Overview
What is Twilio SendGrid?
Twilio SendGrid Marketing Campaigns provides users with segmentation, campaign editing, and deliverability. According to the vendor, Twilio SendGrid Marketing Campaigns is trusted by over 80,000 customers globally, including Airbnb, Spotify and Uber.Twilio SendGrid Marketing Campaigns aims to help users by…
In my experience, Unbelievable incompetent support and systems are brokan in multiple places
The top email service provider for promotional and business communications.
A reliable way to send emails in volume from our web-based application
Your go to email marketing platform.
Really easy to use and integrate with other tools.
Before: a Reliable Email Platform. Now: a Sinking Ship.
Do We Have an Account Or Not
SendGrid is a hands-off solution for email list delivery
Twilio SendGrid is the best tool for send your newsletters and website integration
Great Value and Powerful Email Marketing
Good, but requires patience
SendGrid is HORRIBLE!
Sendgrid sends 50,000 e-mails AFTER promotion ended, EVERY time. No support & no refund
troublesome product, terrible customer service
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Popular Features
- Standard reports (44)8.585%
- Dashboards (44)8.585%
- Email deliverability reporting (46)7.474%
- List management (40)5.858%
Reviewer Pros & Cons
Pricing
Basic
$15
Advanced
$60
Free
Free
Entry-level set up fee?
- No setup fee
Offerings
- Free Trial
- Free/Freemium Version
- Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Features
Email & Online Marketing
Using software to manage lists, send emails, automate email campaigns, and track results.
- 7.6WYSIWYG email editor(33) Ratings
Users can create html emails through a drag-and-drop interface, without html coding knowledge.
- 7.8Dynamic content(36) Ratings
Users can tailor email, website or landing page content depending on the viewer or recipient (e.g., email salutations that include the recipient’s name).
- 7.9Ability to test dynamic content(34) Ratings
Users can test dynamic content prior to launching a campaign.
- 7.4Landing pages(22) Ratings
Users can create web pages that are customized to a particular email or campaign. Landing pages often include web forms which can capture visitor information and integrate it back into the MA software.
- 8.5A/B testing(26) Ratings
Users can experiment with different variations of a campaign and measure results. Testable aspects might include subject lines, header images, or landing page copy.
- 9Mobile optimization(34) Ratings
Users can easily optimize emails and landing pages for mobile devices.
- 7.4Email deliverability reporting(46) Ratings
The software helps ensure inbox delivery of email campaigns, through features such as deliverability tests, opt-in management, bounce handling, suppression lists, dedicated IP addresses, and delivery monitoring.
- 5.8List management(40) Ratings
This involves creating, filtering, editing, merging and de-duping lists of contacts.
- 7.5Triggered drip sequences(20) Ratings
The software allows users to set up automatic / drip email campaigns triggered by certain events.
Reporting & Analytics
Users can report on and analyze usage, performance, ROI, and/or other metrics of success.
- 8.5Dashboards(44) Ratings
Users can create, customize and share dashboards, which provide an overview of the most important metrics.
- 8.5Standard reports(44) Ratings
The software offers pre-built reports with metrics standard to the category.
- 7.1Custom reports(28) Ratings
Users can create custom reports.
Pre-Send Testing
This set of features allows marketers to test out and preview various elements of their emails before sending out email campaigns. URL validation, inbox display, and email review are some of the activities included in pre-send testing.
- 9.3URL Validation(8) Ratings
This allows marketers to validate URLs and find any broken links before sending out their email campaigns.
- 9Link Tracking(8) Ratings
This allows marketers to verify that proper link tracking is set up before sending out their email campaigns.
- 9Image Validation(7) Ratings
This allows marketers to validate images used in their emails to ensure images and GIFs display correctly in their audience’s inboxes.
- 9.3Inbox Display(8) Ratings
This allows marketers to see how their emails will be displayed within different web browsers and within different email service provider (ESP) platforms.
- 9Email Accessibility Tools(8) Ratings
This type of tool scans emails before they are sent out to ensure that design and code are optimized for accessibility across different browsers.
- 8.6Spelling and Grammar Check(6) Ratings
This feature checks emails for spelling and grammatical mistakes before they are sent out.
