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Best email marketing apps for Shopify

For a Shopify store the integration is the product. Anything can send a newsletter; what earns its fee is cart recovery, browse abandonment, post-purchase flows and product blocks that pull live catalogue data without you touching HTML.

The gap between a purpose-built Shopify tool and a general provider with a Shopify connector is wider than the feature tables suggest. This page weights the depth of that integration above almost everything else, then ranks on price.

What we weighted

Stated up front so you can disagree with the criteria rather than only with the conclusion.
  • Depth of the Shopify integration, not merely its existence
  • Cart and browse abandonment flows available out of the box
  • Product pickers and live catalogue data in the editor
  • Whether SMS sits on the same automation canvas as email
  • Revenue attribution reporting per flow

Ranked by cost

A 5,000-contact store mailing four campaigns a month plus flows. Ecommerce and automation are both required, because a Shopify store without either is just a newsletter.

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Contacts you actually hold, after bounces.

Campaigns plus automated sends. This is what breaks plans.

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Cheapest

Sender

Standard

£28.79/mo

Lowest effective monthly cost of every plan that meets your requirements.

Best value

Brevo

Standard

£47/mo

Of the plans costing up to 2x the cheapest paid option, the one with the highest capability score.

Best automation

ActiveCampaign

Plus

£123/mo

Highest automation score among plans that actually include automation on that tier.

  • Standard

    £28.79
    £28.79/mo
    Cheapest
    Monthly
    £28.79
    Annual (per mo)
    Same
    Subscribers
    5,000
    Emails/mo
    60,000
    AutomationLanding pagesEcommerceSMSForms

    3 role-based seats. Send allowance is 12x the subscriber band up to 50,000; above that Sender quotes the allowances shown per band, which step up in blocks.

    Verified8 September 2026source
  • $48
    £35.40/mo
    Monthly
    $48
    Annual (per mo)
    $38
    Subscribers
    5,000
    Emails/mo
    Unlimited
    AutomationLanding pagesEcommerceForms

    Unlimited email sends on every band. SMTP server and transactional emails included.

    Verified8 September 2026source
  • Comfort

    $49
    £36.13/mo
    Monthly
    $49
    Annual (per mo)
    $44.10
    Subscribers
    5,000
    Emails/mo
    50,000
    AutomationLanding pagesEcommerceForms

    50 automations, 10 landing pages, 10 signup forms, 3 user seats. Send allowance is 10x your subscriber band.

    Verified8 September 2026source
  • Standard

    £47
    £47/mo
    Best value
    Monthly
    £47
    Annual (per mo)
    £42.67
    Subscribers
    Unlimited
    Emails/mo
    20,000
    AutomationLanding pagesEcommerceSMSFormsCRM

    Unlimited automated workflows, A/B testing, web and event tracking, send-time optimisation, 1 landing page. No Brevo logo.

    Verified8 September 2026source
  • Creator

    $75
    £55.31/mo
    Monthly
    $75
    Annual (per mo)
    $74.17
    Subscribers
    5,000
    Emails/mo
    Unlimited
    AutomationLanding pagesEcommerceForms

    Unlimited sends. Visual automation builder, email sequences and third-party integrations included.

    Verified8 September 2026source
  • Standard

    $81
    £59.73/mo
    Monthly
    $81
    Annual (per mo)
    Same
    Subscribers
    5,000
    Emails/mo
    60,000
    AutomationEcommerceForms

    Send allowance is 12x your contact band. Unlimited web push.

    Verified8 September 2026source
  • Drip

    $89
    £65.63/mo
    Monthly
    $89
    Annual (per mo)
    Same
    Subscribers
    5,000
    Emails/mo
    Unlimited
    AutomationEcommerceSMSForms

    Every feature is included on every band. Unlimited sending up to 30,000 contacts; above that the allowance is 12 sends per contact. Up to 50 workflows.

    Verified8 September 2026source
  • Plus

    $90
    £66.37/mo
    Monthly
    $90
    Annual (per mo)
    $75
    Subscribers
    5,000
    Emails/mo
    60,000
    AutomationLanding pagesEcommerceForms

    Unlimited lists, landing pages, automations and users. Advanced analytics.

    Verified8 September 2026source
  • Marketer

    £69
    £69/mo
    Monthly
    £69
    Annual (per mo)
    £56.58
    Subscribers
    5,000
    Emails/mo
    Unlimited
    AutomationLanding pagesEcommerceForms

    Unlimited automation workflows, advanced segmentation, ecommerce tools and abandoned cart recovery.

    Verified8 September 2026source
  • £123
    £123/mo
    Best automation
    Monthly
    £123
    Annual (per mo)
    £123
    Subscribers
    5,000
    Emails/mo
    50,000
    AutomationLanding pagesEcommerceSMSFormsCRM

    Send allowance is 10x your contact band. 1 user. Standard segmentation, unlimited automation actions, landing pages.

    Verified8 September 2026source
  • Marketing Hub Professional

    $1040
    £766.90/mo
    Monthly
    $1040
    Annual (per mo)
    $950
    Subscribers
    5,000
    Emails/mo
    50,000
    AutomationLanding pagesEcommerceFormsCRM

    Full marketing automation, campaign reporting and custom objects.

    Needs review8 September 2026source

Ranked by the effective monthly cost on your chosen billing cycle, converted to pounds where a provider quotes in another currency. Only the cheapest qualifying plan per provider is shown. Prices are the provider’s own published rate. Always confirm before buying.

Ruled out, and why

These providers have no plan that fits. Relaxing one requirement may bring them back.

Our shortlist

Who we would actually look at first for this use case. This is an editorial judgement and it is deliberately separate from the price ranking above, where the two disagree, both are shown.
  1. 1.Omnisend

    #6 on price for this preset

    The most complete Shopify integration here, with email, SMS and web push on one flow canvas and prebuilt store automations.

  2. 2.Drip

    #7 on price for this preset

    Better behavioural segmentation on store data than Omnisend, at a higher entry price and with no free tier.

  3. 3.Brevo

    #4 on price for this preset

    The cheap option once your contact list is large relative to how often you mail it.

  4. 4.ActiveCampaign

    #10 on price for this preset

    Choose this when the store is one part of a wider funnel and you need the CRM alongside it.

Who this page is not for

Stores under a few hundred orders a month rarely recover the cost of a dedicated ecommerce tool. A general provider with a Shopify connector is usually the better first step.

Other use cases

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