MailPoet – Newsletters, Email Marketing, and Automation

Kanon

MailPoet helped me tremendously in resolving the issue where the send button was unavailable. After I created an account for them, they investigated the matter, identified the problem, and fixed it. Great work.

Mailpoet is the best balance of ESSENTIAL free features, a simple experience, and really easy integration with Jetpack CRM and other tools. Everything a small business or freelancer could need.

As a little guy, I can’t afford to pay for SAAS (on top of hosting and all my other costs) to send basic emails thru my own server (ie: DIY folks don’t need to use Mailpoet’s servers). Setup with SMTP plugins was a breeze; it just worked. (In my case I used FluentSMTP cause it was simple).

I tested around half a dozen of the newsletter plugins. Most are kneecapped in tedious ways by paywalls, they limit how long your list can be, or other arbitrary limits that don’t really have any relation to how much you use the product.

Many use pre-gutenberg page builders that are clunky or basic WYSIWYG & code editors. Mailpoet uses a page builder (which is very easy) but is moving in the direction of deep integration with the Block Editor in their alpha email editor. Anyone building block themes totally in FSE/Gutenberg will rejoice.

MAILPOET TEAM: You’re doing everything right. Congrats and thank you from the little guy. Thank you for understanding the balance between not limiting DIY open-source culture VS your paying customers who need your servers and pay for what they use

• This topic was modified 1 month, 1 week ago by James Monroe.
• This topic was modified 1 month, 1 week ago by James Monroe.

Even the free version is great with reasonable and friendly limits!

I’m really enjoying MailPoet. I’ve used both Constant Contact and MailChimp, and while I don’t strongly dislike either one, my workflow is so much easier with MailPoet, since I can quickly and easily go between communication to my list and my website – I especially love that media items are shared with my website. The integration within WordPress feels pretty seamless to me. It was also pretty easy to set up and do my DNS edits with SiteGround (where I have my hosting). I had a really fun time setting up the custom web pages and automated subscription emails. This part was particularly enjoyable since it is all hosted on my website – and I really appreciated how easy it was to customize the automated process so that people who subscribe will receive a process that feels “on brand” for me. It was easy to create forms and add them to my website and I love that I only need one login and I don’t have to share out passwords with other people who are using it, since they access it with their WordPress login. That’s a whole lot better than having a single login that everybody in the organization has to share and then dealing with “did you get the 6 digit code in your text?” And “Who is getting the verification code?” The design process is pretty straight forward and easy to learn and feels a bit less glitchy than some of the other providers I have used. Lastly, I had an account issue and reached out for support and heard back from the AI within seconds and I got a thorough and easily actionable response that was worded in every day English, and easy to understand and completely solved my issue. I realize that not every tool is good for every person, but as long as MailPoet keeps their pricing in a range that is within reach for normal people, this will be my new favorite plugin. On that particular note, I appreciate that they have a free version for up to 500 subscribers. That feels very realistic for me – that it gives me breathing room while I build my business, and then when my business hits a level that is sustainable, I will be happy to pay for an annual plan that doesn’t blow my budget (glaring pointedly at MailChimp and Constant Contact).