New generation CRM with marketing automation, customer tracking and email campaigns
Intercom.io is a good service for connecting with your customers, but Agile CRM already offers those same marketing automation features plus a whole lot more, including real-time alerts, web grabbers and exit intent pop-ups, email/ link personalization, 2-way email sync and an integrated social suite. We built Agile to help businesses scale the smart way, integrating the latest tools for productive customer journeys with updated versions of proven CRM features for contact, deal, task and project management. We're a growing business like you, and we're proud that our all-in-one sales and marketing software has made us the best Intercom.io alternative. (Intercom is well suited for SaaS only while Agile is great for SaaS, E-Commerce and all small businesses.)
Let's compare Intercom.io and Agile CRM in each segment to see how they perform.
Intercom.io | Agile | |
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CRM Features |
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Marketing Automation |
Minimal |
Advanced |
Web Engagement |
Minimal |
Advanced |
Advanced User Segmentation |
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Integrations |
for all business functions |
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Social |
Basic |
Advanced |
Pricing & Plans |
Plans for Packages start from $49 The Observe package is FREE |
Plans start from $9.99 See our plans comparison page for details |
Both Intercom.io and Agile CRM provide email templates plus email tracking. Agile takes it two steps further with email personalization and link personalization (using PURL keywords) - essential tools for improving email response rates and gaining a more dynamic understanding of customer behavior.
Intercom.io | Agile | |
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Email Templates |
4 default template styles |
Over 50 email template styles spread over eCommerce, Software, News and more |
Email Personalization |
Advanced with conditional logic |
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Email Tracking |
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Link Personalization |
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Agile offers various Contact Management features such as dynamic access to leads, contacts and deals, tasks and events, advanced filtering etc... Intercom.io provides for advanced User Segmentation using various parameters. However, Agile is yet again many steps ahead with 2-way email sync, a more complete 360o contact view, sales pipeline & multiple deal tracks.
Intercom.io | Agile | |
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Leads, Contacts, Accounts & Opportunities |
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Tasks, Calendars and Notes |
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360o Contact View |
With Advanced Timeline |
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2-way Emails |
Communication via Chat messages |
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Sales Pipeline |
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Multiple Deal Tracks |
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Marketing Automation is Agile CRM's forte. With a complete set of MA features, including drag-and-drop campaign building, multi-step campaigns, automatic campaign triggering, A/B testing, behavior-based segmentation and more, Agile has got you covered in every aspect of automated lead and customer engagement.
Compared to Agile, Intercom.io offers minimal marketing automation.
Intercom.io | Agile | |
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Auto Responders |
Advanced with multiple triggers |
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Email Campaigns |
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Multi-step Campaigns |
Lifecycle marketing with messages based on time, behavior or events. |
Advanced Marketing Automation including Lifecycle Marketing with Emails, Popups, SMS and more. |
Drag-drop Campaign Workflow |
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Automated Lead Scoring |
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Life-cycle & Drip Marketing |
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A/B Testing |
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Behavior-based Segmentation |
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Automatic Campaign Triggering |
Agile provides real-time web engagement with perfectly timed, personalized pop-ups, form pop-ups, coupons, surveys and exit intent pop-ups.
Intercom.io also brings forth personalized visitor engagement via in-app messaging.
Intercom.io | Agile | |
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Personalized Pop-ups |
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Form Pop-ups |
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Timed Pop-ups |
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In-app/ Website Messages |
In today's world, social media is at the heart of successful sales and marketing campaigns. Agile is a social CRM that makes it easy to monitor your contacts' social activity directly from the CRM. Agile's social suite makes it easy to monitor your brand and industry on social media, gather and nurture leads, and integrate social engagement on sites such as Twitter and Facebook into your marketing campaigns.
Intercom.io also fetches contact information from social channels.
Intercom.io | Agile | |
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Contact info from Twitter & other Social Media Websites |
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Social Media Monitoring |
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Social Updates |
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Both Intercom and Agile offer email and web tracking. Agile pops up real-time notifications on email opens/link clicks and page views by all of your contacts, whether new prospects, hot leads or dedicated, paying customers. Reach out to your contacts at just the right time with our awesome alerts.
Intercom.io | Agile | |
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Email Tracking |
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Email Open Notifications |
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Page View Notifications |
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Web Visitor Tracking |
Measure your business performance with Agile's advanced reporting features such as growth analysis and funnel and cohort graphs. Agile will even send you periodic, customized email reports on essential customer stats.
Intercom.io only provides periodic email reports and graphical charts.
Intercom.io | Agile | |
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Periodic Email Reports |
More Customized |
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Graphical Reports |
More Customized |
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Growth Analysis |
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Funnel Reports |
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Cohort Analysis |
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Intercom.io offers its API in REST, Ruby, JavaScript and PHP. Agile CRM offers its API in REST, PHP, JavaScript, Java and .Net. Agile's extensive front-end & back-end API gives users complete control over their data.
Intercom.io | Agile | |
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API |
REST, Ruby, Javascript, Java, PHP | REST, Ruby, Javascript, Java, PHP, .Net |
Agile integrates with a number of third-party apps for telephony, help desk, web forms, billing and email synchronization. Agile also allows for building custom widgets using its API.
Intercom.io has an integrated helpdesk and offers integrations for web forms & billing.
Intercom.io | Agile | |
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Telephony |
- Only call tracking available |
VoIP, Twilio, Ring Central |
Web Forms |
Wufoo, Typeform | Wufoo, Unbounce, Gravity Forms |
Email Sync |
- | Google Apps, IMAP |
Helpdesk |
With third party integrations Zendesk, ClickDesk, Help Scout |
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Billing |
Stripe | Stripe, FreshBooks, Quickbooks, Xero |
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In short, this is the best CRM platform I've ever used. Between the tagging system, workflow engine and API, this system has the ability to do marketing automation better than any other system I've worked with. The timeline makes it intuitive to keep track of customer contact points. The integration with IP phone systems means that costs are kept low. I have already recommended it to several of my clients and will follow up to ensure that they use Agile. Agile CRM is, quite simply, the correct choice for small business.