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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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| Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
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| Operating Systems | Unspecified |
| Mobile Application | No |
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Reviewers rate URL Validation and Inbox Display and Spam Testing highest, with a score of 9.3.
The most common users of Twilio SendGrid are from Small Businesses (1-50 employees).
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August 28, 2023
In my experience, Unbelievable incompetent support and systems are brokan in multiple places
Score 1 out of 10
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Verified User
Marketing email campaigns - sending to over 40,000 customers
- To me, their spam testers seem good
- and drag and drop editors
- flexibility with custom fields etc
- In my opinion, their support is terrible
- I think their systems are broken in multiple places ( especially around support )
We use Sendgrid to send high-volume email marketing campaigns that are automated in nature. Its reports and analytics help us keep track of deliverability and email performance. Its template library is a widely used feature in my organization.
We chose Sendgrid in place of Mailchimp because of the robust reporting and the integrations it offers. Needless to say, it offers one of the best data security in the market.
We chose Sendgrid in place of Mailchimp because of the robust reporting and the integrations it offers. Needless to say, it offers one of the best data security in the market.
- Helps send bulk emails with good deliverability rates
- Robust analytics and data reporting
- Mobile and desktop friendly
- The UI can be improved and made more user friendly for the beginners
- The slab based pricing and the features associated can be improved. Basic plan doesn't have a lot of key features.
- Detailed product documentation will be really helpful
We use Twilio SendGrid for transactional email delivery on our SaaS platform, in particular, we use it as an external SMTP relay from the Google Cloud Platform architecture. Our web-based application sends out notifications, for instance, when a particular document or news article is updated or when a course is completed and we then use the SendGrid API to send that notification out to each user's email address. The great thing is that we can use it as a single-pane view of all emails sent from our platform, so that we can track any issues with delivery to an email, as well as any potential problems with the reputation of our SendGrid relay.
- Transactional Email
- Easy to administrate
- Logging and auditing
- Clear error messages for our team when investigating missing emails
- Limitation on number of API keys/sub-users
October 20, 2022
Your go to email marketing platform.
We’ve been using SendGrid to run email marketing campaigns and validation of lists. Sendgrid has helped us reduce the time for creating and scheduling of campaigns, and we can easily track clicks, opt-in, and remove unsubscribes from the list. The feature of adding our own unsubscribe links makes this product stand out from others in similar spaces.
- Allows to add own unsubscribe link.
- Easy scheduling of campaigns.
- User friendly dashboard and processes.
- If it can allow or increase monthly sends.
October 20, 2022
Really easy to use and integrate with other tools.
I have used Sendgrid since before Twilio purchased the business to send transactional emails to customers. We used it for welcome emails, password reset emails, MFA tokens, and general notifications. I've used Sendgrid in quite a few organizations - it's extremely easy to use and offers you the ability to connect through API or via SMTP, so it's really flexible.
- Multiple connection options - API and SMTP.
- Really easy to use.
- Excellent documentation.
- UI is very user friendly.
- Integrated billing with Twilio.
Score 1 out of 10
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Verified User
My organization has been using SendGrid to cover a variety of uses. We have controlled and managed several hundred accounts, including our own, over the past several years. Personally, my experience goes back even further. Internal use: SMTP relaying for our eCommerce website (order notifications, shipping, password resets, etc...), internal systems (e.g. to send our engineering team alerts), and customer support (largely automated customer satisfaction surveys and ticket closure emails). Internal use: Email marketing to our existing customers, on a monthly basis. Client use: SMTP relaying to support our several hundred clients that needed reliable SMTP relaying for their own LOB applications SaaS use: Email API. We built and maintain a large enterprise SaaS platform that used SendGrid to send a significant amount of transactional emails to our users.