- 9.3Spam Testing(8) Ratings
Spam testing allows marketers to test their email against most major spam filters before sending out their email campaigns.
- 9Email Previews(8) Ratings
This allows marketers to test out emails to see how they will display across multiple different applications and web browsers.
Product Details
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What is Twilio SendGrid?
Twilio SendGrid Marketing Campaigns provides users with segmentation, campaign editing, and deliverability. According to the vendor, Twilio SendGrid Marketing Campaigns is trusted by over 80,000 customers globally, including Airbnb, Spotify and Uber.
Twilio SendGrid Marketing Campaigns aims to help users by providing:
MORE EFFICIENT EMAIL BUILDING
The campaign building process is free from frustrating, rigid step-by-step wizards that slow users down. The vendor says the choose-your-path editing options save time, whether users prefer code, design, or a mix of both.
EASY, HIGH-IMPACT SEGMENTATION & PERSONALIZATION
The vendor aims to provide users with an intuitive, clean UI that makes it clear who you’re targeting. Users can also personalizing campaign subject lines and content, and design custom fields to import.
INTUITIVE, IMPACTFUL EMAIL TESTING
According to the vendor, Twilio SendGrid brings the most important campaign stats front and center so users can quickly gauge performance and iterate. When it’s time to dig deeper, Twilio SendGrid provides users with robust email activity data, inbox and geography insights, and more.
PROVEN DELIVERABILITY & SCALE
Getting your messages to the inbox is at the core of everything Twilio SendGrid does. You can upgrade to 24/7 support and expert services to bring your email program to new heights.
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Twilio SendGrid Technical Details
Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
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Operating Systems | Unspecified |
Mobile Application | No |
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Reviews
(1-23 of 23)Good Service Weak Team
- The API is well documentated and easy to get up and running
- The service is reliable
- The service is fast and effective
- Customer Care is poor in my experience. They begin most customer issues by turning your service off. It takes a long time to get connected to the right person to fix your problem
- I feel the worst team at Twillio is the 'Compliance' department. They are the epitomy of Success Prevention.
- I believe Billing is ridicoulous - Be ready to see your business accounts spammed with hundreds of small one off payments making your normal business accounts unreadable.
We chose Sendgrid in place of Mailchimp because of the robust reporting and the integrations it offers. Needless to say, it offers one of the best data security in the market.
- Helps send bulk emails with good deliverability rates
- Robust analytics and data reporting
- Mobile and desktop friendly
- The UI can be improved and made more user friendly for the beginners
- The slab based pricing and the features associated can be improved. Basic plan doesn't have a lot of key features.
- Detailed product documentation will be really helpful
- Transactional Email
- Easy to administrate
- Logging and auditing
- Clear error messages for our team when investigating missing emails
- Limitation on number of API keys/sub-users
I don't think it would be suitable for any company only sending a small volume of emails.
Really easy to use and integrate with other tools.
- Multiple connection options - API and SMTP.
- Really easy to use.
- Excellent documentation.
- UI is very user friendly.
- Integrated billing with Twilio.
- Decent API documentation
- Offers free tier - easier buy-in for SMB clients
- Customer service
- Fraud management
- Billing & invoicing transparency
- Great API integration
- SMTP send made easy
- Lists creation very useful and easy
- Email marketing scheduling
- API key creation
- SMTP api
Great Value and Powerful Email Marketing
- Easy to use email builder
- Easy to schedule email campaigns
- API is flexible and easy to integrate with other systems
- Sometimes animated GIF's do not load
- Occasional formatting issues
Our Account Was Compromised and It's Been SEVEN Days (and Counting) Waiting on SendGrid's Non-Existent Support
- Deliverability.
- Customer support.
We had our account compromised 7 days ago (as of June 18th). I got two emails - one notifying me that the user name was changed, and another that the email had been changed. The email says to respond to help@sendgrid.com if these changes weren't authorized.
I did that immediately. You'd think this would be a critical email and would be answered quickly. You'd be wrong.
It's SEVEN days and counting, and not a peep from SendGrid support. In addition to emailing them that NO, these changes weren't authorized and please help recover my account, I took these steps:
- Messaged their Facebook page.
