Emma

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Email Marketing
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Email marketing built for your ecosystem

How to Replace Emma

Overview

Emma is an email marketing platform designed to fit seamlessly into your existing tech stack with powerful brand controls, flexible user permissions, and reliable integrations. It delivers consistent, compliant, and effective email campaigns while supporting multi-channel marketing through SMS and landing pages.

Features

57 features across 13 categories

AI(1)

AI AssistantAI

Enter prompts into the email editor to create email content that reflects your brand and resonates with your audience using thoughtful, privacy-first AI

Also in: monday.com, Notion, Airtable

Administration(18)

Activity Dashboard

View recent activity for all your subaccounts right on your homepage

Approvals Dashboard

Review and approve email content and its recipients

Asset Sharing

Share images and documents across subaccounts

Audience Sharing

Share email contacts and audiences across subaccounts

Brand Controls

Powerful brand controls to ensure consistency and compliance across all emails

Brand Manager

Control what your subaccounts can do when using the editor or sending a campaign to ensure brand consistency

Contact View Across Subaccounts

See your contacts' complete campaign activity across all subaccounts

Custom User Permissions

Customize permission settings of each user in your account

Internal Sending Subaccounts

Share important messages like employee or student notifications without the risk of contacts accidentally unsubscribing

Limited Template & Campaign Sharing

Share email templates and campaigns with subaccounts

Private BrandingPremium

Choose to remove all Emma branding from your emails

Single Sign-On

Add your single sign-on provider to Emma so that users can use one set of login credentials across multiple applications

Style Guide

Define brand style guidelines for subaccounts

Subaccount Categories

Create and assign categories to organize your subaccounts

Subject and Preheader Locking

Define subject line and preheader text for your subaccounts' campaigns to ensure brand consistency

Template Folder Sharing

Streamline your campaign creation process by quickly sharing entire folders of templates with subaccounts

Tiered Account Structure

Set up multiple subaccounts under a main administrative account for organizational control

User Permissions

Flexible user permissions with customizable role-based access control

Also in: Notion, Airtable, Smartsheet

Analytics(3)

Comparative Reporting

Compare the results of multiple sent email campaigns

Real-Time Reporting

Watch response results roll in as your audience opens and clicks

Trends Reporting

Understand your best email send times, top trending email content and top trending subject lines

Also in: Hugging Face, Notion, Smartsheet

Audience(3)

Segmentation

Easily segment your audience into groups based on data stored in your account

Smart SegmentAI

Instantly generate segment filters based on your natural language description, saving setup time and providing a framework to refine from

Subscription Management

Manage the subscription preferences of your audience

Automation(5)

Automation Builder

Create a series of automated emails that send based on a set trigger with journeys and branching points

Branching Points

Automatically check for specific interactions before deciding which email your audience should receive next

Custom Event-Driven Automations

Automate email campaigns using customer data from your website, CRM and eCommerce platform

Multiple Starting Points

Select from multiple triggers to begin your automated email series

Unlimited Automation

Create unlimited automated email journeys and campaigns

Also in: monday.com, Notion, Airtable

Design(5)

Asset Library

Store images and documents to use in email campaigns

Code Your Own Emails

Design emails with your own HTML code for advanced customization

Drag and Drop Email Editor

Easily create professional emails using content blocks without coding

Email Template Gallery

Choose from an extensive library of customizable, responsive email designs

Save Email Rows

Save pre-designed rows and reuse them in future emails

Also in: Squarespace, InVision, WordPress.com

Integration(1)

API Access

Build custom integrations with the open API

Also in: monday.com, Notion, Airtable

Marketing(7)

Email Campaigns

Send email campaigns to your audience

Email Scheduling

Set your email campaigns to be sent at a specified time and date

Landing Pages

Use landing page editor to easily create beautiful pages for your site

Signup Forms

Grow your lists with signup pages and pop-up forms

Smart SendAI

Analyzes past campaign engagement to target when your audience is most active and responsive

SMSPremium

Reach customers faster by sending messages to a channel that is more personal and create a seamless multi-channel experience paired with email

Unlimited Email Sending

Uncapped email sending volume

Also in: Squarespace, monday.com, WordPress.com

Personalization(1)

