Reply Reviews & Insights

Score10 out of 10

40 Reviews and Ratings

Community insights

TrustRadius Insights for Reply are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.

Pros

Native CRM Connections: Multiple users have praised Reply for its variety of native CRM connections, allowing seamless integration with other tools. This feature has been mentioned by several reviewers as a significant advantage of the software.

Efficient Marketing Automation: Reviewers have highlighted the extensive set of features Reply offers for efficient outbound and inbound marketing automation. Many users appreciate the ability to streamline their marketing processes using these functionalities.

User-Friendly Interface: Several users have expressed their appreciation for how easy it is to navigate and operate Reply without requiring advanced skills. The user-friendly interface has been commended for enabling smooth usage and reducing the learning curve associated with similar software.

Reviews

10 Reviews

A popular automated Sales Engagement Suite

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

November 8, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Reply is providing great sales engagement services. It has all the smart functionalities we need in a sales engagement tool. To contact our prospects wherever they enable us to combine emails, SMS, LinkedIn, calls, and WhatsApp communications into a multichannel sequence, also producing and executing assignments. With its in-depth reporting features, we can now easily figure out which sequence stages produce better results, A/B test our messages, and measure our team performance over time. It facilitates us both in marketing and sales departments to achieve our objectives.

Pros

To automatically sync our data, and keep records up to date, it offers a variety of native CRM connections, seamless integration with other tools, a robust API, and the power of Zapier.
I'm impressed by it, because it includes all of the capabilities I needed, as well as multivariate testing and, most significantly, an excellent reporting system.
It offers an extensive set of features for efficient outbound and inbound marketing automation.
With reporting and lead qualifying, the automation component is pretty powerful.

Cons

There aren't a lot of formatting possibilities in emails but it does not affect the delivery of emails.
Connecting to some third-party mail servers is a little more difficult than it should be, but it isn't a problem.
Reply offers a fantastic user experience. It's simple to set up, use, and personalize each email, and you can see a preview of how it'll look before you send it.

Likelihood to Recommend

The reply is an excellent sales management solution. If any company wants to save time and keep their sales team flexible, they should try it first. It is a fantastic tool for delivering multiple emails to any target audience. This is also the best deal for firms who looking for an all-in-one solution, as it provides virtually unlimited email addresses along with CRM and outreach automation.

Ryan Dury

Senior Manager Strategic Accounts & Sales Support in Finance and Accounting at Swisscard AECS GmbH (501-1000 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

Highly composed sales engagement platform offering good value for money

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

September 22, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We have been using Reply as a Sales Engagement Platform in our company. Ever since we began using the software it has worked as a significant and pronounced solution for automating different kinds of follow-ups, regarding outreach campaigns that include different kinds of backlink outreach campaigns and co-marketing campaigns. So far we have had a spectacular time with the software. It has been working efficiently in some of the departments of our organizations with great zeal. Also, I find the support of Reply to be very good and quick. Reply is always there in a timely manner to give out the best replies.

Pros

This product gives me the liberty to very easily and freely navigate all things on my own, which does not require many skills to start working.
This product gives us the leverage of creating our own tailored and personalized templates for our teams in just a matter of minutes.
This program is so automated that it performs everything on its own from LinkedIn to email search, to even booking meetings.
I found the onboarding process pretty great and efficient. I am really happy with the overall customer support. They are some of the nicest people I have met who are there to willingly help me at any time of need and problem.
Their usability is also hands down very good. However, I find their user interface to be slightly less user-friendly, so there is some degree of scope in the improvement of their user intuitiveness and user-friendliness.

Cons

Firstly, the software is not very easy to set up. Initially, it could be challenging for beginners to start.
Secondly, with this platform, you are unable to interrelate it to any other platform in a simpler and easier way.

Likelihood to Recommend

I find this tool to be the best and most precise Sales Engagement Software that is currently available on the market. [Reply] has some great automation tools that so beautifully keep all the leads on track, which can easily create content and even lead to a better presence in the market arena. Hence, with all that being said, I highly recommend this software to businesses, especially to implement within their Sales and Marketing teams.

Kevin Koufos

Market Manager in Marketing at DER Touristik Suisse AG (1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

Best AI-powered customer engagement platform

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

June 30, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Reply is one of the most used AI-powered sales engagement platforms available on the market. It has the best features and tools to manage sales engagement to another level. It automates multichannel touch points with leads and customers throughout the sale process. I have been using Reply since last year in my organization and it is my go-to platform to manage any other business and sales operations effectively.

Pros

Reply does everything on its own, from email search on LinkedIn to booking meetings on the platform; I can easily manage all the operations successfully in the platform.
It saves a lot of my time and effort, which I spent on these things in the past.
Another great feature that I like the most in Reply is that it allows you to create a template for different teams within minutes.
I can easily navigate things on my own and do not require a lot of knowledge to start working.