- Responded to comments on their posts, asking for help.
- Direct messaged them on Twitter.
- Created a new account and submitted a ticket through that account.
- Filled out a sales inquiry and talked directly to a sales associate, who also submitted a ticket on our behalf.
- ALL of the above through Twilio, their parent company.
Email API Solution - Easy Implementation
- Email facilitation.
- Seamless integration.
- Easy setup.
- All good, I have no issues.
Reliable and Easy to Setup Transactional Email API
We provision Twilio SendGrid Email API as an addon for apps hosted with Heroku, as well as use it for web apps that are hosted elsewhere. The setup is so straightforward that a developer can implement it almost immediately, without having to read deep into documentation.
- Easy implementation for developers.
- Reliable transactional email delivery for apps and services.
- Reporting and analytics on emails sent.
- Personalized service may not be as readily available for smaller businesses. If you have questions about deliverability and reputation management, you may have to learn some more of this on your own, unless you are a big customer.
Twilio SendGrid Product Review: Hope it helps!
- Makes setting up your initial account pretty simple and straight forward. You can get set up with a single list and unsub group and get going really quickly.
- You can grow your complexity over time and SendGrid is set up really well to handle that expansion. Setting up DNS, expanding IP addresses, grouping unsubs, etc. It scales really well as your business and team grow.
- I'm a huge fan of the API delivery which lets us set up a lot of automated actions which lets us focus more on testing and optimizing making even a lean team a super powerful team.
- The UX isn't as intuitive as other systems and it takes some getting used to the navigation. Additionally, they're adding a lot of new features, so finding the features you're used to while figuring out the new products can lead to some confusion.
- The documentation while expansive doesn't provide a lot of real-world use cases to help navigate through an issue. It can be a bit general, leaving you with just as many questions as you started with.
- They don't have as many features as you'd find in some marketing cloud solutions which may have additional features. While SendGrid is making strides in this department they're not quite there yet but most likely will be more comparable very soon.
A decent, simple solution
- Good API capabilities.
- Easy onboarding and use.
- Good support team.
- Not as many capabilities and automation as others.
- Basic email templating.
- User-interface is okay, but could really be improved.
- Drag and drop email designer for transactional emails - super nice even though I do code, it's much quicker and easier to implement without code.
- Very simple implementation. Only a few lines of code need to be added in our backend and boom we were up and running in less than a day.
- Listening to customer feedback. They regularly send emails about new features and ask for feedback to improve their software.
- Some of the cheapest and best dedicated IPs.
- Easy integration and setup between marketing and transactional emails. Super helpful to have everything in one place.
- Not necessarily their Email API but their email in general - they are currently in beta for automated email sequences but are still bare bones. Much more work is needed before it can be used mainstream and be able to convert everything to SendGrid.
- Helping with warming up our dedicated IP for the best-sending score.
- We seem to hit the promotions folder a decent amount (maybe the IP problem above) and even a lot of their emails hit my spam or promotions folder (whether they be transactional or marketing) which isn't a great sign when trusting an ESP.
- Transactional email sequences would be a huge plus.
- Now that Twilio owns SenGrid, having an integrated platform where you could see all our transactional emails together.
- Better reporting and split reporting between transactional and marketing emails.
SendGrid is the best value for Transactional Email Dispatch
- The SendGrid API allows you to integrate the transactional email in as custom a fashion as you wish. This enables you to make the emails dispatched very customized.
- SendGrid also has a feature that allows you to use it as an email campaign manager. This eliminates the need to have two different solutions for email campaigns and transactional emails.
- The pricing structure is beneficial to those who begin with low volume. The graduated pricing allows the price to grow with use.
- The API documentation is a bit confusing.
- All of the SendGrid services are accessible from different URLs and there's no centralized dashboard.
- The WordPress plugin was pretty buggy.
Great - SendGrid is the best email delivery service
- Email Template feature helps me a lot. Very very easy to use and manage.
- Easy to set up, white label URL, and get emails sending through API and marketing campaigns. Fast delivery and general reporting.
- Drag and drop is laggy and a bit confusing sometimes and can be improved. I feel it's sometimes difficult to design emails.
