Hi Robert,
Thanks for your feedback. MailChimp is actually free: https://mailchimp.com/pricing/ and you can send up to 12 000 Abandoned Cart emails each month + have 2000 subscribers.
For now MailChimp is one of the most used marketing tool that allows automated and beautiful recovery email delivery to clients that is the reason we went with integrating it.
When first starting to work on an idea of sending out automaed Abandoned Cart recovery emails we had 2 choices:
a) create our own solution to send out emails directly from WordPRess plugin
b) integrating with a professional email marketing system
We went with the second one since I have always thought that everyone should do what they know the best and are professionals at. MailChimp clearly are professionals in delivering bulletproof emails with minimal failure rates of email ending in spam. It also offers mobile friendly / responsive emails, easy email design interface and many more great features that for us to properly develop and test would take years.
That is the main reason behind our choice of MailChimp right now 🙂
Hi @streamlinestar
Thanks for your detailed reply.
I am aware that most of the email service providers provide limited quota for subscribers and emails and that is also why I suggest using API instead of integrate with specific one provider.
2000 subscribers in total is obviously too less. Some other providers have higher numbers and much lower monthly fee.
This provider for example is a good option. Thanks you.
https://elasticemail.com
Hi @robert1112,
Let me tell you a small secret.
Abandoned Cart emails are considered as transactional emails therefore they are not accounted as subscribers.
They will become subscribers only if the user who receives the reminder email about his Abandoned Carts clicks on “Subscribe” link in the email and that usually happens rarely therefore reaching that 2000 user limit is quite hard and even if you do reach that you can always delete them all and continue sending out automated Abandoned Cart recovery emails via MailChimp.
Hi @streamlinestar
I understand. The customer will become subscriber after they purchase from website. Either they are recovered from your plugin or not, so 2000 is not so hard to reach in a long time span. Just my 2 cents. If I misunderstand, pls Kindly point out. Thank you very much.
Actually it is not quite so.
If a customer purchases the product from your store or purchases it from Abandoned Cart recovery email he is not added to MailChimp subscribers list using our plugin.
Our plugin uses MailChimp in order to send out Abandoned Carts and that is it. The email will be added to subscribers only in the case I mentioned above.
However if you already are using some other MailChimp plugin on your website then you should simply disable it since our solution does not require any additional MailChimp plugin installations.
Let me know if this makes sense.
Hi @streamlinestar
Oh I see. I can use other mail plugin to collect and maintain user list and use mailchimp to send recovery emails only.
Thanks.
That’s exactly how we have planned this @robert1112
That way even those who are not fans subscribing to monthly MailChimp plans can use our product to send automated Abandoned Cart recovery emails with hard to reach limitations.
For other marketing and subscriber activities you can then use any other solution that is more fit for your business.
Best regards
