Groundhogg 4.0 is here!

Groundhogg 4.0 introduces the Flow Editor which makes Groundhogg the most powerful marketing automation tool currently available for WordPress. Seriously, no other WordPress CRM comes close, we checked.

Create beautiful flows that convert leads into customers! Your customers will thank you.

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Do your business a favor and switch to Groundhogg.

Epic WordPress CRM, Email & Marketing Automation

Businesses that switch to Groundhogg save on average $240/m on CRM fees.

👉 Official Site | 📃 Documentation | 🎓 Groundhogg Academy

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🚀 14-day demo! Try before you buy.

🏆 2020 Gold Stevie Award Winner

Groundhogg CRM & Marketing Automation for WordPress can help you dramatically improve how you acquire leads and make more sales!

Our award winning WordPress CRM is the very best alternative to Keap, ActiveCampaign, HighLevel, HubSpot, MailChimp and other SaaS platforms.

You don’t have to sacrifice CRM features when you switch to our self-hosted solution. In fact you can save $1,000s per year and have the added benefit of owning all your information.

If you are an agency, WaaS, WordPress developer, LMS/Course Creator, WordPress freelancer, or CRM implementation service provider then the Groundhogg CRM and Marketing Automation suite is for you.

🪓 Ax the "Success Tax"

Other SaaS (Software as a Service) CRM platforms will charge you more as your list grows.

But not us!

When using the Groundhogg CRM & Marketing Automation suite free or with any of our paid plans, we'll never charge you more!

🚫 There are no limits on:

• Number of contacts
• Number of flows (automations)
• Number of emails sent

When using Groundhogg CRM & Marketing Automation you will never be limited on the amount of anything! Unlike other SaaS platforms.

Businesses save $1,000s a year after switching to Groundhogg.

💽 You own your data!

The reality of SaaS CRMs is that you pay, and pay, and pay, and you invest all this money into a system to help your business thrive, but it can be taken away at a moments notice.

Putting your data in a SaaS CRM is like renting an apartment, but with less protection and stingier landlords. You can get evicted at any time, for any reason. There is no recourse.

This leaves your business exposed. What would happen to your business if your CRM was turned off?

With Groundhogg you actually own your data! No one expect you can make impactful changes.

🔎 At A Glance

Everything your business needs to thrive!

• Best in class CRM & Marketing Automation suite.
• Organize and segment your contacts to send more relevant communications.
• Automate your communications to save you time and increase your productivity.
• Collect data and mine your list so you can stop bleeding money. "The money is in the list!"
• Own your data so you’ll never be at the mercy of a SaaS company again.
• Control your expenses! There are NO LIMITS on how many contacts and users you can have! Groundhogg grows with you! Your costs do NOT increase when your lists grows. We don’t tax you for scaling up!
• Translate & configure into any language.

🌎 We care! Join our Community!

Groundhoggers are very generous with their business intelligence. Just as the Groundhogg CRM & Marketing Automation team is deeply committed to helping! So we create lots of tools to help you succeed.

• 🚀 Free 1-Hour Quickstart Course!
• 🌎 Community care & support in the open Facebook group!
• 📺 Over 60 hours of easy Groundhogg Youtube tutorials!
• 📃 Use our Knowledge Centre to get the answers you need.
• 🎙️ Ask your burning questions in Office Hours on our live Facebook stream every Tuesday!

🤷‍♂️ Who can benefit from Groundhogg CRM and Marketing Automation?

The Groundhogg CRM & Marketing Automation suite is being used by a wide variety of 3,000+ businesses in over 35+ countries. The diversity of use cases is huge!

If you're business is using WordPress, you can use Groundhogg.

Here are some of the more common use cases:

• Digital Marketing Agencies
• WordPress Freelancers
• LifterLMS, LearnDash, or TutorLMS sites
• WooCommerce Sites
• WaaS Multisite Platforms
• Blogs and News Sites
• Coaches and Trainers
• Educators and Public Speakers
• Business Directories
• And many more!

💡 Made by people who know CRM & Marketing Automation!

Our team is based in Niagara Falls, Canada! We've been helping small businesses implement CRM and Marketing Automation since 2014 working with tools like Keap, ActiveCampaign, and HubSpot.

After some time, it became apparent that there was a desperate need in the WordPress ecosystem for a capable CRM and Marketing Automation tool for WordPress site owners.

One that could match SaaS platforms on features and reliability did not yet exist, so we built it!

Starting in 2018, Adrian Tobey (founder) and his team took their combined 20+ years of experience in the CRM and Marketing Automation industry to create a better option for WordPress based businesses.