SendGrid - A Great service for a Great price
- Robust API for delivering bulk e-mails or transactional messages to users
- Top-notch features you'd expect from any enterprise grade ESP (inbox, bounce, open tracking, click tracking, etc)
- Powerful user interface for managing many aspects of your campaigns (email templates, user lists, etc)
- Excellent inbox deliver-ability
- White-labeling features that are simple to implement (to hide the fact that SendGrid is your ESP for outgoing e-mails)
- User interface can be non-intuitive for some features
- API Documentation is lacking in some places (but user support is top notch and responsive, so answers can be had relatively easily)
About SendGrid!!
We have multiple application like - an auction platform and incident management, where the application is configured to send information or alert emails to customers.
- Its very easy to understand
- Easy in configuration
- Budgeted according to requirements
- Better templates
- API availability
- Reports in different sections could be improved.
- The best description is - easy to configure, budgeted as per requirement, availability of APIs and templates etc.
- The reporting section could be improved.
SendGrid - What's great & What isn't
As far as how it helped us resolve business problems - it's a relatively cheap service and effectively allowed us to adopt the API that adapted to our needs at the time. It's also easy to use in terms of development and definition of email dispatches.
- It's cost effective.
- API is easy to use.
- Pay-as-you-go model helps project usage costs.
- Actually viewing previous emails dispatched. SendGrid does not have this feature - although it provides numbers on emails dispatched within 3 days for the cheapest plan.
- The service asks you to pay more (although a minimal amount) to have visibility on email activity upto 30 days in the past.
- The API doesn't allow an export of a report of email activity over a period of time. It can be quite frustrating at times to be limited in this way.
- Their customer support isn't the best. Certainly some room for improvement there.
However if having historic data, better reporting and visibility on content of past emails is important to you, then go for something else (albeit a tad more expensive). That's the compromise that you'll have to decide on.
SendGrid ensures our customers get the email notifications they want quickly and reliably
- SendGrid has an exceptional deliverability record. We never worry about emails making it to our customers' inboxes.
- It can be difficult to best configure SendGrid, especially when setting up dedicated IP addresses and the various DNS entries needed for reliable email delivery. Settings and instructions can be spread throughout multiple pages of the SendGrid web application.
Email delivery that I don't have to think about
- Deliverability seems good. Never had any issues here.
- Whitelabeling works well, making it appear that emails are being sent directly from the domain (no evidence of SendGrid anywhere except maybe if you dig into the email source).
- Admin interface is clean and easy to use.
- Prices used to be a little more flexible, starting at $1 and going up according to usage – and that included whitelisting and all that good stuff. Now they start at $10 a month although that does give you up to 40,000 emails a month. They also have a free plan (< 100 emails / day) but I'm not sure if it includes whitelisting.
- Had some issues with the SendGrid API years ago. They probably fixed it, but I've since just used the SMTP endpoint with no issues.
Powerful email program that scales
- High deliverability rates
- Easy and robust API implementation
- Cost-effective plans for enormous email send
- Pricing can be a double-edged sword -- you can easily underpay for a plan and get hit with big overages, and you can just as easily overpay for a plan you don't need. Paying in advance is a real gamble.
- SendGrid is for more technically proficient users. I would only recommend this program to developers or highly technical email marketers.
- SendGrid doesn't come standard with Drip Email features (at least last time I checked). As far as I know, it's a newer feature and comes at a separate cost. In my opinion, that's a hole in their feature coverage.
Not great if you're a smaller company just starting out or if you're a non-technical staff. Terrible if you're just trying to send simple, WYSIWYG marketing emails.
- SendGrid is incredibly easy to use and implement.
- SendGrid provides an inexpensive tool that the sales team can leverage for high ROI.
- SendGrid has great support and has been willing to work with us on all our needs.
- SendGrid is a little too basic and therefore has not replaced all the functionality we need in Marketing Cloud/Exact Target.
Send Good with SendGrid
- Marketing campaign builder ease of use
- API integrations (send emails from other applications like Wordpress)
- Deliverability
- They don't have a very robust template gallery
- Very strict spam scoring