Many Shopify merchants rely on apps like Happy Birthday Emails by UW to foster customer loyalty and drive repeat purchases through personalized birthday campaigns. However, as businesses evolve, they may seek alternatives due to limitations in features, integration needs, or pricing structures. Merchants might find that the app lacks the specific level of customization they desire in their birthday email templates, or that it doesn't integrate seamlessly with their preferred email marketing platform. Some businesses might also look for alternatives that offer more advanced segmentation capabilities or data analytics related to birthday campaigns.
Send a birthday email with a discount to build loyalty and repeat purchases
Staff management for Point of Sale retailers. Time tracking, scheduling, commissions, payroll & more
Easyteam is unrelated to birthday emails. This app has employee management features and doesn't include marketing automations.
Best for merchants who need a robust staff management solution for their physical retail locations.
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Metafields Guru is not a direct alternative, but it empowers you to effectively manage customer birthday data stored in metafields. If you want to build a more custom email sequence off of metafields, this app will help you better manage and display metafields without needing code.
Best for merchants needing advanced metafield management and display capabilities for a highly customized storefront.
Auto-sync PayPal tracking info & Stripe tracking info to get funds faster & build trust with PayPal.
Synctrack is not a direct replacement for a birthday email app. However, if a large number of disputes arise from your birthday discount offers, then this could ensure faster access to funds.
Best for merchants using PayPal and Stripe that need help syncing tracking information.
Post-purchase, pre-purchase, NPS, on-site, email and sms surveys. Tap insights with AI analytics.
Zigpoll doesn't replace Happy Birthday Emails directly, but it can be used to gather valuable customer feedback related to their birthday experience. You could survey customers about their satisfaction with the birthday discount, the email itself, or the overall feeling of being valued by your brand.
Best for merchants who need advanced survey capabilities to improve customer experience and engagement.
Advanced reports, using real-time data that you can report, customize, automate, export, and share.
Similar to Mipler, Report Toaster allows for detailed analysis of your birthday campaigns. You can create custom reports using customer birthday data to track sales, discount usage, and customer behavior related to your birthday promotions. It allows for more report templates to start with.
Best for merchants who need real-time reporting and analytics on their store's performance, including the impact of birthday campaigns.
Easily build custom reports and dashboards with metrics to visualize any data from your store.
While Mipler doesn't directly replace birthday emails, it could be used alongside another solution to deeply analyze the performance of birthday-related discounts or promotions. It allows you to create custom reports based on customer data, including metafields where birthday information is stored, to understand the impact of your birthday campaigns.
Best for merchants who want to deeply analyze the impact of their birthday campaigns using custom reports.
Add multi-channel tracking: Facebook Pixel, TikTok Pixel, Pinterest Pixel, Snapchat Pixel & Twitter
This app doesn't directly replace birthday emails, but it can improve the effectiveness of advertising campaigns aimed at customers who recently had a birthday. Using pixel tracking data, you can target ads more effectively to encourage repeat purchases after their birthday discount has been used.
Best for merchants who need to enhance their multi-channel advertising campaigns with pixel tracking and server-side integration.
Post purchase, on-site, email & NPS surveys with unlimited responses for customer insights at scale
Grapevine Post Purchase Survey, like Zigpoll, allows you to gather feedback related to a customer's birthday experience with your brand. This allows you to collect customer data and gain customer insights.
Best for merchants who need a cost-effective survey solution with unlimited responses to understand customer satisfaction and improve marketing efforts.
Easy way to automate order fulfillment, customer tagging, discount functions, email marketing, etc.
While not solely focused on birthday emails, React Flow can be configured to create automated workflows around customer birthdays. For example, you can automate customer tagging or apply discounts based on a customer's birthday.
Best for merchants who want to build complex, custom automations for their Shopify store, including tasks related to birthdays.
Generate discounts, shipping, payment & validation functions. ShopTank winner at Editions 25.
SupaEasy is not a direct replacement for a birthday email app, but it can be helpful for Shopify Plus merchants needing custom discount functions that are birthday specific.
Best for Shopify Plus merchants who need to create highly customized discount, shipping, or payment functions using AI assistance.
You might seek an alternative if you need more advanced email customization, better integration with your existing email marketing platform, more detailed analytics, or specific features not offered by Happy Birthday Emails by UW.
Not all alternatives directly collect birthdays. Some focus on reporting, surveys, or automation around existing data. You may need a separate solution for collecting customer birthdays and storing them in metafields.
Alternatives like Mipler and Report Toaster allow you to create custom reports that track sales, discount usage, and customer behavior related to your birthday campaigns, helping you determine the ROI.
Workflow Automation—React Flow can be used to create automated workflows that may include more advanced email customization options than Happy Birthday Emails by UW, depending on your integration with your email platform.
Mipler, Report Toaster and Grapevine Surveys are your best options if you want to analyze the data from campaigns more deeply.
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