All Groundhogg’s plans are flat-rate and price-locked for life. We’ll never increase your base-price, unlike Bento. No limits on contacts, emails, funnels, tags, or anything else.
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Here’s why Bento usersare switching to Groundhogg!
Businesses and agencies using WordPress are saving up to $450 per month and getting better results after switching from Bento to Groundhogg.
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You want it? We got it!
It’s almost not fair pitting Groundhogg against Bento!
CRM
Sales
Marketing Automation
Integrations
Email Marketing
Developer Tools
We’ve done our best to provide an honest representation of the features Bento has in comparison to Groundhogg by looking at their marketing site, documentation, community posts, and on occasion confirming with their support team. If Bento has a feature that we say they don’t have, they should take the opportunity to document it clearly and send it to us so that we can update our table accordingly.
| Label | Description |
|---|---|
| ✅ | Bento has an equivalent feature. |
| ❌ | Bento does not have an equivalent feature that we could find. |
| Yes, but worse | Bento has a similar feature, but its capabilities are less than what Groundhogg can offer. |
| Limited support | Bento has a similar feature but is very limited in usage. |
| Requires Zapier | You need to also use Zapier to connect or use the feature with Bento. |
| Requires WPFusion | You need WPFusion or similar product to integrate the product with Bento. |
| Requires a third-party add-on | You need a product made by a third-party developer not officially associated with Bento. |
| Requires add-on | You need a paid addon (in addition to their core pricing) provided by Bento or their official marketplace. |
Get all the features you get with Bento and more!
Groundhogg is similar, but also better in every way (We might be biased). You don’t have to sacrifice features!
Do you struggle to truly know your contacts? Other CRMs make it difficult to find the contacts you want and leverage useful data.
Not so with Groundhogg! Groundhogg makes managing and segmenting your contacts simpler than updating a spreadsheet. Groundhogg’s native integrations with other WordPress plugins enables showing all a contact’s information on one screen.
Manage custom fields, tasks, notes, files, and view a contact’s activity history from the contact record.
Not only that, using Groundhogg’s advanced search filtering system, you can find and segment contacts with dozens of criteria.
Groundhogg’s funnel (automation) builder is based on do this, until that which enables you to create funnels that actually work in less time and with less headaches.
Simply drag in your steps in the order you wish for them to happen. All your important integrations like WooCommerce and LearnDash show right in the funnel builder, natively integrated.
Choose from over a dozen pre-built funnel templates with pre-written emails to get started.
Need to make more advanced funnels? Use our step based conditional logic, the most advanced conditional logic system for any marketing automation platform with natively integrated conditions for all your WordPress plugins.
Groundhogg’s email marketing tools make it fast and easy to create targeted emails and send them to the right contacts.
Use our drag and drop email editor, or our HTML editor to create personalized emails with replacement codes.
Schedule broadcasts to segments of your list and see results in real-time.
Create timed sequences of emails so you’re always sending the right email to the right person at the right time!
Groundhogg offers the most comprehensive CRM and marketing automation analytics suite of any self-hosted and open-source CRM. And we’re not just saying that.
See opens, clicks, unsubscribes, bounces at a glance for both your funnels and broadcast emails.
Compare broadcast performance across campaigns from the dashboard.
Get monthly and weekly summaries sent to your inbox so you can easily keep track of your performance.
Use custom reports to get the metrics that matter for your businesses’ growth, instantly!
Groundhogg offers integrations with all the most popular contact/user based plugins in the WordPress ecosystem. Because Groundhogg is a self-hosted WordPress plugin, Groundhogg can directly access all the data from your plugins and sync it with the CRM automatically.
This means no more Zapier, WPFusion, or any other expensive third-party integration systems.
The native integrations Groundhogg has with other WordPress plugins and services improve the CRM, Email Marketing, and Email Marketing components in many ways!
Integrations can add steps to the funnel builder, Info cards and additional activity to the contact record, and search filters to create more segments.
The problem with SaaS CRMs is that if you want to add a feature, or fix a bug, or alter the behavior of the platform slightly, you can’t. It’s up to their development team to do everything.
