Will Anderson

Tony Ferrell

<p>By sending all emails through SendGrid, you can help them end up in an inbox, not a spam folder.<br />
SendGrid provides a high-deliverability email service, protecting your emails from overzealous spam filters.<br />
WP SendGrid uses SendGrid’s API to make sure your site’s emails are delivered.<br />
This helps ensure reliability for plugins that notify subscribers of new posts, verify new user emails, and perform other email-based tasks.</p>
<p>If you do WordPress development on Windows, or are hosting your site on Windows Azure, this plugin is an easy way to make sure your emails can be delivered.<br />
Because Windows doesn’t have a built-in sendmail service, WordPress can’t send emails by default,<br />
but since WP SendGrid routes all emails through the SendGrid API, they will be delivered, even if you’re running on Windows.</p>
<p>To install, enable WP SendGrid like you would any other WordPress plugin. Enter your SendGrid credentials (you’ll need a SendGrid account), and you should be ready to go. If you wish, you can also choose between SendGrid’s REST API and their SMTP servers, and whether to connect to SendGrid using a secure connection.</p>


WP SendGrid

WP SendGrid routes all emails through SendGrid to improve deliverability

Mailchimp

ryanhungate

<p>Join the 17 million customers who use Mailchimp, the world’s largest marketing automation platform, to develop their e-commerce marketing strategy. With the official Mailchimp for WooCommerce integration, your customers and their purchase data are automatically synced with your Mailchimp account, making it easy to send targeted campaigns, automatically follow up with customers post-purchase, recommend products, recover abandoned carts, and measure the ROI of your marketing efforts. And it’s completely free.</p>
<h3>What you can do with this plugin</h3>
<ul>
<li>Sync to your Audience in Mailchimp with purchase data.</li>
<li>Sync new subscribers to your Audience when they create an account and opt-in.</li>
<li>Set up marketing automations to remind customers about items they left in their cart or viewed on your site, win back lapsed customers, and follow up post-purchase. (Now available for free accounts!)</li>
<li>Showcase product recommendations.</li>
<li>Track and segment customers based on purchase history and purchase frequency.</li>
<li>View detailed data on your marketing performance in your Mailchimp Dashboard.</li>
<li>Find new customers, connect with current ones, and drive them all to your website with <a href="https://mailchimp.com/features/facebook-ads/" rel="nofollow ugc">Facebook</a> and <a href="https://mailchimp.com/features/instagram-ads/" rel="nofollow ugc">Instagram</a> ads. Then, set up <a href="https://mailchimp.com/features/google-remarketing-ads/" rel="nofollow ugc">Google remarketing</a> ads to turn your site visitors into shoppers.</li>
<li>Automatically embed a pop-up form that converts your website visitors to subscribers.</li>
<li>Add discount codes created in WooCommerce to your emails and automations with a Promo Code content block</li>
<li>Create beautiful landing pages that make it easy to highlight your products, promote a sale or giveaway, and grow your audience.</li>
<li>This plugin is <a href="https://wpml.org/plugin/mailchimp-for-woocommerce/" rel="nofollow ugc">WPML compatible</a></li>
</ul>
<h3>Important Notes</h3>
<p>This plugin supports our most powerful API 3.0 features, and is intended for users who have not yet integrated their WooCommerce stores with Mailchimp.<br />
You can run this new integration at the same time as your current WooCommerce integration for Mailchimp. However, data from the older integration will display separately in subscriber profiles, and can’t be used with e-commerce features that require API 3.0.<br />
WordPress.com compatibility is limited to Business tier users only.</p>


Mailchimp for WooCommerce

Very basic plugin. If your needs are little, it works fine. But if you want to segment based on orders your customers made, you can only segment on basic things like product purchased, purchase date, store ordered from, etc. You can nog segment on product variations or SKUs.

No support for product variations


Good for me, and I translated in Japanese.


Good


This is the second time this plugin has collapsed my server. The first time was during a sync, and now, after archiving a large contact list in Mailchimp, the plugin started receiving an overwhelming number of requests, maxing out my server's CPU at 100%. This made my website nearly unusable and caused significant downtime.



Take care with this this plugin, it could cause serious performance problems.


Severe Performance Issues – Has collapsed my server twice

Connect your store to your Mailchimp audience to track sales, create targeted emails, send abandoned cart emails, and more.

WP SendGrid vs Mailchimp for WooCommerce