Cons

The drawback of Reply that it was not easy to set up at first.
UI needs to be friendlier and easily manageable. Integration with other platforms needs to be addressed on an urgent basis. Integration of Reply is not that great as compared to other platforms available in the market.

Likelihood to Recommend

Reply is the best sales engagement software available in the marketplace. Great automation tool to keep track of all leads, easily create content, and have a better presence in the market, which makes it more powerful. There is still a need for improvements in functionality. Other than that, it is a great platform to quickly engage, increase sales, and have better customer engagement overall. I would definitely recommend this to other businesses to have in the ecosystem to manage work with fully automated AI-based platforms.

Christy claire

Senior Software Engineer in Information Technology at CSS Insurance (1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

Excellent outbound email tool

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

June 3, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Reply for outbound email campaigns. It's a great solution for automating follow-ups about specific outreach campaigns, such as when reaching out to customers about getting reviews, backlink outreach campaigns, co-marketing campaigns, or even just straight-up outbound lead and customer prospecting. We're able to personalize the emails and automate a lot of the tasks, rather than sending each one manually via Gmail.

Pros

Small batch outbound campaigns.
Personalized emails.
Automated follow-up sequences.

Cons

Using multiple users and the extension was a little tricky.

Likelihood to Recommend

Outbound emails for Sales and Marketing teams. Sales can do cold prospecting at scale, while still keeping things somewhat personalized. Marketing can do outreach about things such as co-marketing, backlinks, getting ratings and reviews from customers. It's great to build out follow-up campaigns for any of these tasks that end once someone replies or engages.

Michael Glover

Content Marketer in Marketing at ConvertFlow (1-10 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

Great tool for personal-looking email campaigns

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

November 5, 2019

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Reply acts as a personal email drip campaign tool for our org. We send out hundreds of invitations to researched leads and we use Reply to manage the campaigns. It’s a great tool to manage cold leads that you don’t want bogging down a CRM until they turn into warm leads through a reply.

Pros

Personal text-based email drip campaigns. Formatting is limited, so campaigns with HTML or heavily formatted will not work, but if you’re looking for features in regular text-based emails, Reply works great.
Customized emails. Even in a prewritten campaign with merged fields, sometimes you still need to customize the email slightly to certain individuals. You’re able to edit emails in a campaign to individual contacts so they receive exactly what you want but without having to create a separate campaign.
Tracking. Reply is great at sorting replies to emails as interested, uninterested, etc and manages them all in an inbox per campaign. The sorting algorithms are very accurate and it does a nice job tracking opens, clicks, and overall interest based on the content of an email reply.

Cons

Syncing to other programs. You cannot interrelate Reply with other software in a simple way. Zapier is required and even then it’s not perfect.
Similar to syncing, there’s no way to export results of particular campaigns. This is awful. If I send out a campaign to a group, I’d like to export the results to enter into a CRM since I can’t sync the contacts. One of these features must be added ASAP.
Organization. While Reply itself is user-friendly, keeping campaigns and contacts and results organized is not. You cannot organize campaigns or file them away when they are done. Therefore you have to delete campaigns to stay organized and lose results, which you cannot even export.

Likelihood to Recommend

Reply is great for cold email campaigns where follow up is needed if someone doesn’t reply. It is NOT great if you need advanced syncing to other systems or if you don’t use another system to track results. You can use Reply on its own but you will lose data and have poor leads management if not used alongside other tools.

Verified User

Manager (1-10 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

One of the best cold emailing tools out there!

Rating: 9 out of 10

July 3, 2019

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Reply.io is helping our team with our outbound demand gen campaigns across geographies.

Pros

Access to the team's campaigns
People Section to access lists
Easy transfer of profiles from one campaign to the other
Clean UI

Cons

Timely Campaign Scheduling
Live feed for opens, clicks
Gmail plug-in for follow-up tracking

Likelihood to Recommend

It's good for high volume email campaigns, nurture campaigns. Not good for single email reachout involving personalisation and individual prospect tracking.

Rajat Kumar

Sr. Associate, Demand Generation in Marketing at Exotel (51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

A great alternative

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

May 24, 2019

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I used Reply to send sales email campaigns to prospects. Reply is an affordable and easy to use solution for smaller companies. I found it easy to use and simple to learn. Reply is an affordable alternative to Outreach. I like that Reply allows users to pay by the month. Other services charge per seat, per year. Reply is the perfect tool for small and upcoming companies.

Pros

While building campaigns, Reply shows you how likely it is that your content will receive a reply.
Reply has useful training material.
The insights are great. I can see when an email has been opened or clicked.

Cons

They could improve their security compliance.
Add more integrations.
Update the interface. It's a little uneasy to look at.

