Carts Guru

Carts Guru is a multi-channel marketing automation platform especially designed for online stores and marketplaces such as Amazon.

From SMS campaign management to email management to Facebook Messenger, Carts Guru helps us automate communication tasks for our ecommerce and customers.

Features

Multichannel management

With Carts Guru you can manage all the communications you send to your customers.
You will be able to set up, send or schedule:

• SMS: special discounts, order information updates, shipment tracking
• Email marketing: campaigns, welcome emails, abandoned carts…
• Facebook Messenger: autoresponders, discounts…

Campaigns

You can send or schedule campaigns using settings such as:

• Time criteria (send after 2h, 48h…
• Actions performed by the user: abandoned cart, order confirmed, order cancelled, error in payment, login, logout…
• About the average cart ticket: for example, send a campaign if the cart ticket is equal or higher than 58
• Resend an email in case someone didn't open it the first time.
• User groups and dynamic campaigns: campaigns that are sent once a user enters a group, for example, when a user automatically enters the group “the best customers in the last 3 months” because he has bought a lot from us in the last 90 days.

Automation

Work & Action flows

Set your own actions based on your customer's customer journey and action flows such as:

• Time lapse between two actions
• Conditionals to further segment these actions
• Triggers: actions that are triggered when the user does something

So, for example, you can:

• Send an email using a “We miss you” template if…
• The user's last purchase was 2 months ago and if…
• The user's average order ticket is relevant (say 60) and if…
• The user has not interacted with the store for at least 3 weeks

Properties

Using the properties, the following steps can be set for specific actions based on criteria such as

• User's name
• User's last name
• The user's country of origin

So, for example, you can set up the action: send an email using a “welcome summer promotion template” if:

• The user's country coincides with one of the countries entering the summer season today
• The user's average order ticket is relevant (say 80 ?)
• The user has bought something in the last season (spring)

Conditions

Last but not least, we have conditions, which are based on (again) conditions that the user meets:

• Activity: for example, if your last action was to open a certain email
• Some contact properties: if your name or country meets some criteria

Analytics

At Carts Guru we have a section dedicated only to analytics where we can follow the return on investment of our shares, based on metrics such as:

• Conversion rate
• Orders
• Revenue
• And more

In-depth analysis

We will be able to determine our average ticket, conversion rate, new and old customers… by channel:

• Email address
• SMS
• Facebook
• All campaigns or certain campaigns
• All of our websites or just some
• The performance of the campaign

Audience Segmentation

At Carts Guru, we can manage each contact as if it were unique using static and dynamic user lists.

• Static lists: user lists without criteria
• Dynamic lists: they grow dynamically if a user meets certain criteria. For example: include this user in a list if his first purchase was 30 days ago

Contact and privacy

Find all the information about a certain customer. User-level contact and order history data will show information such as:

• First and last name
• Address
• Phone
• Email address
• Country
• Age
• How many items have you added to the cart?
• The last time you visited the store
• The last email sent to the client
• How many orders has the customer completed?
• Etc

Widgets

Grow your audience by using 5 of Carts Guru's pre-designed widgets as opt-ins or pop-ups.

Customization

Template Customization

A simple drag&drop editor will allow us to create unique designs for: email marketing campaigns, Facebook Messenger…

By being connected to our online store, Cart Gurus will be able to display our products and discount coupons directly from the online store database in, for example, an email or an SMS.

Multi language

The customizable templates have more than 3 language options, so you can customize each message for each country you attack in your online store.

Discount codes

Discount codes can be created using the following rules:

• Discount type
• Discount label
• Value
• Submitted since (date)
• Deadline for sending
• Coupon expiration (date)
• Code

Integration

Finally, Carts Guru can be easily integrated with online store CMS as:

• Prestashop
• Shopify
• Magento
• Woocommerce

Pricing

Carts Guru prices depend on the number of contacts in your online shop

Some of the price plans we can find are:

300 contacts

• Free Plan
• Up to 3,000 emails
• Email and chat support

2.000 contacts

• $60 per month
• Up to 20,000 emails
• Email and chat support

5.000 contacts

• $170 per month
• Up to 50,000 emails
• Email and chat support

10.000 contacts

• $300 a month
• Up to 100,000 emails
• Email and chat support

20.000 contacts

• $400 a month
• Up to 200,000 emails
• Email and chat support

50.000 contacts

• $700 a month.
• Up to 500,000 emails
• Dedicated account team

100.000 contacts

• $1.200 a month
• Up to 1,000,000 emails
• Dedicated account team

190.000 contacts

• $1.900 a month
• Up to 1,900,000 emails
• Dedicated account team

+200,000 contacts

• Request a quote

Trial

You can try Carts Guru free for 14 days without putting in your credit card and can cancel at any time

Review

Communicating with your customers one by one and making them feel that communication is “real” and “100% personal” is easy when you have few.

But what happens when you scale up your business? Aha. That's when automation comes into play and tools like Carts Guru make perfect sense.

First of all, you take paper and pen and draw your customer journey + your groups of customers.

Then, translate that drawing into automated processes and mix it with your annual campaigns and you're ready to scale your business using a tool like the one we have here.

Want to know why I love this Carts Guru? Because I have it all under one roof. There is no need to spend a bundle of time and money on multiple installations of:

• An email marketing software
• An SMS tool
• A plugin to recover abandoned carts
• Advanced analytics software
• Etc

Do you know how much this would cost us (especially if you use Magento)? Exactly, we are talking about hundreds of euros per month and, in addition, separate databases. So after all the installation, we still have the configuration part to make all the tools “talk to each other” and go coordinated to avoid missing something. Summary: 9 times out of 10, we will forget something. Well, that doesn't happen Carts Guru.

After using some alternatives such as Sales Manago, Freshworks, Marketo or Hubspot I stayed with Carts Guru, not only because of its price (much cheaper), but also because of the easy configuration and maintenance that has saved me a lot of hours.

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