Sitecore Send vs. SMTP Email Relay Solutions

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Sitecore Send
Score 8.8 out of 10
N/A
Sitecore Send, formerly Moosend, is an email marketing platform featuring drag and drop editor and templates for newsletters, automated workflow, mailing list management with custom fields and advanced segmentation, and personalized content.
$10
Per Subscriber
SMTP Email Relay Solutions
Score 9.0 out of 10
N/A
SMTP Email Relay Solutions is a transactional email service formerly from SharpSpring and now a J2 Global company.
$25
per month
Pricing
Sitecore SendSMTP Email Relay Solutions
Editions & Modules
Starting Price
$10.00
Per Subscriber
Maximum Price
$760.00
Per Subscriber
ESSENTIAL
$25
per month
STARTER
$80
per month
GROWTH
$300
per month
BUSINESS
$500
per month
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Sitecore SendSMTP Email Relay Solutions
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
More Pricing Information
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Sitecore SendSMTP Email Relay Solutions
Features
Sitecore SendSMTP Email Relay Solutions
Email & Online Marketing
Comparison of Email & Online Marketing features of Product A and Product B
Sitecore Send
9.4
10 Ratings
16% above category average
SMTP Email Relay Solutions
-
Ratings
WYSIWYG email editor9.010 Ratings00 Ratings
Dynamic content9.09 Ratings00 Ratings
Ability to test dynamic content8.49 Ratings00 Ratings
Landing pages8.48 Ratings00 Ratings
A/B testing10.06 Ratings00 Ratings
Mobile optimization10.08 Ratings00 Ratings
Email deliverability reporting10.09 Ratings00 Ratings
List management10.09 Ratings00 Ratings
Triggered drip sequences10.06 Ratings00 Ratings
Reporting & Analytics
Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Product A and Product B
Sitecore Send
10.0
8 Ratings
26% above category average
SMTP Email Relay Solutions
-
Ratings
Dashboards10.08 Ratings00 Ratings
Standard reports10.08 Ratings00 Ratings
Custom reports10.06 Ratings00 Ratings
Pre-Send Testing
Comparison of Pre-Send Testing features of Product A and Product B
Sitecore Send
10.0
6 Ratings
22% above category average
SMTP Email Relay Solutions
-
Ratings
URL Validation10.06 Ratings00 Ratings
Link Tracking10.06 Ratings00 Ratings
Image Validation10.06 Ratings00 Ratings
Inbox Display10.05 Ratings00 Ratings
Email Accessibility Tools10.06 Ratings00 Ratings
Spelling and Grammar Check10.05 Ratings00 Ratings
Spam Testing10.06 Ratings00 Ratings
Email Previews10.06 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
Sitecore SendSMTP Email Relay Solutions
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
(10 ratings)
9.0
(3 ratings)
Usability
9.0
(2 ratings)
9.0
(2 ratings)
User Testimonials
Sitecore SendSMTP Email Relay Solutions
Likelihood to Recommend
Sitecore
UI presented by this application is not only unique but also important to implement for further creation. Hence a proven and tested application for tracing the developments at all places to check the capability of the developmental process. It’s a powerful email marketing tool and helps to maintain the client’s relationship with full support.
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Ziff Davis Inc
SMTP Email Relay Solutions is a great service if you are in a field where sending out bulk information, such as monthly statements to clients, invoices, or any back-to-back emails that would normally get flagged for "spam" is required.
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Pros
Sitecore
  • Moosend is the best application to trace the business development and to create ideas through email marketing
  • This tool is helpful in the atomization of developments on a certain level
  • It promotes business opportunities in the market with innovation and ideas
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Ziff Davis Inc
  • It allows us to send email through the secure email gateway.
  • We are able to track and scan all email communications
  • It provides a way for legacy and current applications to send out notification and mass email communications.
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Cons
Sitecore
  • If you have more than 1000 subscribers you will be required to upgrade to the Pro plan.
  • Free plan users have limited customer support.
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Ziff Davis Inc
  • As with any technology on a server, we sometimes see issues with downtime related to network changes or firewall updates.
  • It can be a challenge to work with some of our older applications when the TLS feature is used.
  • I wish there was a more direct way to reliably use SMTP for mass email sends without the fear of being blacklisted.
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Usability
Sitecore
Pretty straight forward but it takes sometime to get used to. Not exactly like WordPress or other open source cms but it gets the job done
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Ziff Davis Inc
I have yet to encounter any hiccups with their services. I send a large volume of emails monthly and have yet to experience any delay in my work.
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Alternatives Considered
Sitecore
Moosend is known as more of an industry standard than BuzzStream (which is a more budget tool), and it shows. BuzzStream has clearly cut corners in areas of usability and general UI, where Moosend, on the other hand, seems to have done it right from the beginning. Moosend is so much less clunky than the other tools we evaluated.
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Ziff Davis Inc
Office 365 does use secure non-standard ports for SMTP connectivity causing a problem with older programs. SMTP Email Delivery from Exchange solves this problem by giving the network admin full control over ports and specific program connections. While we do use both Office 365 and the SMTP Email Delivery we find that a mix is needed in order to meet all expectations for our end users. The majority of our SMTP communications, for users, go through Office 365 while the majority of our applications and servers do go through the SMTP Email Delivery service.
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Return on Investment
Sitecore
  • Moosend is quite affordable (500,000 emails for $500), so it's easy to see an ROI. It only takes a few recipients converting to make a campaign worth the spend.
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Ziff Davis Inc
  • It's the easiest way to send mail out. No worries about complex configurations.
  • It can be finicky when used in a hybrid Office 365 environment to get the proper pathways secured and working.
  • I wish there were a better way to send out mass emails, on-site, without our domain or server IP being blacklisted.
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