Twilio SendGrid is a trusted email delivery platform that lets users create and send emails. The platform ensures emails are engaging and easy to create with tools like drag-and-drop builders. It also features a lot of automation tools and comprehensive analytics all to help improve open rates, engagement, and conversions.
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Deployment | Cloud / SaaS / Web-Based |
Support | Email/Help Desk |
Training | Documentation |
Languages | English |
Excellent documentation. Their feature set has expanded recently (dynamic templates available in the API), so I appreciate that the service keeps getting better.
On my dream list, I wish email logs included a view / rendering of the email.
All of our triggered emails for the Join It SaaS platform goes through SendGrid.
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Integrates easily with a variety of tools. I like the support prompt reply with detailed solution for the problem so far best support received. Its easy to use with great amount of flexibility
similar pricing to MailChimp, reporting has been changed to 3days and unsubscribed is only given to preferred unsubscribed option, it was misprinted in the documented.
Used for our monthly and weekly newsletters and also for self promotion of the products with transnational mails are amazing
We slowly scaled up a new service that required a LOT of transactionnal emails to be sent, over the past 5 years. From a few thousands on the first months, we're now at ~700k emails per month. SendGrid's SMTP service takes all of our transactionnal emails really fast, with no downtime, and manage to send them to the vast majority of our users, with a great API and webhooks to monitor and report back when mail bounces.
I wish it would be easier to check the state of our IPs, especially see if it got on blacklists, but mostly see what SendGrid is doing when that happens, so we can know if they act to keep their IP off blacklists.
We needed a safe, easy to scale up and low cost way to send a lot of transactionnal emails. With SendGrid our profit margin is higher that using our own equipments, and our maintenance is almost null.
Delivery has been extremely reliable and support has been excellent - both self-server (i.e. knowledge base) and help tickets.
Only thing I miss from Mailchimp is the ability to direct web hooks to different servers based on a parameter - allowed me to track email activity on both our LIVE and DEMO sites.
SendGrid provides the best solution we've found for our combination of transactional and marketing email. Since purchasing a dedicated IP, our delivery hasn't had any hiccups.
I like that i can use sendgrid from any wordpress instance i use and it works to send emails.
I dont have too many dislikes from sendgrid, i also dont use all it has to offer. I guess I can always complain about price, It would be nice if it was free. But nothing in the world is free haha.
Some hosting accounts have issues with deliverability coming from Wordpress. SendGrid solves that as an SMTP.
.Net library integration is very simple and works very well.
I can't think of anything I dislike other than the breaking API changes occasionally.
We use it to send updates to users to get feedback or notify of changes. We also send emails from our application when certain actions are taken.
It simplified testing email functionality for my apps in a way I had never seen before.
Haven't really run into any roadblocks yet. I have not used the platform long enough, though.
Testing email functionality for an app that is not production ready.
My website sends a fair bit of email to customers related to services that they are getting from me--confirmations, reminders, cancellations. It is essential that they receive these emails and I have found that my messages ALWAYS get through. I never hear from customers that my email goes to the spam folder. It is delivered and I value that highly. I also really value the open tracking and click tracking that Sendgrid provides as it better enables me to see that customers are actually getting and engaging with my messages. I found out about Sendgrid through my use of Microsoft Azure and while I don't use Azure anymore, I have stuck with Sendgrid.
Sometimes I need to be able to track emails from a while back and I have not found a way to get access to a full history of sent emails and whether they have been opened.
I do not use the Email API. My connnection to SendGrid is via SMTP.
API functionality, ease of use, powerful insights into metrics.
That we don't use all the features available like campaigns, etc. At some point in the future, we may expand and use some of the options available to jazz up purely marketing emails.
A controlled source of sending rate sheets, etc as marketing emails.
