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Twilio SendGrid Marketing Campaigns provides users with segmentation, campaign editing, and deliverability. According to the vendor, Twilio SendGrid Marketing Campaigns is trusted by over 80,000 customers globally, including Airbnb, Spotify and Uber.Twilio SendGrid Marketing Campaigns aims to help users by…
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What is Twilio SendGrid?
Twilio SendGrid Marketing Campaigns provides users with segmentation, campaign editing, and deliverability. According to the vendor, Twilio SendGrid Marketing Campaigns is trusted by over 80,000 customers globally, including Airbnb, Spotify and Uber.
Twilio SendGrid Marketing Campaigns aims to help users by providing:
MORE EFFICIENT EMAIL BUILDING
The campaign building process is free from frustrating, rigid step-by-step wizards that slow users down. The vendor says the choose-your-path editing options save time, whether users prefer code, design, or a mix of both.
EASY, HIGH-IMPACT SEGMENTATION & PERSONALIZATION
The vendor aims to provide users with an intuitive, clean UI that makes it clear who you’re targeting. Users can also personalizing campaign subject lines and content, and design custom fields to import.
INTUITIVE, IMPACTFUL EMAIL TESTING
According to the vendor, Twilio SendGrid brings the most important campaign stats front and center so users can quickly gauge performance and iterate. When it’s time to dig deeper, Twilio SendGrid provides users with robust email activity data, inbox and geography insights, and more.
PROVEN DELIVERABILITY & SCALE
Getting your messages to the inbox is at the core of everything Twilio SendGrid does. You can upgrade to 24/7 support and expert services to bring your email program to new heights.
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October 17, 2019
A decent, simple solution
When our startup was still under ten people we needed an email solution for our users and for us to use to send automated emails. We were looking for a tool that was simple and could plug into our API. SendGrid delivered on that and we have been using it for a few years now.
- Good API capabilities.
- Easy onboarding and use.
- Good support team.
- Not as many capabilities and automation as others.
- Basic email templating.
- User-interface is okay, but could really be improved.
August 09, 2019
Fantastic Email Marketing Tool - Highly Recommend
Twilio SendGrid Email Marketing is being used by our marketing team, customer service team, and our technical support team. We needed a platform that was affordable not only for storing and managing contacts but also for sending email campaigns. We also needed an email marketing tool that was easy-to-use and that offered robust features and allowed us to maintain multiple lists. Sendgrid solved this problem for us.
- Managing email lists / audiences is easy with features like groups and segments.
- They provide pre-built email templates that are very easy to modify. It is also super easy to create new email templates with their drag-and-drop email builder.
- Provides clear / easy-to-read analytics of email campaigns.
- I can easily import large email contact lists all at once or add a user manually one-at-a-time, when needed.
- They do not offer an email signup widget for use on your website.
- Best I can tell, I am unable to see the date/time by which a specific email address unsubscribed.
- There isn't any social media integration for sign ups, that I am aware of.
SendGrid Email API is being used as our transactional email platform. So when users or restaurants make actions (such as reserve a table) inside of our application an email is being sent out to each individual user/restaurant with details about that certain action. It's also used for easy onboarding flows for our users and restaurants alike so based on actions they take such as adding their restaurant, we send another email about how to use and open up tables.
- Drag and drop email designer for transactional emails - super nice even though I do code, it's much quicker and easier to implement without code.
- Very simple implementation. Only a few lines of code need to be added in our backend and boom we were up and running in less than a day.
- Listening to customer feedback. They regularly send emails about new features and ask for feedback to improve their software.
- Some of the cheapest and best dedicated IPs.
- Easy integration and setup between marketing and transactional emails. Super helpful to have everything in one place.
- Not necessarily their Email API but their email in general - they are currently in beta for automated email sequences but are still bare bones. Much more work is needed before it can be used mainstream and be able to convert everything to SendGrid.
- Helping with warming up our dedicated IP for the best-sending score.
- We seem to hit the promotions folder a decent amount (maybe the IP problem above) and even a lot of their emails hit my spam or promotions folder (whether they be transactional or marketing) which isn't a great sign when trusting an ESP.
- Transactional email sequences would be a huge plus.
- Now that Twilio owns SenGrid, having an integrated platform where you could see all our transactional emails together.
