RescueFill vs UpdraftPlus

68% of visitors who start your form never finish it. RescueFill captures their email the instant they type it — before they leave — and gives you a complete toolkit to bring them back automatically. No code. No complex setup. Works with Contact Form 7, WPForms, Gravity Forms, Ninja Forms, Elementor Forms, and any HTML form on your site. Learn more at rescuefill.com | Pro Addon How to Capture Leads BEFORE They Hit Submit 🚀 What the Free Plugin Includes Real-time Lead Capture The tracker fires the moment a visitor types their email. Leads are saved silently in the background — zero impact on page speed, fully async. Dashboard See your recovery rate, total abandoned leads, recovered leads, and a live feed of recent activity — all from one clean screen. Audience Lists Create unlimited colour-tagged lists (e.g. “US Leads”, “High Value”, “Newsletter Opt-in”) to segment leads for targeted campaigns. Broadcast Campaigns Send targeted recovery emails to any audience list via your site’s built-in WordPress SMTP. Template tags include {name}, {email}, {recovery_link}, {site_name}, and more. Lead Management Full leads table with email search, status filter (Active / Abandoned / Recovered / Submitted), list filter, inline assign, and bulk assign. REST API Full CRUD REST API under /wp-json/rescue/v1/ for programmatic access to leads, lists, campaigns, and settings. ⚡ Pro Addon — Everything in Free, Plus: The optional RescueFill Pro addon (rescuefill-pro) extends the free plugin with advanced automation features: ⚡ Free vs Pro Features Free Version Includes: ✔ Real-time lead capture ✔ Dashboard & analytics ✔ Audience list segmentation ✔ Broadcast email campaigns (via SMTP) ✔ Lead management table (search, filter, status) ✔ Full REST API access Pro Version Adds Advanced Capabilities: ✔ IP Geolocation (country, city, region detection) ✔ Multi-step drip email sequences ✔ Visual drag-and-drop funnel builder ✔ Location-based automatic list assignment ✔ Email API integrations (Brevo, SendGrid) ✔ Webhook integrations (Zapier, Make, n8n, CRM tools) ✔ CSV & JSON export (up to 50,000 records) ✔ Multi-sequence campaign flows ✔ A/B testing for campaigns ✔ GDPR / CCPA consent mode ✔ White-label / Agency features 👉 Get RescueFill Pro → 📊 Visual Funnel Builder (Pro) Build n8n-style automation canvases with drag-drop nodes: ⚡ Trigger — fires when a lead is abandoned 📧 Send Email — personalised email with merge tags ⏰ Wait / Delay — pause for minutes, hours, or days 🔀 Condition — branch Yes/No on country, status, email, or any lead field 📋 Assign List — move the lead to a segment 🔗 Webhook — POST to Zapier, Make, n8n, HubSpot, or any URL 🏁 End — mark enrollment complete Ready-made templates: Welcome Sequence (3 emails over 3 days) and Abandoned Lead Recovery (conditional branching). 🔗 Webhook Integrations (Pro) Connect to 12+ apps with one-click webhook setup: Automation: Zapier, Make (Integromat), n8n CRM: HubSpot, Salesforce, ActiveCampaign Notifications: Slack Email Marketing: Mailchimp, Google Sheets SMS: Twilio Custom: any HTTP endpoint with HMAC signature verification Webhook events: lead.created, lead.abandoned, lead.recovered, lead.submitted, email.sent, list.assigned 📧 Email Sending Providers WordPress SMTP (Free) Works with any WordPress SMTP plugin. Send recovery and campaign emails using your existing email setup. Brevo (Sendinblue) (Pro) Use Brevo’s transactional email API for improved deliverability and performance. SendGrid (Pro) Designed for high-volume email sending with advanced analytics and reliability. 🏆 Supported Form Plugins Works out of the box with Contact Form 7, WPForms (Lite & Pro), Gravity Forms, Ninja Forms, Elementor Forms, Formidable Forms, and any HTML with an email field. 🔐 Privacy & GDPR GDPR Mode (Pro) — requires explicit consent before tracking IP tracking on/off toggle Location tracking on/off toggle Data retention: auto-purge old leads after configurable days Right to deletion: delete individual leads from the admin 🛠 Developer Friendly Full REST API: GET/POST/PATCH/DELETE for leads, lists, campaigns, settings WordPress action hooks: rescue_lead_saved, rescue_lead_abandoned, rescue_lead_recovered Filter hooks: rescue_allow_list_auto_assign_rules, rescue_list_auto_assign_rules, RESCUE_js_data Pro funnel API: /wp-json/rfpro/v1/funnels/* GPLv2 licensed — full source code available External Services This plugin connects to the following third-party services when configured: ip-api.com — IP Geolocation (Pro addon only) Used to automatically detect the country, region, and city of each lead based on their IP address. Only called when a new lead is saved and geolocation is enabled. Service URL: https://ip-api.com | Privacy Policy: https://ip-api.com/docs/legal Disable in: Pro addon → Settings → Advanced → Disable IP Geolocation

The UpdraftPlus Backup & Migration Plugin is trusted by the WordPress community to backup, restore and migrate their WordPress websites. UpdraftPlus is actively installed on more than 3 million websites around the world. Backup with UpdraftPlus UpdraftPlus is the world’s highest ranking and most popular scheduled backup and migration plugin. Backup to your preferred storage location and restore in just three clicks. Backup to Dropbox, Google Drive, Amazon S3 (or compatible), Rackspace Cloud, FTP, DreamObjects, Openstack Swift or email. The paid version also allows you to backup to Microsoft OneDrive, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, Backblaze B2, SFTP, SCP, pCloud, WebDAV or UpdraftVault, our integrated storage option for UpdraftPlus. Backup manually or schedule to run every 2, 4, 8 or 12 hours, daily, weekly, monthly or fortnightly. Restore with UpdraftPlus Your WordPress website is vulnerable. Your site may get hacked. Something could go wrong with an update