All-in one transactional and marketing email solution that appeals to both developers and marketers. Easy to integrate API triggers into external sites / apps and also easy to integrate with 3rd party marketing stack providers. Full suite of solutions from managing marketing lists to creating campaigns or transactional triggers. Category-based transactional reporting gives me lots of flexibility in how to roll up /aggregate reporting data. Robust activity exports out to other marketing stack tools for open / click / send based segments.
I would like to see reporting developed out even further. e.g. more robust report data export options, more ways to slice and dice and analyze reporting data from the UI.
Integrating a multi-layer marketing stack that leverages disparate data sources and tools to create a unified and robust customer communications and marketing platform. Great value for cost.
I've used Sendgrid for both marketing and transaction emails. It's less user friendly than other options but it's reliable and I trust their consistency with delivery. If anyone is having issues email delivery I always recommend Sendgrid for an easy solution to remove their headache. It's api means makes integration easy. It's very reasonably priced and would be great for smaller businesses with low budgets if they have a team to get it set up.
It's not as user friendly as newsletter programs so I usually only recommend it to larger business or techy teams. The other occasion where I recommend them is if someone has repeatedly had issues with delivery because I think this is where Sendgrid shines. There is a larger setup barrier but this is generally worth it because all this setup means better reliability for your messages and campaigns.
Email delivery problems! It also has great email marketing features that add confidence that your campaign will be delivered but it's not very user friendly as other newsletter programs.
Love the easy integration via API and the reporting system. Love the support center which helps us solve any issues we face.
Looking forward to more retention of emails sent on the basic plan.
Transactional Emails and Newsletters
I love the ease of configuration when integrating SendGrid with our in-house or 3rd party applications. In addition to that, SendGrid has proper Feedback loops set up, which allows us to scale our operations accordingly.
It can be difficult to really get the answers you need when you need them with send grid because their UI has so much available to it.
We use SendGrid to send emails from various 3rd party and in-house platforms that require an SMTP server in order to work. SendGrid has great Feedback loops set up and this allows us to scale our email campaigns accordingly.
Very reliable solution, awesome support. Our business centered around sending emails so reliable email delivery is very good. Unsubscribe group can be managed automatically. Templates can be modified at any time. SMTP intergration is really good for legacy application supprt.
API calls are slow and you can specify only one end point for web hook for whole application.
1) Appointment reminder 2) Digital reminder 3) Marketing emails A lot of other usage email
We are a startup that can't spend a lot of money, the free plan it's perfect for us also they haver very simple and powerful tools.
You have to dig into documentation for some tasks when using the api
We are new, so our domain doesn't have reputation on internet, we can reach more people sending email with sendgrid
We use the API to create a separation of concerns between our various environments. SendGrid makes it fast and easy for us. No more email servers. No more headaches.
Can be challenging to get up and running on a new system. Not unique to SendGrid. Most solutions require a little bit of onramp time.
Email delivery and the elimination of maintenance.
We currently use SendGrid for our transactional emails as well as our marketing emails (they recently added the marketing piece). It is flawless for transactional emails. I really like that I can have templates and edit them directly on the SendGrid site and then pass in whatever data I want via API when sending the emails.
The marketing email tools are still being fleshed out. I'm not complaining about them, but the email editing tools aren't anywhere near as easy to use as Mailchimp's editor. I'm optimistic for it, though.
We're able to jump in and send out emails to customers who are already customers, who opted in to marketing emails during a purchase. I'd have to plug that data in to a different service and have disparate data if I didn't use SendGrid for marketing as well, since we're already using them for transactional emails.
The API is easy to use,and convenient when you wnat to integrate email management in your app
I couldn't use their templating tool .Its not user friendly
Just sending emails to customers who make bookings on our site
An amazingly easy to setup SMTP service to deliver notifications to a large number of users of your web application or service. The API is solid and well documented, in addition, it's a trusted SMTP, so chances of your emails getting bounced are less. It's incredibly easy to setup and use. Pricing is incredibly competitive and great for startups if you're using under 200 mails a day.
There seriously isn't very much about this tool that I dislike, it does everything it says it's supposed to do.
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