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What do you like best about SocketLabs?

This is a platform that allows you to send emails from your application. It provides you with several functions and tools to make it a good option for outgoing mail in addition to a clean and organized interface to navigate without problems, it is easy to configure and use it, our team has a more fluid and constant work, daily we save a lot of time that we channel in other areas. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SocketLabs?

We have not presented problems, our experience has been satisfactory. However, if it had a mobile application it would go a long way to monitor the board from a remote location and thus increase user performance within the platform.

You can improve the servers in order to protect the system and also offer higher performance in order to analyze data more optimally. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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This is a great solution for sending email, we can see the metrics and statistics that they provide in detail. We also granulate reports that allow our work team to save a lot of time and maintain work fluency, thus achieving the objectives set in an easier way. Totally recommended. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is SocketLabs solving and how is that benefiting you?

We use this application to send tons of emails through the platform, without any problem and with greater efficiency. Our work team was able to extract statistics from their API to create new and ideal dashboards for our clients to measure the performance of their campaigns. Its configuration is simple when we send emails allows us to save a lot of time to the whole team and save a lot of time, this means we have better results in less time/ Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

SocketLabs Overview

What is SocketLabs?

SocketLabs is a complete email solution, including both flexible and reliable email delivery and email performance reporting tools. SocketLabs Email allows senders to use either SMTP or API sending mechanisms, Cloud or on-premises servers, and a suite of reporting features, including our proprietary StreamScore, to improve email performance. SocketLabs Spotlight reporting is a new, robust platform with an account-level sending overview so senders can see all of their email activity, then multiple layers of deeper analysis like detailed StreamScore breakdowns, tailored next-step guidance, and up to 13 months of data storage to analyze and monitor performance trends. One email or millions, we give you the reliability, insights, and expert support you need to feel confident your email is in good hands. We have 99.999% uptime and adhere to the highest levels of safety and security standards.

SocketLabs Details
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Product Description

Cloud-based SMTP relay service provides easy, reliable delivery for marketing and transactional email applications.

How do you position yourself against your competitors?

At SocketLabs we run our own custom infrastructure based on our world-class Hurricane MTA Server technology. That means that we can adapt and change with our customers to provide them with the best email delivery experience. We aren't reliant on external vendors to make critical updates to their software and hardware in order to support the latest email delivery techniques.

Our staff has well over 20 years of experience helping companies deliver bulk marketing and transactional email. No other vendor on the market provides the level of email expertise and support that SocketLabs customers have come to know.


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2007
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Zack P.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Email Marketing Game Changer!"
Our company has been using SocketLabs since 2012. It didn't take long for us to determine SocketLabs is one of the best solutions for sending email...
Andrey K.
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Andrey K.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
0.0 out of 5
"Terrible experience and wasted time"
The setup and configuration process was straightforward
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4.5 out of 5
"Great product, easy to use!"
The ease of management. I am able to manage the services with the admin portal with ease setup new servers for campaigns and adjust them on the fl...
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SocketLabs Media

SocketLabs Demo - SocketLabs Email
Flexible API allows for the most common coding languages for your email, your way.
SocketLabs Demo - SocketLabs Spotlight Reporting
SocketLabs Spotlight is a complete email reporting solution with an account-level dashboard, in-depth reputation analysis, tailored guidance for clear next steps, and up to 13 months of contextual data.
SocketLabs Demo - SocketLabs StreamScore
Get a color-coded sender reputation score based on more than 35 internal and external data points for an at-a-glance understanding of your email health.
SocketLabs Demo - Unrivaled Support
SocketLabs has a team of email experts with combined decades of experience available to assist users when in need.
SocketLabs Demo - SocketLabs Security
At SocketLabs, security is our top concern. That why we implement and support all necessary environmental controls and regulations to protect the integrity of our information systems. We are SOC 2 Type 2 Certified and compliant with all relevant legislation.
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What do you like best about SocketLabs?

The ease of management. I am able to manage the services with the admin portal with ease setup new servers for campaigns and adjust them on the fly to support our different initiatives. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SocketLabs?

So far there really hasn't been much for us to dislike. The product fits our needs and has for the last 7 years. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering SocketLabs:

Great product! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is SocketLabs solving and how is that benefiting you?

One if the main uses for us it to send emails to our clients and track results. Offloads responsibility of supporting an internal email service and addresses email spam rules. Also helps us track opt out request and complaints. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Andrey K.
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What do you like best about SocketLabs?

The setup and configuration process was straightforward Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SocketLabs?

They disabled my account without any warning Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering SocketLabs:

Stay from this company, only headaches await you especially if you need to deal with their support. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is SocketLabs solving and how is that benefiting you?

Sending transactions emails, something that should have been a simple job turned out to be a nightmare Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from David Mozeleski of SocketLabs

Thank you for your feedback. We understand that account suspension and termination can be disappointing.

Please know we must take violations of our Acceptable Use Policy very seriously for the safety of all customers. Our Compliance Team was in direct communication with you and noted the reasons for the suspension and eventual termination.

Please view our AUP: https://www.socketlabs.com/legal/aup/

Verified User in Hospital & Health Care
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What do you like best about SocketLabs?

Very Reliable service and Support is always responsive Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SocketLabs?