or your server could crash. You might need to reverse a change made or a mistake caused by human error. Whatever the reason, you can restore your WordPress website in just a few clicks with UpdraftPlus. Choose which components to restore (e.g. plugins, themes, database etc.), click again to restore, then click again to return to the main screen. Migrate with UpdraftPlus It’s easy to migrate your WordPress website to another web host, server or domain with this free version of UpdraftPlus. To migrate, simply download your database, plugins, themes etc. from the source site, then upload them into your destination site. When migrating, a built-in search-and-replace engine identifies old strings and replaces these to reflect the new location. UpdraftPlus saves you time and reduces the risk of broken links or missing files associated with manual migrations. Why UpdraftPlus? Writing a reliable backup and migration plugin that ‘just works’ consistently across millions of different WordPress deployments is hard. UpdraftPlus is relied upon to do exactly that. We’re trusted and actively deployed on more websites around the world than any other WordPress backup and migration plugin. UpdraftPlus: Backs up, migrates and restores Offers a huge number of remote storage locations Allows you to schedule backups, so you can ‘set and forget’ Is comprehensive and easy to use Is proven to work on over 3 million sites. UpdraftPlus Premium The free version of UpdraftPlus will back up and migrate your website perfectly well. However if you need more features and options you can purchase our Premium version. Backup and Migrate with UpdraftPlus Premium, and: Get automatic backups before updates. Restore the very latest version if a WordPress or plugin update breaks your site. Backup Incrementally. Changes are added to the master, saving server resources vs repeatedly backing up in full. Get more remote storage options including Microsoft OneDrive, SFTP, Microsoft Azure, WebDAV, Google Cloud, SCP, Backblaze and pCloud. Get 1GB of integrated storage with UpdraftVault for 99.999% reliability, redundancy and scalability. Get more control over how many backups are stored in a specified interval. Restore from other backup plugins including BackWPup, BackupWordPress, Simple Backups and more. Run backups at set times e.g. during periods of low traffic. Backup to more than one location for added protection. Get detailed reports. Includes cryptographic checksums so you can verify the integrity of the backup files and more. Get Premium migration. Migrating to the destination site is more direct and can be done from the source site. Get Multisite / multi-network compatibility. Backup non-WP files and databases e.g. tables belonging to your e-commerce store or customisations to WordPress core. Get database encryption. Manage your backups and migrations from the WP-CLI. Get Premium Support. Find out more on our comparison page. UpdraftPlus Premium is available for purchase here. Managing multiple websites? UpdraftCentral is a powerful remote control dashboard for WordPress that allows you to manage your backups, as well as updates, users, pages, posts, plugins and themes from one central location. Choose between: UpdraftCentral (free, self-hosted) UpdraftCentral Premium (paid-for, self-hosted) UpdraftCentral Cloud (paid-for, fully-hosted) Optimize your sites centrally by combining the power of WP-Optimize and UpdraftCentral or manage your backups centrally by combining the power of UpdraftPlus with UpdraftCentral. Need to create a temporary clone of your site? UpdraftClone makes it quick and easy to create a temporary sandbox for changes you want to try out. Simply select the versions of WordPress and PHP that you want, and we’ll do the rest. More about UpdraftClone The full suite of plugins from Team Updraft and friends UpdraftPlus. Backup, migrate and restore. Rated 5* on the plugin directory and trusted by more than 3 million WordPress website owner WP-Optimize. Clean the database, compress images and caching. Optimize your WordPress website. 5* user rating. 1 million + active installs. All-In-One Security (AIOS). Secure your WordPress website. Comprehensive, feature rich and easy to use. 5* user rating and 1 million + active installs. WP Overnight. Quality Extensions for your WooCommerce store. 5* rated invoicing, order and product management, customer management solutions and more. Easy Updates Manager. Take control of updates. Lots of features for free, and a Premium version with even more – over 300,000 users. Internal Link Juicer.Boost your SEO. Automate internal links within your WordPress website. Save time and rank higher in the search engines. For other useful, free plugins see our lead developer’s profile, here. Are you multilingual? Can you translate? Do you want to help people that speak your language to backup, migrate and restore their WordPress websites? The UpdraftPlus backup, migration and restoration plugin is ready and waiting. The translation process is easy, and web-based – please go here for instructions: https://updraftplus.com/translate/. Or, if you’re already an expert WordPress translator, just pick out the .pot file from the wp-content/plugins/updraftplus/languages/ directory – if you scan for translatable strings manually, then you need to get these functions: _x(), __(), _e(), _ex(), log_e(). Many thanks to our existing translators. License Copyright 2011-24 David Anderson This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA Non-English translators are provided by volunteers, and wordpress.org does not give plugin developers control over their translations; thus relying on them is at your own risk; UpdraftPlus cannot guarantee that translations from the original English are accurate. 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