- Better reporting and split reporting between transactional and marketing emails.
March 02, 2019
Looking to take your Transactional & Promotional Email Marketing to the Next Level? SendGrid is here to make it happen.
Our company currently uses SendGrid for all promotional and transactional marketing emails. Our marketing team designs via the HTML editor all our promotional emails, A/B tests, category stats, and segments contact lists inside SendGrid. Our backend RoR setup up the majority of the implementation - he claimed it to be exceptionally easy. For us SendGrid allows us to keep track of all our emails in one place. Rather than having one email service provider for promotional emails (ActiveCampaign, Mailchimp, etc) and one email service provider for transactional emails (Mailgun, Mandrill, etc.), we are able to have them all in one place.
- Being a startup and going through an accelerator program in the GAN network, we were able to take advantage of SendGrid Accelerate program and leverage SendGrid training, resources, and early beta access to new products. Not to mention their dedicated IP address.
- SendGrid has an extremely simple UI/UX. From creating emails in the editor via HTML or drag & drop, to being able to manage our unsubscribe lists and even viewing KPIs on emails and specific categories; SendGrid is extremely intuitive.
- Compared to other email service providers, SendGrid has an exceptional deliverability rate. Being a global company and have thousands of users all over the world, we have never had an issue with delivering emails. Over 99% on all promotional campaigns and a near perfect rate on all our transactional emails.
- SendGrid recently launched automation/sequences. While this is still in beta, they have a weird setup where you must configure your entire contact list twice to be able to put contacts through the automation. It will be interesting to see their roadmap for this product as they continue to develop the marketing side of their product.
- I've had trouble setting up their tracking with our website via Google Tag Manager. Followed their instructions and ended up contacting SendGrid support and they said that we needed to implement the code on the actual website. Wish we could have it done with Google Tag Manager.
January 17, 2019
SendGrid is the best value for Transactional Email Dispatch
We use SendGrid transactional email integrated within our website to send follow-up emails to prospects once they complete our online signup process. This was primarily an administrative function that was automated. We were able to reduce the number of back-and-forth emails with SendGrid, and also automate the on-boarding process of our clients.
- The SendGrid API allows you to integrate the transactional email in as custom a fashion as you wish. This enables you to make the emails dispatched very customized.
- SendGrid also has a feature that allows you to use it as an email campaign manager. This eliminates the need to have two different solutions for email campaigns and transactional emails.
- The pricing structure is beneficial to those who begin with low volume. The graduated pricing allows the price to grow with use.
- The API documentation is a bit confusing.
- All of the SendGrid services are accessible from different URLs and there's no centralized dashboard.
- The WordPress plugin was pretty buggy.
December 21, 2018
Email marketing made easy
Our Sales, Marketing and After Sales Service departments use this software for communication purposes. For the Marketing department in my company, it is a dependable tool for promotional activities. They use it to send promotional emails to their subscribers. We use it for sending monthly newsletters to our customers.
- It provides easy setup and easy to use features.
- Email editor is very easy to operate for email template creations.
- Uploading email subscribers list is very fast.
- It lacks on multi-platform availability. We can not use it in mobile phone. Specially on Android devices.
- Sometimes Technical support does not show activeness in resolving queries.
- Unavailability of Email Drip functionality which is there in other softwares.
December 19, 2018
Great - SendGrid is the best email delivery service
SendGrid gives you the power to mass-email and market more effectively, regardless of your skill level. Whether you are looking to custom-build your HTML templates, or would like to build out their standard templates. Our Enterprise application needed the ability to send emails to customers and partners and track their delivery/response and action taken from the email. SendGrid allowed us to roll this out fast, cheap and frictionless.
- Email Template feature helps me a lot. Very very easy to use and manage.
- Easy to set up, white label URL, and get emails sending through API and marketing campaigns. Fast delivery and general reporting.
- Drag and drop is laggy and a bit confusing sometimes and can be improved. I feel it's sometimes difficult to design emails.
December 14, 2018
SendGrid is the best choice for transactional and marketing emails
We use SendGrid to send marketing campaigns to enterprise customers, transactional emails to our app users, and for one-off email sends across multiple use cases. I've found the interface for building and sending marketing emails to be very intuitive and easy to navigate.