Dynamic Content

Deliver unique, targeted content to each subscriber from a single email

Planning(1)

Marketing Calendar

Review planned email activity across all subaccounts

Subscription Management(1)

Emma Central Subscription Center

Empowers your contacts to manage all their subscriptions across your organization in one convenient location

Support(8)

1:1 Onboarding Support

Personalized onboarding support to get you started

Deliverability Support

Expert deliverability team will help investigate any delivery issues that may arise

Email Support

Access to the industry-leading support team via email

Help Center

24/7 access to expansive library of resources and robust help documentation

In-App Support

Utilize the Emma Virtual Assistant to help you troubleshoot and contact support if needed

Phone Support

Access to the industry-leading support team via phone

Priority SupportPremium

Priority support for faster issue resolution

Training Videos

Get the most out of Emma with step-by-step video tutorials

Testing(3)

A/B Content Split Testing

Send two versions of an email to test which performs best

A/B Subject Line Split Testing

Send an email campaign with two different subject lines to test which performs best

Pre-Send Email Testing

Built in tools to preview, proofread and test your email campaigns before sending them out

Pricing

Emma Lite

$99/mo
  • Drag and drop editor
  • Built-in integrations
  • Email and phone support
  • 10,000 contacts with annual contract
  • 5 users
  • 2 role types
  • Unlimited email sending
  • Email campaigns
  • Email scheduling
  • Smart send
  • Automation builder (1 journey)
  • Segmentation
  • Dynamic content
  • Signup forms
  • Real-time reporting
  • Comparative reporting
  • A/B subject line split testing
  • A/B content split testing
  • Pre-send email testing
  • Email template gallery
  • Save email rows
  • Asset library
  • In-app support
  • Help center
  • Training videos

Emma Essentials

$159/mo
  • Everything in Lite, plus:
  • Landing pages
  • Unlimited automation
  • 1:1 onboarding support
  • SMS (add-on)
  • 10 users
  • 5 role types
  • Marketing calendar
  • Trends reporting
  • Smart segment
  • Code your own emails

Emma for Teams

$249/mo
  • Everything in Essentials, plus:
  • Tiered account structure
  • Custom user permissions
  • Trend reporting
  • Share branded assets between subaccounts
  • SMS (add-on)
  • 25 users
  • 6 role types
  • 2 subaccounts
  • Brand Manager
  • Style guide
  • Limited template & campaign sharing
  • Subject and preheader locking
  • Asset sharing
  • Template folder sharing
  • Subaccount categories
  • Activity dashboard
  • Approvals dashboard
  • Internal sending subaccounts
  • Contact view across subaccounts
  • Audience sharing
  • Emma Central Subscription Center
  • Multiple starting points (automation)
  • Branching points (automation)
  • Custom event-driven automations

Emma Corporate

Custom
  • Everything in Teams, plus:
  • 10+ subaccounts
  • Unlimited users
  • Priority phone support
  • Share audiences between subaccounts
  • SMS (add-on)
  • Unlimited subaccounts
  • Unlimited users
  • 6 role types
  • Private branding
  • Deliverability support
  • Single sign-on
  • Professional services available

Cost Calculator

Keep Paying Emma

Monthly$99/mo
Yearly$1.2k/yr
5-Year Total$5.9k

Build It Yourself

Est. Build Time~4 hrs
Hosting$20/mo
DifficultyVery Easy

Total Cost Comparison

1 YearSave $948
SaaS
$1.2k
DIY
$240
3 YearsSave $2.8k
SaaS
$3.6k
DIY
$720
5 YearsSave $4.7k
SaaS
$5.9k
DIY
$1.2k

DIY hosting estimate based on Vercel + Supabase free/pro tiers (~$20/mo). Build time estimated from 57 features at very easy complexity.

Build vs Buy

Should you build a Emma alternative or buy the subscription? Estimate based on 57 features.

Buy Emma

Better Value
Monthly cost$990/mo
3-year total$35,640
Time to deployDays

Build Your Own

Development cost$36,000
Maintenance$540/mo
3-year total$55,440
Dev time~3 months

Buying Emma saves ~$19,800 over 3 years vs building.

Estimates based on 57 features and a BuildScore of 5/5. Actual costs vary.

Integrations

1 known integrations

API (Open API for custom integrations)