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Notifizz and Iterable

Journeys built around profiles.Or around your own systems.

Iterable brings cross-channel marketing together around user profiles stored on the platform. Notifizz reads the data each message needs from your own systems, with no contact database to import or sync.

Consider Notifizz when

Shared campaign workflow.Data read from your systems.

  • You’d rather not import or sync recipient profiles into a messaging platform: campaigns read the customer data they need from your own systems.
  • You want AI to check each campaign against your events and data, and list only what engineering still has to implement.
  • You want marketing, product and engineering in one campaign workflow, with an implementation step and a review before your team publishes.
  • You prefer a European vendor, with the platform hosted in France by a French provider.

Consider Iterable when

Their strengthsmatch your priorities.

  • You need SMS, WhatsApp, mobile push and cross-channel decisioning.
  • Your team works extensively in journey builders.
  • Your customer data already lives in a warehouse or CDP that can sync into Iterable.

A different starting point

Use your customer data.Where it already lives.

Profiles kept on the platform

Store. Sync. Maintain.

  1. Your CRM and product data
  2. Recipient profiles kept on the messaging platform
  3. Campaigns use stored profiles and trigger data

Keep the platform’s profiles aligned with your own systems.

Iterable keeps a profile for every user it messages; data feeds and Journey Live Data can also read your APIs at send time or mid-journey.

The Notifizz approach

Connect. Read. Send.

  1. Your CRM and product stay the source of truth
  2. The campaign requests the context it needs
  3. The published message is personalized and sent

No customer contact database to import or keep synchronized.

These diagrams compare data models. Notification delivery still involves operational records and retention; freshness also depends on the source and any configured cache.

Explore the data approach

Side by side

The detailsbehind the decision.

Notifizz and Iterable: data, workflow and delivery
What mattersIterableNotifizz
Customer dataProfiles are ingested and stored through APIs, SDKs and Smart Ingest, an add-on that syncs warehouse data.No customer database to import or sync. Notifizz keeps only what sending requires (identifiers, addresses, preferences, delivery history); everything else is read from your systems when the message is built.
ChannelsEmail, SMS, WhatsApp, RCS, mobile push, web push, in-app, in-browser and embedded messages.Email and Notification Center are available. Web push is in closed beta and Intercom in pilot; SMS and WhatsApp are coming soon.
Live personalizationData feeds call an API at send time, with optional caching; Journey Live Data pulls real-time API data into journeys.Enrichers read your systems when the message is built, with a short cache: one hour by default, configurable per source.
Campaign creationMarketers build campaigns and journeys, with AI help from Nova, using stored profiles and send-time data feeds.Marketing and product create in a shared workspace; engineering implements what is missing.
Developer workIntegrate SDKs and APIs; warehouse data can sync through Smart Ingest; data-feed endpoints serve send-time content.Connect events and enrichers. Reuse existing requirements; implement the missing ones.
Review and versionsJourney drafts with version history and restore, separate draft and publish permissions, template revision history and A/B experiments.Editing, Implementation, Review and Live. Nothing goes Live until someone on your team publishes it. New campaigns go through Review first, and so do updates that change a campaign’s logic (event, steps, conditions, recipients, channels or data); text-only edits can be published directly.
Email deliverySending infrastructure is included: Iterable’s shared Amazon SES pool by default, or SparkPost, Mailgun, SendGrid (US data center) or a custom platform, with sending domains, a Spam Report and bounce tracking.Your own domain, a spam score on Review test sends, and delivery and bounce data from the provider.
Hosting and privacyProfiles are stored on the platform; new customers can choose Iterable’s EU data center (Ireland).Hosted in the EU (France). US subprocessors: Cloudflare (network), Postmark (email delivery) and Anthropic (AI). The AI designs campaigns from the structure of your events, never their values; a test run you ask it to debug is shared with it. No contact database sync. Suppressed addresses are kept as keyed hashes.

Moving to Notifizz

Connect your systems.No contacts to import.

There is no contact database to import. Set up the events, delivery channels and live data your first campaign needs.

Read the quickstart
  1. Connect an SDK.

    Choose the integration for your application.

  2. Send your first event.

    Connect the event and any live enrichment required by the campaign.

  3. Set up your channels.

    Add the notification center and configure your email domain.

  4. Review and publish.

    Preview the campaign, check the requirements and publish it.

Questions, answered

The practicalquestions.

Talk to us
Can Notifizz replace Iterable for our team?

Start with your required channels and workflow. Notifizz brings product and transactional campaigns together around live data and human review; marketing broadcasts are in closed beta. Iterable may fit better where its channel coverage or journey tools are essential. A demo with your own use case makes the trade-offs concrete.

Can we bring our existing journeys?

Use the same business events and goals to define your journeys in Notifizz. The orchestrator helps wire connected data and conditions; engineering implements any missing requirements before review and publication.

What changes for our customer data?

Notifizz reads the data each message needs from your systems, so there is no second contact database to keep in sync. Like Iterable, Notifizz acts as a processor. The platform is hosted in the EU (France); Cloudflare (network and security in front of our services), Postmark (email delivery) and Anthropic (AI campaign design) are US subprocessors. See the privacy policy for the scope of data processing.

See how it fits.With your own campaign.

Walk through your data, your channels and the way your team works.