We know flows, CRM, and marketing automation like the back of our hands!

You can trust us to not only provide you with stellar software and support, but also provide you guidance on the kinds of flows and automation you should be building to get maximum value from our products.

❤️ Businesses Love Groundhogg CRM & Marketing Automation!

3,000+ businesses in 35+ countries are using Groundhogg CRM & Marketing Automation to launch their flows, grow their lists and scale their businesses.

Here's what a few of them had to say about our products and support!

From 👨 Chris Badget, CEO of LifterLMS

Great team, great product, and works with all the key WordPress tools I’m using. So nice to be able to do broadcast emails, tagging, and marketing automation all from inside my WordPress website.

From 👨‍🦱 Francisco Opazo, Marketing Manager at BuddyBoss

Groundhogg CRM & Marketing Automation is essential for many community builders, course creators, and membership site owners to achieve higher rates of engagement and retention. It simplifies many complex processes including onboarding, email marketing, flows, and enables you to scale your marketing efforts more efficiently.

From 👨 Jonathan Denwood, Podcaster & Owner of WP-Tonic Agency

Adrian and his team have really built a great WordPress based CRM that’s really competitive with the big guys like ActiveCampagin. I would highly recommend it to anybody who is running WordPress.

There are over 110 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ reviews for Groundhogg on WordPress.org and even more reviews on our Facebook Page!

Kris Britton of the KAYBE marketing agency moved all of his clients from HubSpot to Groundhogg!

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Features

Here are the tools you can use to launch your funnel, grow your list, and scale your business faster with Groundhogg CRM & Marketing Automation!

🕺 Straightforward CRM & Contact Management

• Advanced searching and filtering on any data
• Unlimited CRM custom fields
• Segmentation with tags
• Activity and email history
• Profile pictures
• Automatic location discovery
• CRM Notes
• CSV importing & exporting
• Sync contacts in the CRM with WordPress users
• View congregated information other WordPress plugins in the contact record.

Quickly and easily segment your list with Groundhogg's unrivaled search filter system!

Groundhogg's search filters give you more control than any other CRM to segment your list to find exactly the leads you're looking for.

Our integrations with WooCommerce, AffiliateWP, LearnDash, and more add additional search filters you can use to create powerful segments so you can send hyper targeted messages.

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⚙️ Flows & Marketing Automation Features

• Create highly effective customer journeys with our easy to learn funnel builder.
• Over 30+ integrations available to connect the CRM with your favorite WordPress plugins.
• Create simple flows or complex ones!
• Measure the effectiveness of your flows with easy to read metrics.
• Start flows from forms, payments, new users, and more!
• Open API to add your own triggers & actions.

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📧 Simple Email Marketing & SMTP

• Use images, headers, paragraph and more.
• Simple preview & testing.
• Perfect for sales emails, newsletters, transactional notifications and more.
• Send broadcast emails to your contact lists.
• Distinguish between transactional and marketing emails.

📈 Unmatched Analytics Reporting

• We track EVERYTHING in the CRM!
• Granular details of how your site is performing.
• See open rates, click through rates and conversions at a glance.
• Detailed results from your flows and broadcast emails.
• Integrate with Ecommerce to see revenue from your marketing.
• Learn more about your audience with demographic reporting.
• See which flows/emails are under-performing.

Use campaigns to make comparing reporting results easier

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🇪🇺 GDPR Ready

• Simple GDPR features to keep you compliant.
• Automatic preferences center, data download, and opt out.
• Track GDPR consent in your CRM
• Prevent marketing to those who withdraw consent.

🙌 Get more with premium features!

Groundhogg CRM & Marketing Automation has 45+ extensions to help you expand and integrate Groundhogg to help you build your all in one solution.

👉 Bundle all of our incredible premium features into a flat rate plan. Yearly & monthly options available.

You can also use our ⏱️ 14 day $1 demo to see a preview of these stellar features.

Over 24+ extensions to help you handle more...

• Extend your CRM with Custom Fields
• Extend your CRM with Custom SMTP
• Extend your CRM with Advanced Email Preferences
• Extend your CRM with Superlinks
• Extend your CRM with Lead Scoring
• Extend your CRM with Booking Calendars
• Extend your CRM with Social Proof Popups
• Extend your CRM with Signed Contracts
• Extend your CRM with Company Management
• Extend your CRM with a Sales Pipeline
• Extend your CRM with Birthday Automation
• And many more...

Over 30+ integrations to connect to your favorite WordPress plugins. Integrate with...