- The interface for building emails is very intuitive and easy to use
- List management and segmentation capabilities
- Customer support is very responsive and helpful
- A|B testing and dynamic content works great
- Campaign branching capabilities aren't as advanced as what is available in some marketing automation providers
- Not a lot of pre-made email templates available, but this wasn't an issue for us as we build our own branded emails.
December 14, 2018
SendGrid - A Great service for a Great price
SendGrid is used, primarily, by our development team for products that span our entire business. SendGrid allows our developers an easy way to deliver e-mail from our applications to our users without having to manage and maintain an e-mail server infrastructure internally. The tools that SendGrid makes available for the price makes utilizing their services a no-brainer decision.
- Robust API for delivering bulk e-mails or transactional messages to users
- Top-notch features you'd expect from any enterprise grade ESP (inbox, bounce, open tracking, click tracking, etc)
- Powerful user interface for managing many aspects of your campaigns (email templates, user lists, etc)
- Excellent inbox deliver-ability
- White-labeling features that are simple to implement (to hide the fact that SendGrid is your ESP for outgoing e-mails)
- User interface can be non-intuitive for some features
- API Documentation is lacking in some places (but user support is top notch and responsive, so answers can be had relatively easily)
December 12, 2018
SendGrid is an Email Marketing Service that TRULY stands alone
We use SendGrid for our various WordPress websites across the organization. This tool is a perfect fit for our marketing team as it directly integrates with our WordPress Admin panel and provides meaningful metrics to help inform business decisions. The lead generation from our websites has grown exponentially and SendGrid has helped us manage the data in a digestible way.
- Integration with WordPress via a plugin -- 10/10
- Management of contact lists for marketing campaigns -- 10/10
- Reporting on key metrics from email submissions (contact forms, marketing campaigns, SMTP) -- 10/10
- Navigation to the Billing/Account section is a bit difficult
- Fewer emails for the send/receive data
- Fewer marketing emails
We use it as our primary platform for marketing campaigns by our entire organization. Whether it is from the sales dept or marketing dept, SendGrid is our preferred means of emailing. It solves the problem of organizing contacts in one area that allows for building of a template and then tracking the analytics of our campaign. It's a one-stop shop for all things relating to marketing emails and we could not be happier.
- Allows you to create a custom template quick and easy
- Easily track the analytics of your campaign and break down things like unique opens, impressions, deliveries, etc
- It does not spam people, and is a trusted method of emailing contacts
- The organization of the main page to get to email campaigns was difficult to find at first
- When you schedule an email campaign, it defaults to the following day which I do not like
December 12, 2018
Looking for developer friendly email solution? Go with SendGrid!
SendGrid is used by our Marketing team to send and manage communications to our users. We're using it for transactional and marketing email purpose. It saves our lot of time to configure email providers manually by providing their web tools.
- Sending Emails with Speed
- Easy to get started
- Built-in unsubscribe management
- Manage templates that saves our bandwidth
- Email editor is difficult to get started and not included in free plan
December 09, 2018
An email marketing platform with all the bells and whistles that a small/medium sized business needs
We primarily use SendGrid for our daily newsletter/email offer. It is one user (marketing director) who creates and builds the email. We utilize both the HTML and design templated formats. We require quick and efficient creation and delivery of finished and professional emails every single day of the year and SendGrid helps us accomplish this in a straightforward and easy to use format.
- Easy Template building and editing
- Professional reporting and testing
- Exceeds industry standards
- List/contact management could be improved.
- SPAM testing and rendering capabilities are lacking
- Pricing for mass sending is slightly above average
December 07, 2018
About SendGrid!!
SendGrid is used by our department in the organization. Mainly the usage is for delivering transactional emails via SMTP with an in-house API.
We have multiple application like - an auction platform and incident management, where the application is configured to send information or alert emails to customers.
We have multiple application like - an auction platform and incident management, where the application is configured to send information or alert emails to customers.
- Its very easy to understand
- Easy in configuration
- Budgeted according to requirements
- Better templates
- API availability
- Reports in different sections could be improved.
November 05, 2018
Accuracy is something which SendGrid is made for.
