What is the main difference between ActiveCampaign and Tekmatix?

ActiveCamapign is predominantly an email marketing platform, with added ability for lead tracking and sales tracking.  

Tekmatix is an all-in-one business platform that includes email marketing and numerous other business operation functions.

This article compares the differences between ActiveCamapign and Tekmatix in detail, including the features and pricing.

The main differences between Tekmatix and ActiveCampaign, revolve around pricing models, scalability, features, and overall value for money. 

In this article is a detailed comparison of the key aspects that business owners should consider when choosing between the two platforms.

Tekmatix vs ActiveCampaign Comparison

1. Fixed Price Subscription for Unlimited Contacts (Tekmatix) vs Increasing Monthly Fees & Contact Limits (ActiveCampaign)

Tekmatix:

One of Tekmatix’s biggest advantages is its fixed monthly subscription fee regardless of your contact list size. 

That’s right. Your monthly subscription fee does NOT increase as you grow your business, unlike the ActiveCamapign model.

Whether you have 100 or 1,000,000 contacts in your Tekmatix account, you still pay a flat fee monthly subscription.

($149 AUD Standard Plan or $230 AUD PRO Plan*.  USD pricing also available.); and then only pay a minimal ‘pay as you go’ cost of any emails you actually send - making the Tekmatix pricing model fair, affordable and sustainable for businesses at all stages of growth. 

Tekmatix therefore is a much more affordable option for business owners and saves you from a model that keeps charging you more as your contact list grows.  

There is a detailed pricing comparison table further down in this article to show you how much money you’d be saving if you were using Tekmatix instead of ActiveCampaign for just email sending ALONE.  

ActiveCampaign: 

ActiveCampaign’s pricing increases significantly as your contact list grows. The Pro Plan starts at $119/month for up to 1,000 contacts, but this can rise to over $2,000/month for 100,000 contacts. 

You are also limited by the number of emails you can send (12x your contact list size), and the PRO plan allows only 3 users.

Main Difference:

Tekmatix provides predictable, fixed subscription pricing regardless of your contact numbers, whereas ActiveCampaign’s costs increase dramatically as your contact list and feature usage grow, and has far less features than Tekmatix. 

Tekmatix vs ActiveCampaign Features Comparison

2. All-in-One Platform vs. Single-Focus Software

Tekmatix:

Tekmatix is an all-in-one business platform, CRM and Course Platform. It includes CRM, email marketing, course creation, social media management, landing pages, appointment scheduling, AI Assistants, reputation management, calendar bookings, sales and project management, advanced marketing - and much more into one platform. 

Tekmatix also provides unlimited video hosting, membership sites, communities, e-commerce, phone lines, SMS, and even mobile apps for your students and your admin. 

Tekmatix is ideal for businesses that need more than just email sending —it's built for businesses looking to centralise all their operations in one place, scale with tech and automate their entire business, not JUST their emails - and with the 24 hour support to help you do it.

ActiveCampaign:

Primarily an email sending and leads/sales tracking tool. While it offers some limited CRM and landing page features, its focus remains on email sending and email sales. 

It lacks most of the business management tools Tekmatix offers, such as course creation, digital product management, social media marketing, funnels, project management & kanban boards, communities, branded apps and much more. Additional features like advanced CRM tools and sales automation often require costly add-ons and/or complex integrations with other tools. 

Main Difference:

Tekmatix is an all-in-one platform offering a full range of business tools beyond marketing, while ActiveCampaign is a single-focus email software with more limited capabilities outside of email and CRM at a higher cost and add-ons required.

TABLE OF COMPARISON FEATURES: Tekmatix vs ActiveCampaign

As you can see from the features table above, the price and features between Tekmatix and ActiveCampaign is the most stand out difference between these two platforms, and it is very clear that Tekmatix offers dramatically more features compared to ActiveCampaign - and is cheaper.

If you compare the PRO Plan for Tekmatix Vs the PRO Plan for Activecampaign, you’ll see that it’s the costs as you grow that make the biggest difference, with growth on ActiveCampaign being prohibitive to most small business owners as they scale past 5,000 contacts and beyond.

Tekmatix does NOT increase your monthly subscription as your contact list grows, unlike ActiveCamapiogn that will continuously increase your monthly billing, regardless as to whether you even send any emails or not.

Tekmatix can keep its monthly subscription fee fixed, because they use a fair ‘pay as you go’ billing model for sending emails and sms.

These costs cannot be avoided as they are the fees charged by the telecoms and server providers for using these services.

ActiveCampaign over-estimate email sending usage on everyone reaching out the maximum email sending for each contact level, and then charges everyone that cost, whether they use those credits in sending or not.

Tekmatix however, keep everyone's costs down by keeping the monthly subscription the same, and only charging you for the emails you send - making it fair for everyone.

Why should you pay higher monthly fees to cover all of the email sending costs of other people on the platform??