- Reports need to be more detailed, need to show the interaction with host and sending sites, to show delivery and failures in realtime

- Lack of ability to have multiple SMTP credentials - This is imperative if there is a breach or just need to temporarily use a different login, then giving out your main credentials. It would be nice to have a credential for every process we do. Again if there is a breach of some kind, we can just shut down that process and not have to remember and fish for all the procedures we used for one login. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is SocketLabs solving and how is that benefiting you?

Having a reliable SMTP relay for important notifications coming from multiple production servers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about SocketLabs?

This is the most complete and reliable email delivery solution for pros. It has a delivery API, as well as google email marketing apps for mailing campaigns (blasts) and autoresponders.

The best? They don't limit the subscribers for your marketing email lists. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SocketLabs?

The UI is not as pretty as SendGrid. But who cares? You got far more functions and technical options. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is SocketLabs solving and how is that benefiting you?

- Transactional email API.

- Email marketing campaign blasts.

- Drip email campaigns (autoresponders). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Kevin M.
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What do you like best about SocketLabs?

It is easy to setup and easy to understand UI. Setting up the domains and and the help instructions for the DNS is good Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SocketLabs?

I wish you could keep your report data for longer. It would also be nice if you could have multiple SMTP server on a single plan Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is SocketLabs solving and how is that benefiting you?

Great SMTP sending service Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about SocketLabs?

Our company has been using SocketLabs since 2012. It didn't take long for us to determine SocketLabs is one of the best solutions for sending email.

The user interface is easy to use and provides all the features needed to send to email, no matter if its 1 hundred or 1 million emails an hour.

All the latest security features like DMARC & DKIM are easy to setup in the admin console. Updates to their software are timely and easy to setup.

Their customer service is top notch offering both phone and email support. We always had a positive experience when we needed customer support to troubleshoot any issues. In addition, they have extensive help guides in case you want to research things on your own. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SocketLabs?

Honestly, there's not much to dislike about SocketLabs. There are a few minor quirks in the Hurricane MTA server application, but none of them are worrisome. I wouldn't be surprised if they address them in the next update, if they haven't already done so. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is SocketLabs solving and how is that benefiting you?

We use SocketLabs to help us deliver email at a high success rate, minimizing emails being blocked or going to the spam folder. SocketLabs helps us accomplish this. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Hospitality
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What do you like best about SocketLabs?

Socketlabs emails are more likely to land in customer inboxes and not end up in spam. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SocketLabs?

Email creation could be more user-friendly. I do not like that you can't adjust the font at all during email creation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is SocketLabs solving and how is that benefiting you?

Previously we used Mailchimp, and got a lot of bounce back, or emails got stuck in spam. Now emails tend to make it into the customer's primary inbox. Our deliverability raised around 90% Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Michael W.
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Senior Manager Infrastructure and Compliance
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What do you like best about SocketLabs?

Sockectlabs has the advantage of being simple to use while having the full set of features normally only available in highly priced onsite solutions. Having run onsite solutions in the past, they often required a fairly high level of expertise as well as constant tinkering. Socketlabs provides you with that level of function without the time and money investment.

The product also helps with the compliance to standard around good mail sending. These features are especially important when attempting to be a good mail sender and keeping off blackhole lists. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SocketLabs?

While the product has powerful reports, it lacks a level of native alerting without going into API creation and setup. I would like to see the reporting expanded as well as several options for native event alerting.

Integration with a tool that reviews a message and checks it for possible consideration of spam would also be useful to have in the product, vs having to purchase a 3rd party tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering SocketLabs:

If you are tired of dealing with an SMTP onsite solution, or you are experiencing SMTP outages, I highly recommend this as an alternative. The price is reasonable, and the service is fantastic. The Support team is very responsive not only on setup but also on-going when there are product based questions. Overall setup time is very small. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is SocketLabs solving and how is that benefiting you?

Socketlabs replaced a costly alternative and has done a better job then the alternative onsite product that was being used. The pricing and service tiers as well as periodic billing choices allow for the solution to easily scale as needed to your business requirements. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Cesar F.
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What do you like best about SocketLabs?

All those years of partnership can say by itself. SocketLabs does the job. Definitely the differential is the account management and the all the support.

On the feature aspect, highlights to the possibility to scale by adding new servers, each with a delivery configuration (custom bounce domain, DKIM signature and tracking) and the recently added possibility for each server to have multiple configurations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SocketLabs?

Not exactly a dislike, but business model for enterprises could be better structured. This was recently solved and Socket labs could meet our requirements. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is SocketLabs solving and how is that benefiting you?

Our Business Unit is responsible for the Transactional emails for the biggest companies in Brazil on the Telecom, Banking/Financial, Insurance and Utilities segments. We have been running these business with SocketLabs since the beggining and they have shown to be the right partner to provide all we need to grow and keep the great quality of the service and deliverability.

We have been strengthening the partnership aiming our planned growth and we expect that the following years will be just as the successful as the previous. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Alex N.
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What do you like best about SocketLabs?

Ease of use. It's easy to set up using the standard SMTP parameters or their API hooks with several applications; I just use their wordpress plugin and I'm up and running in 5m or less. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SocketLabs?

I wish there was just a bit more control over logging and monitoring. Don't get me wrong, the existing tools are fine; but if it were up to me I'd add additional logging options. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering SocketLabs:

Be sure to read up on SMTP. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is SocketLabs solving and how is that benefiting you?

Email registrations for WooCommerce sites. I can now host in places where outbound SMTP is not permitted, like Azure. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.