The short answer
Three products put a sales pipeline in or next to Mautic, and they answer different questions. Deal Flow installs a deal object and a kanban pipeline into the Mautic you already run, for $149 one-time. Powertic CRM puts a kanban board inside Mautic for instances Powertic hosts — their page states, “Currently only customers hosted on Powertic have access.” Aivie’s Mautic Trello Plugin turns Mautic contacts into Trello cards and is listed at $0.00, so the board lives in Trello. If you self-host Mautic and want pipeline in the same database as your contacts, that narrows the field quickly.
Everything below is sourced. Each competitor statement is a sentence from that vendor’s own published page, checked on 2026-08-13 and linked under Sources and method. Where a vendor’s page is silent, this page says so rather than guessing.
Side by side
| Deal Flow | Powertic CRM | Mautic Trello Plugin (Aivie) | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Where the pipeline lives | Inside your Mautic, in your database | Inside Mautic, on Mautic instances Powertic hosts | In Trello — “Trello’s user-friendly drag-and-drop board” |
| Works with a Mautic you already host | Yes — download and unzip into your plugins directory | “Currently only customers hosted on Powertic have access.” | Yes — the plugin is installed into your Mautic |
| Deal record with amount, close date and owner | Yes, and the stage belongs to the deal rather than the contact | Not described on their published page | Their pages describe contacts becoming Trello cards |
| Kanban drag-and-drop board | Yes, with as many pipelines as you need | “a Trello or Pipedrive-like experience within Mautic” | Yes — Trello’s own board |
| Several contacts on one deal, with roles | Yes — champion, decision maker, blocker, influencer | Not described on their published page | Not described on their published pages |
| Bidirectional sync with Mautic contact stages | Yes | “If the sales changed, the Mautic stages will automatically change too, and vice versa.” | Not described on their published pages |
| Segment filters and campaign-builder actions | Not in Deal Flow today | “creates new filters on segments”; “Create opportunities, change stages and mark deals as closed or lost automatically within Mautic’s campaign builder.” | Not described on their published pages |
| Notes, tasks and attachments on the deal | Yes, attached to the deal itself | Not described on their published page | Not described on their published pages |
| REST API and webhooks for pipeline data | Yes, plus a published n8n node | Not described on their published page | Not described on their published pages |
| Price | $149 one-time, unlimited users, one year of updates | Not published on the product page (checked 2026-08-13) | Listed at $0.00 |
| How you get it | Download the zip and unzip it into your plugins directory | “Powertic customers can chat or email help@powertic.com with the request to install the Powertic CRM plugin on your Mautic” | Published by the vendor at no cost; setup creates OAuth2 credentials and a valid-domain entry in Mautic |
“Not described on their published page” means exactly that: as of 2026-08-13 the vendor’s own page does not mention the capability. It is not a claim that the product cannot do it. Where a vendor does describe something, the wording below is theirs.
Deal Flow
Deal Flow is a commercial plugin that installs into your own Mautic and adds the record Mautic never shipped with: a deal with a title, an amount, a currency, an expected close date, an owner, and a stage that belongs to the deal rather than to a person.
- Kanban pipelines — drag deals between stages, and define as many pipelines as the business needs.
- Buying committee roles — attach several contacts to one deal and label what each of them actually does: champion, decision maker, blocker, influencer. This is the part that has no equivalent described anywhere else on this page.
- Notes, tasks and attachments on the deal — the activity trail lives with the opportunity instead of being scattered across three contact records.
- Bidirectional stage sync — deal stages can drive Mautic contact stages, so existing segments and campaigns keep working.
- REST API and webhooks — every deal operation is scriptable, and there is a published n8n node for automation platforms.
It runs on your servers, against your database, alongside the rest of Mautic. Installation is a download and unzip into the plugins directory; the walkthrough is in the installation guide.
Where it is weaker: Deal Flow does not add segment filters or campaign-builder actions today, and Powertic’s page describes both. If driving Mautic campaigns from pipeline events is your first requirement rather than your third, weigh that.
Pricing is one-time. $149 for the plugin, unlimited users, one year of updates included. No per-seat charge as the team grows.
Powertic CRM
Powertic is a Mautic hosting and services company, and its CRM plugin is part of that offer. Their product page describes “a Trello or Pipedrive-like experience within Mautic to manage your sales or any other kanban-style flow,” with a drag-and-drop board, won and lost marking, and metrics that update as deals move.
Two capabilities they describe are worth calling out honestly, because they are real and Deal Flow does not match them today: the plugin “creates new filters on segments for you to automate your sales funnels,” and inside the campaign builder you can “create opportunities, change stages and mark deals as closed or lost automatically.” They also describe bidirectional stage sync in the same terms Deal Flow does: “If the sales changed, the Mautic stages will automatically change too, and vice versa.”
The deciding fact is availability. Their page states: “Currently only customers hosted on Powertic have access.” If your Mautic runs on your own infrastructure and you intend to keep it there, that is the first thing to confirm with them — and it is the reason the two products rarely end up on the same shortlist. For a head-to-head focused on self-hosting, see Deal Flow vs Powertic CRM.
Mautic Trello Plugin (Aivie)
Aivie’s plugin takes a different shape entirely: rather than building a pipeline inside Mautic, it connects Mautic to Trello. Their page says the plugin “allows you to create Trello cards for individual contacts directly in Mautic,” and that you “efficiently organize your sales process with Trello’s user-friendly drag-and-drop board.” A Power-Up shows contact information inside Trello.
It is listed at $0.00 and published by the vendor at no cost, which makes it the cheapest way to get a visual board next to Mautic. Setup is not trivial: their help page describes creating OAuth2 credentials in Mautic and adding a valid domain entry.
The trade-off is structural rather than qualitative. Cards live in Trello, so your board and your marketing database are two systems, and what a card represents is a contact. Whether that matters depends on whether you need pipeline value and close dates to sit alongside your segments and campaigns.
The fourth option: keep a separate CRM
Plenty of teams run Mautic for marketing and a dedicated CRM for sales, syncing contacts between them. For a quota-carrying sales team with territories, approval flows and forecasting requirements, that is usually the right answer, and no Mautic plugin is going to change it. The cost is the sync: two systems of record, two definitions of a contact, and an integration to maintain. The plugins on this page exist for the teams whose sales motion is a handful of people moving deals through a few stages, where that overhead is not worth paying.
How to choose
- You self-host Mautic and want deals in the same database — a plugin that installs into your own instance is the shape that fits. That is what Deal Flow is for.
- You would rather someone else ran Mautic — a hosting-bundled pipeline is worth a conversation, and Powertic’s page is the place to start.
- Your team already lives in Trello — Aivie’s plugin is listed at no cost and puts Mautic contact data on the board people already open.
- You need territories, quotas and approvals — use a dedicated CRM and accept the sync. Be honest about which of these you are before you buy anything.
Sources and method
Every statement about another vendor on this page is a sentence from a page that vendor controls, fetched and recorded on 2026-08-13. Nothing here comes from a forum thread, a review site or a summary. Where a vendor’s page does not mention a capability, this page says “not described on their published page” rather than asserting the product lacks it.
- Powertic CRM Mautic Plugin — powertic.com (checked 2026-08-13)
- Mautic Trello Plugin — aivie.ch and its setup help page (checked 2026-08-13)
This comparison is published by DealFlowPlugin.com, which makes Deal Flow. It is not endorsed by, affiliated with, or reviewed by Powertic or Aivie, and their product names are used only to identify their products. Vendors change their products: if something here is out of date or you believe it misreads your page, write to support and it will be corrected or removed. Details are re-checked at least every 30 days — competitor details on this page were verified 2026-08-13 from each vendor’s published documentation.
Frequently asked questions
What is the best pipeline plugin for Mautic?
There is no single answer, because the three options solve different problems. If you already self-host Mautic and want deals in the same database, a plugin that installs into your own instance is the shape that fits. If you would rather someone else ran Mautic, a hosting-bundled pipeline is worth looking at. If your team already works in Trello, a plugin that pushes contacts to Trello cards may be enough.
Can I use the Powertic CRM plugin on a Mautic I host myself?
Powertic's product page states: "Currently only customers hosted on Powertic have access." That sentence was checked on 2026-08-13. If you self-host and want to keep your hosting, that is the constraint to check with them first.
Is there a free way to get a sales pipeline into Mautic?
Aivie lists its Mautic Trello Plugin at $0.00 and states it "comes pre-installed for all Aivie customers and is available for free" to everyone else. The board itself lives in Trello rather than in Mautic, and setup involves creating OAuth2 credentials in Mautic.
Does Mautic have a sales pipeline built in?
No. Mautic has contact stages, which are labels on a person, not deals. A deal carries an amount, a close date, an owner and a stage of its own, and one deal can involve several contacts. Nothing in core Mautic stores that.
Put the pipeline inside the Mautic you already run
Deal Flow is $149 one-time — unlimited users, one year of updates included.
Get Deal Flow — $149