Likelihood to Recommend For what we are using the service for, it accomplishes everything that we need. We use it across a couple departments and it is very easy to keep track of everything scheduled so there is no confusion. We started using it at the beginning of the year and it's become very simple to navigate, which is great. That makes it much easier for me to train people how to use it.
Read full review 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.
Read full review Pros It is set up in a way that is very easy to learn how to use. The features cover everything I can even imagine for what I am using it for. Their help desk is very responsive. Read full review Good Documentation Developer focused Supports sub-accounts Good support Integrates with Laravel out of the box Read full review Cons There was a recent update they did that was sort of hard to get adjusted to, things weren't in the same spot as normal and it was sort of difficult learning where things were located now. It only shows you 7 mailings at a time by default, it would be nice to be able to change the default setting to whatever is preferred. In the "server" I wish there was a way to filter by department, not just by users. Read full review I really like SparkPost, it was really useful to achieve our goals Read full review Support Rating 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
Read full review Alternatives Considered ExactTarget, Marketo CRM. These are completely different types of systems, but their email element is similar.
Read full review Return on Investment It makes scheduling emails very easy. It was very easy to learn how to use/get adjusted to. We are able to keep track of scheduled mailings across all departments which is very convenient. Read full review 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 Read full review ScreenShots