Netcore Cloud vs. SparkPost

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Netcore Cloud
Score 8.6 out of 10
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Netcore Cloud’s Customer Engagement & Experience platform (formerly known as Netcore Smartech) is presented as a one-stop growth platform that enables marketers, growth, and product managers to drive conversations with customers across multiple touchpoints. Backed by AI/ML, Netcore Cloud enables website and mobile app brands to fuel omnichannel growth. The platform offers: - Actionable unified customer profiles by stitching user data from…N/A
SparkPost
Score 4.8 out of 10
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The SparkPost Email Delivery Platform is built to help businesses deliver more value. Its features include real-time analysis of email delivery and customer engagement as well as personalized email templates. Users can also pick from any of the numerous APIs to integrate into communication. SparkPost is designed to provide all users need to power businesses for greater growth.
$30
per month
Pricing
Netcore CloudSparkPost
Editions & Modules
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Starter
$30
per month
Premier
$75
per month
Enterprise
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Netcore CloudSparkPost
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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User Ratings
Netcore CloudSparkPost
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
(3 ratings)
1.0
(6 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
1.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
Netcore CloudSparkPost
Likelihood to Recommend
Netcore Solutions Pvt Ltd
This platform seems to be a perfect one for email marketing, newsletters, tracking of emails, etc. I've heard it's also a good platform for lead management, their scorring and grading, lead nurturing, building product related tracking such as API integration, retention cohorts, flows, etc. however, haven't tried that part personally.
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Bird (formerly MessageBird)
Our early experiences with SparkPost were great; we were looking for a low-cost (or no-cost) solution to our email messaging needs, and SparkPost had the best low-cost option: 100,000 messages per month for free, guaranteed for life. Even though our team has experience with other APIs, we chose SparkPost because it felt like the best value. Our experience with it was great. Two years ago, they discontinued their free option but sent the existing users the following message: "When you signed up, we promised that if we ever changed the terms of our 100K free plan, we would continue to honor the original plan for the life of the account. I would like to reaffirm this promise: while this plan is no longer available to new customers, you are grandfathered into this level of free sending volume." The following year, apparently following a change in leadership, they decided to "deprecate" existing free plans, dropping us down from 100,000 messages per month to 500, the lowest of any email API service I'm aware of. No recognition of the broken promise, the reneged guarantee, just a 20% off coupon. This atrocious behavior that reeks of a new culture of squeezing as much money as possible out of its users and has coincided with a steady deterioration of functionality and customer service. At this point, I have no idea why anyone would pay more for a worse service that treats its users so poorly when you could use SendGrid or a similar competitor for a lower price and way more features.
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Pros
Netcore Solutions Pvt Ltd
  • Increase in the number of customers as the conversion of users is increasing.
  • Strategically targeting customers according to their taste.
  • Deliver instant SMS, emails etc. which is great.
  • Single click analytic reports.
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Bird (formerly MessageBird)
  • When you don't want to spent time writing your own code to send emails from your apps
  • When you're looking for a product which provides all that you need regarding email features to make it part of your software
  • When you want to use a product which includes templates that can be re-used instead of writing your own and all the required effort to do that
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Cons
Netcore Solutions Pvt Ltd
  • Need a mobile app too, so that we can access it easily. It is only cloud-based.
  • Costly.
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Bird (formerly MessageBird)
  • When I first implemented SparkPost, I did not take advantage of the sub-account feature, and my account was suspended on New Year's Eve. It took two days until I could speak with a support representative to get my account re-activated. I am now using sub-accounts to alleviate the underlying problem, but I was disappointed that my account was suspended by an automated system with no notice.
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Support Rating
Netcore Solutions Pvt Ltd
No answers on this topic
Bird (formerly MessageBird)
Would give it a zero if I could. Their customer service used to be incredible; fast response times, really hands-on with their users, and a pretty regular feedback process. They sent me an awesome t-shirt that became part of my go-to climbing gear. But for the past year, their response times went way down, their customer service was less helpful and generally a lot more rude, and they haven't asked for customer input once since their leadership change
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Alternatives Considered
Netcore Solutions Pvt Ltd
Netcore Smartech offers much wide range of products and services instead of just the ones related to Marketing. It offers lead management, their scoring and the sales cycles which the Sales teams can also use in future. Also, it offers a lot more integrations and automations which can sincerely help sales teams define their flow and daily processes.
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Bird (formerly MessageBird)
Mailchimp and sendgrid are giving good services and good customer support 24/7 and ROI is increased with this as transition is very smooth. SparkPost is very expensive and not good as much as we think and they will least worried about your mails, tickets, call and messages. Highly not recommended this SparkPost to any one
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Return on Investment
Netcore Solutions Pvt Ltd
  • Increase in revenue.
  • Cost reduction.
  • Lead generation, gaining new customer, retaining old customers.
  • Brand and campaigns promotions easily and effectively.
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Bird (formerly MessageBird)
  • It has helped us with our IP health and making sure that we avoid spam traps
  • Very high deliverability and automatic retrying once they have the event
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Screenshot of Build a 360 degree customer viewScreenshot of Insights to fuel customer engagement strategiesScreenshot of Create no-code product experiencesScreenshot of Trigger 1:1 product recommendationsScreenshot of Gather user data from multiple channels (both offline and online) and create actionable unified customer profiles on our Customer Data platform