Mailchimp Transactional Email (Mandrill)

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It is a basic platform that sends the necessary transactional email for a business

It really is a neutral ROI

It's added a main feature our customers need, which is automatic confirmation emailing.

It's allowed our app to send schedule reports to users, which is crucial to them managing their nonprofit and core feature prospects look for.

It has greatly streamlined support for sending email out of our application.

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.

It helped us to grow our customer database substantially in the last quarter.

Last week we reached 62% customer engagement in our campaign. This is very good customer engagement for our projects.

In the last quarter we achieved our target by 135%.

Centralized notifications control

Zero SMTP server maintenance

Low cost and simple administration

We rely on it to get our emails to their destination. This it does great. And when there is a question, the logs show us what we need.

It has sped up development time and offered a great deal of value to our internal tooling and products.

The lock-in we experienced was a little tough when they forced it behind the MailChimp paid account, but we are overall mostly happy with the product still.

It's a transactional email service, so it did its job. It cost us nothing outside of engineering time (which was minimal) so any return is considered a net positive.

Mandrill ensured high deliverability of automatic emails sent

We didn't have to build and support our own email generator. The API integration saves us a lot of time.

Having a reliable email generation gives our users a consistent experience when using our product.

When someone says that the email never sent, we can check and verify that to be true or not. Sometimes the emails just go to the spam box.

As our user base grew to 5 million users that needed transactional messaging Mandrill easily scaled to sending 100/sec message rates.

If you already have a paid MailChimp account, utilizing Mandrill to send transaction emails is very cheap.

Sending out emails to users at the correct times will boost user engagement and revenue, instead of relying on the user finding the information when they log in next, or relying on in-application notifications.

The documentation and tools available for integration make adding Mandrill to your existing systems very quick, and inexpensive. There are plenty of open source and free tools to help this process along.

Mandrill ensured high deliverability for messages sent to marketing leads in our customer funnel. This was incredibly important for making sure we captured leads early and often.

Mandrill was a solid and efficient way to send transactional notification messages to customers using our web-based payment system. With online payments, quick response is key, and Mandrill absolutely delivered.

Mandrill messages meant that our internal team always received notifications about leads, new sales, or problems with our systems in a timely manner. As a small startup, moving quickly was essential and we couldn't afford to miss a beat. Mandrill made sure we didn't.

Mandrill has allowed us to offer our Cart Recovery product to even more of our clients, generating revenue for them which generates revenue for us. Cart Recovery is one of our largest revenue generating campaigns for all of our clients across the board.

Mandrill's API has allowed us to use custom designed templates for our clients, which improves the overall look and feel of the email, thus generating better returns per email.