A Developer's Perspective on Sendoso: How I Learned to Stop Uploading CSVs and Love APIs
February 11, 2021
A Developer's Perspective on Sendoso: How I Learned to Stop Uploading CSVs and Love APIs
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Sendoso
Sendoso is used across our Sales and Marketing orgs. My understanding is there are three silos of use cases.
My role is the developer who makes that 3rd use case work. I have code which will pull attendees from Zooms API, push them to a Marketo campaign, this Marketo campaign will then send leads to Sendoso via Webhook to complete the sends.
- Our sales org uses to send one-off gifts to their leads.
- Demand gen marketers pulling lead lists from some other vendor and sending large amounts of gifts for direct mail campaigns.
- Automated gift sends for leads in large scale marketing campaigns that are NOT direct mail. The best example of this is we promise a gift to all leads who attend a webinar and provide us with their address.
My role is the developer who makes that 3rd use case work. I have code which will pull attendees from Zooms API, push them to a Marketo campaign, this Marketo campaign will then send leads to Sendoso via Webhook to complete the sends.
- Gift customization (custom logos, etc).
- Support, chat support is great, AE is also attentive.
- Sendoso has the integrations we need and they work most of the time.
- Data integrity: Analytics page has had incorrect data, leads that were confirmed to have received a gift from us are missing in Analytics. This does seem to have gotten better over the past year.
- Nonsensical UI: Making a config change for a touch requires going all the way through the step-by-step wizard, Marketo integration will be selected but the next part of the form has fields asking for Salesforce info. Sometimes new 'required' fields are added to the touch config, the next time you edit that touch you are force to make a selection on that new field, what about the touches that haven't been edited? Are they just broken? A good example of this is the new 'packaging option.'
- API Standardization: No real rate limiting (we brought down the Sendoso site this past summer when we turned on automation, we then rate limited ourselves to prevent this. Most APIs would handle this itself). Return error codes/reasons are sometime nonsensical (for example, we recently received a rate limit error that lasted for 5 days, even if we sent a single API call, this was recently fixed by Sendoso engineering).
- Without the API and integrations that allow automation and sending at scale we would be spending considerable time manually sending gifts as the volume hovers around 1000 leads a week, just for out automated sends. I think it's fair to say, when working, the API and integrations save use 8 hours a week.
The customization of the gifts. Almost all competitors allow the lead to choose a gift, but having a custom logo on those seems to be limited.
In my two years working with this platform, it's pretty clear that Sendoso is committed to the technical features (APIs, integrations, etc). All of the negative points I mentioned have all gotten better over the past two years. The frequency of issues has been reduced across the board. I don't get a sense of that same commitment to enabling automation and scaling sends from other competitors.
In my two years working with this platform, it's pretty clear that Sendoso is committed to the technical features (APIs, integrations, etc). All of the negative points I mentioned have all gotten better over the past two years. The frequency of issues has been reduced across the board. I don't get a sense of that same commitment to enabling automation and scaling sends from other competitors.
Do you think Sendoso delivers good value for the price?
Yes
Are you happy with Sendoso's feature set?
Yes
Did Sendoso live up to sales and marketing promises?
Yes
Did implementation of Sendoso go as expected?
Yes
Would you buy Sendoso again?
Yes