Attentive: SMS + MMS Marketing

Attentive is a terrific SMS marketing provider. Their white glove service is unmatched and has been critical for my lean marketing team. They are an internal part of our marketing communications and their employees have all been amazing to work with. They do a great job at providing you with helpful resources and tools!

Easy to use, very 'attentive' customer service, and helps us add a lot more sales each month! Highly recommend!

We've been with Attentive for over a couple of years now and we've had a great experience working with the platform & our account managers. The platform is easy to navigate, they have plenty of resources available on how to optimize your sms/mms marketing strategy, and the campaigns/journeys/signup units are easy to set up! We've definitely seen an increase in ROI since we've made the switch. Not to mention, their White Glove Service is extremely helpful in answering our questions and concerns.

If I could give no stars, I would. DO NOT use this company if you want to retain subscriber data (they took our list from Klaviyo and scrubbed everything except email and mobile number. They don't understand basic requirements like opt-in/out data. My subscriber list has three columns. It's a joke.

Design is glitchy and can't save mid-design (meaning you lose work unless you want to save and get backed out each time), customer service reps are MIA and tech support patchy. Analytics and reporting are very basic and many essential reports have to be requested (because they're gatekeeping data, I suspect because so many people are fleeing). And the best part?

They cost 2x what Klaviyo charges for a much better platform and service. They built their business by luring Klaviyo customers away with a free email service period but once that was over, are charging far more than we were led to believe. Even if it didn't feel like a bait-and-switch, they cannot justify charging so much for a pretty basic service.

Seriously causing us so much grief and after days of begging for help, we're still getting shrugs and confusion.

Our experience with Attentive has been nothing short of amazing; we're very impressed by how quickly SMS marketing has become a dependably strong channel for our sales.

Attentive is hands down the best sms marketing provider out there, no question. We saw immediate results right off the bat when we installed it over a year ago. Now they are an internal part of our marketing communications. Also, their staff is amazing to work with and always pushing the envelope to test new functions to create a better user & customer experience. Can't recommend them enough!

Billing transparency is equal 0. For some weird reason one can not see detailed billing or find exact cost for anything in the account home. Billing invoices are emailed from another system, instead of being visible in the account, no billing history ... nothing. When I think better that must be intentional. Of course, prices might be somewhere in the contract, but who looks at the contracts.

Also revenue contributed to the app is incorrect, overestimated. We have lot of revenue from new customers, and of course new customers subscribe to SMS ... attentive attributes every new purchase to the attentive generated revenue.

I kept getting messages from the sales encouraging me to try the app, but when I pressed for additional information, all they would provide me was asking for a "20 min call." Eventually, I installed the app and tried it out, but I was horrified to learn that I couldn't use it and that I had to schedule a "20 min call" with them in order to use it.
Since I started using Shopify in 2016, I have never encountered a user experience quite like this one. They are unable to easily contact the user. Install the app and give it a try if you want to confirm my review.

I'm loving Attentive so far! We're just getting going, but the interface is really straightforward and easy to use and they were exceptionally helpful while we were getting everything set up. Loving the SMS results!!

We are an established brand and made the switch to Attentive over a year ago. Their onboarding team was organized and our reps (currently Marc) really add value to our SMS marketing. We've never had an issue with the platform and even the AI recommendations for text campaigns provide very good examples that we often use over our own planned copy.