Send With SES - The Mailchimp Alternative
Send With SES lets you send Emails, SMS, and Push Notifications to your customers.
Mailchimp only lets you send emails.
Sending 100,000 emails to 50,000 contacts will cost you:
With Send With SES: US$ 30/month
With Mailchimp: US$ 259/month
Send With SES saves you time and money when compared to Mailchimp.
Mailchimp has a free plan which acts as a bait for first time users. Once your contact/subscriber list crosses 2,000 you recognize you are hostage to a very expensive software.
Mailchimp and many other Email Service Providers (ESPs) charge for the number of contacts you store. Let's say you have as few as 5,000 contacts. Mailchimp charges $50 for storing 5,000 contacts. You pay this fee even if you don't send any emails. Mailchimp offers the myth of unlimited emails. Knock this into your head -- if you send more than 2-3 emails every month to each of your subscribers, very soon you will have no subscribers. They're going to unsubscribe. Nobody likes receiving too many emails -- even if they love your product/service.
By contrast Send With SES does not charge for the number of contacts you have. You pay nothing if you send out less than 3,000 emails every month. Sending 100,000 emails with Send With SES will cost you $30.6 (includes Send With SES charges of $15).
Send With SES will always be a lot less expensive than Mailchimp (or any other email software). See the Total Cost Estimator.
A Mailchimp Alternative Built On AWS SES
Mailchimp is no longer available for Shopify for reasons they have explained here.
Send With SES is an efficient alternative to use for your Shopify Store. You can read more in this article.
Send With SES is the Mailchimp alternative for Shopify
Send With SES comes with all the features you would expect from any enterprise email service provider - minus the high cost.
- Signup. Create AWS Role.
- Add DNS entries. Good to go.
- Tag based contact management with advanced filters.
- Email collection popup - integrate with your web app with one line of code.
- Double opt-ins and unsubscribe management.
- Realtime delivery stats including link level click tracking.
- Active and heuristic SPAM control.
- Stand on the Giants Shoulders. Top level message deliverability - your messages are actually delivered by AWS.
- Compose and send messages manually or via the API.
- Automations (coming soon).
- Easiest newsletter designer EVER.
- No charges based on number of subscribers/contacts you have.
- Yes. There's a generous FREE PLAN.
- All plans (including the FREE PLAN) include all features.
Send With SES Features
Generous FREE Plan
Store unlimited contacts/subscribers
All plans include all features
Tag based contact management with advanced filters
Send messages manually or via API
Real time delivery stats and link level click tracking
Email collection popup
Easiest newsletter designer EVER
