YOUR WORDPRESS SITE. YOUR EMAIL MARKETING.
A better MailerLite alternative for WordPress.
Keep your store’s email marketing inside WordPress. Build campaigns, forms and automations with a fixed Virfice license—and choose your own sending provider.
One-site yearly license. Email delivery purchased separately.
Your audience.
Your email marketing.
NATIVE · Inside your WordPress dashboardYour marketing belongs here.
Manage email alongside your site and store, with fewer trips between dashboards.
More contacts. Same license.
Your Virfice license doesn’t rise with list size. Delivery and infrastructure still scale with usage.
You control how you send.
Connect your sending service through built-in SMTP. Pay for delivery on that provider’s terms.
COMPARE LIKE WITH LIKE
Built for your site.
Connected to your customers.
See where Virfice gives WordPress businesses an advantage: native site events, built-in store integration and a license that doesn’t increase with your contact count.
| What matters | VirficePaid license · built for WordPress | MailerLitePower plan · hosted platform |
|---|---|---|
| Campaigns & email design | ||
| Drag-and-drop email builder | ✓Inside WordPress | ✓On MailerLite |
| Ready-made complete email templates | ✓ | ✓ |
| Ready-made email sections | ✓ | ✓ |
| Global brand settings | ✓ | ✕Brand styles apply to MailerLite emails/forms, not native WP/Woo emails |
| Send test emails | ✓ | ✓ |
| Duplicate an existing campaign | ✓ | ✓ |
| Select eligible WooCommerce customers as an audience | ✓Native | ↗Additional plugin required |
| Automation | ||
| Visual workflow builder | ✓ | ✓ |
| Native WordPress registration trigger | ✓ | ✕ |
| Native WordPress user-login trigger | ✓ | ✕ |
| Birthday-based automation | ✓ | ✓ |
| Change user role action | ✓ | ✕ |
| Condition based on contact email | ✓ | ✓ |
| Condition based on WordPress user role | ✓ | ✕ |
| Ready-made automation templates | ✓ | ✓ |
| Forms & contact data | ||
| Native WordPress form builder | ✓ | ↗Additional plugin required |
| Shortcode form placement | ✓ | ↗Additional plugin required |
| Double opt-in | ✓ | ✓ |
| Contact fields | ✓Unlimited | ✓Default + custom fields |
| Import contacts from CSV | ✓ | ✓ |
| Map imported columns to contact fields | ✓ | ✓ |
| Export contacts to CSV | ✓ | ✓ |
| WooCommerce | ||
| Integration | ✓Natively integrated | ↗Additional plugin required |
| Target existing eligible store customers | ✓Natively integrated | ↗Additional plugin required |
| Order-created trigger | ✓ | ↗Additional plugin required |
| Native WooCommerce order-status-change triggers | ✓ | ✕ |
| Post-purchase follow-ups | ✓Native workflows | ↗Additional plugin required |
| Abandoned-cart recovery | ✓Native | ↗Additional plugin required |
| Condition based on purchased product | ✓ | ↗Additional plugin required |
| Condition based on purchased product category | ✓ | ↗Additional plugin required |
| Condition based on coupon used | ✓ | ✕ |
| Native WooCommerce order-total condition | ✓ | ✕ |
| Condition based on payment method | ✓ | ✕ |
| Condition based on billing country | ✓ | ✕ |
| Condition based on shipping country | ✓ | ✕ |
| Condition based on customer email | ✓ | ↗Additional plugin required |
| Condition based on customer role | ✓ | ✕ |
| Customize native WooCommerce transactional emails | ✓ | ✕ |
| Ready-made WooCommerce email templates | ✓ | ✕ |
| Apply shared brand settings to WooCommerce emails | ✓ | ✕ |
| WordPress & cost | ||
| Marketing management inside WordPress | ✓Native dashboard | ✕ |
| Primary contact database stored inside WordPress | ✓ | ✕ |
| Built-in SMTP configuration | ✓ | ✕ |
| Customize supported WordPress system emails | ✓ | ✕ |
| Fixed software license regardless of contact count | ✓ | ✕ |
| No additional software charge for unsubscribed contacts | ✓Fixed license | ✓Previously active contacts count until billing reset |
| Multiple separate contact lists without duplicate-contact charges | ✓Fixed license | ✓One subscriber across multiple groups |
✓ Supported · ✕ Not native, not included as described, or not confirmed in the standard connector · ↗ Additional plugin required. Comparison focuses on WordPress-native management. Available triggers and conditions apply; customer campaigns still require appropriate consent. Unlimited workflow creation does not mean every possible site action is a supported trigger. MailerLite Power is the feature and cost baseline: unlimited forms and active automations. Comfort is cheaper with feature limits. Native WP/Woo rows refer to direct features, not cumulative subscriber data or synced events. See sources and comparison scope ↗
THE WHOLE COST. UP FRONT.
Your list grows.
Your license doesn’t.
Compare the same marketable contact count and 10 monthly campaigns. Virfice includes its yearly license and estimated delivery; MailerLite uses regular monthly pricing.
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USD estimates before tax. SES attachment data, optional services and ancillary fees excluded. Virfice is paid yearly; its monthly figure is an equivalent. MailerLite promotions and annual discounts excluded. Included-send limits are enforced; unknown overages are not estimated. Prices need review after 90 days.
How the calculation works
Estimated campaign sends = contacts × 10. Automation and transactional emails are additional and excluded from this scenario. Virfice = yearly one-site license ÷ 12 + monthly emails ÷ 1,000 × the selected SES rate. MailerLite = the published, undiscounted monthly price for the contact tier. One-year projections assume unchanged prices and usage; MailerLite’s projection is 12 monthly payments.
SES Essentials includes its bundled deliverability features; à la carte uses base outbound sending. Actual costs and sending quotas depend on your AWS account. Virfice imposes no license-based contact or sending cap, but your hosting and sending provider still have practical limits.
CHOOSE THE RIGHT HOME FOR YOUR MARKETING
A better fit starts
with your priorities.
Your priority is a hosted,
email-first platform.
- You prefer infrastructure managed by the platform.
- You want a hosted email editor, forms and landing pages.
- You’re comfortable syncing WooCommerce data to a hosted platform.
- You accept subscriber-tier pricing and plan feature limits.
WordPress is where
your business runs.
- You want campaigns, forms and automations in your site.
- You prefer a fixed license over per-contact software pricing.
- You want control over your sending provider.
- You can maintain your WordPress hosting and backups.
A PRACTICAL WAY TO SWITCH
Keep the relationships.
Rebuild the workflow.
Move carefully so your consent records, contact data and sending setup stay intact.
Get setup help ↗Export and review your audience
Keep subscription status, consent evidence and field values. Deduplicate contacts and retain suppression lists.
Prepare Virfice and your delivery service
Create matching custom fields, map your CSV and authenticate your sending domain. Test before sending to your full list.
Rebuild forms, emails and automations
Check triggers, delays, links and unsubscribe behavior. MailerLite designs and flows don’t automatically become Virfice workflows.
BEFORE YOU MAKE THE MOVE
Good questions.
Clear answers.
Can I run my email marketing without leaving WordPress?
Yes. Manage campaigns, contacts, signup forms, automations and reports inside your WordPress dashboard. Virfice keeps your email marketing alongside the site and store you already manage.
Do I need a separate plugin to connect WooCommerce?
No separate WooCommerce connector plugin is needed. Virfice’s native integration lets you use store customer data, supported order events and conditions to create targeted campaigns and follow-up workflows.
Does Virfice include email delivery?
The license and delivery are separate purchases. This calculator adds a base SES delivery estimate to the yearly license so the displayed cost includes both. Account quotas, attachment data and optional sending services may affect your actual bill.
Can I add my own contact fields?
Yes. Virfice supports custom contact fields beyond its default contact information, including details collected through forms. MailerLite also supports default and custom subscriber fields. Virfice keeps those fields and forms inside WordPress.
Will Virfice charge more when I add contacts?
The Virfice license is not priced per contact. A larger audience or higher send volume may increase delivery and hosting needs. That is different from a contact-tier software subscription.
Official sources & comparison scope
Virfice
Yearly license pricing ↗Campaigns & reporting ↗Automation ↗Forms ↗Custom fields release notes ↗MailerLite & delivery
Official pricing ↗Plans & billing ↗WordPress plugin & shortcodes ↗WooCommerce integration ↗Commerce automation triggers ↗Workflow conditions & actions ↗Automation triggers ↗Automation templates ↗Custom subscriber fields ↗Groups & subscriber billing ↗Brand styles ↗Email editor ↗CSV import & mapping ↗CSV export ↗Amazon SES pricing ↗Feature review: October 9, 2026. Pricing record dates appear in the calculator. MailerLite Power is the baseline; SMS, additional products and introductory discounts are excluded. Crosses on payment-method, per-order billing-country and shipping-country conditions indicate that standard connector support was not confirmed in the reviewed documentation. No claim of complete feature parity. MailerLite is a trademark of its owner; this page is an independent comparison by Virfice.
