffice CRM Supported Staffcloud Supported n8n Supported respond.io Supported validTo Supported Show More Integrations View All 55 Integrations	Integrations Shopify Supported Zapier Supported Amio Not Supported CanopyDeploy Not Supported Causal Not Supported Corezoid Not Supported Craft CMS Not Supported Easyflow Not Supported Gravity Forms Not Supported HostBill Not Supported Lyftrondata Not Supported Magento Supported Make Not Supported Propstack Not Supported Returnista Not Supported SpinOffice CRM Not Supported Staffcloud Not Supported n8n Not Supported respond.io Not Supported validTo Not Supported Show More Integrations View All 8 Integrations
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