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Mautic is marketing automation software that you can host yourself. It lets businesses run email campaigns, track contacts and build automated marketing workflows using their own database.

Worth a lookEstablished, with a few things to check (listed below).

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Stars
10.9k
Licence
Apache-2.0
Runs on
A small server
Setup
Technical
Language
PHP
Age
4818 days

What you can do with it

  • Send email campaigns to segmented lists of contacts
  • Build automated marketing workflows triggered by what contacts do
  • Create landing pages and forms to capture and track leads

Make money with it

A freelancer could set up and manage Mautic campaigns for small businesses as a paid marketing automation service.

An idea, not financial advice. Check the licence before charging for anything built on it.

Ways a business could use it

  • Replace a paid email and marketing automation subscription by running your own instance
  • Run lead nurturing and follow-up campaigns for customers while keeping all contact data in your own database

Can you use it commercially?

Free to use, change and sell (Apache 2.0 in the licence file). Some folders may carry other terms.

Not legal advice. Read the project's licence file before building a product on it.

Getting it running

Install with Composer (or DDEV) and finish through the web installer, or download the pre-packaged production release from mautic.org; a hosted trial is also available.

Follow the official instructions in the project README.

Things to check

  • Licence is not clearly stated in the repository data
  • Installing straight from GitHub is treated as alpha and not recommended for production
  • Self-hosting needs command line skills and ongoing maintenance
  • Sending email at scale usually needs a separate email delivery service

Who's talking about it

Checked 28 Oct 2026. Summary drafted by AI from the project's README.

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