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What is this?
Mautic is the world's largest open source marketing automation platform — a PHP web app businesses self-host to run integrated, multi-channel marketing campaigns.
Mautic is the world's largest open source marketing automation platform — a PHP web app businesses self-host to run integrated, multi-channel marketing campaigns.Is Mautic a hosted service I sign up for, or software I run on my own server?Either: you can request a hosted trial that deploys in minutes, or self-host it completely free forever on your own server with your own database.
Either: you can request a hosted trial that deploys in minutes, or self-host it completely free forever on your own server with your own database.How do I get it up and running?The recommended path is installing via Composer following the command-line docs. From a zip it's three steps: extract to your web root, run composer install, then finish in the browser installer. If you use DDEV, 'ddev start' kicks off the first-run setup automatically.
The recommended path is installing via Composer following the command-line docs. From a zip it's three steps: extract to your web root, run composer install, then finish in the browser installer. If you use DDEV, 'ddev start' kicks off the first-run setup automatically.What do I need to have in place before installing?Composer must already be on your machine, since it pulls all the vendor packages; check the requirements and supported-versions pages for the server stack. With DDEV installed, dependencies are fetched automatically.
Composer must already be on your machine, since it pulls all the vendor packages; check the requirements and supported-versions pages for the server stack. With DDEV installed, dependencies are fetched automatically.Can I just deploy the GitHub source straight to production?No — the GitHub version is recommended only for development and testing. Code outside tagged releases counts as alpha and may contain bugs or even cause data corruption or loss; for production use Composer or the pre-packaged download from mautic.org.
No — the GitHub version is recommended only for development and testing. Code outside tagged releases counts as alpha and may contain bugs or even cause data corruption or loss; for production use Composer or the pre-packaged download from mautic.org.Where do my contacts and campaign data end up?In your own database — Mautic runs on infrastructure you control, and building the most privacy-focused marketing automation product on the market is an explicit project goal.
In your own database — Mautic runs on infrastructure you control, and building the most privacy-focused marketing automation product on the market is an explicit project goal.What are the perks of Mautic over a regular SaaS marketing tool?It's open source and free to use with no strings attached, runs on your own stack so you own the data, has no vendor lock-in, and gives you multi-channel campaigns plus unlimited segmentation and automation without feature limitations or extra costs.
It's open source and free to use with no strings attached, runs on your own stack so you own the data, has no vendor lock-in, and gives you multi-channel campaigns plus unlimited segmentation and automation without feature limitations or extra costs.Can I customize it or build my own integrations?Yes — both the frontend and backend are 100% customizable, and creating any integration you need is listed among the project's core benefits.
Yes — both the frontend and backend are 100% customizable, and creating any integration you need is listed among the project's core benefits.Is it safe to build on — how active is the project?It's billed as the world's largest open source marketing automation project, backed by a worldwide contributor community, over 10k GitHub stars, and active Hacktoberfest participation.
It's billed as the world's largest open source marketing automation project, backed by a worldwide contributor community, over 10k GitHub stars, and active Hacktoberfest participation.What are similar projects?mailcheap, community-skeleton, Neofollower-SMM-Reseller-API-for-Woocommerce, marketingskills, Smartstore, akaunting, matomo, marketing-os
mailcheap, community-skeleton, Neofollower-SMM-Reseller-API-for-Woocommerce, marketingskills, Smartstore, akaunting, matomo, marketing-osWhich topics is it in?email-marketing, marketing-automation, business, open-source-alternative, email, php, hacktoberfest, web-app, privacy, free, automation, server
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