Website Transactional Email Service

[legendary-jld]

Goals:

• Review options for a transactional email service implementation

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Considerations:

• Base Pricing
• Pricing for expected growth
• Feature and Security values
• Development effort

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Details/Knowledge Transfer:

To better understand the needs of a transactional email service, we can define which emails will be sent transactionally through this implementation.

Website Transactional

• User Profile
  • Initial Signup
  • Password Change Request
  • Security Check (2FA)
• Directory
  • Listing Forms Incomplete Reminder
  • Listing Forms Approval Request (to admin)
  • Listing Forms Approval Notification

Provided by Another Service

• User Newsletter/Campaign Signup
• User Donation Receipt
• Newsletter Emails
• Event Emails
• Campaign/Focused Emails

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Service Providers to Review:

• Brevo
• PostMark
• SendGrid
• Mailgun

[legendary-jld]

Brevo

• Base Pricing:
  • Free for 300 emails per day cap (~9000 emails per month)
• Growth Pricing:
  • $25/mo for 20,000 emails per month (no daily cap)
• Feature and Security values
  • Email Templates
  • Reporting & Analytics
  • SMS & WhatsApp Messaging APIs
• Development effort:
  • LOW

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Postmark

• Base Pricing:
  • Free for 100 emails per month
• Growth Pricing:
  • $33/mo for 20,000 emails per month (no daily cap)
• Feature and Security values
  • Email Templates
  • Reporting & Analytics
  • Webhooks
• Development effort:
  • LOW

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Sendgrid

• Base Pricing:
  • Free for 100 emails per day cap (~3000 emails per month)
• Growth Pricing:
  • $20/mo for 50,000 emails per month (no daily cap)
• Feature and Security values
  • Email Templates
  • Reporting & Analytics
  • Webhooks
• Development effort:
  • LOW

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Mailgun

• Base Pricing:
  • Free TRIAL for 5000 emails for 1 month
• Growth Pricing:
  • $35/mo for 50,000 emails per month (no daily cap)
• Feature and Security values
  • Email Templates
  • Reporting & Analytics
• Development effort:
  • LOW