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Transactional vs Marketing Emails: Why You Need Unified Infrastructure

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The Two Worlds of Email

Historically, companies have had to maintain two separate relationships for email:

  • Transactional (API): Services like SendGrid (API) or Postmark for password resets, order confirmations, and notifications.
  • Marketing (Dashboard): Services like Mailchimp or HubSpot for newsletters and product announcements.

The Problem with Fragmentation

This split creates several problems:

  1. Data Silos: Your marketing team doesn't know that a user just received a "Password Reset" email 5 minutes ago, so they blast them with a newsletter, annoying the user.
  2. Branding Inconsistency: Transactional emails are often hard-coded HTML by developers, while marketing emails use a drag-and-drop builder. They often look like they came from different companies.
  3. Double Costs: You are paying two separate subscriptions, often with overlapping contact lists.

The Unified Approach

SendMailOS creates a unified layer. We provide:

  • A Robust API for your developers to send transactional emails with high deliverability.
  • A Visual Builder for your marketing team to design beautiful newsletters.

But the magic is that they share the same infrastructure. Your marketers can design a "Welcome Email" in the visual editor, and your developers can trigger that exact email via API call: await mailflow.send('welcome-template', user.email).

Better Analytics

With a unified platform, you get a single timeline of every interaction a user has had with your company. Did they click the password reset? Did they open the newsletter? It's all in one place.