It is being used by my Marketing department primarily. My sales department also gives some input in creating promotional and transactional emails. In my organization I use this application as one of my primary tools for promotional activities of our services. In real estate it is very much required to keep our clients updated about the ongoing offers and news. So this application helps me in doing so.
- Its accuracy is something which I am highly impressed with. The spam percentage is almost negligible.
- Its Drag and Drop feature in Campaign Builder for designing templates is quite easy. Even a person with an non-computer background can use it easily.
- Its segmentation feature is a very effective option for getting good results. In this feature a user can divide email list in multiple segments and send campaigns accordingly. It helps to reduce the un-subscription rate.
- Unavailability to get longer email history on web interface. Users can not get complete history of all the email campaigns on its dashboard.
- Unavailability of its Android application. It is available on iOS but not on Android platform.
- Its paid plans are very expensive for a new or growing business. They should reduce pricing for users who are having small data size.
October 19, 2018
SendGrid - What's great & What isn't
As a business that primarily operates through its website, we used SendGrid's transaction email service quite heavily to communicate with our users. We used the SendGrid API for event triggered emails ranging from verification emails to more sophisticated email dispatches based on user activity.
As far as how it helped us resolve business problems - it's a relatively cheap service and effectively allowed us to adopt the API that adapted to our needs at the time. It's also easy to use in terms of development and definition of email dispatches.
As far as how it helped us resolve business problems - it's a relatively cheap service and effectively allowed us to adopt the API that adapted to our needs at the time. It's also easy to use in terms of development and definition of email dispatches.
- It's cost effective.
- API is easy to use.
- Pay-as-you-go model helps project usage costs.
- Actually viewing previous emails dispatched. SendGrid does not have this feature - although it provides numbers on emails dispatched within 3 days for the cheapest plan.
- The service asks you to pay more (although a minimal amount) to have visibility on email activity upto 30 days in the past.
- The API doesn't allow an export of a report of email activity over a period of time. It can be quite frustrating at times to be limited in this way.
- Their customer support isn't the best. Certainly some room for improvement there.
We use sendGrid emails to send our most important transactional emails.
- Good deliverabilty of emails.
- Amazing customer support.
- Easy to use interface.
- I wish there was an option to see all of the suppressions at once. Currently, I have to click down the list of 7 options which is a little annoying to search for a certain person who may be being supressed but you are not sure which type of suppression that person is under.
- Since sub-users are possible (which is a very nice feature), it would also be nice to be able to have webhooks available for each of the sub-users as well. Currently there is only one central web hook possible per account.
July 29, 2018
SendGrid - Not for everyone.
SendGrid was being used to send emails to users who signed up for newsletters. It was being used by the organization as a whole.
- SendGrid sends emails on time.
- Has email send reporting.
- Lets you customize your emails.
- Analytics
July 29, 2018
Easy to Use! Your Marketing Team Will Love It!
Currently, we utilize SendGrid for outbound emails to our registered candidates. Our business model includes 2 core groups, employers and candidates (B2B & B2C), but are connected in that we send candidates job openings from those employers. SendGrid allows us to do that in a very streamlined way, which helps greatly because our goal is to provide our candidates with the most up-to-date job openings. Our marketing department is the sole user of SendGrid at the moment as our processes are fully interconnected to SendGrid on the B2C side. SendGrid addresses our need to get job openings in front of candidates really at any moment that we would like, which includes both ad-hoc plans and structured plans.
- Ease of Use - SendGrid is really very easy to use, from creation of emails to the actual delivery. This is helpful because in instances where our marketing team members are busy with other projects, an admin like myself can easily come in to assist.
- Statistics - The reporting functionality is great for us too as it gives us insight as to performance of our emails which helps greatly in optimizing.
- Customer Service - The SendGrid team has always been helpful with regards to best practices, new products coming out and answering any questions that we may have.
July 23, 2018
SendGrid ensures our customers get the email notifications they want quickly and reliably
We use SendGrid Transactional Email across several products in our organization. It's used to send billing invoices, payment receipts, and notifications of various events our customers want to know about as they happen.
- SendGrid has an exceptional deliverability record. We never worry about emails making it to our customers' inboxes.
- It can be difficult to best configure SendGrid, especially when setting up dedicated IP addresses and the various DNS entries needed for reliable email delivery. Settings and instructions can be spread throughout multiple pages of the SendGrid web application.
