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Wings: an alternative to The Action Network

Are you interested in how The Action Network compares to alternative platforms, such as Wings?

Wings is a campaigning website service built for digital organizing, with excellent The Action Network integration options.

Summary

Wings and The Action Network complement each other:

  • Wings replaces just The Action Network frontend with a great campaign website.
  • The Action Network offers a complex toolset for building engagement. If you have that level of digital professionalism, you probably also want a better campaigning website like Wings which integrates with your emailing & messaging platform.
  • Organizations who look for a powerful but more simple toolset, often start out with Wings + Mailchimp, but later switch to Wings + The Action Network.

Wings and The Action Network, compared​

Here is a side-by-side comparison of Wings and The Action Network:

Features
Wings
The Action Network
📰 Website builderComplete website with pages, articles and campaigns.No website builder, just forms and simple landing pages.
📧 Email featuresOnly confirmation emails. Can connect to third party services (like The Action Network) for followup communications.The Action Network has extensive email campaigning options

Wings and The Action Network similarities​

Wings and The Action Network share a few similarities:

  • Both allow you to manage and host signup campaigns, petitions, events and fundraisers;
  • Both may only be used by progressive organizations (not by right-wing / conservative political parties), so you will not be indirectly supporting movements you do not agree with.

Differences between The Action Network and Wings​

  • You can only create landing pages or embeddable forms with The Action Network, while you also need a nice campaign website or organization website.
  • Wings gives you an entire website with pages, articles and campaigns, integrated.
  • Wings only has an email service for confirmation emails, but does not let you send email newsletters to your supporters.
  • Wings sends confirmed user data to connected services such as The Action Network, who specialize in newsletters, engagement building and voter activation.

Conclusion: they go great together​

Wings gives you a great campaign website that lets you connect to The Action Network for follow-up communications. Our webhooks documentation even uses The Action Network as an example.

If you want to know more, just request a free Wings demo account and you can try it out yourself.