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Category median

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0–5 in half steps. 5 means the rubric's top anchor is met on the evidence.

by Sarbacane Software SAS · www.sarbacane.com

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The CRM Manager

Weighted verdict

Owns the lifecycle programme and measures it. Wants segmentation on real behaviour, journeys that branch, and testing that reports significance rather than a bigger number. Treats a tool that can only broadcast as a mailing list with invoicing.

Same scores as the panel view — this lens weights them the way this judge cares.

Scored by The CRM Manager

Campaigns & automation

How this is scored

Building the mail and the journey around it: editor, templates, segmentation, triggered sequences, A/B testing.

0 — One-off broadcasts from a fixed template; no segmentation and no automation of any kind.

3 — A drag-and-drop editor and simple list segmentation, but automation is a single welcome mail and there is no testing.

5 — Reusable templates, attribute and behaviour segmentation, multi-step automations on common triggers, and subject-line A/B testing.

8 — A visual journey builder with branching on behaviour and data, dynamic content per segment, send-time optimisation, and testing that reports significance rather than raw counts.

10 — Journeys treat the whole lifecycle: event-driven entry from other systems, branching on any attribute or event, holdout groups for measurement, and automations a marketer can read months later without a diagram.

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The CRM Manager

The drag-and-drop editor, reusable blocks, template folders and an automated campaign type are documented, and A/B testing goes beyond subject lines to sender and full content with automatic winner selection. But the winner is chosen on raw open or click rate with a victory cup — no significance reporting — and the journey claims (more than fifty ready-to-use scenarios, intelligent multi-channel triggers) are marketing copy with no documented branching on behaviour or data. Good broadcast-and-test tooling; the lifecycle branching I measure programmes on is unproven. 1 2 3

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Deliverability infrastructure

How this is scored

Whether the mail arrives — authentication, sending reputation, bounce and complaint handling — judged on what the vendor documents rather than the inbox rate it advertises.

0 — No documentation of authentication or bounce handling; deliverability appears only as a marketing number.

3 — SPF and DKIM setup documented, but no DMARC guidance, no stated bounce policy and shared sending only.

5 — SPF, DKIM and DMARC documented with a custom sending domain, automatic hard-bounce suppression, and complaint-loop handling stated.

8 — The above plus dedicated-IP options with a documented warm-up, seed or inbox-placement testing, engagement-based sunsetting, and published guidance on list hygiene.

10 — Deliverability is operated as a service: reputation monitoring surfaced to the customer, per-domain and per-ISP diagnostics, enforced authentication before first send, and postmaster or blocklist handling the vendor documents doing on the customer's behalf.

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The CRM Manager

There is real documentation here — a deliverability collection with best practices, domain reputation, why mail lands in spam, and a documented choice between shared and dedicated sending IPs, which is more than a marketing number. We found no public information on SPF, DKIM or DMARC setup, on bounce suppression, or on complaint-loop handling, which is the layer I need documented before trusting the pipe. 4 5

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List ownership, import & exit

How this is scored

Whether the list and its history remain the sender's: import with attributes intact, full export including engagement history, deletion that executes, and no metering that prices leaving out of reach.

0 — Export is addresses only; engagement history, segments and automations cannot leave.

3 — CSV import and export of subscriber fields, but engagement history and unsubscribe state are not exportable.

5 — Full subscriber export including custom attributes, subscription status and unsubscribe state, plus API access sufficient to sync elsewhere.

8 — Everything exportable in open formats — subscribers, engagement history, campaigns and templates — with documented deletion of a subscriber across all records, and no export throttling.

10 — Exit is a documented feature: full-fidelity export of the whole account, contractual data return, deletion that is evidenced rather than asserted, and migration tooling in both directions.

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The CRM Manager

Import is genuinely good — xlsx, txt and csv plus paste, with automatic column mapping, custom columns, a source column recording how each contact arrived, and lists auto-populated from business applications. But we found no public information on export, on whether engagement history or unsubscribe state can leave, or on documented deletion; entry is well built while exit is the part I cannot verify. 8 9 10

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Integrations & API

How this is scored

The connection surface a newsletter lives on: shop and CRM systems, events in and out, webhooks, and an API somebody can build against without a partner agreement.

0 — No API and no named integrations; the list is maintained by CSV upload.

3 — A handful of native integrations and a read-mostly API, with no webhooks and no documented rate limits.

5 — Named integrations for common shop and CRM systems, a documented REST API with keys, and webhooks for the core subscriber events.