March 30, 2018
Sendgrid is great!
We use Sendgrid on the marketing side to send newsletters, special emails and batch emails. Prior Sendgrid we had some troubles managing our contacts, unsubscribe list and bounces, but with Sendgrid its easier than before.
- The HTML editor is great! A good wysiwyg tool for marketers.
- Sendgrid offers to manage your contacts/Unsubscribe groups which is really handful.
- In the end, it would say that the platform is easy to use and user friendly.
- The price is a obviously a cons for SMBs, but it is true for the competitors.
- There's a lot of features and it can sometimes be hard to find what you're looking for.
We use SendGrid to help prevent email generated by our clients' sites from being flagged as spam.
- We use it for email notifications generated by client websites. Without SendGrid, such email messages often fail to be delivered.
- We use it for sending our clients' e-newsletter email messages. Without SendGrid, such email messages often fail to be delivered.
- SendGrid is very complicated to set up. They offer very limited phone support for setting it up and for adding client email sub-accounts.
- SendGrid seems to have service outages more often than I would have expected.
- The pricing is a little misleading. They have "free" and "inexpensive" plans but you cannot really do much of any use with those plans.
- Technical support is spotty - sometimes they are instantly available and sometimes not.
September 06, 2017
Email delivery that I don't have to think about
[I'm] Using SendGrid to send transactional email, as well as updates and newsletters, for several websites that I control. Not using any of the advanced features of SendGrid, really, beyond their whitelisting, DNS-based security, and such. For the most part, it just works, and I don't have to think about it, which is wonderful. (I spent many years wrestling with mailman and the like; when I first switched to a dedicated SMTP server it was a revelation!)
- Deliverability seems good. Never had any issues here.
- Whitelabeling works well, making it appear that emails are being sent directly from the domain (no evidence of SendGrid anywhere except maybe if you dig into the email source).
- Admin interface is clean and easy to use.
- Prices used to be a little more flexible, starting at $1 and going up according to usage – and that included whitelisting and all that good stuff. Now they start at $10 a month although that does give you up to 40,000 emails a month. They also have a free plan (< 100 emails / day) but I'm not sure if it includes whitelisting.
- Had some issues with the SendGrid API years ago. They probably fixed it, but I've since just used the SMTP endpoint with no issues.
August 31, 2017
Use SendGrid if you want transactional email to look good
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Stadio uses SendGrid Transactional Email not only for its automated sales and customer support outreach, but also for its core product. Stadio clients are provided hardware and software to design and implement a captive Wi-Fi login portal at a brick-n-mortar business where customers input personal data, then see mobile marketing for Wi-Fi access. As soon as the customer receives Wi-Fi access, Stadio uses SendGrid transactional email to automate a personalized email to the customer, curated by the Stadio client.
- SendGrid's template editor is very easy to use with drag-n-drop functionality and great organization among template groups.
- SendGrid customer support is top-notch. We also had onboarding training that was invaluable.
- SendGrid subuser management and co-worker/"teammate" functionality is incredible for our own business.
- SendGrid's template builder could still use some additional features that other email marketing services provide.
- SendGrid should make the "tracking global unsubscribe" formattable so that it doesn't just align to the left.
- SendGrid sometimes glitches and logs us out in-session.
April 25, 2017
Powerful email program that scales
We use SendGrid to send all of our transactional emails for millions of purchases, account notifications, etc., as well as for millions of marketing emails. We use it both as our own email marketing program and to power an automated email marketing software service we sell to our clients. Most of our emails are designed and then implemented to be automatic and dynamic (i.e., we don't use it for custom newsletters and we never use it for cold email campaigns).
- High deliverability rates
- Easy and robust API implementation
- Cost-effective plans for enormous email send
- Pricing can be a double-edged sword -- you can easily underpay for a plan and get hit with big overages, and you can just as easily overpay for a plan you don't need. Paying in advance is a real gamble.
- SendGrid is for more technically proficient users. I would only recommend this program to developers or highly technical email marketers.
- SendGrid doesn't come standard with Drip Email features (at least last time I checked). As far as I know, it's a newer feature and comes at a separate cost. In my opinion, that's a hole in their feature coverage.