But with Groundhogg, you can change anything and everything should you want to. Groundhogg is 100% open-source and provides a number of developer tools to enable you to customize the Groundhogg experience.
Hundreds of hooks and filters, REST API, webhooks, and low-code funnel steps make building advanced integrations and cool features almost too easy.
Plus, access new features in Groundhogg!
Bento doesn’t have these, or requires a 3rd party addon.
Search by any kind of data in your database, and the data of other plugins.
See important data from addons, plugins, and integrations all from the contact record.
Don’t Get Screwed! Take Control of your data!
When you use Bento, you don’t actually own your data.
In fact, all your marketing assets, integrations, emails, automations, contacts, and reports belong to Bento.
If you stop paying, or your account is forcibly closed, you lose it all. And there’s no way to export it and take it with you elsewhere.
With Groundhogg, your data is Self-Hosted meaning you truly own it! All our products are open-source so you have complete control over the software and database itself.
Learn why self-hosting is more important than ever!
Stop GETTING TIED UP with integrations! Connect your plugins in seconds.
With Bento, you have to use expensive third party products like WPFusion or Zapier to connect your WordPress plugins.
But with Groundhogg, your WordPress site and all your plugins connect seamlessly.
This is because Groundhogg is a plugin itself, and has direct access to all the data in WooCommerce, LearnDash, BuddyBoss, MemberPress, and more!
You can view all related information in the contact record, filter it, and use it in conditional logic! Yeah, it’s cool, we know.
You’re not the only one fed up with Bento!
These real Groundhogg customers have already made the switch and are now saving thousands!
Is Groundhogg actually better than Bento?
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Groundhogg is different from Bento. And sometimes different is better! Groundhogg is fundementally different in that Groundhogg is self-hosted and open-source, while Bento is a SaaS! There are pros and cons to both.
Self-hosting your data means you own it! Nobody, not even us, can disable your account or turn off your emails. It’s happened before, and when it does it can be detrimental to your business.
Will you migrate me from Bento to Groundhogg?
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We offer a simple migration service. Will will migrate your contacts and import as much other data as we can, like tags and notes.
We do not migrate automations, emails, or other marketing assets.
Does Groundhogg charge a success tax? (More money for more contacts)
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No! We charge a flat-rate annual fee for our software, support, and updates, regardless of the number of contacts you have. Unlike Bento.
Are there any other costs associated with Groundhogg?
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There are only 3 potential additional costs outside of Groundhogg.
SMTP
Groundhogg is “bring your own SMTP.” We offer API integrations with the most popular choices. The combined cost of Groundhogg + SMTP is still much cheaper than Bento in the long run.
Plus, you also have the advantage of switching SMTP services at any time if you find you don’t like working with them.
SMS
If you want to send text messages you will need to integrate Twilio or another SMS service.
Hosting
You likely already have a hosting account, and Groundhogg will work on even the most basic of hosting providers.
However, as you send more traffic to your site you will eventually need to get yourself a solid hosting plan, which you’d need anyway if you’re serious.
Do you offer monthly payments?
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No. Why? For many reasons. Mainly, because monthly payments attract more tire kickers and eat up a lot of our time and support resources.
Do I need to use WordPress to use Groundhogg?
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You must have a WordPress installation to install Groundhogg, but your primary site does not necessarily need to be WordPress. While it is easier if you just use WordPress for everything, we have many customers that only use WordPress on a sub domain to install Groundhogg.
Do I still need WP Fusion?
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In most cases if you are already using WP Fusion you will no longer need it.
WP Fusion does offer some plugin integrations that we don’t provide natively, so for that reason if you already have WP Fusion it may be worth keeping.
Can I get a refund?
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Yes! If you don’t like the demo we’ll give you your $1 back. If you decide to purchase a plan after the demo, you can get a full refund no questions asked with the first 14 days of signing up.
Don’t stay in a bad deal. It’s time move away from Bento!
When you use Bento you’re being taken advantage of. The “success tax,” not owning your data, expensive third-parties, and being at the mercy of tech gods are a recipe for frustration, anger, and eventual heartbreak.
Join thousands of businesses that have made the switch to Groundhogg and save $1,000s a year, take control of their data, ditch third-party integrations, and relax!
