Mailchimp Transactional Email (Mandrill)

It is really the best in its area as a email marketing tool and we use it in this aspect.

Mailchimp Transactional Email (Mandrill) is well suited for basic automated emails that a business needs to send to their clients when their clients purchase a product or service, appointment/reservation reminders, etc. I would not use it for any sort of one-off email or really any sort of marketing purposes at all.

Mandrill is excellent for platforms looking for a third-party app to manage all email communication. It's able to handle an incredibly large amount of emails and sends out those emails very fast. It does take some training to understand the platform entirely, so if you're a smaller organization looking for an email marketing tool, then you'd most likely want to use Mailchimp, which owns Mandrill.

Mandrill is well-suited for integrations with software APIs to address the need of sending large amounts of email.

Mandrill is well suited for SAAS Software platforms requiring complex real-time emails to be sent to validated users. Using Mailchimp as the design environment makes it easy to design and deploy email templates by most users. You can have Marketing or UX designers do the email templates and then have your dev team push the data/content and triggers to Mandrill.

This is one of the best softwares for transactional emails. After integrating with MailChimp, it gave me the best results in real estate projects promotions. In my business, we have clients across the globe, and with both of these email services, we reach our prospective customers in real time and, with the detailed analysis of customers' engagement, we plan our future campaigns.

It is great :

• As an SMTP relay option to use in all platforms and systems without OS and configuration limitations.
• Helps you keep control over hard bounces and soft bounces.
• Great dashboard to check in a glance your account status.

It is not appropriate in scenarios where you need to send massive campaigns.

I would say that this question is conditional. If you already have MailChimp and are happy with it and need Transactional email, then Mandrill is a no-brainer. Outside of already being a MailChimp Customer, it's a little harder to recommend. The service is fantastic for what it provides and It is hard to fault it when we rely on it so much and it has never let us down.

It is completely appropriate as a transactional service if you're already using MailChimp for marketing. If you're not already using MailChimp, then you're probably going to want to look at another service like Mailgun.

Mandrill is great for your transactional emails as it is easy to use, highly reliable and a powerful tool.

Mandrill is great for using the API features to create automated email functions for our system's users. It's completely white labeled to our product, making it smooth and easy for our users. We have the ability to track all emails sent, as well as customize any email sent and what triggers the emails to send.

If you have no use for MailChimp, Madrill is a little on the pricey side, since it's not available "a la carte". The interface is a bit clunky, but it gets the job done and is very reliable.

Any system that requires transactional email message functionality as an external service. The benefits of a well managed and vetted server to maintain reputation as well as being reliability is well worth the effort needed to integrate towards the API specs.

Mandrill has got a lot of features that most people will find perfectly adequate. Their deliverability is great, and their management interface (while not visually stunning) provides all the information and configuration options you're likely going to need. For these reasons, it's a good option for most people.

My main complaints have to do with how they changed their billing practices in 2016, removing the free tier, and bundling the service with a paid MailChimp subscription. If you're not already paying for a MailChimp subscription, there are other services that offer 12,000-25,000 emails, per month, for free.

My other gripe is the rate-limit issue. If for any reason users start complaining about your messages, your rate limit (number of messages you can send per hour) will be slashed dramatically. This is for a good reason, but the limits look to be very strict, and they have no issue with taking your account from 10,000 messages an hour to 150 messages an hour. This can absolutely kill a SaaS provider, and they are 100% unwilling to make concessions.

If you are already a paid MailChimp user or considering moving to that platform, Mandrill is an obvious choice for your transactional email approach thanks to its high reliability, ease of use, and powerful debugging tools. If you're not an existing MailChimp customer, however, the additional cost of a MailChimp account plus Mandrill message blocks can be prohibitively expensive versus other platforms, but should not be ruled out completely.

Well obviously Mandrill is well suited if you are a MailChimp client looking to send transactional emails. The most obvious benefit is the ability to send things like Cart Recovery emails, which are large revenue generating campaigns, to anyone who abandons a cart, not just people who are subscribed in your MailChimp account. Without Mandrill, MailChimp would have no way of accomplishing that type of transactional email.