Privy vs. Flodesk

When you're choosing a marketing tool for your online store, it’s important to pick one that’s built for ecommerce. Privy gives you the complete toolkit to grow your audience, convert shoppers, and drive repeat sales across email, SMS, and onsite experiences.

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Why Ecommerce Brands Choose Privy over Flodesk

Built Specifically for Ecommerce Growth

Built Specifically for Ecommerce Growth

Privy is tailor-made for ecommerce merchants. From onsite conversion tools to automated lifecycle messaging, every feature is designed to retain customers.

Multi-Channel Marketing — Beyond Email

Flodesk focuses almost exclusively on email, so brands that want to reach customers where they are choose Privy for multi-channel engagement.

Ecommerce-Ready Automation & Workflows

Flodesk lets you create sequences, but doesn’t natively offer ecommerce lifecycle automation. Privy’s automations are designed to drive revenue.

Integrated Onsite Conversion Tools

Privy combines email marketing with powerful onsite tools: popups & banners, spin-to-win, exit intent offers, and more.

Key Features Privy Offers

Privy helps ecommerce brands grow faster with built-in list growth, automated lifecycle messaging, multi-channel marketing, and revenue-focused analytics.

Email Marketing

  • Drag-and-drop email builder
  • Pre-Built email templates
  • Automated email workflows
  • Robust segmentation and targeting

List Growth

  • Conversion-optimized on-site forms
  • Smart targeting & display rules
  • Incentives & offers to capture emails

Automations

  • Welcome series, abandoned cart, order follow-ups
  • Behavior-based triggers
  • Flexible workflow customization
  • Multi-channel automations

Analytics & Reporting

  • Campaign and popup revenue attribution
  • Conversion tracking across site and email
  • Actionable insights — no spreadsheets required

How to Switch

From “where do I start?” to “this is easy.”

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We’ll handle the migration — for free.

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Import your contacts and templates.

3.

Match your automations.

4.

Train your team in under an hour.

Why Privy Wins Against Flodesk

Privy wins against Flodesk by offering ecommerce-built list growth, multi-channel automation, and revenue-focused reporting—beyond just email design.

Privy is built for:

Privy is built for ecommerce merchants who need list growth, behavior-based automations, and multi-channel messaging.

  • Founders and growing marketing teams
  • Brands growing fast
  • Merchants who want more revenue without more tech debt
Privy is built for:

Flodesk is built for:

While Flodesk helps you send beautiful emails, Privy helps ecommerce brands grow faster by turning traffic into subscribers, automating key moments, and driving measurable revenue.

  • Small teams
  • Creators who prefer simplicity
  • Marketing teams who want just the basics
Privy is built for:

Why Customers Love Privy

With Carley, it just feels like you're talking to a friend. I love that trust and relationship when it comes to business...because it's really hard to find. A lot of the time, smaller businesses like us are treated just like another number.
Alexandria MacFarlane
Founder, Truly Lifestyle Brand
With Carley, it just feels like you're talking to a friend. I love that trust and relationship when it comes to business...because it's really hard to find. A lot of the time, smaller businesses like us are treated just like another number.
Alexandria MacFarlane
Founder, Truly Lifestyle Brand

Frequently Asked Questions

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