• Connect LifterLMS to your CRM | FREE COURSE
• Connect LearnDash to your CRM | FREE COURSE
• Connect BuddyBoss to your CRM | FREE COURSE
• Connect GiveWP to your CRM
• Connect Easy Digital Downloads to your CRM
• Connect WooCommerce to your CRM
• Connect HelpScout to your CRM
• Connect Elementor to your CRM
• Connect Amazon Web Services to your CRM
• Connect SendGrid to your CRM
• Connect AffiliateWP to your CRM
• Connect ThriveCart to your CRM
• Connect WPForms to your CRM
• And many more...

⏱️ Want to test out the premium Groundhogg CRM and Marketing Automation suite?

If you'd like a trial of our premium plans, please check out our $1 sandbox demo.

Milestones

• Serving 3,000+ businesses in 35+ countries.
• ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ rated software and support!
• 40+ Certified partners.
• 🏆 Gold Stevie Award 2020 for Tech Start up of the Year (American Business Awards).
• 🏆 Gold Stevie Award 2021 for Best In Class Customer Service (American Business Awards).
• 🏅 Best Software Innovation 2020 finalist (Canadian Search Awards).
• 🏅 Canadian Small Business Awards 2021 finalist (Canadian Search Awards).

How can I report security bugs?

You can report security bugs through the Patchstack Vulnerability Disclosure Program. The Patchstack team helps validate, triage and handle any security vulnerabilities. Report a security vulnerability.

Development: Coding Standards

This project uses PHP_CodeSniffer with WordPress Coding Standards (WPCS) and PHPCompatibility.

• Ruleset: see .phpcs.xml.dist at the project root.
• Install dev tools: run composer install (Composer will install PHPCS and register standards).
• Verify WPCS configuration: composer run wpcs:doctor
  • Expected: Installed standards includes WordPress, WordPress-Core, WordPress-Extra, WordPress-Docs.
  • Expected: installed_paths shows vendor/wp-coding-standards/wpcs and vendor/phpcompatibility/php-compatibility.
• Lint: composer run lint:php
• Auto-fix: composer run lint:php:fix

IDE integration (PhpStorm):

• PhpStorm will auto-detect .phpcs.xml.dist. To run inspections, enable “PHP | Quality tools | PHP_CodeSniffer” and point the PHPCS binary to vendor\bin\phpcs (Windows) or vendor/bin/phpcs (macOS/Linux). Set the configuration to “Local” and the standard will be read from the ruleset.
• You can also set a File Watcher to run phpcbf on save using vendor\\bin\\phpcbf.

Enabling WPCS inspections in PhpStorm

If you are not seeing WordPress Coding Standards (WPCS) inspections in PhpStorm, follow these steps. This project already includes PHPCS/WPCS config files at the root: .phpcs.xml.dist, .phpcs.xml, and phpcs.xml.

1. Ensure PhpStorm uses the project PHPCS binary

• Open: Settings > PHP > Quality Tools > PHP_CodeSniffer
• Configuration: Local
• PHP_CodeSniffer path (Windows): C:\Users\adria\PhpstormProjects\groundhogg\vendor\bin\phpcs.bat
• Click Validate. You should see version and Installed standards including: WordPress, WordPress-Core, WordPress-Docs, WordPress-Extra, PHPCompatibility, PHPCompatibilityWP, etc.

2. Enable inspections and choose the standard/ruleset Depending on PhpStorm version, you may see slightly different UI labels.

• Go to: Settings > Editor > Inspections > PHP > Quality tools > PHP_CodeSniffer validation
• Enable the checkbox to turn on PHPCS inspections in the editor.
• Choose ONE of the following:
  • Ruleset file: Select the project file .phpcs.xml (root). PhpStorm should auto-detect this as the default ruleset.
  • OR Coding standard: Select WordPress (this is a reliable fallback as vendor PHPCS definitely has WordPress installed).

Notes

• If using a global phpcs, this project’s rulesets also include a fallback installed_paths config to help global PHPCS locate WPCS and PHPCompatibility under vendor.
• CLI checks (run from project root):
  • vendor\bin\phpcs -i (should list WordPress and PHPCompatibility standards)
  • vendor\bin\phpcs -sp --standard=WordPress admin\events\events-page.php (should report WPCS findings)
  • vendor\bin\phpcbf to auto-fix fixable issues.

If inspections still don’t appear, ensure the Editor > Inspections page has PHP_CodeSniffer validation enabled, and try switching between selecting the .phpcs.xml ruleset file and selecting the WordPress coding standard directly. Also confirm no file-level suppression is active in the current file.