Who OneHive Mail is built for
Real estate agents, teams and property professionals in Canada and the US whose main job is staying in touch by email, and who want a simple CRM in the same product.
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OneHive Mail vs Follow Up Boss for real estate agents
Follow Up Boss is a real estate CRM built around lead routing, calling and texting, priced from $69 per user a month. OneHive Mail is a smaller product that pairs email marketing with a simple CRM, from $25 USD a month with 3 users included. Here’s how they compare for a solo agent or a small team.
Follow Up Boss information comes from its own website and help centre, checked on . Prices and features change, so check Follow Up Boss’s site before you decide. OneHive Mail isn’t affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by Follow Up Boss.
Is OneHive Mail an affordable Follow Up Boss alternative for solo agents?
For agents who mainly keep in touch by email, yes: OneHive Mail starts at $25 USD a month with three users, where Follow Up Boss Grow is $69 per user a month. Follow Up Boss is the better fit if you need lead routing, a dialer or two-way texting.
Who each platform is for
Who Follow Up Boss is built for
Real estate agents and teams. Its site has pages for team leads and admins, agents on teams, ISAs and solo agents, and its plans run from a per-user Grow plan to Pro and Platform plans for larger teams.
Side by side
Feature and pricing comparison
Facts from each company’s own published information. Where we couldn’t confirm something on Follow Up Boss’s site, we say so rather than guess.
| Topic | OneHive Mail | Follow Up Boss |
|---|---|---|
| Plans | One product with every feature on every plan, in 6 sizes from 1,000 to 20,000 contacts; larger audiences by quote. | Grow, priced per user; Pro, with 10 users; and Platform, with 30 users. Annual billing gives 2 months free. |
| Starting price | $25 USD/month for up to 1,000 active contacts ($35 CAD in Canada). No free plan. | Grow: $69 per user/month billed monthly, or $58 per user/month billed annually. Pro: $499/month ($416/month annually). Platform: $1,000/month ($833/month annually). We didn’t find a free plan. |
| Which contacts count | Active contacts only. Unsubscribed, bounced, archived and CRM-only contacts don’t count toward your plan. | Not priced by contacts: every plan includes “unlimited contacts, lead sources and integrations”. |
| Monthly email sends | Ten times your plan’s contact limit. | We didn’t find a sending limit on its pricing or email pages. It connects to agents’ Gmail, Google Workspace or Office 365 inboxes and logs their emails automatically. |
| Users | 3 included on every plan; extra users $5 USD/month each. | Grow is priced per user. Pro includes 10 users, then $49/month each ($41 annually); Platform includes 30, then $20/month each ($17 annually). |
| CRM and contact management | Built in: a pipeline with stages, tasks, a calendar, an activity log, engagement scores, buyer and seller preferences and real estate contact types. It doesn’t connect to outside CRMs. | A full real estate CRM: lead routing (round robin, first to claim, or by price or ZIP code), Action Plans for follow-up, shared automations, team inboxes on Pro and Platform, and more than 250 integrations, including Zapier and Gmail. |
| Email designs and campaigns | 198 ready-made designs, most written for real estate: listings, open houses, market updates, newsletters and client care. | Batch email to a segment, saved templates the whole team can use, and alerts when a lead opens an email or clicks a link. Its email page doesn’t describe a newsletter designer. |
| Automation | Included on every plan: email sequences started by a tag, a list or a new contact, with a rule that stops them when someone clicks. | Action Plans send automatic emails to new leads, and drip emails keep past clients in touch. |
| Calling and texting | Not offered. OneHive Mail is email only; you can log calls and texts on a contact’s timeline. | Two-way texting on every plan. Calling is an add-on on Grow ($39/user/month, or $33 annually) and included for all users on Pro and Platform. |
| Free trial | 10 days with 100 contacts and 250 email sends; card required, $0 today. | 14 days, with no contract. |
| Currency | Fixed prices in US dollars, and separate fixed prices in Canadian dollars for customers in Canada. | Its pricing page shows prices with a “$” sign and doesn’t say which currency. |
Which fits you
Our honest take
This part is our opinion, based on the facts above. The right choice depends on your business.
Follow Up Boss may suit you better if…
- You buy or generate leads and need them routed to the right agent automatically.
- You make a lot of calls and texts and want a dialer and two-way texting inside your CRM.
- You rely on integrations: Follow Up Boss cites more than 250, including Zapier.
- You run a larger team and want team inboxes, call reporting or teams within teams.
- You want unlimited contacts at a per-user price, however large your database grows.
OneHive Mail may suit you better if…
- You’re a solo agent or a small team and mainly stay in touch by email: OneHive Mail starts at $25 USD a month with 3 users included, where Grow is $69 per user a month.
- You want designed newsletters, listing emails and market updates, from 198 ready-made designs with your branding filled in.
- You want bulk email sent from a dedicated sending service, with one-click unsubscribe and automatic suppression of bounces and spam reports.
- You want A/B tests of subject lines, signup forms and landing pages in the same product as your CRM.
- You’re in Canada and want fixed prices in Canadian dollars and consent records that follow CASL’s categories.
Switching
Moving from Follow Up Boss to OneHive Mail
- Export your contacts from Follow Up Boss to a CSV file.
- Leave out anyone who has unsubscribed or whose address bounces. Importing into OneHive Mail means confirming that everyone in the file agreed to hear from you, so they shouldn’t be in it. Keep your export of them for your records.
- Import the file under Contacts → Import. Match the columns, including tags and stages, and record how your contacts agreed to hear from you.
- Add your branding once, then set up your pipeline stages, segments and any email sequences you ran as Action Plans.
- Pick a design for your first campaign, send yourself a test, and send.
Step by step: Import your contacts · Clean your contact database first
Questions
Frequently asked questions
- Is OneHive Mail cheaper than Follow Up Boss?
- For one agent, OneHive Mail starts at $25 USD a month for up to 1,000 active contacts, while Follow Up Boss Grow is $69 per user a month on monthly billing. OneHive Mail includes 3 users; Follow Up Boss doesn’t price by contacts, so a very large database can change the comparison.
- Can OneHive Mail route leads like Follow Up Boss?
- No. OneHive Mail lets you assign each contact to a team member and move people through a pipeline, but it doesn’t route incoming leads automatically. If lead routing matters to you, Follow Up Boss is the better fit.
- Does OneHive Mail have calling or texting?
- No. OneHive Mail is email only. You can log calls, meetings, showings and texts on a contact’s timeline, but you make them from your own phone.
- Can I use OneHive Mail alongside Follow Up Boss?
- OneHive Mail doesn’t connect to other CRMs, so the two wouldn’t share contacts automatically. You can import a CSV export of your contacts, and update it by importing again.
Sources
- Follow Up Boss: Pricing
- Follow Up Boss: Email automation for real estate
- OneHive Mail pricing · OneHive Mail features
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See if OneHive Mail fits your business
Try it with the 10-day free trial: up to 100 contacts and 250 email sends. Plans start at $25 USD/month, priced by your active contacts.