ActiveCampaign vs Tekmatix Price Comparison Based on Contact List Size

Here is a comparison table of Tekmatix vs ActiveCamapign monthly fees, assuming that you send out 1 email to every contact you have in your system per month:

*Note this table is valid at October 2024 and may out-date without notice. Please ensure that you check the pricing page for each company for up to date information

This pricing comparison show you that moving to Tekmatix would save you money, even if you ONLY used the email sending features ALONE.

Now imagine what advantages and savings that you further gain from all of the extra features that you get when you switch to Tekmatix WHILST SAVING MONEY!!!

Moving to Tekmatix is a no-brainer, game-changing business move.

3. Email Marketing & Automation

Tekmatix:

Offers unlimited email sends and advanced email marketing capabilities without increasing the monthly fee. It includes features such as custom branded template design, AI in automations, segmentation, conditional branching, sending based on actions or inactions, triggers for hundreds of actions such as courses, funnels and page views; targeted email campaigns, and smart list management, allowing businesses to automate and scale their email marketing effortlessly. You can also send emails from your own domain, and Tekmatix set up your sending settings for you for maximum deliverability and sending compliance support.

Tekmatix keeps your monthly subscription at the same rate per month, regardless of your number of contacts and only charges ‘pay as you go’ for sending emails to keep everyone's costs down, fair and predictable. There is detailed and up to date information regarding email sending costs on the Pricing page. But to give you an indication of how low these costs are on top of a fixed subscription, $5 usd will send around 5,250 emails for you! That’s MUCH much cheaper than paying higher fees every month based on your contact list size!!

ActiveCampaign:

Offers very strong email marketing tools but limits the number of emails you can send (12x your contact limit). While it has advanced features like segmentation, these features are often dependent on your subscription tier, with full access only available on higher plans or with add-ons.

Main Difference:

Tekmatix offers unlimited emails with powerful automation at a fixed subscription cost + pay as you go for emails you send; whereas ActiveCampaign restricts email sends based on the number of contacts, increases the monthly subscription fee based on the number of contacts, and comes with varying feature access based on the plan or paid add-ons.

4. Social Media Marketing & Social Lead Generation

Tekmatix:

Includes a social media planner, scheduler and auto-posting tool that integrates with multiple channels (Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, TikTok and more), making it easy to manage and automate social media posts from the same platform used for email and CRM.

Tekmatix also includes unlimited LinkPages (LinkTrees) that are pre-built and fully editable, enabling you to collect leads and sales from your social bios and CTAs.

This streamlines your content marketing efforts across both social and email. You get stats and data on your content performance, can schedule recurring posts, and it even includes bulk uploads and AI content creation in the scheduler! This multiplies your brand awareness and lead generation.

ActiveCampaign:

While it offers social data enrichment and integrations with ad platforms (like Facebook and Google), it does not offer direct social media posting, scheduling or link page features. You would need separate softwares for this functionality.

Main Difference:

Tekmatix includes social media management and lead gen tools, while ActiveCampaign does not, making Tekmatix more versatile for omnichannel marketing and value for money.

5. Sales Pipeline, Project Management and CRM

Tekmatix:

Provides an advanced and unlimited CRM and sales pipelines with no additional cost. It allows businesses to create unlimited sales pipelines, track customer journeys, and manage relationships across an unlimited number of users and teams. When contacts message you by email or on any social media platform, they are automatically added as a contact to your system, and automatically records ALL communication from ALL mediums to ALL of your staff in the client record, so that none of your comms go missing again. Tekmatix has client notes, uploading client records & documents, viewing their activity tracking and one-click payment and review requests.

You can also use Pipelines and our Kanban Boards to manage events, projects and plan out books, courses and brainstorm. You can even add clients to project boards to co-work with you.

Better yet - Tekmatix CRM comes with ‘Conversational AI’, which learns your business through a website link, and will then respond to incoming enquiries FOR YOU, selling your services and booking appointments for you.

You literally gain a 24/7 assistant when you join Tekmatix!

ActiveCampaign:

The CRM features are limited in features compared to Tekmatix, and are only available on the Enterprise plans. Advanced CRM tools like lead scoring, deal management, and win probability tracking are part of the higher-priced plans or available as add-ons, meaning you may have to pay extra for full CRM functionality. ActiveCamapign does not have conversation AI assistants.

Main Difference:

Tekmatix offers a comprehensive CRM system with sales pipelines and customer management tools included at no extra cost, whereas ActiveCampaign’s CRM features are limited unless you upgrade or buy add-ons.

6. Course Creation, Digital Products, Memberships & Communities

Tekmatix:

Comes with built-in course creation platform with full LMS (learning management system) functionality. Enroll unlimited students, sell unlimited digital products in multiple currencies, offer free trials, drip-released content, full video hosting and a professional student app - along with your own unlimited communities. This makes it perfect for online businesses, coaches, consultants, speakers, summit hosts and educators who want to sell and deliver digital products, training, coaching programs or membership sites without needing third-party platforms.

ActiveCampaign:

Does not offer course creation or membership tools, nor does it have communities. You would need to integrate external LMS platforms to create and manage online courses or memberships.

Main Difference:

Tekmatix includes course and membership site functionality, making it ideal for businesses selling digital products, while ActiveCampaign does not offer this feature.