8 — Maintained bidirectional integrations with named systems including at least one major shop platform, event webhooks with retries, documented rate limits, and a sandbox.

10 — The tool is a component rather than a destination: transactional and marketing sending on one API, events flowing both directions, versioned API with a deprecation policy, and integrations the vendor maintains rather than lists.

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The CRM Manager

Seven-plus named connectors including Shopify, Magento, Prestashop, Salesforce, WordPress, Google Sheets and noCRM, plus API and mobile SDK documentation and CRM list synchronisation, give a reasonable surface for shop and CRM data. We found no public information on webhooks, documented rate limits, a sandbox, or whether the connectors are bidirectional, so I cannot confirm the event flows in and out that my automation programmes would depend on. 1 9 10

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European sovereignty

How this is scored

Where subscriber data and behavioural tracking live, who the contracting entity is, and which subprocessors touch the send. Independently sourced by the sovereignty pipeline; scored here as this buyer weighs it — which in this category is heavily.

0 — US vendor and contracting entity, US hosting, subprocessors unnamed; subscriber behaviour leaves the EU with no stated basis.

3 — EU hosting offered as an option or for storage only, while sending, tracking or support access remains non-EU, or the subprocessor list is absent.

5 — EU hosting as standard and an EU contracting entity, but parts of the chain — sending infrastructure, analytics, support tooling — are non-EU without an explained safeguard.

8 — EU or DACH hosting with a named data-centre provider, EU contracting entity, complete subprocessor list published, and any non-EU processing named with its legal basis.

10 — Sovereign end to end and evidenced: vendor, entity, hosting, sending and every subprocessor in the EU, certification published, and no transfer that needs a Schrems II argument to survive.

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The CRM Manager

The contracting entity is French (Positive Groupe France) with a France-based team and an explicit GDPR-compliance claim, which is the right posture on paper. But we found no public information on where subscriber data and behavioural tracking are hosted, on the contracting situation after the rebrand to Positive User, or on any published subprocessor list — and this category decides procurement for me, so an unverified chain earns no benefit of the doubt. 1

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Pricing transparency not rated — the vendor publishes no price

How this is scored

Whether a sender can compute the real invoice for their list size and send volume — including overage, extra domains and automation limits — from public pages alone.

0 — No public prices at all; every tier is a sales conversation.

3 — A headline price per contact tier exists, but send limits, overage rates or the tier where automation begins are not stated.

5 — Contact-tier prices public with the billing period stated and send limits given, but at least one commonly needed capability sits in an unpriced tier or add-on.

8 — Every tier priced publicly with contact and volume limits, overage rates, feature boundaries and VAT treatment stated; only genuinely custom volume lacks a number.

10 — Complete price computability: a calculator producing the annual invoice for a given list size and send frequency, including overage, additional domains and dedicated IPs.

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The CRM Manager

The captured pricing page states no prices at all, so I cannot compute an invoice for any list size — send limits, overage, where automation begins and VAT treatment are all publicly unpriced. That makes every tier a sales conversation before I can even model the cost of a migration. 1

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European sovereignty — proven facts

0 of 4 dimensions proven

Built only from facts shown on the vendor's own pages. A dimension we could not prove is left open, not scored as zero.

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Sources (10)

The pages every claim on this page was read from — each one checked, dated, and kept verifiable.

  1. 1 Vendor page www.sarbacane.com Checked 22 Sep 2026 Details →
  2. 2 Campaigns & automation — found from sitemap help.sarbacane.com Checked 30 Sep 2026 Details →
  3. 3 Campaigns & automation — found from sitemap help.sarbacane.com Checked 30 Sep 2026 Details →
  4. 4 Deliverability infrastructure — found from sitemap help.sarbacane.com Checked 30 Sep 2026 Details →
  5. 5 Deliverability infrastructure — found from sitemap help.sarbacane.com Checked 30 Sep 2026 Details →
  6. 6 Consent, proof & tracking limits — found from sitemap help.sarbacane.com Checked 30 Sep 2026 Details →
  7. 7 Consent, proof & tracking limits — found from sitemap help.sarbacane.com Checked 30 Sep 2026 Details →
  8. 8 List ownership, import & exit — found from sitemap help.sarbacane.com Checked 30 Sep 2026 Details →
  9. 9 List ownership, import & exit — found from sitemap help.sarbacane.com Checked 30 Sep 2026 Details →
  10. 10 Integrations & API — found from sitemap help.sarbacane.com Checked 30 Sep 2026 Details →