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Return Path Email Delivery Program Review
July 15, 2014

Return Path Email Delivery Program Review

Dan Sixbury, PMP, MBA | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
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Modules Used

  • Return Path (legacy)

Overall Satisfaction with Return Path

Return Path was used to help ensure that we were white listed with the various ISPs and to ensure that we had a high rate of deliverability with minimal bounce rates. We also used Return Path to proactively manage email delivery.
  • White listing as no other company was able to deliver the same level of white listing and partnership that Return Path was able to offer
  • A single portal that provides access to all of the monitoring and reporting in one place.
  • Technical account managers that can provide point of contact to trouble shoot issues with specific ISPs email delivery issues.
  • There are a number of ISPs that do not partner with Return Path, I think Apple me.com, Gmail, and several others which leaves room for improvement.
  • Although Return Path offers great features, they come at a price, and as our ecommerce site decreased in email requirements, our contracted costs with Return Path continued to stay the same or increase in price.
  • Return Path has helped me enable better email delivery for our global partners e.g. some of our applications that send email to consumers in Australia or Europe.
  • Some of the functions that we utilized with Return Path were proving to be costly based on what the business needs were for us. That is why we cut back on some of the services we utilized.
I used to host and manage email internally. I moved this into the cloud with an ExactTarget email marketing hub to manage all of the email being sent. The plus for Return Path is that the white listing features offered are not offered by other vendors or not to the same degree as Return Path. However, a lot of the delivery functions and reporting with email open rates and bounce rates was replaced with the functionality in ExactTarget.
Some of the important things to know are: Will you manage and control the domain that you are sending email from? How many emails do you plan to send on a monthly basis / annual basis? Will the emails be transactional or marketing in nature? What is the value to the business for emails getting delivered and open by the customer versus if they are sent to a junk email, or not being looked at by your customers?

Using Return Path

We have two separate areas for using Return Path. Our web ecommerce area that is using only transactional emails and a marketing email program that is partnered on the backend with Return Path. I see Return Path continuing to be utilized with our marketing emails, but over time I see less need for our transactional emails to maintain Return Path components.