- Decent API documentation
- Offers free tier - easier buy-in for SMB clients
- Customer service
- Fraud management
- Billing & invoicing transparency
February 14, 2022
Do We Have an Account Or Not
Score 3 out of 10
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Verified User
The first time we applied for an account we were denied. Monica R reported to us that we broke their terms based on the emails we were sending out. How can a company send out emails if the applied company never sent out any emails due to not having an account? We went over to Twilio and spoke to a very nice lady who was going to speak to the manager who never showed up to address the issue. We just want an account. We ask the customer service to send us all the emails we sent out to justify the reasoning. Not one of the 6 cs we have emailed with is returning emails. We are with Click Funnels and just want to move forward.
- Skirt questions to different customer service people
- I guess that SendGrid is ok, IMS account was stopped due to the type of emails being sent out - though zero emails were sent out that we are aware of.
- Not even the managers are mindful of what their customer service is doing.
- Customer Service
- When a business representative goes to Twilio SendGrid office at least one manager should be there
- Have you customer service not give false information
September 28, 2021
SendGrid is a hands-off solution for email list delivery
I use it with ClickFunnels. They don’t have their own mail servers to use for bulk sending to a full email list. They require an outside service to send this way and SendGrid was the option they recommended. I wanted the most affordable solution and this seemed to be it.
- Send bulk email
- Hits inboxes
- Doesn’t have down time
- I haven’t spent much time on the site but the time I did spend seemed confusing.
- Can’t think of anything else.
- No more ideas for improvement.
We use Twilio SendGrid in various ways and with several clients at Obra. One of the uses is focused on registering newsletters so that we can later send marketing emails to these email bases. Another use is the SMTP system, where we integrate the client's website so that it allows the sending of email from systems such as WordPress and websites in react.js
- Great API integration
- SMTP send made easy
- Lists creation very useful and easy
- Email marketing scheduling
- API key creation
- SMTP api
May 25, 2021
Great Value and Powerful Email Marketing
We use Twilio SendGrid to build and send marketing emails. We use their API endpoints to automate a range of emails for various parts of our customer journey. We also integrate the Twilio SendGrid API into a reporting dashboard which helps us monitor our email marketing performance and formulate a strategy going forward.
- Easy to use email builder
- Easy to schedule email campaigns
- API is flexible and easy to integrate with other systems
- Sometimes animated GIF's do not load
- Occasional formatting issues
May 17, 2021
Good, but requires patience
We use both SendGrid marketing and transactional emails for a project we're helping to promote. It is a convenient tool for communicating with your clients and/or users regarding the account setup and other things, but also to send digests and updates (since the database is the same). It is mainly being used by me and a couple of my colleagues.
Our developers also have said that it is a convenient tool for them to integrate with.
Our developers also have said that it is a convenient tool for them to integrate with.
- Integrating with websites and mobile applications (registration, account activation, etc.) in terms of transactional emails
- Sending (and scheduling) marketing emails
- The prices are quite affordable as well (compared to other market leaders in email marketing)
- The unsubscribing and cleaning the lists is a pain. You need to use a special tool to collect all your bounced, reported, unsubscribed, blocked, and invalid emails and then you create a separate list with them to delete it (along with all the emails that match the ones in the list)... Can we make it a bit simpler?
- When you're creating/editing a marketing email, if you get into HTML code, it ceases to be a nice text WYSIWYG block and instead, you have to edit it ONLY in HTML from now on :( If I want to clear the trash in the code, it doesn't mean I want to switch to code-only.
- Perhaps it's Chrome, but the layout is buggy. For example, when I edit a marketing email and I scroll down the email, the part of the screen that has the tools for editing the text is covered by the text of my email.
February 22, 2021
SendGrid is HORRIBLE!
Score 1 out of 10
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Verified User
We used SendGrid for transactional emails.
- Nothing.
- Horrible customer service.
- Their platform doesn't even work.
- Transactional emails don't even get sent to users.
December 09, 2020
Sendgrid sends 50,000 e-mails AFTER promotion ended, EVERY time. No support & no refund
Score 1 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
SENDGRID DELIVER[ED] E-MAILS TO 50,000 SUBSCRIBERS *AFTER* THE PROMOTION ENDED. Not once, not twice, but EVERY SINGLE TIME. We got HUNDREDS of customers complaining they received the mail AFTER the promotion campaign ended so they couldn't use the coupon code. Sendgrid refuses to refund and doesn't care about their customers.