7. Mobile Apps For Your Students and Your Admin

Tekmatix:

Has FREE mobile app that admins and your students can download directly from the app store. Tekmatix also provides the option to create a fully branded mobile app for your business, both for students (in education settings) and for your team. You can have your own app available on iOS and Android, which is a powerful tool for engaging your audience on mobile devices.

ActiveCampaign:

Does not offer the ability to create branded mobile apps.

Main Difference:

Tekmatix offers branded mobile apps as part of its service, while ActiveCampaign does not.

8. Scalability and Flexibility

Tekmatix:

Designed to scale with your business, Tekmatix allows for unlimited contacts, unlimited users, and unlimited resources like emails, digital products, courses, communities, funnels, websites, domains, forms, surveys, quizzes, sales pipelines, automations, landing pages and more. With the aforementioned fixed price subscription pricing, and ‘pay as you go’ model for emails and other consumables, this makes Tekmatix ideal for businesses that expect growth without wanting to worry about escalating costs or running into feature limits as your contacts and business grows.

ActiveCampaign:

As you scale, ActiveCampaign becomes significantly more expensive as your contact list grows, and you might need to upgrade your plan for more features. The cost of add-ons, increased contact limits, and higher-tier features can become burdensome, profit-reducing and prohibitive for growing businesses.

Main Difference:

Tekmatix offers better scalability without increasing costs as your business grows, while ActiveCampaign’s pricing model becomes more expensive as you scale.

9. E-commerce, Compliance & Integrations

Tekmatix:

Offers unlimited e-commerce website pages, integrated payment systems (Stripe, PayPal and more), and advanced sales reporting. It integrates directly with Shopify and also has its own ecommerce stores feature. We can integrate almost any other software either through a simple Zapier connection, or by creating a custom API to your compliance, Government or industry specific software of choice - making our functionality limitless.

Tekmatix is also independently GDPR Certified, meaning that your data, and your customer data is safe an secure on Tekmatix.

ActiveCampaign:

Offers e-commerce integrations with platforms like Shopify, Square, and WooCommerce, but does not provide built-in e-commerce website pages or operate as the store itself.

10. Customer Support, Onboarding, Migration and Services

Tekmatix:

Provides 24/7 live chat support with real humans and a free 60-minute setup call when you join to help you get started.

Tekmatix also has 2 x FREE daily training calls live with a Tekspert every day so you are never left with questions and are constantly provided with guidance to make the most of your account.

There are substantial training videos and detailed step by step help guides on how to use every feature.

Tekmatix also offers ‘Tekspert VA’ services where you can hire a Tekspert to take over your screen and do ANY task for you for 60mins at a time from just $50!

Tekmatix also offers done for you services and full done for you migration services, getting you set up and running fast,without any stress or hassle on your plate at all.

If you're moving from other tools to Tekmatix, we can do all of the migration work for you (quote based per project). You can also brainstorm and get peer support daily in the Tekmatix community Facebook group.

ActiveCampaign:

Offers some support based on your plan, with more dedicated support services available at higher tiers. There is no one-on-one setup call at the lower plans and support does not compare to Tekmatix personalised and highly accessible support and services options.

Main Difference:

Tekmatix offers much more personalised support with setup calls and one-on-one training included, while ActiveCampaign’s support varies by plan and does not offer setup calls in the base plans.

Conclusion:

Tekmatix is a comprehensive all-in-one business platform with a much more fair, affordable and value-for-money pricing model that includes everything from CRM to email marketing, course creation, and even branded mobile apps.

Tekmatix is designed for businesses that want to manage multiple aspects of their operations in one place without worrying about escalating costs and ever increasing monthly subscription fees as their business grows.

Tekmatix is also much better suited for businesses that wish to have support and hands on help in setting up, managing and running their tech on a daily basis and like to have regular and instant help available when needed.

Tekmatix is also better for businesses that want to do more than just send emails and manage sales. Tekmatix includes the ability to host and sell digital and physical products, manage your operations and automate almost every part of your business.

ActiveCampaign is a great marketing automation tool that excels at email marketing, but becomes increasingly more expensive as your business scales. It lacks more than 50% of the features of Tekmatix and requires many third-party integrations for additional functionality, increasing complexity, reliability and cost.

For businesses looking for an all-encompassing solution with fair and affordable pricing that doesn’t keep increasing as your business grows, Tekmatix offers a far greater value, much higher levels of customer support and significantly more features.

In summary - Tekmatix is the best decision for your business.

Disclaimer:

This article does not cover all of the features offered by Tekmatix and ActiveCampaign and we recommend you view the detailed offerings of each business on their own websites and reach out to each company directly for enquiries about their full functionality.

This article may out-date as features and pricing can change rapidly without notice.

The aim of this article is to offer a general overview of the main differences between these two highly popular business platforms.

No harm is intended and any inaccuracies about the information provided in this article is purely accidental and non-malicious.

We recommend anyone exploring platforms Book a FREE DEMO call with one of our Teksperts where you can ask any questions and have a look around.