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What is Mailchimp Transactional Email (Mandrill)?
Mailchimp Transactional Email (formerly Mandrill) is designed to allow users to deliver fast, personalized transactional emails using API or SMTP.
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What is Mailchimp Transactional Email (Mandrill)?
Mailchimp Transactional Email enables developers to send hyper-personalized emails that reach inboxes.
- API or SMTP
- Start quickly
- Flexible with sending and inbound options
- Start quickly
- Flexible with sending and inbound options
Mailchimp Transactional Email (Mandrill) Features
- Supported: Deliverability - reach inbox, not spam.
- Supported: Analytics - Dashboard, export API or webhook.
- Supported: Award winning support.
- Supported: Flexibility with white-labeling.
- Supported: A/B Test and comparative reporting.
- Supported: Rules Engine for inbound and outbound messages.
- Supported: Templating engine with conditional content.
- Supported: Use handlebars or merge tags for content.
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Mailchimp Transactional Email (Mandrill) Technical Details
| Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Unspecified |
| Mobile Application | No |
| Supported Countries | Worldwide |
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Mailchimp Transactional Email (formerly Mandrill) is designed to allow users to deliver fast, personalized transactional emails using API or SMTP.
Sinch Mailgun and Brevo are common alternatives for Mailchimp Transactional Email (Mandrill).
The most common users of Mailchimp Transactional Email (Mandrill) are from Small Businesses (1-50 employees).
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We use Mandrill for real-time transactional emails from a backend SAAS platform. We use Mailchimp Templates to create highly formatted emails with custom triggers and variable content fields then deploy the templates to Mandrill, where they are actively used for sending thousands of emails to our users every day. We send about 200,000 real-time emails every month to active users.
- Continuity of service is great. We have been happy with the uptime.
- Speed, the emails are sent instantly.
- Set it and forget it, once you have it set up, it works.
- Integration with Mailchimp Templates makes it easy to design and change email formats.
- The user interface is basic, dated.
- Sometimes hard to find what you are looking for, some features are buried.
- It would be nice to be able to make minor tweaks or changes within Mandrill, but you need to go back to Mailchimp, edit and redeploy to Mandrill.
- It allows us to function as a business, real-time email is essential.
- Stability and uptime are critical, and Mandrill has served us well.
- Understanding deliveries, bounces, spam flags, etc. are critical, and Mandrill does well here.
February 27, 2017
Going Transactional with Mandrill
Mandrill has a great API that allowed our microservice based system to enable email communication on a transactional basis. Tools to monitor and debug as well as consistent availablity made it a great solution for third party email functionality.
- Dependable - we never encountered down time with the service in the three I developed against it.
- Scalable - our typical use was several messages a second to bursts of 100/s. This level of requests was easily processed by the system. There were rare cases where there were delays of upwards of 10 minutes for messages to be delivered but it was always very rare.
- Well documented - the API has very good documentation. It's a bit quirky in some implementations but the documentation makes it easy to implement.
- Logging - understandably due to the volume of messages the system processes it would be a challenge to log messages older than the current few hours. But it would be ideal if there were webhooks for error events to allow for the creation of custom error notifications.
- UI - A slick admin UI but very limited in some areas.
- MailChimp - it's unfortunate that Mandrill has been brought back from its autonomous state to now being just a part of the large MailChimp suite of email products. I worry it's going to get lost if it's not a part of the MailChimp vision.
- As our user base grew to 5 million users that needed transactional messaging Mandrill easily scaled to sending 100/sec message rates.
Being first a MailChimp customer, moving to using Mandrill as a transactional API based solution was an easy and obvious solution. At the time of evaluation Mandrill's API was far superior to SendGrid's API.