SENDGRID IP ARE ALREADY BLACKLISTED. Vast majority of e-mails ends up in the spam folder because SendGrid IP are flagged as spammer (their fault not mine). Because SendGrid IPs are already blacklisted it defeats the purpose of using SendGrid instead of your own mail server. Here's a screenshot of SendGrid customer support explaining their IP[s] are blacklisted: http://prntscr.com/vvftmx
NO REFUND - SENDGRID DOESN'T CARE. They will NOT refund your money even if their service failed due to their own incompetence. They even charged us excess fee of $60 and we never got refunded. Takes many days to get a reply from customer support.
SENDGRID KEEP[S] STEALING YOUR MONEY AFTER CANCELLING YOUR ACCOUNT. We finally had enough of SendGrid's unreliable service and closed our account. But SendGrid kept charging our credit card [for] 2 months. We had to contact them again twice to get the refund for the money they stole from us.
SendGrid is the only one to blame here. We don't send spam- our domain has very good reputation, we send only 4 e-mails per year, SPF/DKIM/DMARC is correctly configured, etc. The only mistake we [made] was trusting SendGrid. Don't do the same mistake we did.
I strongly recommend to NOT use SendGrid if you care about your customers. There is not a single valid reason to use SendGrid because their IPs are blacklisted and their service is unreliable. Trust me it will be a disaster for your business if you go with SendGrid, you will learn it the hard way. There are tons of reviews like mine all over the web.
- Sendgrid misleads customers.
- Sendgrid is very unreliable.
- Sendgrid is good at stealing your money.
- 50,000 e-mails delivered AFTER the campaign ended, every single time.
- Overcharges and no refund.
- Sendgrid IPs are already blacklisted.
November 11, 2020
troublesome product, terrible customer service
Score 1 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
I tried to send out an email campaign.
- nothing
- nothing
- nothing
- Emails are automatically center-aligned, unchangeable
- Emails go to "promotions folder". Even after you are upsold to high-tier dedicated IP
- Customer service is glacially slow. It's been a month and my concerns are still not resolved.
June 19, 2020
Our Account Was Compromised and It's Been SEVEN Days (and Counting) Waiting on SendGrid's Non-Existent Support
Score 1 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We use SendGrid for all our transactional emails from our websites and through several applications we use for our clients. It solves issues for deliverability and inboxing emails.
- Deliverability.
- Customer support.
January 20, 2020
Bringing Marketing and Engineering teams onto the same platform.
We use Twilio SendGrid Marketing Campaigns on the platform side to send automated emails as well as in the marketing team to send out newsletters and other communication to the customers. Hence it is used by the engineering team and marketing team. One of the main business problems it addresses is that it provides flexibility for the engineering team to swap emails easily.
- Manages to keep emails away from spam.
- Reports are good but can be better.
- UI can be improved.
- Learning curve and can become overwhelming.
January 15, 2020
SendGrid enables YU’s to do business -- period
We use SendGrid for our newsletters, for our sales funnel, and for the automated thank-you messages post-purchase.
We’ve found SendGrid to be more flexible than other solutions that we’ve tried, and the support is awesome when you do have a problem. I cannot see us changing providers. Even when they updated the system, they left all the old menus in place, so there was a choice on whether to use the improvements or not -- and there's no downtime while learning the new layout.
- Integrating with other systems is easy.
- Campaigns are intuitive, even for people with no design skills.
- I got frustrated bringing old data across, and with the way GDPR was handled.
- I find removing records to be a bit clunky.
January 14, 2020
SendGrid is an invaluable tool that we use daily for marketing programs for our clients
We use SendGrid primarily in conjunction with ClickFunnels to fulfill all of our emails. ClickFunnels doesn't have the ability within to actually send, so this is a very economical and dependable solution.
- Integrates with other systems, such as ClickFunnels.
- Builder is super easy to use and send emails directly from the system.
- In reporting, would like to see actual users that click/opened emails.
December 23, 2019
A decent tool for mass communication.
