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Marketing founded 2013

Drip

Ecommerce marketing automation with behavior-based segmentation.

overview

Drip is built for ecommerce lifecycle marketing: storefront integrations, dynamic segments, onsite campaigns, automations, and product-triggered personalization. It can serve non-ecommerce teams, but the deepest value comes from online-store events and revenue reporting.

for growth and lifecycle teams

Growth work lives or dies on targeting and measurement. What matters is whether behavioral triggers can be built without engineering time, whether the event stream supports attribution past the open, and whether deliverability holds when broadcast volume shares a reputation with product email.

Against behavior-triggered journeys, broadcasts, and winback campaigns measured on revenue, Drip covers scheduling, event stream, the suppressions API, and multi-tenant support, and does not cover operating track record. Whether that gap matters depends on how central those are to the build.

  • Scheduling: Yes
  • Event stream: Yes
  • Deliverability: Marketing automation sender, strongest for opted-in ecommerce lists with healthy engagement and clean consent.
  • Operating since: 2013
  • Suppressions API: Yes
  • Best published rate per 1,000: Tiers not published in comparable form
  • Multi-tenant: Yes
  • Free tier: 14-day free trial, no credit card required
  • Starts at: $39/mo for 1 to 2,500 people
deliverability

Marketing automation sender, strongest for opted-in ecommerce lists with healthy engagement and clean consent.

best for

Ecommerce startups and stores that need behavior-triggered campaigns tied to purchase data.

not great for

Developer-led SaaS teams looking for transactional plus lifecycle in one product.

pros
  • Ecommerce workflows and revenue-oriented segmentation
  • Unlimited email sends on the published entry plan
  • Unlimited sub-accounts are included
  • Open API access is listed on the entry plan
cons
  • Less natural for B2B SaaS than Loops, Userlist, or Customer.io
  • No permanent free plan
  • Pricing scales with active people and monthly send volume

Features at a glance

API Yes
SMTP No
SDKs None
Webhooks Yes
Templates rich
React Email No
Batch send Yes
Scheduled send Yes
Suppressions Yes
Multi-tenant Yes
Inbound parsing No
Event stream Yes
Idempotency keys No
Dedicated IP No

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