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82 of 117 features work differently on CiviCRM: missing, limited, or only with an add-on. The other 35 are the same on both sides.
| Feature | |
|
|---|---|---|
| Activity Timeline | No | Yes |
| Activity Tracking | Limited support | Yes |
| Centralized Contact Record | No | Yes |
| Company Records | Limited support | Yes |
| Deep Data Cards | Yes, but worse | Yes |
| Deep Data Search | No | Yes |
| File box | No | Yes |
| Related Companies | Limited support | Yes |
| Feature | |
|
|---|---|---|
| Booking Calendar | No | Yes |
| Content Restriction | No | Yes |
| Lead Scoring | No | Yes |
| Sales Pipeline | No | Yes |
| Site Personalization | No | Yes |
| Social Proof | No | Yes |
| Feature | |
|
|---|---|---|
| Automated Flows | No | Yes |
| Automated Followup | Limited support | Yes |
| Cart Abandonment | No | Yes |
| Conditional Logic | No | Yes |
| Customer Onboarding | No | Yes |
| Drip Content | Limited support | Yes |
| Drip Emails | Limited support | Yes |
| Email Threading | No | Yes |
| Flow Analytics | No | Yes |
| Flow Import & Export | No | Yes |
| Flow Performance | No | Yes |
| Flow Templates | No | Yes |
| Form Builder | Yes, but worse | Yes |
| Generate Reviews | No | Yes |
| Login Reminders | No | Yes |
| Recurring Emails | No | Yes |
| SMS Automation | No | Yes |
| Split (A/B) Testing | Requires add-on | Yes |
| Templates | No | Yes |
| WordPress Post Automation | No | Yes |
| WordPress User Automation | No | Yes |
| Feature | |
|
|---|---|---|
| AffiliateWP | No | Yes |
| BuddyBoss | No | Yes |
| Contact Form 7 | Limited support | Yes |
| Divi | No | Yes |
| Easy Digital Downloads | No | Yes |
| Elementor Forms | No | Yes |
| Fluent Forms | No | Yes |
| Formidable Forms | No | Yes |
| Forminator | No | Yes |
| GiveWP | No | Yes |
| Gravity Forms | Limited support | Yes |
| LearnDash | No | Yes |
| LifterLMS | No | Yes |
| MailHawk | No | Yes |
| MemberPress | No | Yes |
| TutorLMS | No | Yes |
| weForms | No | Yes |
| WooCommerce | Limited support | Yes |
| WP Forms | No | Yes |
| WP Simple Pay | No | Yes |
| ZeroBounce | Requires Zapier | Yes |
| Enhanced Analytics | No | Yes |
| Enhanced Search | No | Yes |
| Many Plugins, One Screen | No | Yes |
| Feature | |
|
|---|---|---|
| Broadcast Batch Sending | No | Yes |
| Campaign Archives | No | Yes |
| Conditional Content | No | Yes |
| Drag and Drop Email Editor | Requires add-on | Yes |
| Drip Emails | Limited support | Yes |
| Dynamic WordPress Content | No | Yes |
| Editor Customization | No | Yes |
| Email Countdown Timers | No | Yes |
| Email Import & Export | No | Yes |
| Email Threading | No | Yes |
| Global Blocks | No | Yes |
| Recurring Emails | No | Yes |
| RTL Support | Limited support | Yes |
| Shortcode Support | No | Yes |
| Unsubscribe Reason Reporting | No | Yes |
| UTM Parameters | Limited support | Yes |
| Feature | |
|
|---|---|---|
| 100s of Hooks & Filters | Limited support | Yes |
| Custom Flow Steps | No | Yes |
| Receive Webhooks | Limited support | Yes |
| Send Webhooks | Limited support | Yes |
| Templates Libraries | No | Yes |
| White Label | No | Yes |
| WP-CLI Support | No | Yes |
See the 35 features both tools have
| Feature | |
|
|---|---|---|
| Advanced Search Filtering | Yes | Yes |
| Birthdays | Yes | Yes |
| Contact Demographics | Yes | Yes |
| Contact Management | Yes | Yes |
| Contact Relationships | Yes | Yes |
| Custom Fields | Yes | Yes |
| Custom Reports | Yes | Yes |
| Easy Import & Export | Yes | Yes |
| GDPR Compliant | Yes | Yes |
| Geolocation | Yes | Yes |
| Notes | Yes | Yes |
| Saved Searches (Lists/Segments) | Yes | Yes |
| Search Filters | Yes | Yes |
| Staff Permissions | Yes | Yes |
| Tags & Segmentation | Yes | Yes |
| Tasks | Yes | Yes |
| Feature | |
|
|---|---|---|
| Personalized Dashboard | Yes | Yes |
| Feature | |
|
|---|---|---|
| Birthday Reminders | Yes | Yes |
| Leverage SMS | Yes | Yes |
| Feature | |
|
|---|---|---|
| Amazon Web Services | Yes | Yes |
| Elastic Email | Yes | Yes |
| Ninja Forms | Yes | Yes |
| SendGrid | Yes | Yes |
| Twilio | Yes | Yes |
| Zapier | Yes | Yes |
| Feature | |
|
|---|---|---|
| Bounce & Complaint Handling | Yes | Yes |
| Content Personalization | Yes | Yes |
| Custom HTML Templates | Yes | Yes |
| Email Broadcasts | Yes | Yes |
| Email Engagement Reports | Yes | Yes |
| Plain Text Emails | Yes | Yes |
| Scheduled Emails | Yes | Yes |
| SMTP Integrations | Yes | Yes |
| Feature | |
|
|---|---|---|
| Create Extensions | Yes | Yes |
| Rest API | Yes | Yes |
Save time & money with better tools
While CiviCRM may be open-source (which is great) the problem with CiviCRM is that it's just complicated.
It's complex to install, and difficult to integrate with other tools.
The documentation is overwhelming or non-existent, and there isn't as much education out there to help you. You'll be heavily reliant on the community forums as there is no full-time support team.
CiviCRM is also dependent on user contribution, which means improvements happen when they happen depending on resources and community availability.
Groundhogg on the other hand is a for-profit operation, incentivized to give you what you need, fast! With courses, constant education production, and a super responsive support team.
Stop GETTING TIED UP with integrations! Connect your plugins in seconds.
With CiviCRM, you have to use expensive third party products like 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.
Is Groundhogg actually better than CiviCRM?
Groundhogg is different from CiviCRM. And sometimes different is better! Groundhogg is fundamentally different in that Groundhogg is installed on WordPress so that it can talk directly with all your other plugins.
Being installed on WordPress gives you a major advantage. You will be able to get set up faster, deploy faster, and see results faster.
Will you migrate me from CiviCRM to Groundhogg?
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)
No! We charge a flat-rate annual fee for our software, support, and updates, regardless of the number of contacts you have.
Are there any other costs associated with Groundhogg?
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 CiviCRM 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?
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?
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?
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?
Yes! You can get a full refund no questions asked with the first 14 days of signing up.
Stop struggling with CRM. It's time to leave CiviCRM!
When you use CiviCRM you're making life harder for yourself and your team.
Join thousands of businesses that have made the switch to Groundhogg and regain 100s of hours in wasted time, ditch expensive third-party integrations, and relax!
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