My organization use this software for various purposes which includes information sharing, marketing, newsletters, etc. In my department I use this software for sending weekly newsletters to a specific group of people and clients. This software provides me all the necessary tools to create a newsletter full of information and creativity.
- It has a very comprehensive dashboard which makes my work very easy.
- It allows me to schedule my email campaigns.
- It does not have many pre-loaded email templates.
- It does not have a mobile app for Android.
December 04, 2019
Twilio SendGrid Rocks
I use Twilio SendGrid to reach more people with my newsletters and email campaigns. My entire team uses it across the whole organization as it integrates seamlessly with PCR, our CRM package for recruiting. With it, I can track marketing campaigns and watch activities to guide future efforts. The tracking ability makes clean up of my database very easy.
- Schedules email delivery to not trigger spam filters.
- Tracks activity from individuals that receive my emails.
- Builds history of interactions and efforts.
- Historical tracking and activity monitors.
- Auto-fixing of wrong email addresses in my database or at least notification.
- Provide input of key activity to assist in marketing efforts.
November 25, 2019
Email API Solution - Easy Implementation
We manage many client websites and we have found that Twilio SendGrid is vital for Email API integration to make sure that website forms are delivered to the correct client emails and not sent to the spam folder or blocked by firewalls. Many website forms get pulled as spam and that blocks the client from getting the contact and potentially losing a sale.
- Email facilitation.
- Seamless integration.
- Easy setup.
- All good, I have no issues.
November 22, 2019
Reliable and Easy to Setup Transactional Email API
We use the Twilio SendGrid Email API for sending transactional emails from our Rails web apps. Twilio SendGrid Email API's infrastructure provides us worry-free, scalable delivery and can be set up with minimal configuration.
We provision Twilio SendGrid Email API as an addon for apps hosted with Heroku, as well as use it for web apps that are hosted elsewhere. The setup is so straightforward that a developer can implement it almost immediately, without having to read deep into documentation.
We provision Twilio SendGrid Email API as an addon for apps hosted with Heroku, as well as use it for web apps that are hosted elsewhere. The setup is so straightforward that a developer can implement it almost immediately, without having to read deep into documentation.
- Easy implementation for developers.
- Reliable transactional email delivery for apps and services.
- Reporting and analytics on emails sent.
- Personalized service may not be as readily available for smaller businesses. If you have questions about deliverability and reputation management, you may have to learn some more of this on your own, unless you are a big customer.
November 16, 2019
A Powerful Marketing Tool
Sendgrid has been amazing to help our marketing team prepare and deliver company emails and newsletters to our customers. They have been able to support us to make sure we don't get flagged as spam and continue to support different campaigns during different times.
- Powerful.
- Easy to use.
- Top of their game.
- I don't have any suggestions.
November 10, 2019
Twilio SendGrid Product Review: Hope it helps!
We use Twilio SendGrid API primarily for our Marketing department but regularly use it for Product, Customer Care, and Data team-specific campaigns, allowing us to drive important company KPI's and get direct from consumer feedback. The platform solves a major business needs which is sending email messages to our audience as well as SMS but to a lesser degree.
- Makes setting up your initial account pretty simple and straight forward. You can get set up with a single list and unsub group and get going really quickly.
- You can grow your complexity over time and SendGrid is set up really well to handle that expansion. Setting up DNS, expanding IP addresses, grouping unsubs, etc. It scales really well as your business and team grow.
- I'm a huge fan of the API delivery which lets us set up a lot of automated actions which lets us focus more on testing and optimizing making even a lean team a super powerful team.
- The UX isn't as intuitive as other systems and it takes some getting used to the navigation. Additionally, they're adding a lot of new features, so finding the features you're used to while figuring out the new products can lead to some confusion.
- The documentation while expansive doesn't provide a lot of real-world use cases to help navigate through an issue. It can be a bit general, leaving you with just as many questions as you started with.
- They don't have as many features as you'd find in some marketing cloud solutions which may have additional features. While SendGrid is making strides in this department they're not quite there yet but most likely will be more comparable very soon.
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.