1. Privy’s email features are designed for ecommerce (and only ecommerce)

Privy Email is designed to help you drive sales. 

Stores using Privy generate an average of $33 per email subscriber, and Privy Email users have generated over $475 million in campaign revenue.

We’ll admit free use of Mailchimp for up to 2,000 contacts is pretty appealing when you’re starting to grow your business. But Mailchimp’s Free plan isn’t designed with ecommerce in mind—you can’t set up automated email series with this plan. And if you pay to use Mailchimp, you’ll have monthly email sending limits.

With Privy, you can unlock unlimited email sends for just $30/month and make the most of your email marketing. Plus, you have immediate access to automated emails that can generate up to 320% more revenue for your store than one-off emails. 

Within minutes of signing up for Privy, you can launch automated emails that reach users who abandoned their cart, not just their checkout. We’ve seen these emails convert up to 10-20% of abandoned carts on average. And this is just one of the automated email types Privy offers. 

Privy’s direct integration with Shopify lets you create and manage unique coupon codes for Shopify within Privy, with no additional apps or extra costs involved. 

These coupons are a crucial tool for ecommerce businesses. They make your subscribers feel special and incentivize them to make a purchase at your store. 

2. Privy Email also gives you access to the #1 rated conversion tool for Shopify stores (hint: it’s Privy)

Privy’s list growth and conversion tools turn your traffic into a highly engaged list. Mailchimp’s list growth tools are limited to pop ups that simply check the box for email capture. 

Privy also offers pop ups. And we have flyouts, banners, and spin to win displays, too. Choose from dozens of high-converting templates that are proven and tested by businesses in a variety of industries. Or design your own from scratch with custom colors, fonts and images that match your brand.

Privy’s audience targeting capabilities give you complete control over who sees your onsite campaigns and when. Our platform is designed with a built in connection point between our email and conversion tools, meaning that you can manage your contacts entirely within the Privy platform. 

The power of Privy Email + Conversion lets you target your contacts for additional pop ups, display campaigns, or emails. And all of these activities can bring in more sales.

Mailchimp’s pop up targeting limits how often your site visitors see pop ups to once a year, even if they didn’t sign up the first time around. That’s thousands of emails that aren’t being captured. 

There are third party apps out there that integrate with Mailchimp and offer stronger conversion capabilities. But they start at $29/month and get more expensive as traffic to your site increases.

More apps to manage means more time spent figuring things out and ambiguity about where to go for support.

3. Privy’s Ecommerce experts have helped over 800,000 ecommerce businesses generate over $7 billion in online sales

Privy has a team of experienced ecommerce experts dedicated to help you understand the tools you need to quickly and easily grow your online business. All customers get live chat or email support from a human seven days a week. No matter how many contacts you have or what plan you're on, you’ll never be left to figure it out on your own. 

And when you do reach out, our customer support team will get back to you within a few hours maximum. No waiting days for an email response. We can’t speak for the speed of Mailchimp’s support response time, only Mailchimp users can do that (but from what we’ve heard, Mailchimp support isn’t the timeliest). 

With Mailchimp, you have to spend at least $350/month to get on a call with an expert. When you come to Privy with 10,000+ contacts, you'll be eligible for ongoing 1:1 support with a customer success manager. 

Our incredible support team is a huge reason why we have so many five-star reviews.