Likelihood to Recommend

I would recommend Reply to any person or small company looking to gain more insights into their inbound/outbound sales efforts. Reply is an easy and affordable tool. The pricing structure is a huge selling point for me. It's difficult to find a tool like this that allows you to pay month by month.

Verified User

Professional in Sales (1-10 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

Reply.io - when you need to get into the Inbox (and not "Promotions")

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

May 23, 2018

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Reply.io is a useful tool for following up with our inbound leads and it is mainly being used by our Sales/Business Development Department because most of the time, they are the ones who are following up leads. However, my marketing team uses Reply every once in a while as well and we find it convenient and easy to understand.

Pros

One of the best features: the emails are simple but they get into the inbox instead of going to "Promotions" or "Spam" or else. Mission accomplished!
It is very user-friendly and doesn't take much time to understand how everything works. It is very intuitive.
Reports are great - both visually and data-wise. You can see information and analytics for your own campaigns as well as the team performance.
We love templates and the ability to create a template for the team within minutes.

Cons

There's not much editing options in terms of the email design, but it's not really a con since it allows the emails to get through picky Gmail and other email providers' filters.

Likelihood to Recommend

It is convenient for following up with potential clients, but it is not so well-suited for the marketing emails such as digests that require a bit more pictures and "prettiness." However, like I mentioned in the previous questions - it gets its job done and the emails are simple and in your contact's inbox.

Zee Gimon

Digital Operations Manager in Marketing at The App Solutions (51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

Email outreach for busy people

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

September 14, 2017

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I'm the sole user of Reply in our organization. I use Reply to reach out to new potential users for our technology. Generally, I use Reply to automate the process of sending an introductory email to learn more about the organization we're prospecting. I send out a few hundred emails to agencies each week to learn more about the services each agency provides to determine if they're a fit for our product. Reply saves me hours each week from having to actually manually send those emails.

Pros

Creation of the pipelines and followups.
Onboarding process, they do a good job of walking a user through initial set up and reaching out to ensure new users are comfortable.
A/B Testing
Gmail integration

Cons

Import functionality could use a little work.

Likelihood to Recommend

Reply is great for cold outreach to a large group of people. Inside sales roles will definitely find value in using Reply. Particularly, Reply can be used with LinkedIn prospecting tools to build huge lists of targeted prospects in very short amounts of time. Reply can be used across teams to build awareness of a product or event at massive scale. Reply can also be used to drip content to an audience of subscribers or after a webinar.

Doc Bolton

COO in Sales at Kiai (1-10 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

Reply.io - Good value for money & an exciting product road map

Rating: 7 out of 10

April 11, 2017

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I currently do not have an internal solution for supporting my outbound email marketing needs so personally took it upon myself to purchase Reply.io. It assists me with creating email cadences, creating personalized outreach campaigns and streamlines the follow-up process by recommending certain events based on user actions.

Pros

Easily import data from a CSV
Allows you to insert and render images as part of the HTML code
Cadences can be duplicated and replicated on demand

Cons

I think overall ease of use needs to be addressed with a UX re-work.
I would like it to be easier to import custom fields. Right now I have to select and create custom fields with too much effort - would like it to auto recognise when my spreadsheet values are not mapped to existing values. Also would be handy to be able to create the custom fields prior to the import and match them in a similar way to Autopilot.

Likelihood to Recommend

Reply.io is extremely good for sales teams looking for a quick solution and has a relatively smooth learning curve. I feel there would be issues when trying to scale out usage as the platform seems to be less of a team driven solution and more a point solution for individuals. The platform has moved in the right direction by supporting data enrichment, email validation and in-app calls. The reporting has also come a long way in my opinion.

Dailius Wilson

Director - BD in Marketing at TrustRadius (11-50 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

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Highly composed sales engagement platform offering good value for money

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

September 22, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Pros

This product gives me the liberty to very easily and freely navigate all things on my own, which does not require many skills to start working.
This product gives us the leverage of creating our own tailored and personalized templates for our teams in just a matter of minutes.
This program is so automated that it performs everything on its own from LinkedIn to email search, to even booking meetings.
I found the onboarding process pretty great and efficient. I am really happy with the overall customer support. They are some of the nicest people I have met who are there to willingly help me at any time of need and problem.
Their usability is also hands down very good. However, I find their user interface to be slightly less user-friendly, so there is some degree of scope in the improvement of their user intuitiveness and user-friendliness.

Cons

Firstly, the software is not very easy to set up. Initially, it could be challenging for beginners to start.
Secondly, with this platform, you are unable to interrelate it to any other platform in a simpler and easier way.

Likelihood to Recommend

Kevin Koufos

Market Manager in Marketing at DER Touristik Suisse AG (1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience