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Postmark is a cloud-based email delivery service designed for sending transactional emails. Unlike traditional email marketing services which are geared towards sending newsletters and promotional emails, Postmark specializes in sending emails that are triggered by user actions, such as password resets, order confirmations, and welcome messages.
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| Deployment | Cloud / SaaS / Web-Based, Mobile iPhone |
| Training | Documentation |
| Languages | English |
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Postmark is very easy to use. You can implement it easily using either SMTP or API.
Set up is a bit annoying. They won't let you do anything unless you've confirmed certain things. We just wanted to do basic sandbox style testing but needed to get our dns records all sorted out first.
Since Mandrill became not very transactional friendly Postmark has been an easy transition.
Good APIs, easy to use and works well for transactional emails.
Nothing really - maybe seems a little expensive I guess.
Transactional emails only
Postmark has a clear API, a well designed site, and I trust that they're going to be around in 5 years time because they aren't chasing rocket ship growth. Their emails are fast to be delivered and they really focus on deliverability which is why we chose them.
The only thing I dislike and it's not even a big deal is that their templates are linked to an email server, rather than being global to the account. This means you can't use a template from a dev server against the production server. It's an extremely minor point though.
We want to send transactional email to corporate customers, and we really didn't want to deal with deliverability issues. Postmark seemed like the best company to achieve that.
Postmark has been simple and reliable in the 2+ years I've used them. Their API has a fast response time and their batch send calls has been helpful in maintaining a quick response time on our service. They've also been generous in giving us free credits from time to time. They provide webhooks for events you are interested in e.g. bounced emails, spam reports. Their documentation is extensive and comprehensive and also includes libraries for several languages (we use them with python and php).
Postmark has been simple and reliable in the 2+ years I've used them. Their API has a fast response time and their batch send calls has been helpful in maintaining a quick response time on our service. They've also been generous in giving us free credits from time to time. They provide webhooks for events you are interested in e.g. bounced emails, spam reports. Their documentation is extensive and comprehensive and also includes libraries for several languages (we use them with python and php).
Postmark has been simple and reliable in the 2+ years I've used them. Their API has a fast response time and their batch send calls has been helpful in maintaining a quick response time on our service. They've also been generous in giving us free credits from time to time. They provide webhooks for events you are interested in e.g. bounced emails, spam reports. Their documentation is extensive and comprehensive and also includes libraries for several languages (we use them with python and php).
Postmark sends my transactional email. They know their tools and they do their job right. I can focus on my product knowing that emails are going to get sent. Cost is more than reasonable and email tagging and activity reporting allows me to visually check what exactly was sent to whom. Support is also great.
There is nothing to dislike. I even wouldn't prefer the service to be free!
Sending transactional email is a fundamental piece in every SaaS or digital B2C service. It is also a tricky business, due to the complex ecosystem of email providers and spammers. Letting experts handle it for a tiny fraction of the cost I could need to support to do it myself is the right business decision.
Having insight to our customer's emails.
Having to resend emails that do not show up.
Telling if our customers have opened the emails.
What I like about this code ask type of thing is the simplicity of the pricing the way that I can customize my emails to other customers I have in my email list. I also like when I can have a clear and cut results and analyze those results through the email I find that very useful.as someone that uses code through email I find it really intuitive that I can use some of the skills that I learned and put in an application that can really make a difference in my email campaigns.
the downsides I would say is it's kind of pricey and I do not like the monthly recurring charging it is nice on the other hand to have monthly pricing that's clear but it is still very expensive. Also I find it that code is very hard to learn for someone that that is knowledgeable or not knowledgeable of code so you have to have that in mind when using this software for sure and I didn't know that when I first started but I had learned.
I'm solving a lot of my unique advanced email skills, and problems from this program in the software. I find that it was very easy to, try to get more advanced email campaigns and analytics from my emails and finding out why my customers act the way they do the software makes it really easy to figure that out. I find it that the email deliveries are consistent reliable something that we needed for our business and when I need it for my part of my acquisition of my email list here so it was very easy to integrate everything in.
Allows me to verify that emails are being to sent to users of our product, or what the issue is if they are not receiving emails
Searching back a long amount of time can be difficult
Allows us to tell users specifically what they are not receiving emails (hard bounce, soft bounce, etc.)
I love to send emails easily with Postmark
Would be genius if I could send marketing mail. Those models are too beautiful and so easy to use
Send transactional emails like remembering passwords, account confirmations, but using pretty models from the own site
We used Postmark for all of our transactional email, and we've found them extremely simple to use. Their integration with Heroku as well as a wide variety of language-specific libraries has made it very quick to get up and running with them. For most transactional email, implementing Postmark sending in an app is nearly a one-liner, which is fantastic.
I've found their web-dashboard to be a little less than clear on some data, but much of this could be my own inexperience with the UI (which I've used very little). It's possible that their pricing becomes expensive at high volumes, but we haven't experienced this.
We need a quick way to start getting transactional emails out the door quickly and without a lot of setup. Postmark has done a good job to make that easy, and also to walk us through the various domain configurations required to make it all work properly.