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We've got about 12,000 people on our announce list. I switched us over to Sendy three months ago. It doesn't have the slick, "just works" appeal of MailChimp,

We've got about 12,000 people on our announce list. I switched us over to Sendy three months ago. It doesn't have the slick, "just works" appeal of MailChimp, but it also doesn't carry the big monthly price tag. We've had the same open and clickthrough rates with Sendy as before, and I haven't encountered any problems getting marked as spam. That said, our entire list is people who actively came to the site and signed up for updates. If price were no object, we'd go back to MailChimp in a heartbeat. But they were charging us $125/month just to keep our mailing list on the service, whether we sent anything that month or not. Just not a good use of funds for us at this stage. Sendy is great at our current size.

cglee 12y ago
Are you sure that's true? Doesn't Mailchimp have a per-per-credit alternative to their recurring monthly pricing?
- elif 12y ago
  yes there is pay-as-you-go and alternatively you can suspend monthly billing.
- detaro 12y ago
  They have, but it would cost the GP $240 per mailing to all 12.000 users (0.02 per mail). 12.000 mails on Amazon SES are only slightly above 1$ (+ Sendy hosting of course). So the question is if Mailchimp offers features that save them 200$ worth of time.
JonoBB 12y ago
We switched to Sendy too, because MailChimp's pricing leaves a lot to be desired. We have a list of about 10k subscribers, and we only send a campaign every 2-3 months. I have no idea why this is priced way higher than someone with 1k subscribers would sends 4 campaigns a month. Sendy has worked perfectly for us. The UI could do with a lot of love, but its functionally fine.
- epa 12y ago
  Think of a bank - you may pay to have a business bank account. An account with $10K that does 1 transaction every 2-3 months, vs An account with $1K that does 4 transactions every month. There is no real difference in cost to the transactions themselves (to an extent, and in this example). You are willing to pay to have the ability to transact, regardless of the size. The whole point here is that your 10K is more valuable than their 1K, therefore you would in theory pay more to have the ability to transact (regardless of # of transactions). I agree though - its gouging for no reason.
- jhammer 12y ago
  I am obviously biased [1], but if you want a nicer (native) UI than Sendy, you might want to check out our app Direct Mail: http://directmailmac.com http://directmailmac.com It has a built-in delivery service, but can also plug into SES or any other SMTP service for a one-time fee. [1] I am a developer of the aforementioned app
  - jaysonelliot 12y ago
    Looks nice, but it's even more expensive than Mailchimp unless you have your own mail server.

cglee 12y ago

Are you sure that's true? Doesn't Mailchimp have a per-per-credit alternative to their recurring monthly pricing?

elif 12y ago
yes there is pay-as-you-go and alternatively you can suspend monthly billing.
detaro 12y ago
They have, but it would cost the GP $240 per mailing to all 12.000 users (0.02 per mail). 12.000 mails on Amazon SES are only slightly above 1$ (+ Sendy hosting of course). So the question is if Mailchimp offers features that save them 200$ worth of time.

JonoBB 12y ago

We switched to Sendy too, because MailChimp's pricing leaves a lot to be desired. We have a list of about 10k subscribers, and we only send a campaign every 2-3 months. I have no idea why this is priced way higher than someone with 1k subscribers would sends 4 campaigns a month. Sendy has worked perfectly for us. The UI could do with a lot of love, but its functionally fine.

epa 12y ago
Think of a bank - you may pay to have a business bank account. An account with $10K that does 1 transaction every 2-3 months, vs An account with $1K that does 4 transactions every month. There is no real difference in cost to the transactions themselves (to an extent, and in this example). You are willing to pay to have the ability to transact, regardless of the size. The whole point here is that your 10K is more valuable than their 1K, therefore you would in theory pay more to have the ability to transact (regardless of # of transactions). I agree though - its gouging for no reason.
jhammer 12y ago
I am obviously biased [1], but if you want a nicer (native) UI than Sendy, you might want to check out our app Direct Mail: http://directmailmac.com http://directmailmac.com It has a built-in delivery service, but can also plug into SES or any other SMTP service for a one-time fee. [1] I am a developer of the aforementioned app
- jaysonelliot 12y ago
  Looks nice, but it's even more expensive than Mailchimp unless you have your own mail server.